The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-28
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General Land Office Included.

General Land Office Included.
Third, ] reluctantly charge the Gen
| eral Land 0ilicc with all it's helps and gov
ernments with failing to keep faith with M
and by System OF procras,ination ant
| indifference compelling me 10 resort to such
indirect methods as the record Of these pro
| cccdings disclose. l make the bold osscr'
tion that there is now In tho records o
this case in tho General Land Oficc al
affidavit that carries the nSpcrsion that this
arm OF the Government Is controlled by III,
corporations known rs the Union Pacific Rail
road Coal Superior Coal. company. ! do no;
give much crcdeuco TO this sworn stntemen;
aud only refer to il that ! may he par
doned in nay belief that | nm n victim OF
misplaced confidence, when ! appeared bo'
fore tha, Department, and American
citizen, asked for recognition.
| appealed IN vain In tho year 1908.
have continued my appeals up to and in
sum OF money that I could lily afford. |
have diligently striven 60 get my petition TO
the foo, of Tho thorne. | have failed, and
almost disconsolate and broken. hearted I
Secretary OF the Interior.
In 1908, laid bare this infamous lnnd-
grabbing scheme before Special Agent Myen"
dorf at Denver, | produced before him wit
ncsscs whose sworn testimony recorded
and forwarded to Washington; that tcsti-
mony is The same as has been produced be-
foro the Interstate Commerce commission
This special agent has made his report and
by tho General Land ONCE almost i'm.
mcdiately transferred 10 Los Angeles. His
successor was and is man who is known
tn the Union Pacific aggregation. My ap-
pcals slumberc6. ! wrote 10 the Honorable
Secretary of the Interior and he promptly
requested report from tho Honorable Com
missioner. In that report the Honorable
Commissioner stated that he had suspended
the alleged fraudulent entries and would
investigate the matter / was also informed
that I would be given An opportunity TO
appear at said investigation l have repeat
edly requested that ] be hoard in the mat
ter md have been repeatedly spurned
! have been reliably informed that this in.
vestiga,ion was had in tho following man
ncr;
Star Chamber Proceedings.
A special agent of the Department came
to tho town Of Evanston, and in the Office
OF attorney OF the Union Pncihc Railroad
Coal company, star chamber proceeding
was held. A few employees OF the said
company wore brough. from Rock Springs.
Wyoming, and their testimony taken and
they wore as secretly returned and this
special agent returned TO his field Of labor
and made his report. and upon that report
these suspended entries went 10 patent. This
done in tho face of my repeated pro.
tests which were then fle in the General
Lnnd ONCE and in tho faco OF a protest OF
one Abraham Mckinley, which wns then on
appeal to the Honorable Secretary and is
still on appeal. / hereby md now most re-
speclfuly request that be furnished with
q copy OF that report and the proceedings
had thereon so that i may be able To make
my charges more specific or forever hold my
peace.
On the sOth dny OF December, 1905. my SOL
emn protest was flled In the General Land
office, and on that very dny the patents
which | was objecting to so strenuously were
These patents were In the hands OF the Cen
eral Land office. or under It's control. until
II, 1907: after this ! almost gave UP
hope. and In my despair once more appealed
to the Honorable Secretary OF the Interior.
The records of the General Land office and
the local Office at Wyoming Will be all the
when / obtain a report OF the celebrated In
l will then make this charge In
detail
Fourth. I now submit for your Honor's
n newspaper clipping taken
from the Salt Lnko Herald of October 10.
1905. and. whether true untrue. I demand
an official investigation. The matters therein
stated and accredited to the General Land Of
nce are false and untrue, Its political Sig
nihcance at the present time in the West
may be apparent. but it comes with I'll grace
from another branch Of the Government than
the Interstate Commerce commission, whom
It so seriously criucises and stultiAcs.
This very investigation is alluringly re-
ferred 10 and Its conclusions uphold. The
is there accredited to the General
Lnnd Office that all these fraudulent entries
were patented over six years ago and
immune. The fact is that no
one Of the patents mentioned In my protest
is over tuTte Year, plu, anu iiOoL VI tueLu
not year Old
must respectfully refer this interview
10 you and his Bxceliency. President Roose-
yelt. so that II IT Ia official may charge the
author with q misstntement OF the facts and
IN unjust criticism OF another branch OF the
service. II It is unofficial ! respectfully ask
that the Department of Justice take such
lion as is meet and proper Ia the premises
am not willing TO hold Mr. Pollock re-
sponsible for this dispatch unless II is proven
be gave IL out stated
In conclusion. / have to say that the sworn
testimony given at the Interstate Commerce
commission Investigation confirms the charges
have made through my three years efforts
10 obtain official recognition. AS stated In
my petition TO your honorable office. ] could
not possibly assert an interest in these lands
until the fraudulent entries were scI aside
for tho reason that before l could file q coal
1eclaratory statement for application to
purchase ! must subscribe an oath that No
other person is in possession OF the tract
desire to enter" This will be impossible
,G the lands arc In tho possession OF the
Uuion Pacific Railroad company. / desire to
s.ato that have prospective interest in the
land, and this interest desire TO assert and
protect. Very respectfully submitted.