The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-29
THE GARFIELD PROGRESS.

Hon. James Rudolph Garfield, Sec
retary of the Interior, appears to have
fallen into even deeper depths in Wyo-
ming than he did in Utah He spent one
day in Salt Lake under the pretense
that he was here TO consult with the
people. learn the real conditions here
as to the land laws and their operation
and find out from converse with the
practical men of the West the best
way of making changes in the law in
case any were desired and how the
administration of his department could
he bettered He met none, however,
except the fawning, sycophantic Office
holders who sought their own selfish
interests in making themselves "solid' -
with him, and in assuring him that
everything was well, that no possible
Improvement could be made anywhere,
and that he was the greatest Secretary
of the Interior that the country has
ever had. This is the class OF people he
met here altogether, so far as any real
opportunity to converse and learn any
body's views were concerned The
kernel in the nut,n however, had
nothing whatever to do with admin
istration of his Office, or with anything
openly claimed, but only in the ad-
vancement Of Apostle Smoot' s political
interests. His presence here was availcd
of to spring Smoot's boom for re-elec-
tion to the Senate. Smoot, by the
death Of Mr. Salisbury, had been re-
leased from his obligations and promise
to that political leader, and was free
to strike ont on a new path for him
self. He lost no time in doing it, and,
even before the body Of Mr.. Salisbury
arrived home, he took advantage of
Secretary Garfield s presence to strike
out on q selfish line of his own, using
Secretary Garfield to initiate his pro-
gramme.
In Wyoming, however, Secretary Gar
field apparently fell among thieves. At
Sheridan, the Chamber of Commerce
and citizens had arranged a reception
for him, and TO give him a good, en-
joyabIe programme during his brief So
lourn there; also 10 give him an OPP
portunity to see the plain people and
learn what the views of the actual
business men, the settlers, the men who
develop the country, are with respect
to public questions and as to the adj
ministration of the land laws and other
matters, either wholly or partly with
in his jurisdiction. This programme
had been arranged in accordance with n
telegram that the party had sent ahead
giving the hour Of their arrival and
the length of time they would stay.
The programme all prepared every
thing ready to receive the distinguished
official and his party, the people waited
in patience the arrival of the train,
The story thenceforward is told as
follows in a dispatch from Sheridan to
the Denver Post:
While the people of Sheridan were eX-
pectiDg To meet the secretary and show
him the usual courtesies due high Gov
eminent official, others were busy ar
ranging a different programme of enter
tanment. f.. Il. Lonabaugh. the Sheridan
attorney under Indictment in the Fed
eral court for coal land frauds in con-
nection with entries in the interest of
the Wyoming Coal Mining company. in
company with w. G., Brkheauser sec
retary and treasurer; j, l.. Stout, super
inteudant; Peter kool. q former official
and stockholdcr OF that concern, whose
president. II. NJ. Holbrook is also under
Indictment for alleged coal land frauds
and whose company Is under cloud.
Quietly made all arrangements with the
Burlington railway for a special engine
TO which was attached Garneld's car. and
after spending about half an hour on the
station platform the party was taken TO
Mona rch. twelve miles west. This is tho
camp where the Wyoming Coal company's
plant is located and where the frauds In
question were alleged TO have been per-
petrated
The visitors party, which was aug
mented by eN- Postmaster Britain also
under indictment by the Federal grand
jury for irregularities of the Sheridan
postofhce were taken down into the Mon
arch mine and shown the workings and
told much valuable coal land history by
Lonabaush and the coal company officials