The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-05-31
WYOMING LAND FRAUDS
REPORTED WHITEWASH OF union PACIFIC is
DENOUNCED BY THE PEOPLE


Iwidecoped Washington special the Chicago Tribune predicts
vigorous action the immediate future with the certain ndict
of former United States
men in the world muti-mionae lumber
baons and railway magnate of national reputation Upon the
other hand asserted the government has called halt these
Investigations least in Wyoming the following special from
Cheyenne to the Philadelphia Record shows:
Half of the citizens of Southern Wyoming up
indignation that the department of justice should decide
the great Union Pacific coal thieves the other half the
citizens employees way Of Union Pacific and don't
express any Indignation if they feel like doing And that
the department should permit the Union Pacific pal
try 2688 of the hundred thousand and that
have been ston and for this escape punishment
for the greater theft only another of indignation That
the little 2688 which returned had been propected
and proven be dead with commercial grade of coal in
paying quantities only incidental the deep feeling dispea
and which the action department justice
has brought
For years and years the independent people of Southern Wyo
mng consisting of that half of the dependent upon
Union Pacific railroad its subsidiary companies the Union Pa
cc Coal Company and Union Pacific Land Company have tried
fight the great monopoly which has thoted the southern half
of the And just when the had strange hold
neck of the monopoly the department has called off the
and has accepted the offer of the freat offender that if just
very small proportion of the evng of years be dsgorged the bal
of the loot may remain the hands of the Union Pacific
and its tributary companies.
DECLARE FRAUDS WELL PROVEN.
More than year ago absolute proof of the great coal land
frauds which had been pepeated placed in the hands of the
department These proofs the shape of adav and copies
of filings from the land Office and showed where lands had been
omesteaded employees of the railroads and land
panies Immediately afterward turned the coal
pany Other adavs made by who made filings for
which they paid contrary law. Pma fae evidence of
after contained the papers placed in the
hands of the department.
contained great of coal of sufficient and
extent furnish millions for centuries but the evidence
permitted lie dormant and nothing done with it. After
had made partial nvesga
and unearthed frauds of glarng nature that public opn
that something be DONE the department accepted the
Pacific the 266S which acnowl
edged audueny secured and all prosecutions
called this when the which had been set already
caught of the very highest officials of both the Union Pa
cifc railroad and coal companies
1t took powerful influence bring about the halt these pros
ecuons too Union Pacific hasn't powerful influence
in the country through which railroad in the United
States ever had any, With the Hartman railroads reaching into
Is states west of the Mississippi say nothing of
those states which the Illinois Central and Baltimore Ohio
railroads operate when persons the OF the Hartman
system threatened with exposure and Indictment the systems
most powerful political powers all parts OF the country were
brought into acon-and when the railroad and coal companies
with flourish returned 2688 acres government justice
satisfied pulled off And in addition to saving
some of its big the railroad has saved to itself millions of dol
lars of coal lands which gy belong the public lands of the
government.
It openly stated Cheyenne by those position to know
that the Union Pacific lands of any value The 2608
acres which have been decided back the in for
immunity for offenders said to have been thoroughly
rospected and contain coal commercial quantities By
these overheard railroad company simply rid itself of
drag one that has eating up for long time The
lands upon which valuable coal deposits have been located are all
kept by railroad and the title this useful property will not be
attacked
The ewashing of Union Pacific has caused howl of
and wrath the louder the howl felt to be mpoten
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