The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-15
True Bills Returned Against
Prominent Citizens Of Seat
tie by United States Grand
Jury Sitting at Tacoma.
SUCCESSOR OF CLAWS
ENTITLED TO CREDIT
Claims Involved Are 154 in
Number and Are in Bering
Strait District, Near the
Famous Cunningham Group.
INVESTIGATION NOT OVER

WASm aS,5I Of .., os, ,,. 14m IA .
tieHt waiting, officials of the
general land office were able TO an
nOunce today the Indictment Of a NUM-
Der of claimants 10 valuable lands in
Alaska.
The entries involved number I54 and
cover almost 2O,OOO acres of land. ali Of
which lies ia the HeFsng strait district,
in which the Cunningham claims are
located. They are what are known as
the English. or TOraeey and fhe Chris
TOPPER >iInmOnds groups. the former
containing 80 aud the latter a Chains
81 $50 ncres each. The deposits ceg-
cred by these claims are believed 10 be
a. rich a. those of the Cunningham
mines, which cut conspicuous figure
ina the BaIIinger-PiuehOt controversy.
The indictments were handed down
in the United States district court sit-
ting al Tacoma. Wash. and the infOr-
nation that they had been returned was
conveyed in two kilograms received TO-
day by Commissioner bennett from
Special Agent Christensen, in charge or
Alas kan matters. 10 whose efforts tn8
findings are especially due.
The first telegram contained the
announcement of the action against the
English group and stated that lndlcl-
ments had been returned AGAINST G. y.
Munday. a. 81 slfaeey. Archie ".
Shields and F. r.. siegiey.
few minutes later came the second
| telegram cling Of the indictments Of
Cornelius Christopher, George Sim
mOnds and Mortimer T.. Sweeney OF the
| second group Mr.. bennett added that
warrants would be issued as soon as
the men indicted could be apprehended.
Canadians Interested.
The first group of defendants takes
| its name from the fact that a number
of people in western Canada are sup
posed TO be Interested In the claims
Stracey is a resident of Vancouver
and is charged with being Instrumental
/ in making some or the locations mum
daV is a prominent attorney Of Seattle.
The charge against the indicted men
/ is that the entries were made IN rhS
names of dummies. Most OF lne en-
I trymen were residents of Washington
l and their claims are said 10 nave been
| located with an agreement That the
claims should be assigned or decided 70
third parties as soon s persons Wiling
/ 10 become interested could be IOund ~
the locator. There is said TO have been
| a further understanding that the To-
Gator should receive large percentages
Of the sales prices
Differs From Cunningham Case.
| The charges differ from the charges
I in the Cunningham claims in which
there were no allegations that the en-
trVmen took the claims Tor persons
other than themselves, but, rather, that
I they mad previous agreement 10 WoIA
/ or dispose of their claims as a unit.
II Is said that few claimants IN the
I new cases ever saw the land on which
I their names were used for locations
Both groups OF claims figured 10
/ considerable extent in connection with
; the Balhnger-P inchOL inquiry charges
Z of fraud in connection with the entries
were made two years ago. and II was
Z asserted that investigation had been
stayed by the land office, supposedly
I for sinister purposes.
No Need of Haste.
Meeting this allegation with the
statement that the services Of the lana
+ office force were needed elsewhere
and that there was no statute Of linn
itatiOns to run against these cases, te
was conceded that they were nos
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