The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
IDAH0'S SCANDAL
REACHES GILMAN
Continued from Page One.

Belle Chamberlain are sitting in judg'
ment, as member of n state board
Is 1T Lansdon s. McDougall's S or Cham
berlain s? What portion Of the debris
gathered about the shameful revea'
tions of this state-house wreck was
covered yesterday, and howI
Was an effort made to probe the
interests which the attorney-general' S
assistant, Joe Peterson, held in the
Medbury or West End King Hill EX-
tension company. Carey act project,
the general himself had any interest
in it other than that of an individual
land owner under the projectl
Did Lansdon explain his town-lot
deals; his various landed holdings un-
der projects which he has from time
TO time, for three years, sat in de-
termination of. as a member of the
board of high Judgments
Did Miss Chamberlain make clear her
ownership OF land here, yonder and al
most everywhere, as a result of inside
imposed on her by a trusting people
who merited her strictest confidence
Did the board obtain the details OF
the Payette Lumber company appraiser
and can an anxious public know now
why the attorney general asked APP
praiser Belcher if he could appraise
this land without going over it, at
the minimum price, why his representa-.
tive, Assistant Attorney General Peter.
son. in a suit over some mooted ques.
tions in this altogether suspicious trans.
action, sat by and quiescently admitted
both the facts and the law in this
case, as presented by the attorneys for
he chesty timber baron Of the Payette
Lumber company, himself a member of
the governor s staff?
AS to Parkinson,
Did the board prepare to inform the
public what remuneration the state s
attorney received for his trip to Malad
to exert his skill as trial lawyer, be.
fore a court and jury, IN defense OF
President Parkinson. the defaulting
treasurer of a public corporation, in
which Idaho had $4,000 equity,
which this piaculous public servant
should have defended? Did they IN.
qu>re whether the penalty of resigna.
tion suggested by the governor should
be requested for this treason TO the
public trust?
attorney was that advised Register
Church that he had perfect right to
practice law before the state land de.
partment, and was it this peccable at.
torney general, as asserted to different
persons by Attorney David one of the
parties 10 the Infamous Church. Shaw.
Mcbride contractl
People Betrayed.
The governor is not the injured party
If the caustic rules laid down by hin,
above have been transgressed by these
crring members. The confidence of the
people has been BETRAYED, if these
things exist in fact. In consequence.
the public, not the governor, has the
right TO know, through the usual chan.
nels of information, free from the talnt
OF suspicion of arrangement or OF
agreement as TO this OF 10 that detail
what actually was done.
Again, assume the three questioned
members have clear explanations 70
these various transactions above indi
Gated, how wrong TO tarnish their good
names by lacking to explain, in the
ordinary method by which news goes
from Boise TO all parts Of the Rocky
mountain country, Just what these OF
hcers said and how they looked and
acted when they said ii.
The Idaho state land board is not
close corporation. 1t is public
board Yesterday and today its bust
ness was conducted exactly as the busi
ness of bank, a railway corporation
or the temple ceremony, where candi.
dates receive their cndowments. 1t /:
shame and a disgrace TO Idaho tina,
| these star chamber meetings are held