The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-18
] The FRAUD LEASE
4 Of IDAHO LAND
IL Was a ForestaIling of the
Public Desire to Use
the Tract.
BIG CONCERNS GOT 1T:
TIE PEOPLE SWlNDLED
And the Schools of the State
Robbed of Their Legiti-
mate Revenue.
BY G.. e. ARNEY.
Special TO The Tribune.

SPECIAL 10 The Tribune. 4,
BOISE. Ida. oct. l7.-The Hon IA
WeoSior of Fremont county has hes
IN BOISE for the past few days. BE
Tore taking his departure for his hom
AZ FeNburs. the Honorable Jim" con
tf'nuted his message of appreciation "a
governor Brady for having done him
good turn some months AGO. Hon
oraole jim" went To Republican state
headquarters TO share his interview OF
isadation os his associates IN skuldud-
uery. the Idaho state land board and
me contribution was given prompt pup
ncity under flariug Observation-Disclosures
eounty lOoe FOR Brady in that dlsiin
SEuisIed E pnh!ication. the Evening Capl.til
news which bears every ordinary erI-
dence OF having been subsidized uy .ne
ierests.
"skududdery in public print Only
"pen the evidences are so clear as 10
remove all doubt should such appelia'io"
The Good;nr stete land hoard selected I
and Immediately lclsed TO four eis MOT 5
mon sheep outfits of Fremont county n
about 1&S 400 acrrs of land IN Fremont II
county Tor grazing purposes. lnsIs Iu o.
stance be- ause OF the stealth eXlIlhite9 py L
the yopr senfaflves Of the stare iano D
board the lessons anh The big four shrep cl
tompaRies the Iessees. Ihe price WIG VIZ st
the principal one taing objectionap ple. 'iiiS OF
large arsa OF land having been ieaseu io' at
:, cents per acre. al,
This unusual tense was for period o, an
five yea.r The longest term permitted sts
under The iaw for leases TO rnn
Public Taken Unaware
II is but fai. to say thai the ordinary Jir
seftier wing aonut this inrge area OK col
land In Frennon, county had slight KNOW te,
edge OF the routine required bv the law re,
IN bt the rules of The state land BOARD. Jir
% gel rhe/'snd at the termination OF his mn
our big sheep companies mol ONLY had his
knowledge Of the law and or the rules. f,:r
nj they had easy foueh not alone With ra,
he Individual Tnenlbers OF lie state land m
card but with the stsfe's sseDt who rS,.
a1 eslected fhe land as the guest OF .
ION a member of the Ideho legislature. an
AS The time approached for tho ter am am
instion OF this lease Decefnber 81, 1909 oei
" about one year ago). several men az. az.
ON Fremont county made application M oe.
the state land board to lease and TO yer .er
40 rsrtnin s,,hdivfsious ~ this era 2inp no
nj. fhelr design being 10 work IL asri- M ny
turaliy or to make. homes on the land az
ID pas tiic state such a price therefor III III
II would bring al public outcry. ac- MA
the land board had Been carefully an
nj in the meantime. and both assured eha
ssf ineli In Fremont county that no re- INT
se or sale of lea sed land could receive
1sideration by the board OF state land
nD,lssIoners until thirty days prior to
expiration OF thu lease. :
several Of these applicants ofered % abe
IFS an acre for this land. but their tie
,licatIons were returned by the boa rd COR
h the suggestion that tllev Apply iater. ! leg