Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-16
POST VALENTINE TO CROWDER
\ Ef 49,
Omaha Friends Of Army Officer Send
Their Congratulations.
$500 WYOMING ACRES SAVED
Commissioners -OFdera Cancelled mir
ty-Two Coal cash Eatries, Amount
ms I'm value 60 million Dollars
view Appointments.

wAsHINGTON. FEB 15.-(specisi) III
r. now Brigadier General z. II. Crowder.
Judge advocate senerainof the army. and
the title means much but the honor TO
one who has been in the forefront OF con-
structive sts3esmsnship for many years In
connection with Cuba. Philippines and
other possessions means more than mere
succession to grade. General Crowder. as
his valentine. became head Of the law de-
psrtment OF the army, and his old friends
in Omaha, and they are many. have been
sending HIN telegrams telling how
overjoyed they are that he has come into
the place which he earned years ago, but
somehow did not get TIL now
Coal Entries Cancelled.
BY decision handed down yesterday
the commissioner OF the general land
s-sSfice has held Tor cancellation thirty-two
coal cash entries. embracing valuable coal
lands in the Lander Wyo.. land district.
upon the ground that these entries we're
made fraudulenuy in pursuance Of con-
spiracy and by means OF procured or
dummy entrymen
The mOdus operandi by which these en-
tries we're made was the proouration by
the moving spirits Ia the transaction. who
were indicted by the United States grand
jury in Wyoming. OF friends and ac-
quaintanccs, nearly all OF whom were
residents Of New York City and vicinity.
10 make application and entry for the
lands involved These entrymen in gem
cral were ignorant as to the location and
value OF the lands. had no intention Of
developing the property. and executed the
various papers in connection with the APP
plicstions as favor to the one approach
ing them regarding the matter.
How Plan was worked.
In many instances the entrymen were
given s. or so for the use Of their names.
The purchase price of these lands was
paid TO the local land office at Lander BY
one Of the eonspirators by a check drawn
against deposit made 20 the credit of
himself and a co-conspirator. Thereafter
the entries we're transferred. some to the
Northwestern Coal company and the
others to the Owl. Greek Coal company. a
corporation organized by the promoters
Of the scheme in pursuance OF their pur-
pose To take over the lands.
The government proceedings were Bit
terly fought, but the contentious OF the
government agents that entries we're
fraudulent has been sustained by the find
ing by The general land office.
II these decisions are sustained by the
Department Of the Interior to which an
appeal lies it win result in the restoration
10 the public domain OF about $500 acres
Of coal land valued At about million
dollars.
New POAtmaEters.
The president today nominated the fol-
lowing postmRstera: t.
Eebraska-WiIliam II. Hopkins. Meadow
Grove; Isaac S. Tyndal Central City;
Caroline X. Olson. Newman Grove
South Dakota-Fred pek Griffin. selby.
Charles ID. Howa of Presho. s. D., is
In Washington upon legal business before
the Interior Department
senator F1tnt-a BiII. 49,
senatsF F1REtp5ala i1tEaduesag n the
senate bilr ecthtlN 4 6vorabiy reported
from tlieshaiise edfnmiNee ON public. lands
by Representative Monden OF wyoming
providing, that IN raHs Be CONFLICT between
locators under placer and mineral lode
laws in locations heretofore made OF land
containing deposits Of phosphate or phos-
phate rock respective claims OF locatora
shall be determined as though Ioeators OF
said lands under either OF the above laws
was valid At the time said locations were
made.
Senator Warren today introduced a bill
Marrying an appropriation OF $4,000 for the
purchase Of q site and the erection OF 9
public building, At Newcastle, wyO.