Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-02
CROOKED DEAL IN COCH|SE O|L LAND ALLEGED Work of Helm, from the Fed eral Land Office, May Cause Grief and
 Sensation SETTLERS" WERE MERE TOOLS, IS SUSPECTED Uncle Sam May Bring Suit to Have All the Titles to
 Valuable Tract
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Special to the Review)

LOS ANGELES. April l.-Better look out down around Bisbee way indeed all Cochise county better be on it's guard. cause G w. Helm' chief of the field division of the United States land office is down among you raging around seeing who he can get the goods on. Hes mad, and indeed if a fellow can be gin to- believe the reports and :he rumors and the hints and the-o! why go farther, but if one can be lieye what one hears. there is a deep laid uIot down in Cochise county, designed to rob Uncle Sam of sev eral thousand acres of most desir able lands in. or rather under which oil has been found in more than paying quantities. And Uncle Charlie Strong is living out of the state now. Is that not a shame?
 Helm Has Strict Orders
 Bui to get down to brass tacks. Reports alleging that gigantic fraud has been uncovered by detec lives of the land office. did start G. W Helm southward last Tuesday night. and from all accounts since that time he has been hunting for the basis of the rumor. Of course. when the word became noised abroad in the federal building of the trip the land officer proposed 70 make, and the object he is be lieved 10 have had in making It, swarm of reporters immediately began starting fresh reports. A re porter in the nature of things hates lone. foriorn and lonesome report But to all the new and all the old dug up reports, Mir. Helm would say nothing He admitted that his orders came direct from Washington, and that they are of the most string eut nature. He also confessed that il all went well with him be would return with the scalps of many would be defrauders dangling to his wampum bel;, but where the former owners of the scalps would be or who they might be. or where the scalps are al present he was mute There is to be an inyestiga tion of certain land deals that have aroused the suspicious of the gov ernment
 But, though Helm is wise, there are others in Los Angeles as wise as he is and, ex Arizona folk here, being old enough 70 put two and two together and remembering tho attempted steal of the Southern Pacific of the land lying east of Barstow Co The Needles. that was stopped by the Chamber of Mines Of this city, made a most enormous furore. In short it is the general belief here that Uncle Sam is plan ming a gigantic investigation that ~iH at last and forever settle tho land troubles. the land frauds and the isRd fraudis:s.
 Settlers "Findr Oil
 If is hinted here that Helms triI has 10 do with a section of Cochise northeast of the thriving city of Bis bee. Some time ago this sectior was settled by individual settlers who in view of the fact that thu land at the time was not known tC have oil on it were allowed to talk if ID without over much inspection on the part of .hc government of ciaIs. In due course of time. how ever. these simple settlers found oil thereon, and at once turned thei property over to a company. which hefore the official discovery of oi was announced. proceeded to appl for a patent on the land. Becaus of the alleged irregulsrity in get.in the land from the government, it l reported here that Uncle Sam going to begin proceedings at one tl c'ear his tile to the broad acre: -l.e court Q; Tombstone will hancl