ALASKAN LAND FRAUDS.
■■. 4 ' CANADIANS INDICTED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright New York, March 19. It,is stated that Toronto,citizens have been accused before the Chicago Grand Jury in connection with the Alaskan coal lftnds frauds. The offence is not an extradictable one, and it is expected the case against them will be abandoned. Seven men, residents of Seattle or of British Columbia, wore indicted on October 15 last'at Seattle for conspiracy to defraud the Government by an unlawful acquisition of coal lands in Alaska. These men wero in two groups, one led by C. P. Munday and Algernon S. Strachey, and the other by Cornelius Christopher and George Simmons. The two parties were seeking to acquire by fraudulent entry about 2-1,000 acres of coal land, valued by the Government at .£20,000,000. This laud is in the Behriiift River coal field, in which is also the land covered by the Cunningham claims, which wero the subject of much inquiry during the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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160ALASKAN LAND FRAUDS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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