Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — MORE LAND ROBBERS [ARTICLE]

MORE LAND ROBBERS

Three Colorado Men Who Are Charged with Perjury in Order to Defraud. Denver, Sept. 21.—Charged with perjuring themselves to defraud the government out of lands in the eastern part of Colorado warrants have bee nissued by the United States disbeen issued by the United States district attorney’s office for the arrest of Peter Campbell, ex-registrar of the United States land office at Akron; Perry C. Beeney, county treasurer of Washington county, and D. W. Irwin, a real estate dealer of Akron. Through these men it is said that the government has been defrauded out of thousands of dollars' worth of lands in Washington and Yuma counties. By various subterfuges, it is stated. Campbell, Beeney and Irwin obtained possession of land which had been abandoned by previous settlers and sold It to other settlers.