Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1909 — GLAVIS' MEAD IN BASKET [ARTICLE]

GLAVIS' MEAD IN BASKET

Dismissed by a Telegraphic Order Sent by Secretary Ballinger. Washington, SepL 17.—L. H. Glavla, chief of the field division of the general land office, with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., has been dismissed from the service by telegraph by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. The summary removal of Glavia was In accordance with authority given Secretary Ballinger In a letter to him from President Taft, who K in directing the dismissal vindicated Secretary Ballinger and other ofllcials of the charges brought against them by Glavis in connection with the so-called Cunningham group of coal land cases in Alaska.