People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Swindled the Government. [ARTICLE]

Swindled the Government.

Salt Lake City, Utah, May 15.—Startling developments may be expected within a few days Implicating many army officers, citizens of Salt Lake City and officials of one of the railroads. It Is charged that the United States government has been systematically swindled for years. False bills were palmed ofT on the auditing and treasury departments at Washington, the center of the conspiracy being In this city. The courtmartial convened yesterday. Important witnesses have disappeared, and It will be extremely difficult to secure testimony that will convict. The court-mar-tial Is declared to be the most Important assemblage of the kind ever summoned together In the department. It Is noticeable that the Sixteenth Infantry, although concentrated here, furnished only three members of the court, which consists of eleven persons.