Land Fraud.—The Independent of December 19 mentions many land-fraud cases in the West, notes the fact that one secret service agent, Joseph Walker, was killed while collecting evidence of the land-fraud cases which involved at least ten men of some local prominence. Two men of note, State Senator Williams and his brother George B. Williams, have pleaded guilty at Carson City, Nev. Two guilty ranchmen have been indicted in that state for similar offenses. Another has pleaded guilty in Omaha. And so the thing runs; wherever there is government land, greedy men are working every plan to secure it for little or nothing.