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Show COURT DECIDES AGAINST M1LNER Litigation Over Title to Carbon County Lands May Go to Highest Tribunal Points Similar to Issue In Sweet Case. An order to Htispend proceedings in all pending coal nnd mineral min-eral land cases until after definite settlement of the case of V. A. Sweet, administrator of the estate of Arthur A. Sweet, against the United States shall h.nc been reached hns been rcceied by Attor-nc Attor-nc General Harncs, from the commissioner of the general Innd office of-fice at Washington, I). C. Harncs wrote the commissioner Inst Irldn, acknowledging receipt of the order and expressing the willingness of his office to complv. The order was glen on receipt at Washington of request to take action in the case of William l'rancls Olson, petitioning for title to the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 16, Township .1 1 South, Knngc J East, Salt Lake b isc and meridian. The Olson case will be held up until decision in the Sweet case. William l'rancls Olson Is postmaster at Price and the suit referred re-ferred to lnohcs nlunblc lands (the townsitc) at Slorrs in Spring Cnnon, commonl known as the Jesse Knight properties. The government was gicn a favorable decision by the United States court of appeals in its suit against the estate of Stanley B. Milner and the Caibon County bind company, according to a telegram received at Salt Iakc City last Friday by W. W. Hay, United States district attorney, from John D. Jordan of St. Louis, clerk of the circuit couit of appeals. The suit involves title to 55G128 acres of coal lands in Carbon county north and cast of 1'iicc which the late Stanley H. Milner and his associates had contracted con-tracted to purchase ftom the state. The suit bi ought by the government gov-ernment charged that the contracts under which title was to have passed from the state were secured tluough a schome to induce officers of the state land board to select coal lauds as grazing lands and certify them to the stale as non-mineral in chai actor. Contention of the Government. The lands, it is alleged, so selected were part of the million-acre million-acre grant made to the state by the enabling act, and the government govern-ment contonds that the enabling act excluded mineral lands, The complninl alleged thai after expert geologists had cruised the Carbon county lands for Milner and found a valuable coal deposit underlying them, Stanley II. Milner, Harry 0. Milner, Samuel II. Gllson and Truth A. Milner entered them as agrlculluial and grazing graz-ing land nnd entered into contracts with the state to puichusc them for $1.R0 per acre. After the death of Stanley H. Milner the government bi ought suit against Truth A. Milner as executrix of his estate, Truth A. Milner, the Cnrbon County bind company which was Intel ested in the lands, and Fctcr N. Campbell, to obtain title to them In the tiial court former Judge John A. Marshall decided in favor of the government antl the Milncrs appealed. A. C. Milner, president of the Milner coi porntlou, sns that an appeal probably will be taken to the United States supicme com I, but he could not tell for certain cer-tain until he had seen a copy of the decision. Milner Famll Mn Appeal. "There are several olntH in the case which the supreme couit of the United States must work out," said Milner. "I do not regard re-gard this decision by the citcuit court of appeals as being of particular par-ticular importance, because it is my undci standing that only a part of the issues were passed upon. In some respects this case is closely i elated to the Sweet case, and that decision will be of material ma-terial aid to us. When the case was argued before our attorneys did not have that case to guide them. There are a number of points in this case which the government wants pjssed on by the United States supreme court and the government undoubtedly would have appealed had the decision been in our favoi. Whilu I have not jet seen the decision, I think it altogether provides that the case will go to the highest court in the land." |