Show COAL lANDS N AlASIA ALASA 1 t Inquiry Has Been Be Begun Begun gun Before a Special Commissioner Corn missioner Seattle Seattie Wasim No Nov In Inquiry instituted uy by the dep department of time the interior Into Inlo tho validity of the tho coal land entries in Alas Alaska Alaska ka are aro Included In what Is corn com I known as the Cunningham case aroun around which the tho I eliot chot controversy centers began o an this morning b before Sp Special lal Commissioner I w V J McGee J M Sheridan ol of Den Denver Denver ver Colorado chief counsel for time tho and V 7 U Pugh o of I D C assistant counsel and of time the board of land laneL re revIew review vIew In time the general lan land office ollice have havo been engaged for several we weeks in inthe time the offices of time the or of time the lIel held di division division vision hero preparing time the case cuse for the tho government Mr Sheridan while whilo not nol notable able to say tY certainly how ninny days vill lie he required to tIme the case caso time the aimi to take Limo tho of such w HI as he be suggests lg that at least leat femur days ms will ho he necessary for fOl timi At AL time n or of orthe the taking of testimony iii Seattle Seattie Special will re r slime time the inquiry at Spokane p Gray ra of W laco Idaho and F C i of Seattle represent time the limo rho aggregate acreage involved in inthe inthe the present Inquiry Is An esti or of time the value alne of the coal conI in these Cunningham claims II is I charge har e of land depart lii III the he t ham case if is that time tile did ld not thell ben loea for foi their own exclusive benefit but that previous to the ben loca locations the they entered Into an agreement that a after obtaining a patent for time the coat coal lher were to consolIdate and amid hold time the lands bands also that the coal lands have hac not been opened or 01 ammy mine improved as required by br time the act of congress b by aut authority of which time the entries were made amade I Time The claimants insist that thal the ha hai have I i made the in good faith and have been urging a speedy inquiry In order that the may mar receive their pat The maintain that as the government accepted final payment on oil time tile claims several months ago It itis I Is unfair to them to withhold time the indefinitely I These were lip up origin originally originally ally at time tho of I L R IL Glavis fornier chief of time field of the general land lanel at Seattle It I Iwas I was time lIw disagreement bet we 1 Seere tar tary of time Int Interior Ballinger and Mm ll Glavis over ocr time the disposition of these I claims that caused Mr Mi Claris to COnt coni plain to Pro raft In Inthe inthe the letter written b by the to Mr exonerating him of tIme the hinted at b i Giavis and authorizing Mr Ir Ballingor to remove Glavis Glais from office |