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Show SAYS KNEIU OF COllflATIOfl Cleveland, Ohio,- March 9. That a combination with Guggenheim Intc-r-tcts was considered by the 23 claimants claim-ants to Alaska coal lands wax admitted admit-ted today before United States Commissioner Com-missioner McGee by, .V H. Warner, one of the entrants. Mr. Warner declared that at the meetlnc; of the claimants at Spokane In 1907, to which 'he sent n proxy, there hud been a discussion on the ndvlslbillty of a combination with the fJuggonholrus, but that ho had understood under-stood I fie matter was dropped. Tbo evidence was given nt an opening open-ing of an Inquiry here Into the claims of four of tho original ,33 claimants to patents to Alaska lands. Mr. Warner and Hugh B. Wick of Youhgstown, another claimant, both testified that they had known personally per-sonally most of tho, 33 who bad filed claims and that It, had been understood under-stood that they would operate on a friendly basis. |