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Show rmua loseuoal m HB IjiiiiI ComiulNHloiier HuMnlu Decision i ( Hf Hfl nivcn In .ton lYrirml Office. B BBl B VH In n decision received nt the office I- W? HB of the Salt I-ako field division or the L' P BB United States general Und office I i BflJ Tuesday, the contested claim of C. K. ' H Mllner to a hundred and sixty litres of ' X H Sec. 23, Twp. 13 South, Itungo 12 j,, h H Kust, coal land near Helper, was or- f HH dered canceled. Tho claim wa con- r flH tested by the federal government on HH tho ground that C. n. Mllner had pur- flflj chased tho land as coal land a agent flfl for S, II. Mllner nnd the Carbon Coun- f J , flflj ty Luul company, thereby showing f r flflj hajLmilth and attempting fraudulent Lv 'flflj procedure In getting title to the land. v f flflj Tho government won a decision some J , flflj tlmo ago beforo former ltcRlrttcr K. D. I I fll It. Thompson and former Iloeelver I flH M. M. Kalghn. This decision was sua- (f j flH talned In tho decision received Tues- ' I flH day from Clay Tallmun, United State i I flflj land commissioner of the general land j, flH office at Washington. Tho claim wa I I ti flH ordered canceled. The purchase price i t I flH at the tlmo of application In 190E was ' j -flBj thirty-two hundred dollars. Under jflH the revised appraisement or coal lands J , ' flH made by tho government, tho land Is f ' HH now valued nt something over a hun- l flfl dred and fifty thousand dollar.. 11. r r ,flfl In the caso of Marlon W. mu, con- If ' flfl rernlng claim to a homestead In the (&, flH Dixie national forest reserve, a deel- "il t Hfl Ion ordered tho cancellation or the X'4 rj,'flH olalm. Failure to live upon the land S M BB In compliance with tho homestead law ft ,!j flflH was given as the grounds for tho or- I! J ' flfl der. The deolslon was a roversal of n II 1 flflj decision made by tho register and re- ! if ' Jflfl celver at Halt Itko City last rail, when J, ft flflj the caso or claim defendant was sus- flflj A JHfl |