Show COLORADO COAL LAND B RV Testimony in Suit to Ee Re coyer cover Is Brought by the Government Gov Denver Dec 17 Sensational testimony te tl mony m mea was Wa given in the federal court here ber today by witnesses ae l tr fr i Iowa Inthe in inthe Inthe the suit BUIt to recover coat coaK lands in county Colo Cole that had been obtained it t Is H t alleged by means mean of dummy dumm entries and od other alleged fraudulent ways At the conclusion lon of tOda 8 hearing Judge Lewis announced annO nn that thata a prima facie case ease had already been made against a part of ot the tb Defendants and all aft motions for would be overruled The suit Bult is III directed against the Uie officers cers cen and directors of the Union Land company N G Koser a farmer of Iowa Jowa City Iowa declared that Frank A Sr ST an attorney for the defendant com corn company company pany said to him Un Uns W va get those thousands thou of acres of coal c lands into tutu the hands of innocent purchasers purchaser pur buera for the benefit of at the Union Land com corn company company pany we will not only lose leoe the t 6 whole thing but we are going tos to with the government and you stockholders Koser being a stock stockholder stockholder stockholder holder of M the company may maT have htwe to togo toga tog go ga g to the penitentiary with the officers The filings have been Irregular and we must cover up Koser Ko er said he be had been lured into the deal in 1902 but did not suspect its fraudulent nature until tto tio t o years ears ago The promoters told us they had obtained the land from the t e I and in an an irregular way Koser added S K Stevenson an attorney of Iowa City caused a sensation by declaring that two of the defendants had haf ha been advised by a minor official at the theland theland theland land office at Washington to change the name of the company and bury it deep to o hip h lp the fraud |