Show fAMILIES FILE ON BIG COAL TRACTS How Operators Round RoundUp Up Hold Holdings Holdings ings Explained Before Grand Jury MORE WITNESSES HEARD INVESTIGATION MAY BE CON no thc tho and friends o 01 the theoal thet t oal oai land operators wore were Induced induce to take lip for the tho purpose ot of assigning t hem to the tho promOters thus increasing t their hoir holdings many times tho limit of legal entry was explained to the federal grand jury which Js is Investigating the nal frauds In southern Utah at atI athe I he federal building yesterday The lan land was secured under tim tho pretense that it was good gOo a only for agricultural purposes while In reality all parties concerned Il t to contain valuable coal deposits The principal witnesses wore E O 0 Howard assistant cashier or of Walker Brothers bank and William Howard l States commissioner at Hunting Ion h The Tho evidence given by the I latter Her was in with his testimony when lie he is to have r re Interesting facts regarding the mak lug of fraudulent affidavits before him in with the takinG up of these which arc supposed to be located in n county count countI I K O 0 Howard is h supposed to ha have 0 tOB tes tOBit it r regarding the financial transactions Jr I the promoters of the alleged frauds thc he manner in which those who took toole 11 p the claims and afterwards assigned hm were paid Other othel witnesses yesterday were Rilla Sn Snyder Ernest Bowman a student David Dai Block and amI Thomas 13 1 Relley parties are arc hought to be among those who took up and ana them to the tho promo r The nature of their evidence how howver ver could not ho bo definitely ascertained The fhe jur Jury has still a dozen witnesses to examine Iii relation to ili the alleged il ged frauds aUd It Is possible that th Investigation continue Into next we k although It Is hoped that It can be concluded Fri day afternoon What thee reSUlt wIlI b be Is ot of COurse open to conjecture but It does not seem plausible that the depart m mont nt or of justice would ave maintained n a special agent here in the person of F E Maynard to gather evidence ill in connection with matters unless some very deft nite information could be secured For Fo tills this reason I and for others known only to a few the general impressIon Is that the jury return a 0 bunch of indict indictments ments ment IZi in which several men may mav be named as as defendants in crIminal actions ons |