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Show If SAM AFTER L LAHDJUIEVES taffscparato Actions Begun Federal Court to Set Jj Aside Patents. DINGS IN FORM OF BILLS IN EQUITY ifi in Controyersy ' Applies Ap-plies 20,000 Acres; State ILand Board Involved. m turn ijx separate actions wdro begun in Scleral court Friday by tho Unitod tGovernmont for tho purpose oL JW asido patents that have boon r?fifor largo tracts of coal lands in and Emery counties. Tho plcad-fjtro plcad-fjtro in tho form of bills in equity. jrea in controversy apj)roacheB 2U,-eSfrcs. 2U,-eSfrcs. Tho defendants aro tho o30Fuol company and tho PleaBant hUJCoal company. Tho grounds foliation fol-iation aro that fraud, deception and rc-racy were resorted to by tho com- named and their agents in ob-theso ob-theso lauds. (vj actions were brought against ; tho defendants and tho actions f.5ftwo distinct classes. Ono class i factions, ono against oach com-ajjrdealH com-ajjrdealH with lauds that havo been iSod from tho Stato of Utah h the Stato Land Board, whilo kor class donls .with lauds tkatt (obtained direct from tho Federal" -iinment by means of the coal '$awB passed by Congress in 1873 uividuals and then deeded for a 5al sum which is alleged generally vo been $50 to oach individual, -fatter class of suits nro identical ,tho action for a sinerlo tract of gainst the Pleasant "Valle' Coal iy, which was bogun July 7. ?eTpapers in all four cases aro vol-os vol-os affairs. Thoy set forth the lies bearing on the casos in full t'tfiyo in detail a description of tho i'iii controvers3r. mBt Company May Bo Involved. also alleged that tho Morton tompany of New York holds a 0 on 'tho lands described and ;atod that if tho court thinks -tnat tho compan' may also bo 2ta party defendant to all tho ?! Tho far greater part of tho described havo bcon obtained ;!jh tho State Land Board and tho ngs charge collusion and acts on Arfc of tho president and secretary ftJLand Board in ways so spocifio placo those oflieials decidedly on '.sfensivc. '.'.alleged that the defendant com-mlr. com-mlr. together with their officers, 3jj and employees, combined and derated together and with other ,s to form and oxecute a fraudu-!cliemo fraudu-!cliemo to obtain lands without ,,-jrJ, consideration by and through rtate of Utah. It is alleged that Jh'emo was to represent and to pre-Jkhat pre-Jkhat lands which thoy well knew cpnl lauds and which thoy desired sain solely because they were coal ttjvero in fact grazing and agricul-jlands. agricul-jlands. ' charged that lauds of this kind joined by the Utah Fuel company forth upwards of $1,000,000. It to claimed that no ofticer of tho ilhas power to transfer title in this ',5? to known coal lands, and that Vohds in question woro known to ?al lands. Tho applicants, after lng theso lands, it is alleged, then vpL- them by quit claim to tho dc-Kt dc-Kt for $1 for each description. Should Have Mado Inquiry, "set forth that it was tho duty of pato Land Board to mako inves-tpn inves-tpn of tho character of such lands, lafc they did not make such invos-ns, invos-ns, but that they relied solely jteV representations of persons pro-Sby pro-Sby tho defendants as to tho char-Wpf char-Wpf the lands; that such persons interested and biased and acted 53and fraudulently. It is then re-jdthat re-jdthat the president and secretary iSJato Land Board, in tho supposed finance of their duties, npnointod g)nts of tho Stato board to investi-Sttho investi-Sttho very persons who were ap-Ks ap-Ks for tho lands, and agents for ijuendants. jrthe samo time it is sec forth that rhe officials, to procure said land, .affidavit "that wo have caused nda mentioned to be carefully ex-,Td,by ex-,Td,by agents and employees of tho UbH to their mineral or agricultural lifter' ' nnd that thi3 portion of tho fyit was false. The charge is made :ihen tho affidavit was mado with-"jie with-"jie knowledgo that tho lands were ftally non-minoral that the allega-tfwns allega-tfwns untruo. It is charged that Rlthe officers of tho Stato Land fildeclarcd that tho lands were rd for tho Stato that tho alloga-U7as alloga-U7as untruo for the reason that they jready bargained tho lands to do-torts' do-torts' agents. ?Ahould Have Been on Guard. t strong allegation is also made j,the occupation of Robort For-Wl0 For-Wl0 s a geologist, and ills con-fiia. con-fiia. with the company, was sufficient ffthe Stato officials upon inquiry gjsatisfy them that tho applicants, m' Mr. Forrester was one, had 110 Jrfturnl inteution. Other persons Jrw'ho made such examinations, rijitious and alleged fraudulent pur-feare pur-feare Clarence B. Spraguo, Sarah Edwin L. Carpenter and John tfflson, Jano Forrester, May" Kim-TOharles Kim-TOharles Mostyn Owen and Til-cjjF. Til-cjjF. M3'ors. Mw passed in 133-1, which is al--jkl0 e BtN ,n effect, beiug section (fthe revisted statutes, ia set forth acetates that where titlo is acquired tVjhe Government that ib not of a 'Ofitcr contemplated by tho law, such wpecomo null aud void. 5; asked that tho titles bo sot ijfooth on account of fraud and by flfof tho character of tho lands. Mollis aro all signod by William .J&y Attorney-Groneral of tho Statcsj Hiram E. Booth, United District Attorney, and bv M. C. fimd Fred A. Maynard of "tho Do-SSmt Do-SSmt of Justice of counsel. HI What Is Alleged, fiction against the Ulali Fuel com-SUeging com-SUeging the ohtainiiig of land R fraud untUir 1Juq Unitod SUtp coal law of 1873, allogos as tho representatives represen-tatives of tho company who conspired for this purpose, Henry G. Williams, Robert Forrester, William H. Bird and Ilpyal C. Peabody. It Is alleged that In 1900 tlio United States owned certain landB in Carbon and Emory counties, "Utah, and that tho parties named did advlso and fraudulently scheme and combine com-bine aud federato together for the purpose pur-pose o procuring titles under said act for tho benoflt and In behalf of tho defendant de-fendant corporation and for tho purpose of enabling tho defendant to fraudulently obtain titlo from complainant to complainant's com-plainant's coal land In excess of the amount authorized by law aud contrary to tho statute. Tho men who aro alleged to havo obtained the land are Hyrum Tldwell, William S. Ronjue, Joseph R. Tidwoll, John Forrester, Clara W. B. Spraguo, Clarenco L. Mix, John F. Evans, Oruuge Sooly, Joseph Seoly and Frauds G. Grundvlg. All the papers were prepared, pre-pared, It Is alleged, by tho agents of tho defendants. Not Entered According to Law. It Is further allogod that this clans, of lands are not enterod according to' law, but In violation of law; that theso parties who took the land did not enter It for their own use and benoflt but for the direct use and benoflt ot tho Utah Fuel company; that the agents of tho compauy procured and hired tho entry-mon entry-mon to make htolr filings, that they prepared tho papers for them aud paid the expenses, aud that the entrymen were induced to take these lands for a small amount of money, to-wlt, ?F0, aud that all tho purchaso price was paid by tho corporation, and that the filings aro subscribed sub-scribed and sworn to buforo ono of tho conspirators, William II. Bird as notary public. ' Tho total sum involved in these transactions trans-actions is ?55,305, but that nmouut was not, it is alleged, paid by the'ontrymen but by the defendant compnny and" that tho defendant already owned mora land than It was entitled to under tho laws of tho United States, hence It is asked that; tho deeds bo cancelled. Pleasant Valley Company Involved. I Similar allegations aro made In the action ac-tion against the Pleasant Valloy Coal company us. recited abovo in the suit against tho Utah Fuel company. The representatives of tho company in this caso arc alleged to have boon William F. Colton, Robort Forrester aud William H. Bird, nnd It is alleged that thoy fraudulently fraud-ulently schemed together to obtain land, Tho parties with whom thoy aro alleged to havo conspired were John A. Williams, Wil-liams, James Pllman, CharloB Mostyn Owen, Fred W. Sinclair, Henrietta Kin-soy, Kin-soy, Elizabeth Y, Macintosh aud Augusta - Wjddmu , |