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Show pElMENTllS i DECISIVE VfCTDRY ijgjjj federal Decision Involving a t Lands in Colorado Worth Si $20,000,000. ilafj $ Dl f iflS 4DENVER, Juno 6. The government ;tal& 5,011 an aPParent,y Immediate victory h? be first it lias gained since It bog.' its 5J& irosecutlons for alleged land frauds In f jjjl he -west In a decision handed down to-lht to-lht y by Federal Judge Lewis in ilio Jampa anthracite caso. Judge Lewis slt2 'd tnat although the lands which the tfdij Svernment Is now seeking to rc:over iirough equity suits- were once involved t'H 1 criminal coses in which the defend-lojvj defend-lojvj te were discharged, the results of that rw.J rial do not entor into the chancery pro-Ll4f2 pro-Ll4f2 leedings, and the court overruled every hoUon to huve the chancery suits thrown n&"Sit of court. Under this ruling it is liT? hought that the government mny w-in h. ?-1 ck lands in Colorado alone worth $20.- K)0 000. The Yampa anthracite case in-Xs in-Xs L. M- Rumscy. Frederick Koltel i. J?i ind other mon well known In St. Louis fflfr ind Denver. It Is said that as a result ,! tt tho decision the government will nt 'Pi??' occ file additional suits against a large lumber of Colorado corporations for the u- (Hvery of large tracts of coal lands. |