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Show MANY OLD CASES TO BE DISMISSED Attorney General of Colorado Will Dis- j pose of Numerous Actions Against j Coal Miners. j iJKWLi:. Cob'.. JiJv Fred Far-j rar, attoini-v gt-neral or Colorado, today i an iHjunc'd ti'Ut he would recommend the; disuiiv-al of a majority of tiie eighty-1 i four i-ases in Huerfano anil Las Animas! counties bnuight by the state as a re- i suit of disorders incident to the coal j aiincc-j ' strike in Colorado in HM-'i and . I!' ! A . His action, the announcement (said, was based on the belief that the be t interests of the commonwealth would be served by suMi artion. The at torney general added that the more Ha grant cases would be ret ained fur prosecution and that cases already tried and now before the state supreme court on appeal would not be aft ee ted. Among those before the supreme court is the case in which .fohn R. Lawson. leader of the United Mine Workers of America, was convicted on a charge of j niu rder. There are involved in the eases still pending nearly 200 defendants in Las Animas county and about seventy -five in H uerfano county. The charges include in-clude murder, arson and assault to kill. |