Show COAL LANDS THE ONLY EXCEPTION Order of Interior Department Withdrawing Large Areas in We t is Modified Vigilance Will be Exercised In Accepting Accept-ing Proofs So That There May Be No Necessity for Further Scandals Scan-dals In Acquiring Coal Lands Washington Tho president on Monday Issued nn order to tho Interior department to modify Its order withdrawing with-drawing from all forms of entry largo areas of public lands In the west reported re-ported by the geological survey to be underlaid with coal so that In future i entries upon these lands may bo made I under all forms of entry excepting as 1 to coal land filings Vigilance will be exercised hi accepting proofs to determine deter-mine whether the lands sought to be acquired are more valuable for coal or other mineral deposits than for agricultural i agri-cultural purposes J3 > 13 Clark Interstate commerce commissioner when asked what pci centago of coal lands In tho west had been acquired unlawfully said ho was not prepared to say lIe thought large areas had been secured honestly while much lands had been obtained by various evasions uf the letter of tho law In Wyoming ho said tho government had received as a general rule their just duo while In Utah and Colorado tho evidence evi-dence disclosed that large areas had i been taken up as state lands for agricultural I agri-cultural purposes and later sold at 260 an aero as agricultural or grazing graz-ing lands to railroads and big coal companies when in reality they wero very valuable for coal deposits |