Show AlASKAN COAl lAND F FRAUD CASE BEGINS SEATTLE Wash Jan Trial 21 Trial of or the case of or the th United d States Stales against I I ICharles Charles F. F Munday and Archie Arch I o W. W Shi els charged with conspiracy to defraud the tho United States of coal lands In th the Bering river district in Alaska was begun to today to- to day The defendants w were r indicted by bv a federal grand JUl Jury at Tacoma October H 14 1910 The Indictment charges S that on May 1 I 1905 the defendants conspired to defraud tho the U United States of or the use and possession posses passes Ion Eton of ot acres 3 of ot coal lands known generally a as the claims because be bet- laUl cause e of ot the connection of ot Sir Edward member of ot the tho British Br parliament parlia parlia- parliament ment and his brother Algernon with the tho claims Tho Indictment alleges that the defendants de de- de- de conspired to get possession and title to this land for tor the benefit of private Pd- Pd vats ate corporations known as the tho Alaska Development company and the Pacific Coal and Oil company The Tho land la Is seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen miles northeast of or Katalla being separated from the Cunningham claims by the glacier Defendants were brought to trial In March 1911 In Seattle and Judge Hanford Hanford Han- Han ford who has hos since resigned quashed tho the Indictments against t them The United States Slates supreme court unanimously reversed Judge Hanford who had held hold that tho the land laws did not forbid assignment assignment assignment assign assign- ment of entries of coal land The Tho cases were then reinstated Charles F F. Munday Munds who was the tho promoter promoter promoter pro pro- moter of or tho the companies company la is an attorney of ot Seattle whore ho he has hall l lived two thirty-two years |