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Show G1IDJI.T0 GETNEWAfJGLE IN GOAL INQUIRY i in in , Prominent Fuel Officials Suddenly Recalled and Other Matters Sidetracked at Afternoon Session Information of striking Importance and bearing on the alleged Illegal fUt Ing of onal prices by operators and re tail dealers hers waa to be Introduced to the grand Jury at 2 o'clock this afternoon, after-noon, acqprdiny to an announcement mads this mnmng. Probing of charges against the board of city commission era and Uveal lumber interests, which has occupied the grand Juiy session for. the, pMt.vtral. dayahn.. been . sidetracked until the new angle on the coal question hss ben horoughly gone Into, District Attorney T.. A. Rogers Rog-ers said. Htihpoenaes recalling P. A. Sweet, president of the Standard Coal com pany; Charles B. Hatch kise. assistant general manager of the Utah Kuel company, and F. H. Role pp. president find general manager of the Royal Coal J company, have been issued. These men have already appeared before the grand I Jury and their recall to the stand wits unexpected. William W. Murdoch, ' secretary of the Peerless Coal com. I pany. and - Lynn H. Thompson, vlrs president of that company, are also, on ! the list of witnesses to be summoned. I After eight days of Inquiry into etr ' cum stances surrounding ths Increa of $L per ton In coh! prices ons moniii i ago, announced first by ths retailers snd then by ths operators, the grand Jury took up lumber and the city commission, com-mission, tntlmatlig that evtdfpc against the coal men had sll been introduced. in-troduced. District Attorney Rogers announced an-nounced that he would ask for no findings find-ings In the coal case until after ths grand Jury had completed its deliberations delibera-tions on all other matters to corns before be-fore It. Rslph W. .Todd, secretary of ths Lumbermen' Burenu of Information, and Charles ti. Hengtsen, who hid charged ths city commissioners wait misconduct, were then summoned - to appear befors the grand Jury. Rengt-Sen Rengt-Sen was befors that body Wednesday and.' Thursday and It was understood hs would probably have ths wltn?MS chair again today. But the new devei. opment in tha coal esse led to a postponement post-ponement of all other matters pending until such new evidence as has developed devel-oped msy be Introduced. No session of the grand Jury wss held this morning, ths Jurors taking ths half-day for an Investigation of th county Jail. |