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Show NO. ' EJECTS)' m immm cmses .:. BEFCiE K2ST C? After examining "W. E. Foster yesterday yes-terday afternoon, the Federal grand jury took an adjournment of one week, and will ; begin again , its deliberations de-liberations on Monday, December 8. The jury baa been in cession every day for the past two weeks, and during this time the most of the work transacted trans-acted before the jury was in regard to the eoal land frauds. It is probable that the examination of witnesses before be-fore the lury may continue until late in December, ana it will be several mmmmmmm ? - ., weeks yet before a report is made by the jury. - . - Among those examined yesterday were W7 E. Foster, T. 8. Pendergraas, manager of the stenographic bureau next to the Utah Fuel company's offices; of-fices; 8., A.' Whitney, C. L. Olsen, lawyer, law-yer, and Rodney T. Badger, assistant cashier of McCornick & Co. s bank. . Deputy Marshal L. H. Smyth is serving serv-ing subpoenas in Emery county upon witnesses wanted to appear before the Interstate Commerce commission and also the grand jury. Among the witnesses wit-nesses it is believed that Dwight Bryan Bry-an of Ferron will be subpoenaed. Bryan Bry-an has been employed for years at Quigempah. at the north end of Salina canyon, to look after the coal interests there. It has been asserted that he I receives a regular saury irom railroad rail-road interests to hold down the land. - Seeently a large tract of land - in Emery eounty was secured by the eoal Interests. For several years it has been the belief of many that an effort ef-fort was being made by the railroad interests to drive private mine owners out of Ferron and Huntington canyons. can-yons. The means alleged to have been employed were to cause accidents in the mines so that a man with but little money, would be unable to place the mine in working order again and would allow the assessment work to lapse and the claim would be jumped. Deputy Marshal Julian Biley has been serving subpoenas on persons across the Jordan river.. |