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Show ROOSEVELT BEHIND COAL LAND SUITS WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 13. The assistant secretarv of the interior explained ex-plained today that the object of bringing bring-ing suits simultaneously in Utah and ' Trenton, N. J., against the Utah Fuel company, to cancel land patents for 30.000 acres, was to prevent the defendant defend-ant corporation from avoiding service. It has not 3'et been decided to start criminal proceedings. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hitchcock are personally behind . the suits and will spare no pains to recover every foot of coal land thus acquired by the Gould corporation. , |