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Show BRAFFET HAS ROUND ONE IN COAL FIGHT J weeks in the hearing. Other clulm-janii clulm-janii were J- H. Wood ma usee of halt ' Ijtke. K. J. Turner of Price, Holier t ! Hopkins of Washington. D. .. and A. J. Mulling of Knit I-uke. Hy stipulation, stip-ulation, the record in the Krafft case was allowed to stand in other cases. (After the testimony of the cimtestants was in. the defendant companies moved ; for a nonsuit, which hetng denied the entire record was certified up to the commissioner for review. j Pleasant Valley Case Goes j to Interior Secretary I The first -vound In the fight of M. P. ' Lraffet of Salt Lfcke and other claim-'ants claim-'ants for coal lands in Carbon county, held by the Pleasant Valley -Coal cum-, 'puny under title derived from the State I of I'tah, has gone to Braffet by deci- i ' slon of V. S. Iwind Commissioner Clay iTallman, according to word received yesterday by Attorney k. W. Henior, 1 counsel for the coal company. The ; case- will immediately go in the sec-! reiary of the interior on appeal, it is ; , announced by Mr. Sfiwor. j The issue involved is a question of ; fact aa to whether ths title obtained by the Pleasant Valley Coal company! In 1 'i to school section from the! tstate if I'tart 3 a good one. since under the Sw'i dcion of the I'nited States supreme ourt the ;ate took no title fr--m the government in known . rral lands at the t;m- of starehoid. i It is the contents' n of Braffet and the other claimants th.t iheir l..nds were known cm land when I't.ih Jecasme m stale and that therefore the stale : never acquired title which it co-iid pa , on to the r oat cmp.iny. j The r on tests were hard here a year j ncti befire Keg'-ter C.f.uUI Wakelv t . the locai la-ad office requiring severai' |