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Show GOVERNMENT WINS SECOND APPEAL IN COAL LAND TITLES WASHINGTON. March T. Th government today won Its appeal to the supreme court for a retrial of the ease against th Diamond Coal and Coke company to obtain ' the cancellation of eighteen patents ta coal lands in Wyoming, slleged to have been obtained through fraud. The government charged that eighteen Individuals were Induced by the company to apply for and obtain government patents to tha land. The law limited the acreage acre-age of each patent and provided that only one could be issued to a corporation. Tha retrial will be OS tha fraud charges. |