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Show CLAIMS ARE HELD . FOR CANCELLATION SEATTLE, Wash., June 4. The forty claimant of th Btraeey eoal land group in Alaska have been notified by the Juneau land office to show eauss within thirty days why their claim should not be recommended to the commissioner com-missioner of the (reneral land office for cancellation. A special agent of the geueral land office has filed charges against th validity of the claim, th gent ' principal allegation being: "That the claimants did ot locate and file npon the land in good faith, bnt each location aad filing waa mad. inpnruance to an unlawful agreement ana understanding entered into with the Alaska Development and the Pacific Coal and Oil companies. Nearly all th claimant are Seattle men. The Btraeey elaima are situated near the Cunningham lands, aad are even more valuable, estimate of their worth ranging from 100,000.000 to 200,0O0,-000. 200,0O0,-000. Th Btraeey claims were located by Algernon H. etracev of Vancouver, B. C, brother of Sir Edward Btraeey, a millionaire baronet aad Liberal member mem-ber of the British parliament. All th claims are now held by Charles F. Monday, Mon-day, a Seattle lawyer, under aa irrevocable irre-vocable power of attorney. Algernon U. Btraeey, Charles F. Monday, Mon-day, Archie W. Bh.el and Earl E. Biegley were Indieted by the federal grand jury at Tacoma October 14, 1910, oa a charge of conspiring to defraud the United Btatee government of us and possession of th Straeey lands. Three defendant were brought to trial in Seattle last spring. They demurred de-murred to the indictment, aad on April S United State Judge Hanford sustsined most of the points of th demurrer. By agreement of counsel the indictment waa quashed in order to make a test rase for appeal. This is the cue docketed in the supreme court of the United State for argument in October. |