Show THE E SWEET SWE E ml AND A ND MILNER amari LN ER CASES GET INTO COURT title to several thousands of acres of coal lands to the north and the south of oi price up for settlement to tt hearing hearings of importance will begin in the federal court at salt lake city tod today ty Th thursday in one of ethehe caspi cases the state i deeply interested ter te cited for tile principle involved v 14 whether or not riot thu the state has lias tho the right to nil all of the land gr anted by thu the government hl 1 the tile enabling act without regard to whether oli ether it is mineral id in character or not riot tho ille cases to bo be heard will be he those of thu tile united states against arthur A sweet and thi tho united states against truth A milnor milner administratrix of the estate of 11 II milnee 1 mony will bo be taken before john W V christy nuska in chancery chin cery it is expect expected etl that i t large number of will be examined prof A taft a i noted geologist attached to tile geological survey will be among the thebe tw t v aull ill be remembered as th 11 expert who gave te testimony in bellaff behalf of the government during the hearing of the testimony in the utah fuel company cases lie he has just completed a personal examination of the land involved in the sa act and milner cases accompanied by a number of other experts major lamoreaux will assist fred A maynard tho the special agent who represents the government and who conducted the utah fuel hearing and worked up the case against that company last winter tho the legislature appropriated five thousand dollars to defend its title to the lands involved in the sweet case ease 1 1 I he lie state appears in the case in the character of intervenor attorney general barnes larnes occupies a peculiar position in connection with this case prior to his election as attorney general barnes wai counsel for sweet now he represents the state as well the tile state has also employed other attorneys under the enabling act the state was granted by the government four sections in every township for school purposes these sections are nos 2 16 32 and 36 beet entered a large tract of land in carbon county under the presumption that thal it was wai agricultural land the government contends that the grant made to the tile state by the government did not include land that is mineral in character and seeks to re cojei the land entered by sweet which the govern government menE contends is oal land mineral in character the position of tho the state is that the grant gave the tile state four sections in every township in spi of the fact that it was kno known n before statehood that the land was as mineral in character in tho the milner case the same principle is involved which entered into the utah fuel company caeg the government attacks the legality of entries made by milner during his lifetime which the government holds to be coil lands tae sweet sect case will be first taken I 1 up tho the heal ing of this however will be postponed after the sti mony of taft has been taken in order to give taft an opportunity to testify in the milner case without being under the tho necessity of remaining in salt lake during the entire time the other witnesses occupy in in giving their evidence these u hearings promise to be extremely interesting in spite of the fact that much of the testimony must necessarily be dry relating as it does to a dl discussion i s of geological formations and the like the vast importance which attaches to the sweet case will render that matter of particular interest to the public for the public is the one that will ill benefit or lose as the final determination mav be |