Show AND four balle against uth coal compa i nie and prominent citizen filed in united state court at salt lake salt lake city charges that former governor heber M wells as prey ident and byron groo as secretary of the state land board swore to af making balsa falsa statements and allowing the state of utah to become party to a scheme to defraud the gov of the united state are talked in two complaints filed in the united states circuit court on fridays in two other complaints william F colton II 11 G williams nobert FOP rester and other officials ol 01 the utah fuel company are accused of conspiracy to defraud the government A long list of names of people alleged to have been drawn into the conspiracy toy them Is given among the men figur ing actively tor the coal company is charles mostyn owen the united states of america complainant in all four of the bills filed and the utah fuel company and plea ant valley coal company are th prin cipal defendants two of the corn plaints one against each company ueal with the acquisition of coal lands as agricultural lands by means of state by the defendant companies through agents the other two take up the acquisition of lands by coal baj tries in the federal land office it la charged that these were fraudulently made through dummies the total area of the lend involved is close to 30 acres and the value between and in includes of the producing coal mines ot the companies the goberni ment aske not only that the patents be declared void and the title returned to the united but demands pay a all the coal mined from the landa in question the value of the latter 1 not estimated but Is said to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars |