Show EXPERT TESTIMONY IN COAL FRAUD SUITCases SUIT SUITCases Cases of United States Against Utah Fuel Company Are 0 Opened Tho The taking of or the tho testimony In the case of or the tho States Stales versus The Utah Fuel company was wa begun on Manday Monday Mon Man day before Master and E Examiner In Chancery S S. II H. r Lewis Owing to the Importance of ot the tho case calle and len length th of time It will take to get set th the testimony tp permission was obtained to hold tho the hearing In the tho d States Circuit court room In the tho Federal building blindinG Representing ti ng tho the gov government s nt were Fred A. A Maynard aynard special assistant to tho attorney general an and Hiram E. E Booth United States district attorney for the defendant John M. M Zano ano of Chicago Chi Chi- ca cage cago o and a n. number of or local attorneys appeared The Tho taking of or testimony In Inthis Inthis inthis this and tho the other coal conI conspiracy cases Is expected to take up the greater part of six months and the records in each case will be voluminous There will b be bemore bemore o more than sixty witnesses called b by the tle government and th the de defense ense will ha o ha 0 more than that number In tho the Utah Fuel company compan case the first witness was Prof Prot Taft head hend of or ortho tho the government go geologists In the coil coal land matters who for tor tho the last two years has made with his party part a n co coo- coo n- n pluto pleto Investigation and classification of or tho the coal lands of ot Utah Ho will beon bo be boon on the tile stand for a week at least telling of ot the results of or his findings Other cases case of the same nature to be heard before beCore the master are UnWed United States the Pleasant Valley Coal com company pan United States versus ers the Milliner Mil Mu- liner estate nn and United States versus Arthur A. A Sweet et al In this case tho the Important question Is whether or not coal lands passed with tho the grant of the tho government to the state of ot the school sections For the defense defenso of oC this suit the state of or Utah has appropriated appropriated and will aid In ev every evry r way WilY in defending its grants grant In all alJ the tho cases as ns Is now well known the government o seeks to set aside patents obtained It Is 18 ald b by fraud In the tho employment by hr the de de- de- de of or to make entries on the lands s These men an anti 1 women acted acte as dummies and after aCter receiving recel the receivers' receivers receipts transferred them hem to the parties employing them The compensation ran It Is held from 50 o to ClOO The suits Involve roil roil- lions lons of acres and millions of ot dollars and by them the government hopes to 10 recover reco the titles tithes to the lands hands which will bring bring- under tho the new classification from 35 to 70 iO an nn acre The two contentions contentions con- con on which the government o bases Its claims are That the defendants defendants defend defend- ants employed dummies In making makinI entries en- en tin tin- tries rles on the coal lands hands that they made fraudulent representations Insofar as ashey they hey acquired known coal lands through representing thorn thom to be ho grazing grazing- or agricultural lands an s only I |