Show KNEW IT II WAS AS COAL GOAL I TWENTY YEARS AGO AfiO Peter Liddell Proves Damaging Witness Against Pleasant Valley Company Peter Lid Liddell 1 ell of Wellington occupied the witness s chair yc yesterday In the coal fraud hearing of the Pleasant Valley Valloy Coal company now being held before Master l In Chancery S. S H. H Lewis Mr tr LIddell was 08 put on the stand by the tho government and proved to bo be a a. strong witness He lIe was first directly cam cam- med ined by Fred A. A Maynard for or th the tho prosecution and later Inter subjected to a 0 rigid examination cross b b John M. M Zane and antl Judge Allison The Tho witness said that h he had first visited the Sunnyside district in 1887 when be he and his companions found Cound deposits of At that time he said tho tio coal beds were already opened In fact the party used the coal co for purposes p Ho ITo said that ho he had bad mined ocal In the district ills dis ls- ls r ct ever since and that in his opinion the coal beds now exposed continued under the dl disputed territory tal taken cn up by the tho company as grazing lands One of the important questions o othe or of orthe the case lse tse is whether the tho lands larras were known coal lands at tho the time of their heir certification to the state b by tho the gov gov- This was ne dono done in 1900 1000 and the tho defense defenses claimed that they not so known The testimony of Mr was consequently of much im lm- im- im Today the tho witness chair will vIll be bo occupied occupied oc oc- oc- oc cuple 1 by A A. Z Marshall am and other I residents residents' of ot the tho district |