Show STATE TO FIGHT A FEDERAL SUIT Testimony in Coal Land Case Gas Will Be Taken Before a Master Maser Before a master In chancery of th the Federal court two actions on tho the par part of ot tho time government to recover reco coa coal lands In which tho the people of ot tho the state stat of Utah aro are Interested will soon b bo be heard The cases are arc known as th the tho United States Statts against Truth A. A Ulner executrix of ot the estate of ot Stanley B D. and the tho same plaintiff against Arthur A A. Sweet In the tIme Sweet case caso the government claims that tho the coal lands held b by bythe bythe the tho defendant were known coal landat lands land at the of ot tile the state selections Their recovery cry for tho the government i Is claimed on the ground that under th time tho enabling act net only agricultural am and grazing lands could be he selected b by th the state te for or the tho benefit of ot the time public schools and therefore the selection o otho ot of the tho known coal lands was void Asa As s sa a purchaser of ot tile the lands from Crom th the state Arthur A A. A Sweet Is Js heM held to have hav received no valid title to the thc lands hands To aid In defending the thc case cas brought b by the tho government the time state stat of Utai has appropriated th the reason renSOn being that In the tho case of ot a sue sue- prosecution b by the tIme government the thc state would lose many other otheral val cal tracts Fred A A. Maynard special assistant t tto to the time attorney general Is prosecuting the tIle governments government's case With the at attorneys attorneys at- at for tor the time defense defonso Mr Ir Maynard Is la at present engaged in preparing an 10 agreed state of ot facts which will do away with the taking of ot mOon many folios folio of or testimony In the tile case time the point of or state selections Is IB also involved In In each case tho the lands lantis sought to be recovered by the government go lie In Carbon county county county coun coun- ty and are aro known as most valuable coal lands |