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Show -00 COAL LAND FRAUDS I IN WYOMING FIELD i 1 Washington, Fob. 15. Decisions handed down by the commissioner of the general land office hold for cancellation cancel-lation thirty-two coal claim entries embracing em-bracing valuable coal lands In the Lnndor, Wyo., land district, upon the ground that these entries were made fraudulently in pursuance of a conspiracy con-spiracy and by means of "dummy" en-trymen. en-trymen. The lands wore transferred lo Ihe Northwestern Coal company and tho Owl Crook Coal company, alleged to have boon organized for the purposo of taking them ovor. If the decisions of the land office are sustained by the department of tho interior, in-terior, to which nn appeal cau bo made, about 9,500 acres of ooal IhiuI valued at about ?1.000,000 will be restored re-stored to the public 'domain. |