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Show SPECIAL GRAND JURY FOR ALASKA COAL Tacoma, Wash., Aug. S. For the first time In the history of the federal court hero a speclnl grand jury has been ordered for duty on less than three days' notice, and It is believed that the jury may be asked to go into 111 the coal land controversy in Alaska. nfl Judge C. H. Hanford of the federal jJIH court sent a telegram from' Seattle j H yesterday to the court officials in Ta j yM coma ordering the grand" jury to as- J 'JM semble Thursday morning. Federal "dB officials in Tacoma have received nu l tiH word as to the natuic of the cases If'rB to be considered; but the report that "1J II it will bn an Alaskan investigation has Jjh arisen from the fact that Special Pros- l ecutor Townsend, who Is to handle lls-jB that investigation, is a special assise- Wlfl ant to tho attorne general of the laH LTnited States, appointed more than a flfl year ago to investigate the Alaska YM cases. lJ |