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Show 00 GOVERNMENT SUES TO RECOVER COAL LANDS Donver, Aug. 15 Suit has been filed ' here by the government against the Southern Colorado Power company for the restoration to the national domain of 400 acres of coal land valued at $150,000 in Las Animas county, Colorado, Colo-rado, alleged to havo been obtainod by fraudulent ontry. It Is charged that 1 the land was taken up by "dummies ' acting for tho coal company Suit has also been filed against the Northern North-ern Colorado Coal company to recov- j er 1,280 acres of coal land valued at S550.000, which also Is alleged to have been fraudulently entered The two suits ags regale ono million dollars, and are nmoug the largest of the kind I ever brought. I |