Show 1 SALT LAKE AND STATE NEWS I SUIT A UTA FUEL co SETTLED Salt Lake City CItro July pros o 01 the Utah Fuel company compan b by tho federal government on the charge of having illegally secured certain coal lands In Carbon county by the use of i dummy men was practically encl I eI cd today by the dismissal of two uita aulle and the payment to lo the government of In pa payment ment for Cor coal extract extracted ed from the lands The Utah Ulah Fuel o wl company compan further agreed to to the United States 80 acres of oC land In Carbon count County and other counties in the state valued fit at The total amount paid the tho goorn ment by bJ the tho Utah Fuel compan company the tho past four months reaches the sum of at In addition the tho government has re recovered recovered covered coal lands valued at Washington July new prosecution Ir if further a aon Ion on now In progress shows that other coal oal lands h have we been acquired Attorney General today tollay I I gave gae out a statement concerning the I I discontinuance of the equity suits ro re roI reI I Instituted against the tho discon I or Of the tho equity stilts recently instituted against the tho Utah Fuel com coin company I pany to title to acres or of coal lands In Utah valued at i I This action Is included b by the set setI I b by the government and representatives or of the fuel fual company under I which the company agrees to pa pay the theE I E government s the acres to the tho United States besides 1000 paid to the tho government when I the patents wore were Issued on the land The fuel company Is a subsidiary cor corporation of the tho Denver ncr and RIo Grande railroad I The official statement Issued at the of justice says saysA I A few Cow months ago aso the Utah Fuel I company compan a subsidiary corporation of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad company pleaded In the dis district district court of oC the United States for the district of Utah to an Indictment charging It with having conspired to defraud the United States of 1440 acres of coal lands and was fined It also to the tho United States these lands which are arO appraised at upward of and forfeited the original purchase prIce and paid to the United States the sum of In settlement of Its claims for coal taken from other lands which could ont he be owing to the tho fact that tho they were mortgaged to sc cure ure issues of bonds outstanding In Inthe the tho hands of bona fide fido purchasers Subsequent to the settlement the agents of tho government became sat sal that the Utah Fuel company had acquired title to other coal lands of f the United States In Utah nn after their report the attorney ge general eral suits Hulls Pin n equity to 1 10 0 brought to annul titles to such lands Shortly after tho ho rom corn of these suits lie representatives of f the he com company pan opened ne n for fOL which reo re suited In an adjustment agreed to by bytho bythe the tho secretary of the interior and tim tho attorney general pursuant to which the Utah Fuel company pays to the government 6 to the tho United States SOO acres of coal land now at a value aille of about besides forfeiting paid to the tho governmentaL at the time patents were crl issued on Ue lands lii In vIew of the settlement and upon pa payment men t anti e ance as above the attorney general has ha the lie suits Only Onh the lands in the tho suits stilts discontinued were in the settlement Fur Further Furher her ther investigation Is being prosecuted anti and in case other coal lands land shrill shall ap appear appear pear to have hae been illegally ga 11 acquired I suits will at al otice bo be Instituted to as assen serl sen the governments interest therein |