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Show I WESTERN FUEL CO HEARINGS BEGIN iij San Francisco. Feb H The fed-! eral grand Jury began todav an In-, est i?;.tion of the Western Fuel company, com-pany, officers of which are under subpoeua to explain charges ihat the government has been defrauded out of thousands of dollars In duty r I bates on locally consumed import jcoal. Officials or the Paclfi Mail , Steamship company also are involved. With Special Agent Tidwell as the chief witness, United States District j Attorney McNah began the presentation presenta-tion toav of the result of a careful examination of the hooks of the Western West-ern Fuel cognpnny, particularly thoe containing records of "dock weights and shipments |