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Show ALASKA LAND CASE OPENS Development Company Charged With Making Dummy Entries Detroit. Feb. 11 Hearings iu tbo department of the interiors ciyii suit in the case against the Alaskan I. and Development company on charges .if at tempi to defraud by means or "dummy" "dum-my" entries in Alaskan coal lands were bogun here toda before Special Spe-cial Commissioner George Donaldson. Donald-son. The civil action is taken for the cancellation of the aliened Illegal j .lalms. . The defendants are W P M Alpin( Arthur L Holmes. F. B Andrus, M. c Leheau A H, Reehm, G W Koi.s. all of Detroit, and John Bushnel of Chicago. , . , ... The company is charged with Illegal Ille-gal claims on 21 parcels of coal land: In ihe Kama! peninsula on Kache-mack Kache-mack bay. It has i'50 claims, valued at $10,000,000 |