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Show ing for a fight to prevent the completion com-pletion of patent on nearly 2.000 acres ' of land In this state said to contain , valuable coal deposits. It is said the government will issue patents to the ! land with restrictions as to coal and mineral authorized by a recent enacl- j ment of this law and therefore holds that he should not be amenable to later lat-er restrictions. The, land nffected is said to be underlaid un-derlaid with coal veins varying in thickness from C to 12 feet. CCLORADO COAL LAND FRAUDS TO BE INVESTIGATED i Steamboat Springs. Colo., Feb. 9. 1 Through an Investlration beun here yesterday before Coinml8slon,;r Mal-lory Mal-lory of the general lj ol,icCJ tno i government H believed to bc prepar- |