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Show B. C. RIBLET EXAMINED. Rome, Feb. ft. B. C. Rlblet was e-! e-! nmlned today by J. M- Sheridan and W. J. Magee of the American department depart-ment of the Interior In connection with the charge that certain parties had taken up patents to coal lands in Alaska with tho intention of dlspos-j dlspos-j Ing of their rights to others. Rlblet : denied that he had committed a statu i tory fraud The proceedings were before Amer- lean Consul Chapman Coleman, and , K. C Hughes of Seattle was present ; as attorney for the coal clalmnuts. |