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Show 1 1IILS OF LSI 1; jOWiPAKVJKOICTED A r Bills Returned Against in Who Promoted Flor- I Ida. Fruit Lands. i i '3 IfEAS C1TT, Mb., Doc. 8. Five men, J minister. Identified with the Cham-i,aml Cham-i,aml company, a local concern, were i cd by a federal grand Jury today. J ;rand" Jury also returned a new ln-.1 ln-.1 ent against tho eight men Indicted jj reeks ago in connection with iho op-n op-n of the Florida Fruit L-anda com- i men indicted are: E. C Chambors, ,J cltv, president of the company; - I Albert E. Gammagc. Knnsaa City; -I it L nmscU, Miami. Fla.; C. II. ',; rd 'Pittsburg. Kan., and F. W. ' Tr Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The last X ire alleged to bo agents. 7, i now Indlctinoiit against the eight "' f the Florida Fruit LandB company 5 n8 twenty-four counts and charges ompany officers with having pro-i pro-i a lottery. It takes the placo of mer indictment making the samo jy e, but which contained only eight i Indicted Fruit Lands officers arc: NFEolIes, Jesse L. Bllllngslcy. Miami, IMjjjVt'ard C. Chambors, R. .1. Martin, "Borders, John Matthew and Albert I jKft nil of Kansas City; and. George Kddoclc of Miami, Fla All except 1 nKTBIIllngsloy and Paddock gave ' IV of $2500 after the first indictment. W bonds will hold over and new ones Hot bo required. indictment against tho Chambors company contains fourteen counts, .i imf which charges conspiracy. Ac-11 Ac-11 (Kg (o the Ftory told. In the Indict-'Vchambcrs Indict-'Vchambcrs purchased 50,000 acres of l 'h Florida ovcrglados from the state tylBo, for which lie was to pay 515 an TKjThe land ho sold on tho Install-B'plan Install-B'plan at from ?n0 to $65 an acre, i 'K; In the aggregate about 17,000 .Kfor which the company obtained flfeo. Tho government asserts that iKnu was und rained, unsullablo for rjKtlon and misrepresented, |