Show OREGON LAND FRAUDS 1 1 Agent of the Southern Pacific Rail Railroad Railroad road load Company Before the thc Grand Jury July Portland Ore April A 6 Charles W Eberlein land Jand agent ag nt of the th Southern Pacific company was the principal Vs wit witness it I ness floss before the federal fed grand jury I which ks is investigating the land fraud framl cases ta in this state It is i believed that testimony te timon will prove an im important important factor f tor in establishing a t con conspiracy spira to secure t fur large areas of tim timbered hered b rf lands in lu the southern part of Oregon Thin Thir testimony it is i learned on good authority corroborated by the records of the Southern Pacific com company company pany established 4 the fact that simultaneously simul simultaneously with the th securing of a large amount of railroad land which com comprised comprised the th odd numbered sections large tracts tract of government land which com coin comprised NI the cv n numbered sections of the same ame district were located upon I ITh The Th government it is learned arned l will 1 attempt to prove proP that this thin simul simultaneous acquiring of the even enn and odd sections was more than a n coincidence n nand and that it was us done for the purpose of exploitation in the Ithe interests of a large southern Oregon gon lumber com company company pany George or H K T el t JI ley secretary of the Lumbering company the largest lumbering lumb concern rn in southern Oregon was W s also called as HI a witness q today by b the th grand jury He H has been instructed in to bring with him hint of the corporation |