| Show I I I LAND GRAB CONSPIRACY Central Figures Said to Live in San Francisco Portland Ore Oct JuThe The Oregonian will tomorrow say eay The government has hu unearthed a stu tu stupendous stupendous land graft ring rl that has been carrying on a business s in every well weil I timbered area on the Pacific slope This ring has baa not only acquired base lands I by dummies and end other fraudulent means it has debauched state land of officials making them hirelings or part partners Partner I flees ners in the business it has maintained in the general nel land office at Washington on agents whose whoM duty was to leak information iril mation matlon n about proposed reserves dd other profitable matter and by Use of ot money unla has influenced f placing e t of reserve ri boundaries to its own Interests The con cen central conti ti figures of oj tills this conspiracy are mid ad to be In San dan Francisco William J Burns In the secret service of ot the treasury department and A B ii Pugh assistant tat attorney general In the interior department were In Jn Portland last lut week gathering evidence that will wit help the government in prosecuting p tn instigators of the conspiracy They inter interviewed Interviewed Interviewed viewed a number nuber of ot men ell who had bad been paid for the use u e of their names in ap applications for Cor state tate school lands also cor certain certain tain lain notaries public who are accused ot or certifying to false falee and abd fraudulent affi affidavit davit dante |
