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Show . 1 GERMAN-AMERICAN FARMERS SWINDLED BY GRAFTERS By Associated Press. GOLDFIELD. New, March 12. Flftv German-American farmers arrived nt Coaldalo station yesterday, expecting to find an Eden of green grass, streams and flowers, which had . been described to them by agents of an alleged swindling swin-dling colonization company In San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Instcnd of the paradise of verdure ver-dure which had been pictured they found a desolate mass of malapal rock. Joshua trees and sand. Representatives of the company were to have met them at the station, but, ns none appeared. they walked disconsolately over the sands to Blair Junction. They said they had paid agents of the concern more than $2000 aa the first Installment of ihe purchase price of their respective farms. Each paid $50 for his share of tho lands. It was not until the procession straggled strag-gled Into Blair last evening and made Inquiries In-quiries of natives that their Illusions were entirely banished. |