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Show COURT IN SESSION Oil MEMORIAL W Land Case Involving Property Prop-erty Worth $100,000,000 on Trial in Frisco. j iAN FRANX-ISCO, May 30. For the first 1 time in the history of the federal courts in an Francisco a session, was held to- j day on a national holiday. Attorneys for the appellants, appellees and interveners were heard in the United States circuit ! court of appeals in, the case of the South - ' ern Pacific and Oregon & California railroads rail-roads from the decision of Judge Wolver- ! ton of Oregon forfeiting: 2,300,000 acres of ; j land, valued at $100,000,000, on the ground that the railroads failed to live up to the- conditions imposed In the goveni- merit's giant. The Intervenors number : I several thousands of homes tenders and others who have made claims to the land involved. John C. Spooner of New York, former United States senator from Wisconsin, appearing for the Union Trust company' of New York, holder of a $20,000,000 mortgage on the roadbed of the Oregon & California line, asserted the contentions conten-tions of the bondholders would be found ; to be "much more decent than those of! the supposed settlers, who built sha-nties in the forest away up on the mountain . side." In his argument, which followed that of the government by Constantine J. Smyth, special United States attorney preneral. he often characterized the intervenors in-tervenors as disreputables. John AT. Gearin. former United States senator from Oregon, and Lewis C. Sar-ragus, Sar-ragus, one of the "S000 actual settlers," as he termed himself, argued against the forfeiture. Attorneys Smyth and William D. Fen-ton, Fen-ton, former United States senator from Oregon, will conclude the argument Monday. |