| Show I ANOTHER DIG SWINDlE DISCOVERED IN OREGON Enctcrn Danlers are Robbed of Untold Un-told Sums by Land Thieves Who Forged Seal of the State Salem 0110 more serious than atij previous development of tho mom ldeJ land frauds perpetrated In this Htnli are charges outdo In a letter let-ter to Governor George Chamberlain on Saturday front Slate Land Agent Oswald West who In effect asserts that by meniiH of forged certificates of tnle of school lands eastern bankers bank-ers hive In the aggregate been swindled swin-dled out of untold Hums of money Not content the land agent asserts with having defrauded the state of approximately ap-proximately 500000 acres of school land practically nil it possessed by means of dummy ontrymon when money was no longer to be mado in that niunncr tho land operators prepared pre-pared printed certificates of sale and assignments nnd Inserted In them descriptions de-scriptions of school lands on which certificates had previously been issued is-sued tho number of tho entry then forged tho signature of tho clerk of tho state land board and notaries public pub-lic attached forged notary seals and a forgery of tho great seal of tho stale of Oregon and resold the lands tlmo and again to Innocent persons in the east castMr Mr West concluded by saying that tho forged certificates are so well executed exe-cuted that It Is a difficult matter to distinguish them from tho originals |
