Show I i il I I I I i I I I I I I NEWSPAPER ERRORS THREATEN PREUS WITH HEAVY fEA VY MAIL By Special News News Service MINNEAPOLIS NEAPOLIS I Sept 8 An S.-An An erroneous erroneous er- er announcement in many Eastern and Southern newspaper newspapers that Minnesota is offering state lands partially cleared ed and imI improved im improved im- im proved with a a. modest cabin on each forty-acre forty tract at 5 an acre under a year fifteen-year deferred payment payI payment pay pay- ment to attract se settlers late yesterday yesterday yes yes- threatened t to make male the mail mall received at the office of State Auditor heavier than that from the famous Minneapolis silk silks silk shirt chain letter fraud exposed recently recently re re- re- re by postoffice authorities Inquiries came from Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania Ohio Texas an and other distant distant distant dis dis- dis- dis tant states and the majority contained contained con con- tamed the clipping from sonie some newspaper of the erroneous announcement announcement an an- under a Minneapolis l date line that Minnesota had adopted the extremely liberal offer orter to quickly settle its forty-acre forty tracts of fine farm land J. J F. F Gould superintendent of the land sales sales' bur bureau au and a force of stenographers stenographers stenographers ste ste- ste- ste began an attempt to answer the replies to th the thO free ad- ad although the latter came faster Unfortunately said Audit Aud It Preus these coi correspondents respondents must roust be disappointed The legislature In In providing for tor the administration of amen amendment ment No I 1 providing for fora a limited amount of ot clearing on onI state tate land in advance of settlement did not authorize the erection of ot the cabins which seem to u appeal to the Imagination of so many people The auditor explained also that 5 an acre is h the minimum price for Minnesota land and there Is little for sale at that figure |