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Show HOMESTEADERS ARE GIVING UP CLAIMS PORTLAND, Or.. Sept 26. A special to the Oregonlan .from Salem, Or., states ' that as a result of the vigorous prose- cutlons of land fraud cases in this State about 20,000 acres of school land situated In the Blue Mountain forest reserve In eastern Oregon bad been abandoned by locators who forfeited in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $10,000. - , According to the Ore iron Isn't correspondent correspon-dent it as assumed that in most of these Instances the land had, been located by "dummies" and that the persons who provided pro-vided the money became frightened and quietly abandoned all the claims at the same time making no effort to recover the money Invested. |