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Show NO DEFENSE MADE IN LAND FRAUD CASES PORTLAND. Or Dec 1 Like a' thunder thun-der bolt descending out of a cloudless sky the land fraud trial came to' an abrupt close this morning. The defense occupied but seventeen minutes and then only to offer explanations explana-tions In behalf of two of their counsel, and nothing for the defendants, who for two weeks have listened to a chain of circumstances cir-cumstances by which the prosecution confidently con-fidently expects to convict them of a conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud the Government out out a portion of fne public odmaln. |