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Show HENEY MAY UNEARTH GRAFT IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Or., March 25. It is reported re-ported here that a sum of $50,000 is being be-ing raised as an Investigation fund to bring Francis J. Ueney and Special'Agent Burns to Portland to probe Into local municipal graft. Transactions for years back and up to the present will be examined ex-amined under the searchlight of the investigators. in-vestigators. . . It Is understood that a small coterie of citizens, all of whom are large taxpayers, tax-payers, have pledged $5000 as' a nucleus for the $50,000. They believe that the money can be raised within a few davs and declare that if more than $50,000 is necessary to make a thorough and a weeping investigation it will be obtainable. obtain-able. Just what the nature of the transaction Is which the Investigators wish brought to light is not specified. |