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Show OREGON LAND HEARING BEGINS AGAIN CHICAGO, Jan. 38. Hearing af testimony testi-mony waa reaiwned here yeaterday In the federal government' land grant litigation liti-gation agaluat the Oregon St California railroad, Involving several mill Von acre of Oregon land a valued at million of dollara. The government la seeking to cncl land g rani a to th railroad, alleging al-leging that the trotnivany violated the contract with th Culled State la the settlement plan Edmund I. Barry, en attorney, formerly for-merly of Detroit and now of Faaadena, Cel., wee the flrat wltneee in tha Chicago Chi-cago healing. Mr. Barry drew up paper pa-per In the transaction bet ween the federal authorities and the railroad. The suit la directed at the settler aa wall a the railroad. It being alleged that although the contract stipulated titat not more than lie crs waa to be allotted to any one aet tier, th land waa leased to fifty or mor peraons, each reoelvlug fifty thouaand acre. |