Show MORE om ng chug IN BRECON government files suit against railroads and Entry men to recover vast tracts of land alleged that all of lands sold to de fondants fond fend ants named in suit were sold Violation In of terms of the land grant portland ore another stop in the fight of tho the federal government to recover possession of tho the land included in the immense grant to the oregon california railroad company was taken saturday when D D townsend special assistant to tho the attorney run oral cral filed in the federal court in portland thirty five suits in equity against the oregon california railroad and southern pacific companies and more than a hundred other defendants these bolts boits wore were supplementary to those previously tiled filed against a the har alman companies and are for the pur poso of recovering land included in the grant and already sold by the railroads or where title tatlo to the land can nol be regained of oc securing tile tho government all moneys paid for the land in excess of 1260 an acre tho the price at which it was stipulated in the original grant tho the land would be sold besides the railroads the defendants defend anta in the sulta suits are those who have purchased land from these coni companies pailles tho the suits stilts involve more than 15 and also more than acres of land all ot the land Is IF located in ili oregon it Is alleged in ili the complaints in the suits stilts filed that all of the lands sold to tile defendants named in the sulta sold in violation of 0 th the terms of tho the land grant and for this reason the government hopes to malto maho null and vold void the deeds and contracts made by tile the oregon california company to the purchasers |