Show eastern bant ers are robbed of un told sums by land th eves who forged seal of the state salem or far more serious than any previous development of the many sided land frauds perpetrated in this state are charges made in a let ter to governor george chamberlain on saturday from state land agent oswald west who in effect asserts that by means of forged certificates of sale of school lands eastern bank ers have in the aggregate been swin died out of untold sums of money not content the land agent asserts with having defrauded the state of ap proximately acres of school land practically all it possessed by means of dummy entry men when money was no longer to be made in that manner the land operators pre pared printed certificates of sale and assignments and inserted in them de of school lands on which had previously been is sued the number of the entry then forged the signature of the clerk ol 01 the state land board and notaries pub lie attached forged notary seals and a forgery of the great seal of the state of oregon and resold the lands alm and again to innocent persons in the east mr west concluded by saying thai the forged certificates are so well ex buted that it is a difficult matter tc distinguish them from the originals |