Show oregon california land fraud exposed promoters arrested A dispatch from san franc pub dished in the daily papers of a few daya days aaa ago tella tells of the arrest of a cumner of attorneys and others whom it is claimed promoted a gi gantic a bindl involving deals over 7 acres of land along the ore gon and califern Cali forn a railroad were it not for the fact that about twenty tintie people went against this game the story would not be of in terest to reporter reader readers the plan of the swindlers wag was to locate people on land involved in fed eral lit Itt gation which sought to re turn it to the government because it was alleged the railroad coni company pany had failed to keep an agreement to sell what it did not need to settlers at 12 2 50 per acre the scheme it is claimed was as to send out advertise ments concerning applications hold ing out to the would be purchasers that the fee would resul in div ing them a acre grant there was as a proviso in the agreement how ever for reversion of the timber on the lands back to the company at 50 cents a thousand feet in every case according to the representation of the agents of the company the timber was worth many times the sum of which was supposed to cover the cost of the iba acres of timber land it is alleged that from all parts of the country the company rounded up victims who saw a chance of making some easy money and that the scheme netted the promoters almost 3 |