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Show MORE LAND FRAUD CASESJ OREGON Government Files Suit Against Rail roads and Enlrymen to Recover Vast Tracts of Land. Alleged That All of Lands Sold to De. fendants Named In Suit Were Sold In Violation of Terms of the Land Grant. Portland, Ore. Another step in tho fight of tho federal government to recover re-cover possession of tho land Included In the Immense grant to the Oregon & California Itallrond company waa taken Saturday, when D. D. Townsend, spcclnl assistant to tho attorney Rt-ii' crnl, filed In tho federal court In Portland Port-land thirty-flvo suits In equity against tho Oregon & California railroad and Southern Pacific companies, and more than a hundred other defendants. Thcso Bolts were supplementary to thoso provlousiy filed against tho Hnr-rlmnn Hnr-rlmnn companies, nnd nro for tho pur-Pobu pur-Pobu of recovering Innd Included In the grant and already sold by tho railroads, rail-roads, or, where tltlo to tho land cannot can-not bo regained, of securing tho government gov-ernment all moneys paid for the laud in excess or $2.60 an ncre, tho prlcu at which It was stipulated In the original origi-nal grant the land would bo sold. Ile-sldcs Ile-sldcs the railroads, tho defendants In the stilts are those who have purchased pur-chased land from thcso companies. Tho suits Involve more than $15,-000,000, $15,-000,000, and also more thnn ;I53,2SS acres of land. All of the land Is located lo-cated In Oregon. It Is nllegcd In tho complaints In tho suits filed that all of tho lands sold to the defendants nnmcd In tho suits wcro sold In violation of the terms of tho laud grant, and for this reason tho government hopes to mnko null and void the deeds and contracts mado by tho Oregon & California company to tho purchasers. |