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Show MORE LAND FRAUDS. Maskan Graft Being Probed Deeper With Startling Results. Washington. After months of so-crot so-crot offorts and pationt waiting, officials of-ficials of tho general land offlco wero ablo to nnnounco on 1-nday tho Indictment Indict-ment of a number of claimants to valuable val-uable lands In Alaska. Tho entries involved number 154 and cover almost 17,000 acres of land, all of which lies In tho Bering strait district, in which tho Cunningham claims aro located. Tho chargo against tho indicted men Is that tho entrlos were made In tho names of "dummies." Most of tho ontrymen wore rsidonts of Washington Wash-ington and tholr claims aro said to have been located with an agreement that tho claims should bo assigned or deeded to third parties as soon ns persons willing to bocomo Interested could bo found by tho locators. Thero Is said to havo boon a further understanding under-standing that tho locator should re-colvo re-colvo a largo percontago of tho sales prices. |
