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Show RAILROADS DEFEATED. Oregon Land Grant Declared by Court to Have Been Forfeited. Portland. Ore. Federal District Judge Charles K. Wolverton decide 1 on" Monday that the Southern Pacific and the Oregon & California railway companies must forfeit about 2,400,-000 2,400,-000 acres of land wh'ch Is valued at from $10,000,000 to $75,000,000. Interpreting the Bet of congress granting the land as an aid to railway rail-way construction, the e;'urt held that congress intended that this land should be sold to bona flde settlers in tracts not greater than 1C0 acres to one Individual and at a price not exceeding ex-ceeding $2.50 an acre. Lvery contention conten-tion raised by the railway company has been defeated in Its fight with the government. |