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Show ATTORNEY HALL FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Conspiracy In Big Land Frauds of Oregon. Portland, Oro. Former United' Staton District Attorney John II. Hall, Indicted for conspiracy with tho Ilutto Crook Land, Livestock & Lumber company to maintain an Illegal fonco which enclosed 20,000 acres of public lnnd In Wheeler county, has been found guilty. Tho trial has boon in progress slnco January 13, and has been bitterly fought on both sides. Tho orfenBo Is punlshablo by a flno net oxccedlng $10,000, or by Imprisonment not exceeding two years. Sontenco hnB been snyponded for tho present, nnd Judge Lionel It. Webster has tnkon Btxty days In which to lllo no-tlco no-tlco of appeal, and wns granted' until May 1 In which to prcparo a bill ot exceptions. |