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Show Government Charges Southern Pacific With Illegal Action. San Francisco. July 30. B. D. Townsend, special attorney for the department of Justlco in tho gox'ern-ment's gox'ern-ment's suit against the Southern Pa-clfllc Pa-clfllc land titles in California and Arizona, opened an office here today preparatory to filing a suit at Los Angeles attacking the titles of tho railroad and the Kern Trading & Oil company, one of Its subsidiary corpo-rtlons, corpo-rtlons, to 150,000 acres of oil land, estimated es-timated to bo worth $500,000,000. The government will contend that tho lands were obtained "through fraud and misrepresentation, and by the abuse of tho rights ot the people and the gox eminent," Cancellation of tho patents will bo sought Attorney Toxvnsend also Is gathering gather-ing data for the prosecution of the government's suit to declare forfeited 2.300,000 acres of timber lands In Oregon, sold by tho Southern Pa-clfllc Pa-clfllc to the Oregon & California railroad. rail-road. It is contended that the law was violated in tho sale of tracts greater than 160 acres to persons other oth-er thon settlers Tho federal court In Oregon has overruled the demurrer of the "railroad to the government's complaint, foroing it to go to trial with the caae on Its merits. nn |