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Show WHERE EVERY ONE WANTS TO SELL. Our government suppressed the Louisiana- lottery because it was a great game of chance, but overlooked the gambling going on In southern California real estate which, in many features, is worse than the Louisiana lottery. People, with snug sums saved for a rainy day and with no thought of risking their savings, are daily being trapped by the sure-thing real estate agents in Los Angeles and elsewhere In that part of California. An amusing story of a stranger who was "talien in" is related. A retired army man looking the country over for the ideal spot to settle down for the home he had long been denied, by his profession, arrived in Santa Cruz. He was frrinkly charmed. Told several sev-eral whom he met that he had. seen no place so much to his liking. He made friends and was introduced about own to many citizens, who all with one accord and manifest earnestness, earnest-ness, endeavored to sell him their own property on the spot. The army officer, being possessed of a fear that he had fallen among thieves, emd that things were not what they seemed, seem-ed, hastily departed, and, according to the Sanla Cruz Surf, has no returned. re-turned. At least one-hnJf of the residents of California are "boosting" in the hope of selling out, and the other half is satisfied to live on climate. |