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Show RAILROADS DEFEATED. Oregon Land Grant Declared by Court to Have Been Forfeited. Portland, Ore F.-dernl District Judge Chnrlea K. Wolverton decided on Monday that tha Southern Pnclflc and thn Oregon Cnllfornln rnllwny companies must forfeit about 2,400,. 001) arrea of land wii'ch la valued at from HO.ono.ono to 175.000,000. Interpreting the act of congress grunting the Innd aa an aid to railway rail-way const ruction, Uw sourl held that congress Intended that Ihla land ahould be aold to bona fide aettlora In trncla nol greater than IfiO nerea to one Individual and at a price not exceeding ex-ceeding $2.r.O an acre, hvery contention conten-tion raised by the railway company hna been defeated In Ita light with the government. |