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Show LAND SWINDLE BY I A MONTANA ENGINEER. , Mltij-o-.ila, Inly 2S A land swindle! Involving 1.21.0 acr" southeast of this city and $12s,0t'ui in money tbe cost ' price, was alleged In u suit filed in ! the district court here today. The J plaint ift'rt are .1. N. Medlveran and ! A. H Ralston, recently of Chicago, who complained r.goinst Robert Sib-i ley. a well-known cill engineer oi l this city and formerly pnfes-sor of engineering en-gineering at the University of Mon-' tana. The plaintiffs aBcpe that Engineer Sibley ropreHentfrj that all of the 1,-2M 1,-2M acres of land purchased from, hint by them Jay on n bench or bottom, while in reality half of the acreage was nothing but a bore mountain ; that he deeded water rights which he did not own and in many other ways misrepresented mis-represented things to induce them to contract to purchase and to make the lim ca?h payment of $15,000. The plaintiffs ask for Judgment In the sum of $33,000. |