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Show LAI CASE Stale or Federal Government Govern-ment Ownership to Be Decided Los Angeles, Cat., Aug. 23 Whether Wheth-er GO.OOii acres of the Palo Verde alley al-ley Is overflowed or desert land and the property of the state or the federal fed-eral government, will be decided final ly at a hearing which began yesterday before United States Surveyor (Jen era! Archer. The state of California ond the United States government are aligned against each other In tho case on behalf of two sets of claimants claim-ants who have filed on the lands One set of claimants want to buy the land from the state, asserting that It Is overflowed or swamp land, and therefore the property of the state. The other claimants seek to establish themselves a.s desert entry-meu. entry-meu. The state Is represented by Attorney At-torney General U. S. Webb and the government by Special Agent G. W. Helm. |