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Show Land Swindling in Dakota. Washington, November 5. Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, believes from reports received that a large part of the homestead entries in Dakota are fraudulent. He has received advertisements offering ex-Union ex-Union soldiers or sailors homesteads without the formality of living on them, and copies of railroad tickets with homestead entries under the timber culture act attached as gratuitous coupons. The commissioner says he will not certify to any entries until convinced they are regular. regu-lar. He will ask Congress for force enough to do the work speedily. |