CHAPTER XXVII.

Big land steals in Oregon, California, ete.—How it is done
there.—‘“In a valley, 30 miles long, ditches were dug from the
stream, dams built, the land flooded, and then taken up by the
gang as ‘swamp land,’” ete.—This is why land is classified —
Brazen perjury, and nobody punished.—The reason.—Wagon road
swindles, ete.—Sink artesian wells to irrigate “swamp land,” ete.
—‘Three-fourths of the land titles fraudulent.”—Murdering home-
builders.

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