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some twelve years previously, in the hope that the Corvallis & Eastern railroad would eventually run through there and his location would make a good site for a station. In all this time he had neither seen nor heard of the alleged homesteaders. William M. Brown, postmaster of Lebanon, Ore., and editor of the Criterion, published at that place, testified as to the publication of the final proof notices of the twelve homesteads in his paper. Page