White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-12-11
Notice..
Brown COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS,
December 10th, 1862.

BRowS COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS,
December 10th, 1862.
ITO ANDREW J. ANGEL, ESQ.,:
l. Bounty Land Warrant No. 1888, fos l60
acres, issued under act Of March ;, 1855, in the
name Of Stephen A. Lowry, has been returned
to the General Land Office located in your
name, ct the Land Office at Kickapoo, Kansas,
Oh the 5th day Of February, 1859, in virtue of
an assignment purporting to be from Thomas
Nesbit, Jr, executed on the 3lst Of August,
1858. in your favor, in presence Of the follow
ing Witnesses: P. B. Fowke and S. M. Kase,
and acknowledged before VI. W. Roman, Clerk
Of County Court, dated August 3lst, 1853, at
St. Clair County, Illinois,
This is to notify you, that have fled in the
General Land Office, a caveat under oath, in
which declare that am the actual owner of
said Warrant, and that I have never sold,
transferred, or assigned the same, or authorized
any other person to sell or assign it for me, or
in my name, and that said Land Warrant was
iraudulently and unlawful taken from me,
under the following circumstances: On the 18th
OF August, 1858, with said Warrant and one
other, vas in the city Of st. Louis, Missouri,
on my way West to locate said Warrants On
that day fell in with man whose name then
was, ever since hath been, and still is to ne
unknown, BY whom l was invited to take q
stroll about said city; that while walking with
him, We met second man, also unknown to
me, with whom the first mentioned man got
INTO conversation; soon after, the second man
produced metallic ball, which the first pro.
eeeded to open and examine; soon after, the
oall was returned to said second man, who pro-
posed to the first, that he would bet him that
SAID ball was both hollow and contained q pa
per In the inside; the first admitted it to be
hollow, but proposed TO bet that it did not con-
tain paper; the second man thon said he
would bet with the first man 500 or $500 that
1t did contain paper, which bet said first man
accepted, but saying that he had not enough
money to stake, asked the use of my said Land
warrants to add to his money, and with these
make the bet; l handed him the Warrants,
when they. with the money, we're placed on
Inc ground, when the second man proceeded to
open said ball, and declared that it had paper
IN 1t, and at once snatched up said money and
warrants and ran away, followed by the first
man, both of whom made their escape, since
winch time l have not been able to see either
Of SAID men; and thus, by said dishonest and
sHindng practice, usually known as the ball
gsne,' said Warrant was ftandulently taken
nom me, and afterwards an assignment there
W; purporting to be in my name, was forged.
aiso nefeDy notify you, that within sixty
y. alter the date of the last publication Of
sals notice, to be published for SIX successive
weeks, commencing December IIth, 1862,
snaii apply to the Commissioner of the General
Lana o6ce to disregard and set aside, as fraud.
aient and void, the assignment of said Warrapl
:: " you, and will file proof of the facts annexed
70 me foregoing as to che validity of the assign
lent 50 that if you have any good cause To
SNOW Why patent should be issued In your "a
'cr, such showing may be made at the Office
Sosesad, at Washington City, d. c., on or be-
Me the time above mentioned, as Ishall claim
~ aoudication upon my application by said Of
=. Iee on the merits of the case, and shall demand
,re sad Warrant as my lawful property. Should
yos not make such showing, Pursuant to thil
aoaee, shall demand the Warrant, asking tha
;vur failure to answer shall be taken Pse Goa
J''s' IN favor of such demand.
n THOMAS NESBlTT, JR.
december IL, 1e62-7w. Prs fee, SIS.