The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-12-24
cision elicited substantially the following

SAoAS1 C1ACAVCN buU 'dAp1pAAy ph&O ASA0"2A6
statement: "s'j En-. +
the land granted ths
emo, congress added q proviso that before
title shall pass from the government, there shall
f1rst be paid into the treasury Of the United
party int neres SSe M SorSe9n Pacific s
has never asked for or received patents
In the government. thereby relieving the COM
pany from the cost OF making the surveys and
from the burden OF local taxation. Even II con-
Northern Pacific land grant. for alleged nom
compliance with some Of the terms Of the char
ter. the bona fide settler would In no manner
suffer as his claim is held to be superior to all
Others. and that hardship would result only to
land spectators and owners by purchase from
the railroad company Of large tracts. In these
oases recourse could only be had upon the rail-
road company. b..
SECRETARY JENK's SAY.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec, 49,
The Trail county tax case involves the same
question with regard to title that came up
in the Homestake mining company's tax
suit Assistant Secretary of the Interior
jerks said to-day:
The Traill county tax decision cannot affect
the rights Of the purchasers of Northern Pacific
laad In the slightest They are perfectly as safe
rs they have been for the last ten years. There
VIII be legislation this winter probably: at
which no patent is asked Such lands
should not escape taxation, while settlers on
It should be fixed that as soon as the land is sold
by the railroad from that moment taxes should
accrue. Certainly they should be taxed as soon
% certified to the purchaser. or II the govern
ment officials can identify the land in any way
as belonging to individuals rather than the rail-
way, then taxes should DO levied upon them
sss sAD BY COL GRAY.
NEW YORK, Dec 16.-CoL George GRAY,
general counsel for the Northern Pacific,
interviewed to-day, said: 60.
The Traill county case ia in no respect dif-
terent from the two cases decided by the same
party. In none of the cases was the title Of the
railroad companies involved, but inasmuch AZ
congress had pronounced that the patent to the
Lands should not obtain until they had
supreme court held In all cases that that rctcn-
lion OF patent vas security for the payment Of
costs. and the United States, having legal title
and that much of interest In the lands, no state
or territorial authorities can tax the lands The
title to any acre Of land in Dakota Territory
It, Is in no manner whatever affected by the de-
c1ston. The company has always been willing to
pay, but the want of surveys and the general
inactivity Of tho officials In the land ofee hnva
prevented payments being made.
More Judges.
The reorganization OF the supreme court O
Dakota is proposed In bill introduced In tht
senate from the judiciary committee provid
Ing for court having seven associate lust
Ices beside the chief Justice, two more thar
the present number The territory is to b,
divided into eight districts, the present Fifth
district to be made into three new districts
that are to be numbered Fifth, Seventh and
Eighth. The Fifth is to include Beade
Ktngsbury, Brooktngs, Sphinx, Hand, Hyde
and Hughes counties. The Seventh embrace,
Brown, Edmunds, Mcpherson, Campbell,
Walworth, Potter, Faulk and Sully counties
The Eighth takes in Clark, Day, Marshall,
Caddington, Hamlin, Denet, Grant, Roberts
and the Sisseton reservation. Each Judge Is
required to live In his district, and the Judge,
among themselves may arrange an allotment
of districts
NEW LAND DISTRICTS
Senator Ingalls, introduced to-day a plan
for erecting two new land districts in the
territory and enlarging the Deadwood dis.
trict The first new district is to have it,
office at Chamberlain, and is bounded as
follows: s&si7s, ,G;.,i 81
BEGINNING at westerly point where the Mis-.
souri, river crosses the second standard parallel,
thence west to the twenty-fifth degree OF lougi-
tude. thence south to the south boundary OF the
territory, thence along the boundary to the Mis-.
eouri river, thence up the river to the intersec.
ton of the river with the east boundary line
range 81 thence north along this east line 70 the
The second district is to have Its office at
Pierre. It is bounded as follows:
Commencing where the Missouri river inter
sects tho east boundary, line, range "a thence
north to the fourth parallel thence east to the
EAST boundary line. range 70 west. thence north
degree OF longitude, thence south to where tho
second parallel produced would internecr the
twenty-ffth degree. thence east to the Missouri
river and down the river to the point of begin;
ming. rs 1573i 80 2 q
All the district south of the fortv-sixth
parallel and west of the twenty fifth degree
Is attached to the Deadwood district The
registers and receivers for the new offices aro
not to be appointed until the cession Of the
Sioux reservation. 81 AZ
s5@5 A BRIDGE At PIERRE.
Senator Ingalls, intoduceda bill in the sen.
ate to-day giving the Pierre Bridge company
the right to put bridge across the Missouri
at Pierre. The company is Incorporated
under the territorial laws and proposes to
erect toll bridge for railways, wagons, car
riages and pedestrians similar to the Lawler
bridge at Prairie du Chen If it is span
there are to be three channel spans fifty feet
above high water and 800 feet long. If q
draw is required by the secretary of war, the
channel on each side of the pivot must be
100 feet long and the adjoining spans must
be 800 feet long. The company asks for a
grant of $40 acres at the west end of the
bridge for approaches and tracks
The New American Beauty.
Miss Winslow, the American beauty
who has been dividing with Miss
Chamberlain the admiration Of the
gay world beyond the Atlantic, be-
longs to o well-known Boston family.
Her father was the late George s.
Winslow, a wealthy dry-goods mer-
chant, and her mother is q member OF
the Roxbury family Of Train, ofwhich
the late Enoch Train was in his day o
CONSPICUOUS representative. The
Winslows used to live in the swell.
front brick house on Boylston street.!
opposite the Common, which is now
tenanted by the Boston Whist Club
They lived luxuriously butnot osten-
tatiously. Mrs. Winslow liked to
drawabout her literary and artistic
society, and among the artists and.
men of letters who were frequently.
met in her drawing-roo ms were Rowse,
whose crayen heads have gained him
n wide reputation, and Henry James,
the novelist. Miss WinsloW is a
blonde, tall and stately, with regular
features and the mir that people call
"aristocratic She came naturally
by her personal attractions through
her mother, whose portrait, painted
by Porter before he had become.
fashionable, preserves the features Of
one OF the most beautiful women the
Hub has known. 5 ;s:3Ss#
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