The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
A Captains Very Fortunate Discovery

Captain Coleman, of schooner Wey-
mouth, plying between Atlantic City
and New York, had been troubled
with a cough so that he was unable to
sleep, and was induced to try DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. 1t not only gave him instant
relief but allayed the extreme soreness
in his breast. His children were SINH
larly affected and single dose had
the same happy effect. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is now the standard
remedy in the Coleman household and
on board the schooner. Free trial
bottles of this standard remedy at ia
cob Geiger's.
Settlers Claims on the N. O. Pacific
Railroad.
Senator E. T. Lewis, of St. Landry Pa
IRISH, has received the following letter.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENE-)
RAJ LAND OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
April 20, 1885.
Hon. E. T. Lewis, Opelousas:
SIR have to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of January 28th last, and in
reply to advise you that the southeast
quarter section nine, township eight,
south range three east, Louisiana merid-
ian, has this day been awarded to Simon
Leger, subject to appeal within sixty days
by the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Co.
Very respectfully,
WIN. A. j. SPARKS,
Commissioner.
This is the case Of man who settled on
one of the odd sections within the indem-
nifty limits Of the Backbone land grant, in
the Parish Of St. Landry, in the year 1878.
The land was selected by the Railroad
in April, 1883, and SO figures ON the tract
books of the Land Office, New Orleans.
His application was rejected by the
Land Office, New Orleans, in the month of
January, 1886, but referred by the Regis
ter to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office for instructions as to whether
the entry should be permitted or not. 1t
was sent there by General Lewis as test
case, covering the cases of nine-tenths Of
the settlers on the lands claimed by the
railroads in the Parish of St. Landry
This settler never made application for
his lands until January, 1886, although he
resided continuously on the land in ones
ton from 1878 until the present time.
The point involved in this decision was
1. Whether; in order to perfect his title,
there was any limitation Of time within
which the settler was required to make
his application.
2. Whether the lands occupied by him
were included in the land grant, accord
ing to the terms of the granting act.
The ruling would seem to be in effect
that the lands within the indemnity lin
its of the grant which were actually occu-
pied by settlers in good faith prior to the
time when the line of the railroad was de-
finitely fixed, were not granted lands, and
from this it necessarily followed that the
grantee or railroad company was without
interest to inquire into the time when ap-
plication was made.
The line of the New Orleans Pacific Rail
road was not definitely fixed until Octo-
Der, 1881, for II part of the line, and about
November, 1888, for the balance, accord
ing to the ruling of the General Land Of
flee. Should the ruling i'll this case he
affirmed by the Secretary of the Interior
it will protect nearly all of the settlers in
St. Landry from the operations Of the
Blanchartl-Robertson compromise, unde,
which they would have been required by
the railroad company to pay So all acrs
for their homes.-[St. Landry Democrat