Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-19

This bill to be petitioned for will pro-.
vide an adequate remedy that can not
De questioned, and if it be true, as stat
that nine-tenths of all titles in Dako.
to, which now has over $4,000 farms,
have been acquired fraudulently, these
when their titles are can
will never enter the courts, buff
they have not obtained them fraudulent
ly they should have some redress other
than the shot gun to hold them by.
The question involved is not whether
land Office receipt is final on the ques-
ton of title, for it is not, nor is the final
decision of the department final, but for
the time being it is final against the
courts and delays redress for years, until
i%nterlopers have been invited III to create
blood shed; whereas this question should
at once be finally determined between
the government and the settler, before
others have expended means and lived
OF the land.
People everywhere are asked to copy
the accompanying petition and circulate
1t for three days and obtain signatures
and then mail the same to VIM. II.
Standish. Bartlett, D. r.; also to take up
ten cent subscriptions or larger and for
ward amount thus received with this Pc
tition. to be used to defray MI. STAN
dish's expenses in going to Washington
and looking after this matter before con-
gress.
Let every western citizen who knows
a senator or a member of congress write
him a personal letter on this subject at
once, urging his enlistment to save the
homes of our poor and prevent anarchy.
w. H. STANDIsH,
Bartlett, D. Il.
Dated June IA, 1856.
THE BILL.
10 the 10th congress: Whereas, the
incumbent of the general land office has
created new rules to invalidate titles that
we're completed and consumated prior
to his incumbency, and then only await
GU kitGCllU, XII vi WlllCll 10 Ill SlOlittlOIl Va
the plainest principle of constitutional
law that bad men are banding with de-
t%ectives and special agents to secure the
cancellation of such titles on farms that
are improved and being now cultivated
and inhabited, which in many cases
have passed TO innocent purchasers or
mortgages and this is being done in
order that these men may secure the
property for nothing and, whereas. we
are advised, that when these illegal cam
| cellations shall have been made by the
department., the people thus robbed will
be without any immediate redress Ill the
courts, and their homes and property
will be open to be taken by these bad
men striving to obtain them and, where
as, we are opposed to any man holding
his land where he had not complied
with the law in existence at the time he
consumated his title, and that, where he
had complied, we believe the courts
should be invested with immediate jur-
isdiction to determine this matter and
protect him, and that unless some such
provision is made, murder and arson
will come in throughout the entire west,
and be protected in the grand and petit
juries to supply the want of any other
remedy +; and having confidence in our
United States judges of the locality where
the land may be therefore, we earnest.
ly pray that congress will Immediately
pass a law excluding any such land from
being acquired within ninety days after
notice of title being cancelled, and that
i'll the meantime the party aggrieved
may be authorized to introduce a suit in
the United States of the locality of the
land, for such court to determine on triaI
whether he has complied and that its
decree with the right Of appeal shall set
tie the title.
CLIMBER TREspAss."
Editor Devils Lake Inter- Ocean: I have
an impression that a special agent is nov
before the grand jury at Fargo for the
purpose of procuring the indictment o.
some of our prairie settlers for going
upon public lands to take fuel. In 1878
at the motion of Senator Blaine, every
senator (save four) cast a vote of cen
sure against Secretary Shurz for harrass
ing prairie settlers, and, If I mistake not
our present worthy attorney general wa
then a senator from Arkansas and joined
in that vote of censure. 1t is not tn,
purpose of the president nor the head
Of the government to have such pro
ceedings, nor is it the desire that prairie
settlers shall perish when there is gov
eminent fuel ear that will save thei
lives and if any Of your readers nea
the Turtle mountains shall be indictet
by this or any other grand jury tell then
to enter a pleao not guilty, have thei
cases continued, and write me the fact
and l will prepare and send them free Q
charge the requisite affidavits, which
) on being sworn to, we will forward to tn
attorney general and ask him to discon
tinuc the suits, and If he declines we vii
have a record and proof to be brough
up before the United States on which t
: base q vote of censure against this nd
ministratiOn that will not sound yer,
we'll east.
1t will never reach that. The prose
cution will be discontinued and the spec
lal agents, the deputy marshals and tn
: United States attorney who get fees b,
| these harrasslng suits will get instruct
: ions to desist or pass in their resigna
tons. The time has come to rise an
wipe out this outrage.
81 w. III. STANDIsH.
BARTLETT, d. T., June Is.
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Cattle for Sale.
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l ranch in Missouri, or will deliver Their
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