The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-06-27

police have under surveillance another sus-
pect, against whom they hope to secure EVIL
dence which will connect him with the con-
spiracY, but at present the evil
dence against him is purely circum-
stantiaL Tonight Assistant Glennon, OF the
states attorneys office, started for SPRING
field with the voluminous documents upon
which will be based the demand for the ex-
tradition of Martin Burke at Winnipeg. Sat
urday Assistant States Attorney Baker will
probably take the paper to Washing
ton. They must be signed by the
president and Secretary B!aine before
they go to Winnipeg. The jury will
resume its sessions at 10 a. m tomorrow
but there is probability that it will COM
plete its labors this week Nearly all evil
dence within the reach of the states attor-
ney has been produced, and unless the police
succeed in capturing COOney within the next
forty-el2ht hours or discovering additional
evidence duplicating the individual, the
jury will doubtless render it's final report oE
the Cronln case Saturday and proceed to tho
consideration of other business.
HANCOCK EXCITED.
HoUGHToN, Mich, June 20.-The town of
Hancock is not little excited over the re-
port that another of the men concerned in
the Cronin murder came from theIe Martin
Burke, or Delaney, il he was in Hancock or
the surrounding towns, must have been
known by another name So careful a search
as could be made in n day failed to find any
Swamp Lands.
WASHINGTON, SPECIAL Telegram, June 90
Assistant Attorney General Childs of Mime
sofa made a strong argument before the in
terror department officers to-day at the hear
ing involving the states title to the swamp
lands under the grand of 1860 and the sub
sequent agreement between the state
and Commissioner Wilson, of tine general
land office. The case in point
is of minor importance. Joseph Ray made a
settlement on a certain tract in the Duluth
land district in 1888. His filing was refused
by the local land officers because the land
was returned by the surveyors as swamp,
and, under act of 1860, belonged to the
state. Ray has continued to live on the land
ever since, although it has been patented to
the state and by the state to the Duluth &
Winnipeg road and conveyed by the road
by contract to one Mains Rays attorneys
ask the sanction of the governm ent to bring
suit TO set aside the patent to the state al
leging that the tract was fraudulently re-
turned as swamp land Mains attorneys
claim that he, as an innocent purchaser
should not be disturbed in his title. The
State of Minnesota's claims were set forth Ly
Mr. Chllds, who said: "The government
cannot go back on the agreement
made by Commissioner Wilson and the
state when it was agreed that the field
notes of the surveyors, duly accredited
agents of the government, should determine
which were swamp lands, and, under the
act, the property OF the state. The govern
ment cannot be legally estopped, but morally
it is bound by that agreement. The state
accepted and has received it's lands In some
instances lands not swamp have been Te-
turned os SUCH and in mnn7 other cases
lands that actually were swamp lands have
been returned as high and dry, and thus
TAKEN FROM THE STATE
No one can tel how much on either side
has been enron eously returned; but should
the government allow cases where lands
have already been returned as swamp to be
reopened and when esta blished by affidavit
that the returns were erroneous to take
them from the state where will the state get
its deficiency? How should it secure the
lands which have been enormously re-
turned as dry lands, and which are
actually swamp lands? The state asks that
the agreement under which the swamp lands
have been patented to the state be still en-
forced, and the ruling of Secretary Lamar
reversed" MIR. Childs said that the state had
no interest IN the case at all other than as 1T
affected subsequent acts and decisions.
Commissioner Wilson, in his communication
to Gov. Ramsey, made the further proviso
that the government should have
the control of the lands until
patent was issued. The Minnesota repre-
sentatives say they do not want to be obliged
to fight every case where claim is made,
and desire that swamp lands shall be SO
designated fIo,n the time pIats are filed In
the present case the government is asked 10
set aside the Datent State Auditor Braden
says he will spend month in the Duluth
district making personal inspection of the
swamp lands. The discovery of iron ore in
that region has made the swamp lands very
valuable,