New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-16
HALF ! BREED SCRIP.
An Important Land Case From Min
nesota Decided by the General
Land Office.
Burned to Death While Suspended
in Mid-Air by an Electric
Light Wire.

WASHINGTON, D. G.. Special Telegram
AsRistan5 Land Commissioner Stone, of the
general land Office, has given an opinion
IN what is known as one OF the Chippewa
half-breed scrip cases. The lanu in contro-
versy is very valuable, as it contains rich
deposits OF iron and is in the great MINI esOta
iron belt The land is lot and northeast
quarter section 80, town IL, range So, in the
Duluth district The land was first located
by James H. Warren by his attorney in fact,
y. d. Sharp, under the treaty of Sept 80,
1854, which allowed every head of family
OF the mixed blood Chippewas of Lake Su-
perlor to locate eighty acres of land Feb.
%, 1889. Joseph H. Chandler applied to To-
cate Valentine scrip on the tract March 70.
1889, Jesse G. Barride applied by attorney
to locate soldiers additional homestead
entry. Both applicants were rejected on the
ground of Warrens previous location. March
IL, 1889, Emio Hartman applied with Por-
terfield scrip and was also refused. All par
ties appealed to the general land office
Chandler and Barride failed to file atfidavits
of contest against Warren until after Hart
mans affidavit was fled, and his contest
therefore comes first and he is the only one
considered. Hartman alleges that Warren
made the entry for the benefit OF other par
ties, who paid him valuable consideration;
that J. H. Sharp was made his attorney for
location, and G. A. d'Autremont attorney to
sell No law was ever passed by congress
regulating
OTHER METHODS OF SELECTION.
But the interior department. authorized
the half-breed to appear before an Indian
agent and make proof that he or she was, at
the rate of the treaty, the head of a family
belonging to the Lake Superior Chippewas
The agent should deposit the proof with the
land officers, and the Indian secure certin-
cate OF Identity This certificate OF identity
was located by Warren through his attorney.
The assistant commissioner holds that War
ren's selection is priula facia valid. 1t was
made by virtue Of power Of attorney duly
executed in the name of Warren himself,
properly identified as beneficiary in the
treaty. He had right to have the land Sc
lected for him, and the land in question had
segregated from the public domain when
the other applications were made The &C
tion OF the local officers in rejecting said ap-
plication is affirmed subject to appeal to the
department. He directs patent to issue to
Warren. If Warren has been defrauded as
alleged by the contestant his patent will
p1otect him. If he has agreed to sell the
land for consideration it is something with
which The department. has nothing to do
The authority by which the land was located
was a certificate of Identity and contains
nothing to prevent the Indian from dispos-
ing of it or bargaining for the land before he
has located it The allegation that Warren
had signed two powers of attorney in blank,
one to locate the land and the other to sell
the same, does not invalidate the certificate
The patent is directed to issue to Warren or
his authorized agent, subjec TO appeal This
case will of course be appealed to the in
terror department. as there are others pend
ing which will be affected by the final decls-
ion and the land involved in this case is
worth $3.50, 900 or more.