The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 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-
-s.piracv, but at present the EVIL
dence against him IL purely circum-
stantial. Tonight Assistant Glennon, OF the
states attorneys office. started for spring
neld with the volumjnous documents upon
which will be based the demand for the ex-
urday Assistant States Attorney Baker will
probably take the paper to Washing
ton. They must be signed by the
president and Secretary Blaine before
they go to Winnipeg. The jury will
resume it's sessions ut 10 q. m: Tomorrow.
but there is o probability that 1t will com-
Polete Its labors this week. Nearly all evil
dence within the reach of the states attor-
ney has been produced, M unless the police
succeed in capturing Cooney within the next
1orty-eight hours or discovering additional
evidence duplicating the individual, the
Jury will doubtless render its final report on
the Cronln case Saturday and proceed to thu
confederation of other business. T.,
HANCOCK EXCITED.
HouaHToN, Mich, June 2O.-The town Of
hancock is not q little excited over the re-
port that another of the men concerned in
me Cronin murder came from theIe. Martin
Burke, or Delaney, ii he was in Hancock or
me surrounding towns, must have been
known by another name. So careful a search
as could be made in a day failed to find any
one who knew anything about such a man.
Swamp Lands.
WASHINGTON, SPECIAL Telegram, June 90
Assistant Attorney General Childs of Minne-
sofa made a strong argument before the in
terlor department officers to-day at the hear
Ing involving the states title to the swamp
lands under the grand OF 1850 and the sub
sequent agreement between the state
and Commissioner Wilson, of the general
land office. The case In point
is OF minor Importance. Joseph Ray made q
settlement on a certain tract in the Duluth
land district In 1883. His filing wa refused
by the local lane officers because the land
was returned by the surveyors as swamp.
and, under act of 1850, 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 Il
winnipeg road and conveyed by the road
by contract to one Mains Rays attorneys
ask the sanction Of the governm emit to bring
suit to set aside the patent to the state, al
leg1ng that the tract was fraudulently re-
turned as swamp land. Mains attorneys
claim that he, az an innocent purchaser,
should not be disturbed in his title. The
State OF Minnesota's claims were set forth by
Mr.: Chllds, who said: sThe 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
n h ~ON~Hk ~ - nn~.
ment cannot be legally estopped, but morally
it Is bound Iy that agreement The state
accepted and has received its lands In some
instances lands not swamp have been re-
turned as such, and In mnny other cases
lands that actually were swamp lands have
been returned as high and dry, and thus
TAKEN FROM THE STATE.
No one can tell how much on either side
has been erroneously returned; but should
the government allow cases where lands
ave already been returned as swamp to be
reopened and when established BY affidavit
them from the state, where will the state get
It's deficiency? How should it secure the
lands which have been enormously re-
turned as dry lands, and which are
actually swamp lands? The state . K that
the agreement under which the swamp lands
forced, and the ruling of Secretary Lamar
reversed" Mr.. Childs said that the state had
no interest In the case at all other than as it
affected subsequent acte and decisions.
Commissioner Wilson, in his communication
to Gov. Ramsey, made the fur.her proviso
that the governments should have
patent was issued. The Minnesota repre-
sentatives say they do not want to be obliged
to fight every case where q claim is made,
and desire that swamp lands shall be sc
designated fIo.n the time plats are filed. In
the present case the government is askedt to
set aside the patent State Auditor Braden
says he will spend a month in the Duluth
district making a personal inspection Of the
swamp lands. The discovery of iron ore in
that region has made the swamp lands very
valuable.