St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-01
Col. Wright and His APP
pointee, GarVin, Make
Social Calls.
Twenty Three Days of Rain
Credited to Last
Month.
Meeting Today of the Repub-
liean State Central
Committee.

There are over $50 defendants to the
suit begun in the United States circuit
court TO recover the 100 acres Of land
which embraces Midway Heights and
the property around the Minnesota
Transfer, and which is now worth sew
eral millions of dollars. The claimants
are fortified with able counsel, and the
hu ndredS of defendants will be well
re presented by counsel. The plaintiffs
attorneys are w. c. Mayne, Clapp d
BramhalI, Lusk, Bum d HadleY and
c. w. Bum.
Among the defendants are the Min
neSota Transfer Railway company, the
Great Northern Railway company,
Philip 3. Winston, David c. Shepard, the
RamSeyCOunty Land and Loan company.
II. 5. Fairchild, j. A. Humphreys, John
B. SanbOrn, Jed l.. WaShbuFn, the
State Bank of Minneapolis, the st. Paul
Congregational Union, the heirs of Ed
ward Langevin, the st. Paul Trust
company, the Savings Bank of ST.
Paul, the National Bank of Chambers
burg, the Rice Street Building society,
the SmondS Manufacturing company,
the WOrkingmen'S Building and Loan
society, the Ramsey County Building
society. the Iowa Land company, the
Bank of Minneapolis. P J. Gribbin
Lumber company, St. Cr0iX Lumber
company, the Bohn Manufacturing com
pany, the ChapmanDrake company, st.
Paul Foundry company, the Arlington
& Curtis Manufacturing company,
Eleanor Tatum, Hannah Tatum and
Mary c. Tatum.
The bill of complaint recites that the
suit was brought by the heirs of George
W. Remsen for the recovery of the
southwest quarter of section %, town
ship 20, range %, which includes all OF
Midway Heights and Coverings
factary, warehouse and transfer prop
erty," sets forth, that under the terms
of the act of congress approved on
Feb. IL, 1911, he became entitled to a
warrant for 160 acres of land by reason
OF his services i'll the Mexican war.
The complaint proceeds:
That after his death, and ON Feb. 30. 1S4S,
the United States goyerHment-issaed its Land
Warrant No. 2SSH for Ito acres of land in the
name of Elizabeth KemSen, his widow and
Harriet A Remsen, Mary Ann RemSen, John
Wesley RemSen, Elizabeth RemSen and
George W. A. Remsen, the minor children
and heirs-atIaw of George w. Remsen,
which they were entitled to under the act to
locate upon anv quarter section of the gov
ernment land subject TO private entry.
On OcI- y. 1919 EllZGUGtu NlQOHs
for herself and without any authority from
the minors or from any court, undertook to
assign the land warrant to Nathan d. Z. Tay-
Tor, who, on March 20. 1850, located the same
upon this LOO acres of land and caused the
United States government TO issue to him
patent therefor, which reciled upon its face
that it was issued TO him as the assignee of
Elizabeth RemseD, widow, for herself and
as guardon for the minor children.
Taylor decided the land TO T.. ID. Gilfllan
Ar,rf rrFYof aElcf0r a ma M
the same day to Henry McKenty. who i'll ttlrn
sold the same on May q, 1854 to Allen
Pierse. who sold the same the following year
on June , to PenuocS PuSey, who decided the
same on May 4. 1866, to John ". Tatum, who
sold the westerly sixty acres to the Minnesota
Transfer company. and his heirs sold the
twent; acres intervening between said sixty
acres ard Midway Heights" to several
parties, who plated most OF the twenty
acres.
John w. Tatum' S heirs plated all that por
ton of the east half of the southwest quarter
lying south of the Old track of the St Paul q
Pacific into what is now known as Midway
heights and have decided the same to various
parties within the last few years. The plain
tffs in the suit are minor children of George
W. Remsen and their heirs, while the defend
ants in the suit are all those that now claim
to own any part OF said 100 acres or to have
any lien thereon.
1t is claimed that the minor children and
their heirs never knew that any land warrant
had been issued on account of the services
of George W. Remsen in the Mexican war, or
that they had any interest in any lands in
this state until August of last year, when, it
is set forth, that different attorneys residing
in the Twin Cities wrote to some of the heirs,
requesting that they deed for certain consid-
erations all their interest in all lands i'll this
state, but refused TO disclose what, if any
interest they had, or i'll what lands
they had any interest. This caused the heirs
to send counsel from Philadelphia to Wash
ington to ascertain, if they could, whether
they had any interest in any lands in Mime
sofa, and led to the discovery of the fact that
this warrant had been issued and assigned
by their guardian without authority aud
without their knowledge, when they imne
diately took steps to employ counsel in St.
Paul to investigate the matter and advise
them as 10 their rights Acting under such
advice they have brought this suit.