The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-07-28
NUMBER SO.
SOLDIERS ENTRIES.

A Fight for Mile Lacs Lands
in the United States
Courts.
T. B. Walker Says Sabin, Wilder
| s. Co., Will Hold the Dis
| puted Lands.
A suit with a very imposing name
and on it's face involving some of the
most prominent men in the State has
been commenced in Saltwater before
the United States circuit court. Two
months ago an action was begun by
Frederick Weyerhauser, C. Lamb &
Sons, Laird, Norton & Co., and other
leading down river logging concerns
against A. e. jerks, James Mulvey, r.
NJ. Coles and Samuel Mcclure, of Still
water, in the district court of Mile
Laos county, to quiet title to lands in
| that county formerly a part of the
Mile Laos Indian reservation, in which
defendants claimed an interest. These
defendants yesterday commenced the
action in Saltwater against the Missis-
sippi River Logging Company of which
| Weyerhauser is the main stakeholder,
to quiet title to about $4,000 acres of
the Mile Laos lands, worth $4,000
| The plaintiffs claim title to the lands
by reason of the purchase of soldiers
additionals, and claim that the defend
ants secured their title to the land by
fraud. The complaint charges ex-
Senator Sabin, A. Fl. Wilder, T. B.
Walker, Weyerhauser and others with
defrauding the United States govern
ment out of the lands, which were
entered as soldiers additional home
steads. and to which defendant claims
title by reason of deeds executed by T.
B. Walker Of Minneapolis, Under
powers of attorney made to it by the ),
respective soldiers prior to the entry
of the lands
The plaintiffs claim further that the
powers OF attorney. to Walker were
VOID as contrary to the homestead laws,
because made before the entry of the
land and before it was subject to entry,
and a few months ago secured quit
claim deeds to the land direct from the
soldiers, and by reason of these deeds
claim the ownership of the land. The
first suit brought against Messrs.
Coles, jerks and others only involved a
portion of the Mile Laos land claimed
by them, and the action now begun
against the Mississippi River Logging
Company covers the remainder of the
lands in the reservation now claimed
by them. These lands are covered
with some of the most valuable stand
ing timber in the State
So much for the petition T. B.
Walker, in speaking of the case had
this to say: 1.-THE suit amounts to
nothing, since the supreme court of
Minnesota has already decided that
the soldiers rights were transferable.
Were this not true, why did the plant
ifs begin their suit in the United
States court? Why not leave it to the
supreme court of the State, where it
properly belongs? I have no interest
in this case, and never owned foot Of
the land in question. What I did, [
did under power of attorney that can
never be Questioned, and which can be
produced at any time if it is necessary.
The facts are but these: Messrs.
Sabin, Wilder and some others secured
some land in the Mile Laos country,
and the government was slow about
issuing the patents for it, for the
reason that it was agreed that the In.
dams should remain on the land during
good behavior. The matter ran on
and on, until finally congress took hold
OF it issued the patents, putting the
owners in indisputable possession.
There have always been certain NUM-
Der OF sharks in the land business in
this State, and some of them got to-
gether some quit-claim deeds to some
OF this land and have made all this
trouble It will all amount to very lit
tie, as the matter has already been de-
cided by our courts. All the proceed
ings We're regular in every way, and
there is not the slightest chance for
over-turning the cases. The soldiers
have a perfect right to transfer their
claims, which leaves a case like this
nothing upon which to stand. y
sacrilegious Wag.
An enterprising minister of Little
Falls, who it is to be regretted is not Il
merchant, for he knows the benefits of
advertising, recently hung up a card of
his church in q saloon. Upon the pla-
card We're the subjects Of his sarn,ons