The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-24
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TscoNA. june c3-iSpeciai John H.
Miichess. jr-, formerly Of this city. and
now counsel for the Northern Pacific rail-
road as Sc. Paul. was in the city for few
hours today. He il son Of United states
Senator Mitchell, OF Oregon, and since go
ing to 81. Paul has lost thirty-five pounds
IN weight This il the result. in his or'n-
ION, Of living in . country where the ex-
frcsnes OF the thermometer's markings are
often 20 degrees below and los degrees
above in the shade. Speaking Of the legal
phase Of the Puyaiiup reservation. -
viewed By the Northern Pacific raiirosd.
he said:
Something may b done about IL when the
present lieu land ca&e of Eastern Washington Is
dispossd OF By tie secretary of the interior.
But u Eaattefs rot which horn Of the dilemma
the Northern Pacific has 10 choose. il will come
out all right II 1t docs nos get the odd sections
OF the fuyaiiup reservation. il will have In
demnIty lands offered il somewhere else
He vas asked Tor an explanation Of this
assertion:
In the Eastern Warrington lieu land case now
being tested, or rather heard on the facts. the
former secretary Of the interior. vilss. held in
lieu lands or indemnify Ian - In place Of lands
within it, grant that we're within an Indian
reservation. because II held title in the odd see.
lions IN the reservation until the title OF the
Indians should b exsinguished. According TO
that ruling. which 10 IN unusual one. We hold
our title in the PuyAllup Indian reservation odd
sections until the title OF the Indians 10 parted
With. have always held that the Indians can
do nothing with their lands until congress acts,
aud when congress does act, according to Villas.
We stu viii have our Odd sections If. on the
Other hand, IL II held In the case now under
confederation that the company 10 entitled to
lands In psace Of that within an Indian reserve
ton. which reservation comes within its To-
oemuity belt. then We will have to b given
lands elsewhere 20 the amount Of the odd &C.
tons In the Puysliup reservation
NJ "i0timated that the company would. OF
course, prefer to have the Fuyallnp reservation
odd sections to land removed from any large
community. A 70 tie governments connec.
ton with the Indians title, - held By Judge
Hanford, being extinct, he does not for . mo-
ment entertain any idea Of that kind He, how
ever, !ntimsied pointedly that IL II were -.
sumsd ct the same time that the government
had lost title in the land BY virtue of it,
patents Issued 70 the Indians, and other
acts. and IL were assumed ct the
same time that the railroad company
would. under the foregoing decision, b
granted the odd sections in this reservation,
then there might b some means OF arranging
settlement By allowing the company the pro-
ceeds OF the sale OF the old sections - per the
provisions OF the Wilson ILL., for instance.
This would compel the government to
pay the railroad - much money a. the
Indians realize. but il 10 believed that
such q proposition would never stick. 1t
Is also assumed that the claim once put
forward that the reservation was in fact
no reservation. will not prove pertinent
Others are firmly OF the belief that the
company has no rights whatever in the
reservation, and further that IL will never
push any claims to any alleged rights.