The San Francisco call., 1899-05-07
KING STRFFTFR
AND HIS COURT
UNDER ARREST
Chicago Police Make a Raid on
the ''DiStriC Of Lake
MiChi0an.'

rest US: I don't object to an alliance, but
eXpansion-no!
Just then word came that the. enemy
was at hand, and the King issued hurried
orders to his men.
Get hold of some papers and be read
ing them. I'll do the talking, was what
he said.
The men obeyed, such was their conf
dence in their leader. George l had hardly
seated himself on the porch of his capitol
when the head of the column, under Cap
tain Revere, halted before the bars
which separated the District. OF Lake
United States. The inspector pushed
down the bars and with his men at his
heels advanced upon the dump-heap mon
arch. Waving his club above his head
king Streeter. in the name of the peo-
pie of the United States of America l
command you and your followers to dis
No bursting of bombs followed this ut
terance; as some of the crowd had eX-
pected King Streeter replied:
Il have nothing to do with the United
States of America"
Then. sir Heidelmeier said, as he
showed his ignorance Of court etiquette
by rapping the royal beach with his billy,
81 place you under arrest"
Il will not go unless | am carried, said
the monarch, 'for the reason that do
not, acknowledge your authority to dis
turb u.s.
Fearing an attack the invading forces
then moved forward, while the inspector
gave the command:
place every one of these men under ar
rest"
He made a leap forward and grabbed
the sovereign of the District of Lake
Michigan by the collar of his royal robe
and started him on a run for patrol
wagon. Captain Revere had meanwhile
collared H. N. James, Justice of the Dis
trict Court, and was rapidly diStanc1ng
Heidelmeier and his charge for the same
goal
The other police officers were actively
engaged in capturing the remainder of the
government although about half of them
as soon as they saw the downfall of their
sire were rapidly making tracks. Being
surrounded by the police about fifteen OF
them were gathered in and loaded into
the patrol wagon, together with King
George.
About 1000 persons witnessed the battle
and the downfall of the government.
Many of them did not realize the signifi-
canoe of the event and jeered at the royal
prisoner. Inside the wagon Streeter was
in unmeasured terms denouncing the in
spector, the Chicago police and every
one who had had a hand in his capture.
IN have you arrested and convicted
for kidnapping, was the threat hurled at
the Inspector.
IF you don't keep quiet you'll go into
the cooler as soon as | get you to the sta
tiOn,'' returned the victorious copper.
The threat had the effect of quelling the
prisoner and the rest of the kidnapped
government did not utter sound.
he prisoners were booked Oh d CUdISb
of unlawful assembage, and the cases
probably will be heard on Monday morn
ing in the Chicago avenue Police Court.
Their arms We're taken away from them,
and the government was herded together
in one cell. Pacing up and down in his
contracted quarters as all imprisoned
chiefs are said TO do, George 1 reiterated
his threats to make the police suffer for
what they had done.
They'll hear of this" he said "as soon
as get out. IN show EN- thing or two
q hT1 l1 INr hot lrFN n. NY
more belong to the State Of Illinois or the
city of Chicago than Serry Leone or the
British West Indies: I discovered it and
organized It into district, and the papers
are all on file in Washington. We're only
waiting for an act of Congress, and it'll
be passed at the next session. We also
cago that we did not have anything to do
with it, and look what has been done. 1t s
kidnapping, that's what it is, and they'll
know it when | get out
Yes chimed in Chief Justice James.
"If there's any law in this country they'll
suffer They can't come into another
country and take out its citizens without
authority. We're a government. They
can't get around it."
NJ The capitol Of the District Of Lake
with provisions and eatables, evidently
for the purpose of withstanding a siege.
| The men who support King Streeter are
perfectly serious in the matter.
In 1856 the captain claims his boat was
wrecked at the foot of Superior street,
and by virtue of the shipwreck he dis
covered the soil. The captain says the
limits of the State of Illinois are not on
the shores of the lake, but are at a point
which ends at st. Clair street. The United
States, he says, never had any title to
the bottom of the lake, and therefore the
soil which comprises the District of Lake
Michigan was common property, subject
to the claims of any one who discovered
| it and laid claim to it. He maintains he
did this, and about two months ago he
and other squatters got together,
/ adopted constitution and laws and
elected officers. They forwarded petit
tions to Washington asking to be an
neXed to the United States.