The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-12
.RUSHES TRACK. AL
might THRU YARDS
GREAT NORTHERN CREATES "A
STIR ON THE EAST SIDE.
Claims Right to Property and SEXES
Possession by Laying Loose Side
track Across Back Yards Of Long
Time Residents One Old Lady Made
Ill.

Under cover of darkness the Gfeat
Mort hern railroad Saturday night built
a sidetrack thru the back yards 1 OF
lot Of people who live on properly
abutting on the Great n orthern tracks
from Calumet elevator, at f1fth street'
to Sixteenth avenue Sc
The railroad company holds that the
its tracks were first laid thru that sec
ton of the city, while the househlol lt
contend that they own the land them ZEN
selves, and, if they did not originally,
adverse possession for fifteen years,
would give them ownership; IN, me sa y
preme court has upheld the open, al
Of land for fifteen years as ownership,
and on thisEthe citizens interested re e: Iall
back. On the other hand IN in falling 20
combat the railroad gang it is said they
have given the company the big END OF
the dispute as it is now in possession.
Late Saturday night without noGlee'
day. the track was laid. The work was
Edone Sunday when a court 1nluncGlon
could not be issued ~,
l. G. A. Whipple, 1923 Sixth. street Sc,
was awakened Saturday. night by a
racket in his back yard, and dressing e
found force of men tearing down MS
lbarn at the rear of the house,: A pro:
/ the men were working under direction
Of the 1Great Nprthern, and that they
intended to finish the JOB, which they
i did, John Anderson 1880 Eighteenth
avenue, and several other property
holders along the strip had similar e4'
4 periences, losing all sorts OF outbul!d
ings and.a 35-foot or even larger : sllce
It is said that the Great Northern
will build a roundhouse near Fifth and
! Nineteenth avenue and that lt@W1ll ex'
tend it's yards. ri. J.
Deeds Date Far Back. -.
/ All the deeds show that the property
4 extends back to the old, Great Northern
Z tracks. A house that the tracklayers
i moved out into the street was built 10y
Mr.. Cushing over twenty years ago
the other houses are Of corresponding
1 and the other houses are Of a correspond
ing age. The first preemptlon claim wa
back in the '40s, and the deeds from
that time show that the property -selzet
by the company has; been recorded az
being the property Of the landowners. ,
p. Sutherland, who owns one =, OF t :. tn
s. aHected plots, said this; morning Stha
! the company had asked him TO nam a
: a price for the strip of land which the.
, wanted, and that they had asked tim
: to- consider the matter. They said tina
nothing would, be done, until the end Q
: this week. The next thing that MI
. Sutherland knew. the property wa
. claimed by thu railroad and his builC
:, ings had been torn down in the night.
: .>-.-z2&. An Old Lady's Trouble.
t. Mrs. Whipple, who lives in 1888,
: paralytic, suffering from extreme nel
vousness: The excitement has brougf
on an acute attack, for she fears tha
her little home, for which she hs
v worked all her life, will be taken ava.
: The situation in John Anderson
house, the next door, is the same. Fl
d mas been paying for his property by il
n lstalllnents anu hasFtita about half pal
DC for The 'fafnil5 tsin,163s al q tenants.
o. i General Manageri tFyaE. CIV ard nws
e seen today 2bytT h j o9ltr nal in r
n gard to storiest;in Minneapolis pape
is that the Great Northe rn road had take
II time by, The forelock by commencing tt
It Eclearing away of land for new roun
d* house" in South Minneapolis ne;
ct. midnight, Saturday, so that no in! un
'e tion could be secured to block the wor
Mr.. Ward said he knew nothing offcis
~ 1y of any such work. He said that tt
e. Great Northern had not ordered the co
$, struetion of any downtown roundhou
al In Minneapolis. He refused to- be int
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