Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-05-16
ROBATAILLE FAMILY Benefited
...TULSAN gets BIG CHUNK OF Coin


some hundred acres or more of valu.
able land was under water and there
was a little island out in the river 10
the north of Armour's which became
very important later
TIE land south of the packing plant
had been disposed of, but there still
was frontage on the river claimed
by the original claimants 10 the prop
elty James f. joy was given certain
land for riprapping the river JOY
was connected with the old Hanni-
bal 4 st. Joseph railroad, He put
in riprap work from kaw Point to
the Hannibal bridge. General Weir
died leaving a daughter, who married
a Mr. Wise, in ST. Louis. She died,
leaving one child, Mary J, Wise, now
mother superior of Loretta acad-
emy.
The claimants to the land did moth
ing while the river occupied the
most of their tract, but different peo-
pie tried to reclaim land with the re-
suit that when the river finally swung
back to its old channel, leaving the
island a part of the mainland, the
Fowler Land company claimed what
was north of the Fowler Packing
house. The National Waterworks
company owned Kaw Point and made
claim TO all the accretions near it,
The Armour Packing company
claimed all that north of its prop
erty.
Hunter NJ. Meriwether reclaimed
land, and claimed il for himself. f.Suits
were brought in. the district courts
and carried to the supreme court.
Armours were given title to several
acres.
Litigation of one kind or another
has kept the property from being I'M
proved and for many years the Mis-
souri, river would at intervals assert
its claim to the exclusion of all the
others
But the heirs of the original claim
ants hung ON desperately. They tin-
ally secured a judgment which gave
them the accretions of the island, a
total of considerably more than one
hundred acres. Nobody knows ex-
actly how much ii is.
The heaviest losers are the Fowl
ers. Hunter NJ. Meriwether is an
other heavy loser; so is the National
Waterworks company. A few years
ago. the National Waterworks com
pany refused Kansas City right Of
way for a pipe line over land from
which it is now to be ousted, The
Chicago, Great Western and Inter
City viaduct have rights Of way over
the land, but they secured it by con
demnation, and paid the money into
court The viaduct company paid at
the rate of $1,000 per acre
At that rate the value of the prop
elty involved in this suit is one mill
ion dollars. The Armours value their
lands at $500 per acre. If the land
TO the north is worth anywhere near
$4,000 an acre, the total is near two
ions. Its exact value is hard to de-
termine. The James heirs own thir-
teen-forty-eighths, and have claim
on more Mary j Wise owns one
eighth. and the six heirs of John Cal
horn onc-eighth together. Jesse Me
Alpine claimed when the suit was
brought, nine-forlieths of the land
Mrs. Anna b. Wood claimed five
forty-eighths,
The Robitaille, Mud Eater and Buz-
zard families children of Arm
strong's sisters, have comparative
" small share Of the property, As
have several white claimants. Law
yersi for white claimants were on the
way to the Indian Territory last
night, with orders to buy the Indians
claims.