The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03

insurrccton and destroyed missionary property at two
stations IN the African colony, killing seven mission
these stations abandoned the outbreak of hos
tiities and notwithstanding appeal protection
missionary property The claim when presented by the
american Amer embassy, London was turned down by Lord
Salisbury. The amount involved is $S7, ,16S 1t ap-
pears to be made up Of damages sustained by the So
cicty for losses by the missionaries
~ me me 81. British also have counter Indian claim
The Cayuga Indians in 1880 and 1895 made treaties
Wm tbsm EsW oo York state by which the latter to
to the state OF New York. Tho anpuitcs were paid
Endorsements on the treaty now supposed TO be in pos
session Of some Of the chiefs in Canada where
live Payments Of the anntes to the CsnucK psrt
OF the nation ceased after the war Of 1912 the
part of the annuities have been paid the Cayugas
living inside the United States. The present claim is
nuities aggregating 81 $4,000 The Canadian cayn
gas have pettioned New York ever since the fortes
legislature, and the matter had been involved in red
tape and various Investigations The claim has been
British embassy took hand. The state department
took up the case with the governor of New York who
can Cayugas claim their Canadian brothers forfeited
their IS share 1s1 OF the the 4l n4HteS by in the
however claim this objection is untcnabe in view of
sglee TX Of the treaty Of Ghent closing the of
the New York legislature had yet taken up con.
sderatlon of the matter.
OUTSIDE of these to be arbitrated interna.
~ tional claims many equally interesting
that have been pending for years There is the claim
oil old man William McGarraban involving his right to
rich quicksilver lands to which he claimed title-the
famous Rancho Panoche Grande in California Nc
Gnrrahan. kindly, benevolent looking old gentleman
the picture Of oldtime statesman trampcd the
marble corridors of congress twenty years trying to
get his claim through. The real con estant TO the
Panoche Grande, which would have made him inde-
pendently wealthy If he could establish his title was
the New ldra Mining company and powerful inter.
ests IN New York fought his rights. That company
cot possession of the New dra quicksilver abou.
the time McGarraban bought the land, and has held
possession ever since. The main question whether
Vlncente Gomez under whom McGarrahan claimed
mad such title TO the land protected by treaty
or Gna!ae'oupe lidago with Mexico If he did, then
inc 1alth or the government pledged to its pro-
lection The history OF the McGarrahan involves
such multitude OF circumstances spread over a
period extending from 1914 to date that TO narrate
II, even without the romance. would fill a volume
Part OF tho archives which he based proof were
burned IN the destruction Of the archives of Monterey
Dr. James H.. Ord, army surgeon who is claimed
10 have descended from the illegitmao of George
Ill., the probable pretendcr, who sent TO this
country after the revolution. testified the de-
struciop Of these records There famous forty
miners of California who testified it was common
knowledge when they IN California in The gold
rush that Gomez had satisfactory proof Of his title to