The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-01-09
Marble Creek
Settlers Win Out
STATE TO GET OTHER LAND IN LIEl
State And Government Officials Is Said To Have
Satisfactory Agreement

That the Marble Greek settlers are
about to receive title to their lands
seems TO be an assured fact The
idaho delegation Ia congress has
taken the matter up and according to
M as1 s1Oeiated press dispatch Of Jan
uary 9th has succeeded In securing
an agree .nsnt tetween secretary of
Tie Interior Lane and Secretary of
Agriculture Houston for the Govern
ment aud attorney general Peterson
ami the State Land commissioners
Day actlng tor The state by which the
state Will rsliuquish Its claim to the
Iaud Ia favor Of the settlrs and will
recslve other lands In lIea Of them
The follo~iug 10 the dispatch refer
si 10
Washington. ID o. jan, .-Represen
tative- BurtOl l.. French secured an
agreement touay with Secretary of
the Iutsrior Lane and Secretary of
Agriculture II. uston for exchange of
Iauus With the state of Idaho where
by bona HE settlers in the Marble
creek district OF Idaho will be per-
mltted to hold their present claims,
the state accepting other lands ou The
publcic domain aud 10 forets reserves
in lieu OF such claims Attoinev
General Joseph II. Peterson and State
Land Commissioners George A. Day,
who are here have approved this
agreement.
Although hoping that the above re-
port is true and that their long fight
for their land has finally succeeded
the settlers are fearful that there still
may be some catch In tue proceed
inRs aud are waiting anxtously TO
have the report confirmed.
They nave been disappointed 50
many times during their long fight,
have received reports OF viotroy so
many times only to have their hopes
dashed by later reports that they
are fearful that the present report Is
premature
Ons OF their number J. X Bo, th
has been Ia Washington for the
past month working on the matter
And would he likely to know as soon
any one II such an agreement had
been reached aud they have had no
confirmation from him
On the contrary telegram was
received from him Monday by his
wife 10 which hs stated that he had
lust had talk With state Attorney
General Peterson In which be inti.
mated that she stats would not give
up.
Even at that the agreement miSh
easily have been seached after thai
conversation and after Me- Booths
telegram had been died
The fda pvlng is a list of tbs
settlers JS,boss filing we're ordered
cancelled by the land department
short time ago aud to whose claims
lhe state vas granted title, who will
have their rights returned to theu
u the above is correct j. r. Mo
Donald, Leon DeMers, Albert An der
sou. W. CLARK, May Booth, LaLrI
BoutIne. Fred Donaldson, J. Emer
son Williams, Lynn Lundquist An
ton seappusis, Alfred Anderson
ARgis Russell. aud James Russell
These, however, are not all of tn
settlets who will be affected by tn
agreement
There are Ia the neightorhood o
one hundred settlers Ia the Marbl
Greek distrit whoae nlluRs have beel
contested by the state but these ar
the only ones 90 far in which q hna
decision adverse to the settlers ha
been reached.
The others are In various stages o
litigation. Some are still before tn
general land Office. while others th
land office decision Was 10 favor o
the settlers aud they are before tb
Interior department on approval b
the state