Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-06-17
GRASSY CREEK.
DMr Editor:


Daar Editor:
As some Of cur good citizens
have taken in hand to write some
thing concerning the uncertainty |
OF our titles to the homes on
which we live. They all seem to
appreciate your action in sound
ing the note of warning. |, with |
other interested ones, appreciate
the interest you are taking in
urging the people to get busy, and
look well to their own interests
and, as you say, Mr.. Editor, it is
an easy matter to say that these
old claims don't amount to much.
They have already amounted to a
great deal. The good citizens of
this and adjoining counties have
been frequently disturbed during
the last fifty years by these so
called wildcat titles which | con-
slider bogus. The $4,000 acre
survey covered by the Reynolds
patent which covered a greater
portion of Morgan has been in
agitation since | was a small boy.
They undertook to survey their
claim once and the good citizens
Of Morgan met their agent at the
Cole Hotel and read Lynch's law
to him, and he left West Liberty
Immediately, and the town has
never been infested with Bear
since. When the Legislature
quieted the Reynolds claim soon
after, the Sewels agitated and
pressed their claim, and even
brought suit against the owners
of the land that said claim cover
es. The suit is now pending in
the Federal Court. And as tc
how it will be decided is un'
certain.
Now we are confronted will
: another claim known as the Con
tinental Coal, Land & Timber Co
| don't know the validity of theil
claim, but | suppose it is LOCUS
as the other claims are. 1ha
!. looks like trouble don't it? Ithinl
. that we all should appreciate oul
! editors advice in insisting on tn,
i citizens looking after their owl
{, interests.
> These old land claimants ar
; expecting to get a nice sum o
!, money from the land owners il
!, this and other counties to com
n promise and secure their title
= If they should fail in that, the,
: viii -srfngAsuit and the peopf
:, will be forced to fight this thini
It in the Federal Court. We ha
d just as well undertake to fight tn
y devil in his den Tor in a saloon
as to fight these old claims in tn
$ Federal Court. Let's take gu
D, editors advice and get a move on
S, and give these old land monger
J. to understand that our homes ar
!, ours, and that we propose to hol
r them at all hazard notwithstand
II ing these old land sharks ma
<, have deceived some of our fore
$ fathers and doped them wit
). flattery and had them sign in
D, struments OF writing, andmholl
y, ignorant of what these instru
s. ments contained, they was ignol
s. antly conveying away the title
), their homes just for little pittance
d, Hence the trouble.
n, If the claimants of these oil
y patents considered their claim
- valid, why is it that they keI
y, quiet till other capitalists com
n, and invested large sums of none
IS, in developing the country? The
C. never made a move toward tn
development of the country ii
n other companies, who were innC
y cent purchasers, came and sper
e large sums Of money in search {
3, what was underground, and
developed that this country wa
l. was rich, then, and not till theT
did these land sharks press the