Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-05
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CHICAGO. Sept. 4. "Sreeter- vile" in the "Deestrict of Lake Michigan" part Of Chicago's fam ous Gold Coast" is about to be the scene of the thousand and first battle in it's History according to notice served on United States Marshal Bradley by Captain George Yelling ton Streeter. S0-year old claimant to a S50,000,000 portion of the exclusive Lake Shore Drive section.
 Cap" Streeter and William H. Niles. one time military governor" and commanding general of the army of the 'deestrict," having notified the federal authorities that they are about to again try to enforce their claims that Streeterville is not in any state in the union. have invited the Amer jean Legion to assist them and set the date for the opening of hostiities as September 6. A letter to the Legion pests, copy of which was also sent to Marshal Bradley. invites former soldiers to meet me at the foot of Superior street in uniform, armed and carrying a flag. and help to end by force of arms the reasonable acts of judges or stand up against wall be- fore firing squad" A postscript in- vites the legionaries to bring their lunch
 Captain Streeter has been fighting since 1886 to establish his claim to one of the most valuable sections of Chicago's lake front. In that year his steamer, the Reutan. stranded on the beach during storm. Captain Streeter built breakwater about the stranded boat 450 feet off shore. and made it his home. The rapidly shift ing sands filled in the space between the boat and shore and added 193 acres tO the citys area. To this land Captain Streeter laid claim, and in the next quarter Of century battles by the hundreds were fought in an effort to Oust him.
 On one occasion 800 police beseig- ed Streeterville. General Niles pro claimed himself military governor of the district of Lake Michigan" and with 90 men of his escort" erected breastwOrks suImounted by barbed wire and stood off the police sor sev- eral days before assertions in the ranks so weakened the defending force that lone policeman finally executed flank attack and carried the fort
 The courts in 1915 ruled that Street CT had no title to the property and n; the steamboat home, was wrecked by deputy sheriffs and then burned
 In 1902 Streeter and two friends were convicted of manslaughter in connection with the death of John s. KirSe, killed in one Of the frequent assaults on the castle. All were sen tenced to life imprisonment. but after few months were released.
 The site of the "deestrict" is now covered by more than dozen sky scraper apartment buildings and ho- tels. The land is valued at more than $5O,0O0,000 Many of the present own CTS have purchased deeds from Street CT as well as the state in order that their occupancy may not be interfered with by the S0-year old fire-eating veteran.
 Streeter's claim is based on the con tentiOn that the act creating the state of Illinois fixed the "meander line" of the lake as the boundary. and that therefore his "deestrict" was outside the state and owed allsianc to no onG except the United States. The courts, held, however, that Illinois extended 10 the center of lake Michigan, that all land created by natural secretions of the lake belonged to the adjoining property owners; and that all land created artificially belonged to the state. The stranding of Streeter's steamship created land artificially, it was held