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MRS. SULLY GIVEN TITLE TO ROSEBUD LANDS BY FED' ERAL TRIBUNAL.HAPPENINGS OVERTHESTATEWhst la Going On Here and There That la of Interest to the Read-era Throughout South Dakota and Vicinity.Sioux Falla.—Mra. Mary Sully, widow of Jack” Sully, the so-called king of the cattle rustlers,” who waa shot and killed some years ago during a running fight with federal officers, and her children and other descendants, by a decision handed down here by Judge James D. Elliott, of the United States court, are awarded more than fifty quarter sections of land, aggregating more than 9,000 acres, situated in the coded portion of the Rosebud Indian reservation in Gregory county.At a conservative estimate the land Is worth at least $250,000. So far as the value of the property involved is concerned the case is the most important ever tried in the federal court for South Dakota.Numerous residents of Chicago Omaha and other cities had tendered homestead entries on the lands involved in the case, these being held in abeyance pending the decision of Judge Elliott. Unless the decision of Judge Elliott is overturned by higher courts the intending homesteaders will not he permitted to make entry of the farms sought by them.Altl ough Mrs. Sully and her descendants on the Indian side are Yank ton Sioux Indians, they neglected their allotment rights on that reservation and moved to the Rosebud reservation and sought to be allotted the lands Involved in the action decided today. Their applications were rejected on the ground that they could not rightfully take their allotments elsewhere than on the Yonkton reservation. Mrs Sully and her children and descendants claimed the right to the allotted lands on the Rosebud reservation through the mother of Mrs. Sully, by reason of her having been adopted Into the Brule Sioux tribe of Indians, who occupy the Rosebud reservation.Mrs. Sully, although a mixed In* dian, has accumulated considerable wealth in addition to her portion of the lands now awarded to herself anddescendants, she being the owner of horses valued at between $25,000 and 930,000.
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Philip Bad River News
Philip, South Dakota, US
Thu, Mar 07, 1912
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