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prime court.Majoii Buttz has lost his Toronto land case and several thousand doll irs Mown irj besides, in costs. The luck is hard for I he nuij »r but very comforting to Fargo properly holders who huvo brick blocks on the land in question. Concerning ibis celebrated case the Argus says: ‘•The land affected hy this decision embraces about one hundred and fifty acres in llie very heart of Farg* ; it is on both aides of lho Northern Pacific railroad and lakes quite a large portion of the yards of that r«ad here. Francis Pcronto, July 28, 1873, signed and oil August 11 of the same year presented lo the bind office his declaratory statement upon the property mentioned as a pre-emption, alleging settlement October 5, 1871. The land office refused to receive the papers stating the land was not m the market as it was an odd section in the limit of t ie grant to the Northern Pacific and therefore tho title was In that company.”The commissioner,sucrctary of interior, the district court for Ciss county and the supreme court of Dakota sustained the land office on appeals, anil in 18S2 the Northern Pacific road as plaintiff, iu an ejectment suit against l’crcnto was successful.The main point in dispute was whether the I me! was subject to cMry or rot in 1871. Peronlo claims it was not, that the Indian title was not extinguished until May 2, 1S73, that lie held the land by hisprevious settlement, and that the papers ho offered to the local land iftice were the first legal documents effecting titli thereto, after the Indian title was extinguished. The railroad company allege the time of the road was definitely located m January, 1572, and that March 1572, a map of the road was filed with the secretary of the interior, but tho defendant claims tbai there is no record of ibis fihug and the definite line of the road w«9 not filed until after Ptr-onto offered his p ipers for the pre-cmp lion. The railroad company further set up the claim that Peronlo was an Indian, but on trial, did not combat the evidence to show that bis mother was a while woman and therefore lie was eligible to all the rights of a white man. Peronlo has now been dead s mc two or three years ami Major Buttz, ss his administrator, his since carried on the contest. Buttz has always slated be did not ex pcct to secute a decision uu'il the United States supremo court w i* reached, hut he would liieu win the fight. II n. D. II. Twomey has been associated with Major Buttz as counsel in the ease. Tue total assessment of the property is now $736,-650, which is probably one third of the actual value, while from 53 to 55 acres of the property consists of the Northern Pacific yard, tracks and right of way and Front street. This would make thelowed to use the same ns field rules wit u!so extendedA MotYesterday, wj.8 greatly Ezekiel Even had been sto| for the past w self with a do on entering t blood was nc come from t! tering the roc itself. Sittin Everetts, lus chair, shown’ shot wound which blood i the floor. A held between together with tied notch at plainly how lie was dead The facts .a low.*-: Evcre ling up a par he committed work about n to the back y wood, togcth proceeded up him. He wh would fit the look of his cr and leaning* the cun, pies brains out. it war, a case, The The Pierre sal ional rumr press p.at a 311!., is about successor. 1 of balderdash kola will 1 e I and we prcdi before the coCmctao, j nowlv nppor on the St. I1 Minneapolis ti.is m^rninr and Smith eh It in said h’s letters for fh Orleans. lt;) we e found t Milwaukee n currency and were ahstrac po9toflice me his person wi and the dccoj train.
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Jamestown Weekly Alert
Jamestown, North Dakota, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1886
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