Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — A SOUTHERN KANSAS STAMPEDE. [ARTICLE]

A SOUTHERN KANSAS STAMPEDE.

Effect of the Holing of Judge Brewer In Kcgard to 77,000 Acres of Band. [St. Louis telegram.] The decision of Judge Brewer of the United States Circuit Court in the suit of the United States against the Southern Kansas Kailway Company, declaring 77,000 acres of lands heretofore held by that company to be wrongfully held and now a part of the public domain, has created the wildest land excitement ever known in Southern Kansas. As soon as the decision was made known in Southern Kansas men in wagons, in buggies, and on horseback came in great numbers from Chanute, from Wilson, and other counties to Woodson and also Greenwood County and commenced slaking off claims, saying that' Judge Brewer’s decision dec ared all lands heretofore held by the MiS'Ouri, Kansas and Texas Railway to be Government land. They are building shanties on many quaiters and breaking sod so as to perfect the claim. They have even stuok their stakes and broken ground on the lands which v. ere entered by college scrip and the patents for which were on record before either the Santa Fe or Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railways were organized.