Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1915 — ON WRONG LAND 12 YEARS [ARTICLE]

ON WRONG LAND 12 YEARS

Homesteader in Oregon Improves Land He Didn’t Own and Pays Taxes on Another Piece. McMinnville, Ore. —Twelve year* ago Josef Henrich bought eight acres of school land from the state, located, paid taxes and improved the place. N. W. smith, who recently purchased 13 acres from the state, discovered that Henrich had been living on his land and had paid taxes on another tract one mile south, similar in description. In the 12 years Henrich had built a home on the Smith place, cleared some of the timber and cultivated the land. The Henrich tract in the mean* time has not been improved.