Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — INDIAN WANTS CITY LAND [ARTICLE]

INDIAN WANTS CITY LAND

Educated Pottawatomie Thinks He Has a Good Title to Property In Elkhart. that Charles Harman, an attorney at Cassopolis, Mich., has been retained by an educated Pottawatomie Indian to prepare to claim property in the heart of Elkhart worth at least $1,000,000. Present owners of the property say they are not alarmed, declaring the court decided the case three-quar-ters of a century ago. Pierre Moraln, otherwise known as Pershing, was allotted Section 5 of Concord township, “and two other sections” by the treaty of Chicago. In 1826 he formally petitioned the president of the United States for permission to sell Section 5 to get means to Improve his remaining land. President John Quincy Adams granted 'the petition. Certain technical steps in the transfer from Moraln were not fully perfected, and in later years Moraln attempted to recover the land. It is believed the Cassopolis report has reference to some descendants’ desire to push this old claim.