Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — LAND IS NOW VALUABLE. [ARTICLE]

LAND IS NOW VALUABLE.

As is generally known, most of the land, both in this and Laporte county, now held by the Mak-Saw-Ba club, came into its possession between the years of 1870 and 1884 by the purchase of tax titles when the land was sold for taxes by the county treasurers. Last week Mayor Darrow of Laporte, as attorney for the original owners and their heirs, made a tender to the president of that club of the back taxes and interest on the 600 acres of land held by the club in Laporte county. The amount of the tender was about $750. Joseph Leiter, the former wheat plunger, acting for L. Z. Leiter, his father, who is president of the club, refused the tender. It is presumed that this action is the beginning of a determined legal battle for possession of the land, and that owned by the club in this county will doubtless be involved.—Starke County Democrat.