Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — DIRECTS FILING OF LAND SUITS [ARTICLE]

DIRECTS FILING OF LAND SUITS

Indiana Governor Socks to Recover Tracts in Kankakee Valley. Laporte. Ind., June 30.—Governor Marshall has Instructed Adam -E. Wise, a Plymouth, Ind., attorney'. to prosecute actions in the state courts to recover for the state large tracts of land in the Kankakee valley, extending from St. Joseph county 'to the Illinois lino. The tracts are held by ,individuals. who laid claim to the lands with the reclamation of part of the Kankakee River by drainage. The Northern Trust Company of Chicago is one of the defendants. The fictions involve hundreds of land owners in the two states.