Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1875 — BEAVER LAKE LANDS. [ARTICLE]

BEAVER LAKE LANDS.

Theodore Tilton is now telling his continued story. Mm. Maggie VanOott, the great revivalist, b preaching in Chicago. The New York Herald has been clamoring loudly for the rerigaatioQ of Pieah Most Grant. A bill to repeal the law creating the Twenty-seventh TJjrmuial Circuit was passed In the the 3d instant. TwOTtyfiTmillion <fallara of Worn-out bank botes have been delivered to the Comptroller of Currency, for destruction, within six months. i In the Brazil mining district, this Bute, there are fifteen hundred miners on a strike, because of a reduction of wages from eighty-five to seventy cents per ton.

The election of Andrew Johnson to -the Senate has aroused the ambition of his friends in Tenbeaee, and he is already of as the coming man for the Presidency. Id the last five years no lass than forty-three life insurance companies in the United States gave up the ghost. There was very little life or insurance to be found In the concerns. The Cineinnatir Enquirer says Ms. Beecher fell asleep Saturday afternoon during the latter part qf Mr. Evarts’ speech. And yet we are told that the publie is excited about the great trial. Congress has refused to grant an extension of the patent on the four-motion feed of the sewing machines. It is estimated that this refusal will reduce the price of machines down to 82ft, in two years, when the time of the patents expire*

Th« bill appropriating $25 JH)ft to defray the expenses of entertaining King Kalakaua while on hte visit to the United States was passed in thy Senate on Wedeesduy last, ThiSj of course, will have b t4»deocy to bring foreign, visitors; but isn’t it rather an expensive business?' The Indiana editors will-start on their excursion the 16th of March, and will Visit Memphis, Jackson, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Augusta, Golumbia, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Nashville j and return home by way of Vincennes and Terre Dante. The cost of tho trip is eßtfraated at SSO pop head. The Senatorial contest in Wisconsin was decided on Wednesday, the 3d instant, by the election of Angus Cameron, of La Crofise, by a vote of'6B to 59 for Carp®ter, 3 lor Haaleton and 1 forClark. The result was caused by a coalition of the with the bolting jtepubHcans. Cameron Was elected on a platform which Includes hard money, tariff for revenue only,-aid the supyrdbacy of civfl authority in time of peace. At the State Editorial Convention held in Indianapolis, last week, the following pffleerawero elected for the ensuing year: President—W. 8. Lingle, of the Lafayette Courier. Vice President—H. E. Wadsworth f of the Laporte A rgus. Secretary—E.jD- Tuttle, ol the Indianapolis Globe. ‘ Treasurer—W. A. Bell, of the Indiana School Journal. » - Executive Committee—E. W. Halford, of Indianapolis; P. S. Westlall, of Terre Haute; Ed. Bibley, of Lawreneeburg; A. C. Beeson, of Winchester, and G. I. IWd, of Peru.

The Governor Urges the Legislature to Interfere and protect Present Holders. ;

Governor yesterday submitted a special message to the Legislator* relating to the celebrated Beaver Lake lands cases, now pending in the courts, and suggesting the imperative necessity of legistive interference to protect the rights of settlers and present owners. The land Is situated in the north western part of the State, and is of great value now. A generation or two ago Messrs. J. P. Bunn and M. G. Bobtained possession of tho land from the United States, under the ditching draining laws, by virtue of riparaio ownership. The land so reclaimed from the bed of Reaver Lake, and held by them, was 7,880 acres.— Bunn’s portion of the land was purchased by Bright at Sheriff’s sale, and subsequently transferred by the purchaser to the State Treasurer in satisfaction of a debt owing the State by Bunn. Under the act of 1865 these lands have been sold to parties, the State realising $8,500. The land was sold subject to taxation, and thousands of dollars have been levied

and collected in taxes. The message contains a detailed statement -of the case as given above, and farther says that Congress, by the act of January 11, 1873, released and quit-claimed to the State the bed of Beaver Lake, though the Governor erprsses a grave doubf as to whether the United States owns the lakes in the State. He cites the case in Pollard’s Lasee vs. Hagen et aL, 3 Iloward, as being conclusive on the point. The titles of the present holders have been held good. Inasmuch as the Governor was counsel in a case of this kind he declines to make recommendation further than to say that the State has distinctly asserted title to . these lands, a fret that should not bo overlooked in arranging equities between herself and the present owners and claimants. The necessity for settlement arises from the fact that certain parties owning land bordering on the original boundaries of the lake have brought suit for possession of the entire tract of reclaimed land, amounting to between IQ,OOO and 12,000 acres — Jnd. Journal.