People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — HARD HIT. [ARTICLE]

HARD HIT.

By a Decision of the United States Supreme Court, the Southern I’aolUc Rail, way Loses Its Title to Millions of Dollars’ Worth of California Lauda. Washington, Dec. 13.— The aupreme court of the United States in an opinion delivered by Associate Justice Brewer, decided the long pending controversy between the United States and the Southern Pacific railroad over certain valuable lands situated between the Colorado river and Pacific ocean within the limits of the grant to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and which the Southern Pacific claimed as successor to the Atlantic & Pacific. The court below decided for the Southern Paciflo Company in all the cases. Justice Brewer held that the title of the lands in question vested in the Atlantic & Pacific were forfeited by the act of congress in 1886 and did not pass to the Southern Pacific railroad, but was thereby restored to the public domain; and therefore the title rests in the United States. The decision of the lower court is reversed with instructions to issue a decree giving to the United States the relief asked. The property in question is Alued at several millions of dollars, consisting of land worth S4O to SSO an acre.