People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — HEARING IOWA LAND CASES! [ARTICLE]

HEARING IOWA LAND CASES!

Settlers on Sioux City Railroad Grant Claim Title Through Forfeiture. Washington, April 17.—The United States Supreme court is hearing arguments in three cases to which various settlers in lowa, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad companies' lines, are parties. The cases involve the ownership of about 22,000 acres of land along the lines of these roads’, which the Sioux City company claims was granted to it by the government of the United States in 1864. It is claimed on the part of the settlers that the railroad company failed to earn the land by a failure to build part of its line within the time specified in the act. The lands have all been settled and improved, and are considered valuable.