People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — DECISION FOR SETTLERS. [ARTICLE]

DECISION FOR SETTLERS.

Northern Pacific Hallway Company Defeated In a I.;twault. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 28.—The. settlers and mining men have won a sweeping victory in the decision of Register Logan and Receiver Flournoy in the contest of Arthur Tinsley vs. the Northern Pacific, involving the patent to three sections of land around the famous Cleveland mine, In Stevens county. This Is the first decision in a railway mineral land contest rendered in this state. The land In contest is very valuable, owing to the rich deposits of mineral croppings from the Cleveland lead having been struck throughout the three sections. The railroad company had an army of legal talent here and made a big fight to hold the land.