Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — Refuses Tax Tender. [ARTICLE]

Refuses Tax Tender.

Between 1870 and 1884 the Mak-Saw-Ba Club, of Chicago, obtained, through purchase of tax titles, 600 acres of Kankakee marsh land, located in this oounty, to be used for hunting grounds. In the last few years this land, once hardly worth a song, has become exceedingly valuable, being productive because of COfiStfuetion of drainage oanals. The original owfiers and heirs have now taken steps to redeem the land, but Joseph Letter, ex-wheat king, acting for his father, L. Z. Letter, president of the club,

baa turned down a tender of taxea and interest to date. Mayor Darrow, of LaPorte, made the tender of back taxes amounting to about |7<jo. It will mean litigation for possession of the property.