Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — A SOUTHERN KANSAS STAMPEDE. [ARTICLE]

A SOUTHERN KANSAS STAMPEDE.

Effect of the Ruling or Judge Brewer in Regard to 11,000 Acres of Land. [St Louis telegram.] The decision of Judge Brewer of the United States Circuit Court in the suit of the United States against the Southern Kansas Bailway Company, declaring 77,000 acres of lands heretofore held by that company to be wrongfully held and now a part of the public domain, has created the wildest land excitement ever known in Southern Kansas. As soon as the decision was made known in Southern Kansas men in wagons, in buggies, and on horseback came in great numbers from Chanute, from Wilson, and other counties to Woodson and also Greenwood County and commenced staking off claims, saying tliat Judge Brewer’sdecision declared all lands heretofore held by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Bailway to be Government lend. They are building shanties on many quaiters and breaking sod so as to perfect the claim. They have even stuck their stakes and broken ground on the lands which were entered by college scrip and the patents for which were on record before either the Santa Fe or Mis* souri, Kansas and Texas Bailways were organized. v Grain men are convinced that the new grain-inspection system in Minnesota is a failure from its inception. A Bridgepott (Conn.) woman committed suicide because of the noise made by her neighbor’s children. Ex-Gov. Fenton’s memory is honored with a memorial window in a church at Jamestown, N. Y. - United States Senator Van Wxox ■mokes a corn-cob pipe.