Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — A CLOUDED TITLE. [ARTICLE]

A CLOUDED TITLE.

Tbe Upper Peninsula of Michigan Still Indian Property. , Something in the nature of a startling discovery has been made by H. F. Chipman, son of Congressman Chlpman, in relation to the title to the lands of a large part, if not the whole, of the upper peninsula of Michigan, and if Mr. Chinman’s conclusions are borne out by more minute Investigation and sustained by the courts, every acre of land in that peninsula west of the Sault and Mackinac to the Montreal and Menominee rivers and from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan and the straits, inclusive of city and village lots, will be handed over to their rightful owners, the descendants of the Chippewa Indian nation of the Lake Superior region. Mr. Chipman asserts that his investigations have convinced him that no cession of the upper peninsula lands has been made to the United States government, and that, therefore, the title of deeds in every registry of deeds In the region indicated are as worthless as so much blank paper. Mr. Chlpman’s discoveries were made while prosecuting claims of Indian clients for sums due them under various treaties, dating back for fifty years or more. The cases will go to the United States Court of Claims.