Show IDAHO IS WINNER IN BIG lAND SUIT OF LONG STANDING Timber Worth Woith Re Reverts Reverts Reverts Re- Re verts to State on Prior Claim Special to l The rho e Herald Boise March 26 26 Secretary Franklin I K Lane handed down lown a decision today giving giving- tho the state of or Idaho absolute title to acres of oC the finest white whit timber timber tim tim- ber land in tho the country located on Marble Marblo creek creel In Shoshone count county It ItI ItIs Itis I Is estimated that the timber Umber on this lan land is worth at least The contest for tor thi this land and has haR been running for tw twelve yean car In 1901 Gov- Gov erno Hunt requested that tho tile land be hc survived mr This was done arid and In 1905 tho the state undertook to file tHo on the theland theland land Ian claiming a sixty da days days' preference right under a f federal statute over o nil all settlers The Time United States land office at Coeur dAlene lAlene refused to accept the states state's filings on the tho ground that it had not been notified of th lh tho state states state's s preference rl right light ht and on tho the additional round ground that it had already accepted the filings of oC settlers It eloped developed that the settlers settlors rs were vere not 1 bona ona tide fide but that thc they had squatted on the land landIn In n th the tho interest of oC big lumber companies companies com corn intending to sell out as soon as the they secured title I Is h i The state stat appealed to the commissioner commissioner commis commis- stoner of or the general land office and was upheld The Tho settlers appealed from this to the tho secretary of oC tho tue In Interior Interior In- In tenor in n ISO 1907 and the secretary tary of or the time interior upheld tho the commissioner but no definite action was taken in the matter until the final decision of or Secretary Sec See Lane Lanc today In tho the meantime the matter matte got sot into politics Both Republicans Re Re- publicans and Democrats In the tho campaign cam cain pahn leading up to the general election election elec elec- tion lion of oC 1908 promised to take steps to compensate at the settlers In the le legislature legis legis- ls- ls lature that followed a resolution was passed appointing two members and the time land Jond commissioner to In e Investigate n te and report This was done and this commission l lon recommended that the state relinquish acres 8 to the settlers setHel's William son Balder of this city entered court to enjoin the tho land lanel board boar from carrying out the recommendations of or orthe the time lc legislative committee After along a n along Jon long struggle le In the tho court the injunction Injunction Injunction tion was as granted rant and in this wa way the settlers were deprived of or any right whatever or In Marble creek land This ibis is the most important case cale ever o handled b bv by the of office rico of or the attorn attorney general of this sta state tc and Joseph II 11 Peterson the present Incumbent who has borne time the brunt of the tho fight is elated elate oV over r the outcome J |