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J 1 l. e-l. f. f y 1 1 c l. l 1 Asti King Deposed fer t. t 1 i- i d 1 Ii- Ii 2 1 t. t 2 4 III 11 tI t Year Year Battle Is Ended r Jj Me e M Many 3 years ears cars ago aso when Chicago o was n a 0 r small small city and nel H Us its l front mostly ft a f aI I t a n. lake InIce schooner ran ashore In Ini II i a a a. storm thero there and anel tho high waves t es 1 pounded her hulk into tits tho mud and 1 1 left lett her stranded and Immovable Tho captain of or the vessel was Goor George Goorge e Well Well- r i. i 1 Streeter lie He es escaped from hi his j p If schooner and when tho storm stormI t I 1 he ho wont back and patched up Tier het her cabin and lived there thor Years passed p and around the tho ol old j lk tho lake waves plied piled up te lions drone nR of ot mud muel and sand and as moro years passed Chicago grew crew and th tho thor 0 r horo flats flat grow and Grew crew In value I r Captain Streeter Streetor stayed there and andl nd l claimed all the made mado land lanel and in- in l sIted 2 people to dump refuse there andy and y Y It r thus make maIe moro more land Time passed y I and the land grew until two thirty h years ear ago aho when others othen who claimed is il to to be the real owners o of or tho the land ti M brought suit In court to oust Captain i Streeter and get Gel clear cleu title to the thee thet t e ground k Sh o then the litigation has gono ono gonom 1 m on onIth with Ith varying fortunes to Captain Th Through rough 1 It t all ho lie kept pos pos- I session in of the tho land When the cabin r of his boat rotted he built a brick brck house Ho lie sold fold man many lots to persons who who- wire WHO willing to take a chanco chance 1 t on paying payIng- a a. few tow hundred dollars for V a lot lot worth orth thousands Many fan tho courts put Streeter off the land 1 lInd nd other courts put him back Many 1 times times ho barricaded himself in n his i and defied tho the court officers I who ho home came me to tp disposes dl him Once ho he hoC C killed an officer and was sentenced to toJ J 1 tho the penitentiary r but there thero were c 1 powerful Influences at work worl for tor him 1 7 and nd nd he trot tot out He lie has been In to Jail i dozens of times Umas for disobeying court I orders but always managed to get out outI I and arid go back to the land Ho no called lIed th the land tho the of ot I Lake Lako Michigan an and nd the tract became 0 tJ a u ae famous In Chicago as tho the n need aged e f squatter himself who ho was B known to tot t everyone In Chicago with his hie old ola faded 4 duster and silk hat pulled down upon hie his ears care b Now ow th the the- theland land I. I In is worth o a rich stake stake- to fight tight for tor 5 This week th the th court ordered I the to remove remo Streeter and nd his tam tam- C ly and tear his down and burn bum W tie t the e wreckage wreckage- and nd clear tho the disputed territory or of or him and eVeT every ery vestige of ot ofhie hlA hie property The Tho officers sneaked M up on Streeter Streater Th The a Chicago o News OWl ayn x The Th advance on the Streeter del cUp b was as made a e shortly a after ter 11 The i building was ss known knon to b be carefully h gUArd guarded d. d and f tho the storming party was waa purposely small BO so as aa not to attract I attention The They were heavily arme armed not only with court writs writ but with v r and nd were prepared to shoot iS h If Captain Streeter attempted to carry ont his oft ot repeated peLted threats to kill hill anyone who tried tiled to dispossess s him tt Cap Taken by bT M a They made mado a sensational en advance on onU U the building and before Streater I s realized r what was teas happening they had 1 taken possession slon of his weapons which C were w ero ro Immediately sent to the sheriffs sheriff's office Streeter looked on in apparent amazement won wondering what would happen next It Wl ryas aa not lon long All firearms havinG been removed Captain 1 Streeter hi his wife and a n. woman compan com com- comI I panion pan Ion were shoved ell out of or the building and tho the deputies be began an work on tho front of or tho the structure Whack whack I went tho picks nn and In a n. few tem minutes tho the front came tumbling out out I Tho The demolition of ot tho the house Is described described de de- de scribed as ns follows by the Chicago Herald and Examiner I Within 1 tho the fence except fence except for tor those thosa pal ary buildings which have havo been run up b by what tho the captain f calls tho the Interests interests all all was ruin Tho The brick house which was to George Wei- Wei elInGton InGton Streeter T what hat th the i White Otte j House Is la to Woodrow Wilson was a t razed mess of ot lath and plaster and I j broken furniture Over O tho Jumble ran the captains captain's dispossessed goose and chickens volubly unhappy 1 Outside th the tha 3 fence Captain Streeter and his wife sat eat deco together on a n I bench looking like the they felt and feeling feel feol- Ing like well lilts well In tho the morning thod they'd d counted on somo flomo day being worth that j 20 O 0 million dollars ollArs and now with the tho tho stars st coldly down on them the tho bench was wae all they thOl had Manlon Near X nr High up In the toe air Ir sprang forth cheery lights from the tho big apartments and tho homes of or Chicago's millionaire millionaires which surround This Is m my home homo this Is s my mT landall land all this land Is 15 mine the said with a wide sweep of ot his arm and Im I'm going Coln to sta stay until the they throw me off ott I this here herc bench These men anon nt of C the law are law law- I breakers Thc They have ha destroyed my property and the tho property of or mv my my I friends The real fight Is III Just started Wh Ill I'll the JO 20 o Give up Not ot me me Why get million dollars that the Is worth orth before I die Then the captain ma made e another survey SUIe surcy sur- sur e cy vey of ot the rr wreckage and watched n the that I II factions actions I of or a score of or laborers guar guarded ed Iby i iby by deputy deput he sheriffs and private det dete I lives U Ho lie had seen them smash with picks and ond and axes everything that could be broken Ho lIo had never neer winced when hen tho the walls alls of or his house camo came crashing down dOn or when his furniture went hurtling hurtling hurtling hur hur- out of ot the door Into the tho blank bInk mud But ho cursed when his W wagon I homo home built on a t steel auto uto truck frame I tt with Ith tho the en engines and radiator Intact was wa m smashed Bh d to bits and the chassis ha pulled off oCt the property Tho The Chicago Tribune Tribuna tells tens how Streeter and his wife wHo and a fL woman oman I who lived with them sat t all that hf and nd watched tho the burning of or the wreckage wreck D. D age e that had been their home hom It Il It was nl a n dream of or millions that was being dissipated in the tha chill chili air of or the lake lak front along with the thin smoke that t curled up from two huge bon bon- fires It was the ruin of or an ambition j I I of a n. quarter of a n. century a a. a piratical ambition but still an nn ambition It was as the end but tho the old man who shivered red In tho the cold wind and sought tho warmth of or the crackling flames risIng rising ris ris- ing from th the ruins of ot his hie homo home was still refusing refusing- to admit It It even to him him- self Its It's Done Done- I If It Ill have havo tho the law on em m. m the mobs Its It's mobs that's torn Horn dow down n In my home I Tho state of Illinois ant aint got soot any n right In here but Its It's sent In mobs to wreck wieck I m my home The Tho ho l law had harI 1 acted d. d j Justice I had el I Claimed her own but OUt 10 to trio ino old man who ho stood his threats 11 In In I Iho Streeter lIle It was Impossible to believe be- be lie o that after two thirty years ears of or Ut- Ut hatlon spiced b by rifle battles battles battles bat bat- with with police and deputy sheriffs the scales of or ju justice had tipped against him If It If they hadn't only took my rifle before I know kno It It mourn mourned d tho the fallen monarch of ot th tho lake front blank blank those blank hirelings 8 There Thero Is no living man In Chicago o who ho can swear as Cap can Cnn su swear oar It was an eccentric figure that sat Bat I there thore under the stars on an empty dry goods box rawn wn close to the bon bonfire fir In a muddy vacant lot an odd pathetic figure In a faded ulster r that had on once co cobeen been boon b brown blown own but had long since yielded yield yield- cd ed Its deeper rues An ancient battered silk hat crammed down about his ears served lIer a as a n background for tor th the weird halo of oC red curls th that t encircled tho the weather beaten taco face and hun hung down behind to I half halt conceal the iho stains of tho the linen I collar that had once been Tho The glare of or the swirling flames cast a glow slow over a heap of ot broken brick and vla plaster and all aU that re remained remained remained re- re of ot the place that Cap Streeter i had called homo home before tho the wreckers did their work on authority from the th I courts court In tho shadows cross across tho the sidewalk rose a pile of furniture dishes stoves sto beds bed a and household paraphernalia paraphernalia par par- pu-I pu lay cluttered in crazy crary confusion con con- fusion Alma Alme Alma Almat Come Como over hero I where Its It's warm arm called Cap gener genor- generously to the wife who ho stood by I him during during- tho the eventful yearn eau Ills His wife came to sit alt with him beneath the stars A woman friend carrying a Q cane Joined them thom A little dog snuggled against a aln t Caps frayed trouser 01 log Poor little Bp tl She Sho dont don't under under- understand stand atad She's Shea faithful to old Cap aint you Spot Tho The little dog doC was lifted In his arms to bo be pressed a against his weather beaten taco faco Where hero are arc you OU going C from rom hero hone Cap asked tho the reporter I r I dont don't know Tho The fl fighting spirit that mado made him ono one of or tho the moat most picturesque pic plc- figures In the tho history o of ot Chicago Chicago Chi CM- cago cage seemed scorned burned out Whore are aro you TOU going goine to spend to tonight tonight to- to night Wo 0 o got hot a good campfire here In Interposed Interposed In- In tho the wife yeah agreed the Cap Wu We got a R. good hero here The They can an put nut my furniture off but they cant can't put nut Cap oft oft off You surely aurely arent aren't going oln to stay here flU all night Well stay hero until hell freezes os over What are aro you ou going to do with your furniture Leave Lea h t In ln the Ule street till tU I T hear from the Illinois aint got no right The Tho here herein herein- state of or anyhow any any- how Is the ot of Lalee Michigan Anyhow I done U and dont don't H it I got a house houba on Chicago avenue you OU dont don't know about abou |