Show STAETLING DISCOVERY The Uorthoru Peninsula of Michigan Said to Have Never Been Ceded DETEOIT March Something in the i nature of a startling discovery has been made by H F Chipman son of Congressman I man Chipman in regard t title of the lands of a large part i not the whole of the upper peninsula of this state and i the conclusions are borne out by a more minute investigation and sustained by the courts every acre of land in the peninsula west of the Sault and Mackinac to Montreal Mon-treal and Menominee rivers and from Lake Superior to Lake Micigan and straits inclusive of city and village lots will be handed over to the rightful owners the descendant of the Chippewa Indian nation na-tion of the Lake Superior region Chip man asserts that his investigations have convinced him that no cession of the upper peninsula lands was ever made to the United States government and therefore there-fore title deeds in every registry of deeds in the region indicated are worthless as so much blank paper |