Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1895-01-24 | Page 3 | In Railroad Circles

IN I llAbItA1J CIRCL 0 Kansas Settlers Find Themselves in a Predicament 1 THE FORECLOSURE SUITS UNWRiTTEN HISTORY BEHIND rIlE V r LITIGATION The Actions Will JJe Puslicrt to FJnnl Adjudication In Order That the licorgrniiisntion Committee Can Have Something to Work Upon Western Iltsseugcr Oiilcluls at Chicago Topeka Kan Jan Subpoenaes have been issued for over 3000 settlers on lantls purchased from the Union Pacific rail road in Dickinson Ellsworth and Saline counties They are asked to rrswer a suit brought by the government to oust them from the lands which were granted to the Union Pacific by an act of Congress and afterwards sold lo the settlers The government claims that the grant was invalid and that the lands should revejlt to the government and be opened to settlement settle-ment under the homestead law If this claim holds the farmers have scant remedy as the Union lacific is in The hands of receivers