Show FAVOR OF MENSING HEIRS General Land Office Decides Import ant Case at Kansas City Washington Aug Commissioner Hermann of the General Land office in tho homestead entry contest of John H Messing for valuable land now V I within the corporate limits of Kansas City Mo but formerly an island In the Missouri river has decided in favor of the Menslng heirs permitting V their entry for all land within the old Meander boundary lines of the island The land Is ordered to be rclotted for V this purpose The remainder of the island i as It non exists consisting of r p the accretions will be reoffered for public entry The land has an appraised I ap-praised value of Sl000an acre and 131 acres were In dispute The former Island Is not shown in the plats of survey made of the land on the Missouri side of the river In 1S29 but a survey made thirty years later showed the Island to consist of almost fiftytwo acn s4 The Island was for nine years h military reservation and was turned over to the Interior department in 1S94 In 1S96 it was discovered that the Island as such existed no longer l but byaccretion has been considerably enlarged en-larged and attached to the mainland V Messing settled on and cultivated the island in 1S5S and for years has sought to secure the Island as a bona tIde actual laws settler under the general land VV I |