Show QUIETING TITLE TO LAND SALT LAKERS INTERESTED IN A BILL BEFORE CONGRESS Largo Tract of Ground in North Salt Lake Involved Whose Owners Supposed Sup-posed Their Rights Unassailable TRIBUNE SPECIAL New York April 2TIme following dispatch from Washington is printed here Congress Is asked at tins session to quiet the title to parcel of land in Salt Lake City whose owners until two years ago supposed their rights were unastailable A treaty of 1891 l t with the Chippewa Indians In Minnesota Michigan Michi-gan and Wisconsin provided for their cession to the United States of a certain cer-tain area ot their lands but reserved to erfch head of a family eighty acres within the tern tory cedcd Twenty years later two Chlppewa ihalfbreeds applied under the treaty for patents to I land in Utah and notwithstanding the I fact that the land they asked for wns outside of the area mentioned in the treaty the Interior department In 1S75 granted the patents On October 3 189S however the deparmcnt declared these patents void on the strength of a decision de-cision or the Supreme court In the twenty years which had lapsed between the granting of lIu patents and their nullification The 100 acres had ben divided Into lots the I ownership of which had > been trans I ferret to various persons and assocla lions and the unsettling of the title to ao largo a tract worth thousands of dollais almost caused a local panic Accordingly within a few months after nullification th6 Interior department de-partment Issued still another order reserving re-serving this land for settlement or disposal dis-posal until Congress should act It is worthy of note that another case closely resembling this and effecting effect-ing the city of Santa Fo N M Is alpo now before the Senate j I The land referred to is that embracing embrac-ing North Salt Lake including valuable gravel beds and lime quarries bolortg J Ing to the Oregon Short Line railroad and Rio Grande Western railroad also valuable rights of way of II S R Rand R-and several large areas belonging to Eastern parties K V Senior who represented most of tho cldimants when the case was heard before tho Land department I de-partment stated lo The Tribune that a bill was already before ommgrems which If pashrd In effect would validate the original patents this being the simplest way of leaving the present claimants with their present title unimpaired The conflict was brought by one Charles II Moore who on August 22 1S8 applied to file a homestead entry over the land In question setting upI I I that the patent Issued January 25 1JJ7S I I was Invalid and while the patent was held to be linalld the claim of Moore I was disregarded |