| Show AN ARMED FORCE DEfiES THE Capt Capt Streeter With Galling Guns Stands Of Off Finest in iii Defending Land lIe Claims to Own te lie n a Barbed Wire ire and amid Garrisons Officers to Oust IBm are Fired on One Boy and n a n lIrse rsc Caled Called in But are arc Back Fron Attack g Oatle Battle Settled on the Land amid Was Ejected Because Neighbors Dd Did Not Like Wih ith Force to Assist What tic lie Says is Ills I RightA Narrow Legal force Sur Street Fight May a an am ambr br body of twenty man n two rapid rapi gl guns and cam m barbed wi wire for tor teak mk Ing Captain Oene George lUeeler Streetor toy today tok took ot of II 1 B acres ot at nd hel tiers the United Stat States fa flag his hll me men tw up two and planted lii In each eh one ot of time the rapid tre fire gD Shorty Shortly bett noon pick pIckets thrown I lut out by the o of the trenches s discovered a VI the directIon of I Park rk consist In ot of Park Irk el and S Secretary Erb Erby reinforced I by A CI Call of hal halt faie failed to atoll tb the prk park wh who were Ire basiL upon finding out who was wal encroaching Upon their ground A volley from rm the rUles nasa quickly put PUI to flight time the Investigation haiti however IUN aM one of the bula bullets struck a boy Reuben Mn n nI I I ly In the right kne knee indicting a lr severe wound A bult bullet a also Secretary l Cr carriage horse hone and nd the animal died later The prk park o Went to J a patrol bl box and turne turned Ita In an alarm I Thirty polIcemen are With revolvers and clUb clubs hurried to tb the scene ne 1 from t the Chicago hl aven avenue station the I officer In n nt aw saw lb h dIsplay o of COI force gal guns bing being Pointed W We I way OVer tM the 1 ii or order ordered der dered a retreat hr Forty wr were armed wIth nf rifle and aDd ordered to toD ri riSt af St U the Oll I by D Chief pt Pollee KM d de o on the part o the in w I do as to Ut the p IO lly ot of an at attick tk tick on the Streetie tories UI V to I the eos C 1 ha aft net reached as opinion O on the maUf mattee bt but was expected f ted do 1 o Measures WI were being tk by the Che police deportment to meet what they expect to b be time the greatest battle th the police and to Bh since the thu riot In evar I or of orthe the city patroLmen were wert sailed le from their bo beats wherever and placed upon reserve stations th n ex cx 1101 point of lAw I is In the ease Cp Capt Streeter tau ha issued a Sc of independence set setting t ting forth hil his alleged rich rights to tt the pro property MY and h has served a copy upon the trot trotTi triot Unie United States ta marshal hal o of tit the die Ti The pollee fel felt that thy they w were amply able ahle to wip wipe out Streeters COr forces and wr wee bent upon doing so bUH because ot of the fact that the men wr were apparently bring of bearing Illinois arn arms In defiance of oC th the statutes Chief Kl wa was In favor tavor ot of ulon upon the St I Ite and aad placIng them under ar arrest re of consequences IIII tub plan could b be put Into operation how however ever lr the cl city authorIties decided to toI tolay I lay f the whole matter before the or orAton Aton atton cOunsel for tor hi his of the law Captain Streeter chum to own time the theland land wh which b were the tte title clear woul would b be worth Iten between thIrty and Itt arty mi mali lons lions of dollars In 1813 Street er em and lila hie wife yer Tere stranded on A little sand n br bar a 0 few yard from toni time the an at le the foot ot of Su Superior street The Th lpt spot Ws wa not down on the maP maps and the doughty navigator laid claim to the mud land and declared his hla right l be leg time the whole holt to elet elect hi him himself self Hlf to aU all the o to which h hi lii In framing a 8 constitutIon deemed the tee ter In it aH need ot of otA ofAs A As the yeu a passed thu dumping of all sort of efus tu pd d th the eath earth washed up by the take Ormed a large tract and nd CaptaIn Str lr bam became 1 a mean of at h his importance and an I the Inca Hilly Jo of the land hil iiI began Tile Tue tract bam became 01 con II netted wIth the shore hort and nd owners of adjoining property the peas en emita ot at Captain SINter and Iii re cc retainer he had imad gathered about but him They crrie carried the matter Into coart The I our court o of the United Statue do that the land Wa was c tb te jurisdictIon of 01 th the 11 ot of IllinOis Wn to tM the ri A ago h hO he O under the name ag of Lake Michigan I a govern governaL aL an and elected him himself lt chie chief and ad to tH time other or of jel J The Th pIC police how however derde open hi blip anti n 11 army Irmy of abut about fifty men and since the then u up to 10 toay today th time captin captain had bd Ind lived In another Part ot of town The Tha preparation t to retake Ion Were ere md mad with great secrecy and auG It 1 was not until dawn today that time the polICe Were lra or of the paw Yo a wail 11 oft off the bore when broke Porn On th the boiL beat C lIt landed hll hi mell W thu 00 om j tell ot of the city Ity hudd b by Chief and ever every man a repeating ii 11 lie e marched an the lIt Chicago station tation to tn the foot or of Superior I Itt street tt In the were er about nl mn men armed with elItes and two Jut guns Sheriff 11 1 ent with Olt chief t tot ot of police and It wea Id that In inease ease eIe of to the sheriff I should mould wear swear In tm the wn Ii as deputies demand the surrender of the forces on oil the ground ut of riot aIM con CIOn duet and aad arrest time Ihl occupants ot of the tort Cort regardless of LOt cost LOtfin t the fin boat bUlt with a gun aboard boA wu was dispatched up Luke lak MithI gan n to 0 from that side lid off th the ot of to tn ct j 4 ers 1 men by of f their yacht laeb It was Chal th time joInt n I Uon tIen of land eater liter le loree should Mt IU a a Ocio I and Comm lei eel Walker di t td that In view or if he 11 by tIme of the that the land Ind chImed by t I ii territory or of the of JI II UI the police tOI forces could rot t legal legally ly I Precipitate I a battle with I which at that hour were aera In d by IUt an a additional ft teen men armed with rides Mr Walker eX expressed pr pressed the opinion that the matter GOuld could only be settled by the Stat au an auth th who control tb the park polio OIle Streeter It la I said viii with th tb the police pollet but will not an agree to abide by theIr wishes and evacuate lii bl tort fort tortIn fortIn In ease IaM of a collision brot between Ui tb park police and nd mn men th tha cIty au an J will then lend their aid aM aMnot art not until then It was wa reported that Joy Tiniest who Is II lii In time the vity had been uk ked to call out tIme the State Stale troops to arrest capt e C and nd hi his men Gov Tanner when sill Chat he had ha never even beard ot of the When the city amid U ties report to m me that thy they are nrc power lies in III the matter he uld I may J take some action At Brigadier Niles and four or of his hll amen perceiving the tue overwhelming force toree ot of police QUe liP up t preaching climbed over oer the manIa ot of their Improvised tort fort aDd aaI of 1 to tl surrender to the park I proVIding thy they prot protected ted The I was wall accepted and time till park I II started oem foot tord time I station followed b by an n Imme crowd pushed aur and I I NItO who whIrled round ull and to bayonet one anI of hIli hi persecutors iJ A rough huth and tumble fight ensued apil Niles rifle wu was wrenched from Crom his hili hands handl lube fill freely used on the generals genral head He Be i wait knocked down end and wee about to draw a revolver when he wu was manacled and dragged ort off b by the ot Tbt Tb tour inca w were rou roughly hl handled In tM thu melee The remainder of DC Street Streeter er its force seeing the fate it et their lead leader er their guns una end aad escaped ca In Inthe 1 the throng The police at once took f e of Ute the fort with lIh I Its tn entire tire oem i of arms and ammunitIon Captain Streter was not found In the he fort Cort |
