Show SUIT SUT TO COMPEL GOMPEL SALE OF OE LANDS NO i I Milon Millions of Acres of Railway Railway Grants I Involved in the Case ACT OF CONGRESS IS rs CITED CITE I Claimed Corporations Violated Violate Law by Not Selling al t an Acre q Portland Ore Sept SeimI 18 Thu H-Thu Tim Tim- firs suit Milt I 1 ever ep brought to compel the tite Southern South Cl era ern n I acie to sell sel part of ur Its us It land acquired ac ac- under con congressional rel grant to tt actual settlers at O an 11 acre has ham been by uy A. A W. W Lafferty who a bill of oC complaint In behalf o of tiC John L L. Snyder against the time Oregon h California Hallway company the thc 1 i Inn Trust list company and 8 S. H T. T Gug Gage V N. T T. Smith and anti W. W i E. E own Brown holdis hold hold- is r or of n a trust mOlt mortgage n c on time the lands land l. l o King kimg that the defendants cI be COI com coin p.-lh-il p. to t sell pell pelti acres of oC th famous mud land mat grant in Columbia county count to r. This This- suit involves In more mor than I Jon acres of or land acquired by grant r nt tail and valued a at af more than 1 The lime he complaint allege ale t that the railway ha has Ins hi In th the tue last Jat ten yearn cur s violated the trust rust reposed In It I b by congress by selfa self self- I ing a about hout half one ol of th the thc land grant to 10 0 for COl prices ranging as IUS 1 ugh high I h as us 1 15 I G au an aero acm It I Is claimed that the he company has n never nem Vel paid haiti axes taxes or UI ut- ut on the tIme land for an ait al amount exceeding io bO O cents an 01 aCIo aero an and nd has hUN made no Improvements to th time the property GIlls Mudo b by tm LOI tT S. S I Acts of con congress es nt 11 In Im iQ 70 TO ranted granted tho lm i lands to 10 tiU tao te Ol Oregon on and I California and amt the time Southern n for COI aiding construction of ur linos lies from Portland to h lc and alil to r guarantee tit tin tw construction bonds It J as wm intended that lint theo lands lan H tid should hull hullIe be converted Into cash und UllI they cre e given instead of oC a a. cash cn h bonn time the proviso 1 that the time molds lands granted l by the act aforesaid shall hail l be sold old lo tu actual settlers settlors only In not nol iler gi than iuar un l tor ci- ci I section to lo one purchaser el and for or n n. n 1 price rice not exceeding an acre Tt TI T was further that iho mid aid M s ot of laud land tall c for COI th tim tho ng only olly such as us tiro ary company ot ut tt ros roso o 0 a U its c A lVie IH d Cul UI u LISOS 11 os i L b 1 h i j holl l i lee lin i Jj L CI m ami under them jour of it the ilic than nine loath of uC time the gr granted Land Oregon tm jfe California the time held by and Uld now IIO tin th lit hel Southern l. l Pa ill IC Woi O about u oll obtained from 1011 the tilL govern gu nit Ouo 00 acres acres Not cot cit Ci In iii II Fc Fee Ve ih fh the time present im suit lawsuit It I Is claimed did not give llio Lii that mat time the government r ho title tile to lu the thc hi lands in III tC fee cc sim simple 11 virtually time tho lands lunds were that thai b hut h trust u with time the railroads t an in pM In Jim Ut put IU theta thein to of ot tru te u agreeing settlers settlors at al not more titan than to I actual tho ho price oC of acre To ro keep O tin flit to lu the maximum al allowed ni- ni adjacent land lands up lowed wed the railroads n the government go sections the ti alternate that stipulated should still sUIl ill he held It U by time the United States not t be sold for less Jes than limn 2 O an acre on time the re retained Imposing tints thus Ills similar terms tet-ms as upon the IC same caine or railroad lands the time Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- that It I in is lc the time the time present caso case on Uc will vill light absolute title titie that it holds ground right ht either lo to sell ell ehi which gives It time the whatever price It wishes or to 10 tore rc ai at all If defeated on that to sell at fuse u e probable that It will Viti deny It Il IH is point the thc C eligibility of the Ule land for actual settlers tiers V Th Thoro rr l Is little doubt that the meanIng mean mean- settlers will be one of Ing 1111 i of or actual tho tilo hard fought issues issueR A As Intended Inthe In the thc Q 0 act oct there is 10 no doubt an actual t settler settler set set- r Is a a. person otherwise qualified seeking eking In good faith to establish a Homo me and to contribute e to tho time development develop develop- mont ment ont of or the country There is c equally Juall little doubt that flint tho that an aD railroad attorneys will viii contend actual settler can only be bo a person tIme the land at the time who ho resided m on that thaL and were ero made that at the grants such elm persons ha havo ceased to exist since that at time That tho case cao will be stubbornly stub stub- contested on both sides in view of oC tl the lie enormous value alue of or the lands lunds ate at atthe tJ the t e pre present lime flame is IK conceded h here r |