Show RAILROAD WILL WIN government will loe lose suit to recover oil lands worth washington just as the govern ment is bitting sitting in for the biggest legal game it ever played the discovery Is made that it is bound to lose and the southern to ln a it the play goes on the stakes are a great arc are i of call for foroi alas ae richest oil lands they vere granted to the railroad witz wit t a clause la in the grant excepting all mineral lands save those containing coal mal and iron fron most of these lands were patented to the grantee more than six years ago th ahr joker in the situation is a special statute of limitations slipped through congress in an act of march 3 1891 and perfected by another net act of march larch 2 1896 the effect of these acts as construed by the united SO supreme court Is absolutely to bar proceed inge lugs by the government to annul a patent of land laud to a land grant rail road after fix six years from the lari variance ance of the patent until these acts are repealed the government haa his not a chance on earth to get back its lands |