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Imd no right to make, will be told to the commission. This is his claim: In 1852 the Illinois Central was given the right to run to the river from 51st. on piles in the lake. The legislature offered it a right of way 200 feet wide througlrthestate, but could give it none of the lake front because of a decision or the U. S. su preme court which held that the state could not take away the riparian rights of the people to a navigable body of water. The I. C, however, gradually filled in the land between the lake shore and its piles. It took possession of this and by building a wall along the front shut off the people from their beach. Knowing that it had no right to the lake front the road, wnen John Bar ton Payne, attorney for the packers, and the late Edward Tilden, a stock yards power, bossed the South Park board, made a contract to give up its "riparian" rights. Which rights it did not have. The Chicago Junction Railroad, known as the Belt Lane, runs over the Illinois Central tracks and is as sociated in business with the I. C. Payne is attorney for this road and it is owned by the Chicago Union Stock Yards Co. The South Park board agreed to give the I. C. a strip of land 600 feet wide and six miles long, for the rights which it claimed to have to the lake front. This, if legal, would not only give the railroad its present holdings, but 160 acres submerged land as well. The data of the Chiperfield report to the legislature, which called the I. C. holdings a steal and directed the attorney general to pusn a suit in the supreme court, is now before the commission. This suit was started, ran along for three years, and was quietly dropped. "We ha.ve three decisions of the supreme court that the state had no power to give the I. C. the lake front," declared Lee. "Once before the com mission I will have no trouble in I showing that the I. C. is holding the lake front from Chicagoans illegally," declared Lee. "When we have the drop on the railroad we can force it to come into the city under the ground and our children can use the lake front for parks, playgrounds and beaches, as they should now be using It." teleqrapITbriefs Washington. America's rejoinder to Germany in Wm. P. Frye case may be sent today. In President Wilson's hands for final review. Washington. Reported President Wilson will announce Acting Secre tary Lansing's appointment as per manent secretary of state before he leaves for Cornish tonight Iron Mountain, Mich. John Fer zacca not expected to live as result of shooting affray with Tony Bepauli, due to factional differences developed when they lived in Chicago. New York Caddie found and re turned $10,000 diamond bracelet lost by Mrs. Cordelia Biddle Duke on golf links. Manchester, Vt. Mrs. Jessie Lin coln Beckwith, only living grandchild of late Pres. Lincoln, married to Frank E. Johnson, Norwich, Conn. Washington. Actual construction of government's Alaskan railway has begun. New York. J. P. Morgan & Co. an nounced that arrangements have been made through Lazard Freres and the Rothschilds in Paris for es tablishing French credits here for a period of year. Thomaston, Conn. 2 men killed when gray murder car used by slay ers of Herman Rosenthal smashed into tree. Car had been used as jit ney bus for hotel. Columbus, O. Because of war the price of imported leeches here has risen from 4y2 to 7 cents each. Marysville, O. Bulls gored to death horse ridden by Harvey Boyd. Boyd escaped. . r ?