Image 1 of Santa Fe new Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.), September 20, 1907
author: Anonymous
source date: 1907
availability: public_domain

SANT A FE NEW MEXlCM VOL 44 SANTA FE NEW MEXICO FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1907 NO 187 I OVER RULES DEMURRERS III TIMBER SUI1S 0PIMMiEH II Holds That Territory is Merely Trustee For Lands and That United States Has Right to Demand Ac counting at Any Time s s Special to The New Mexican Albuquerque Sept 20 Judge Ira A Abbott sitting as presid ing judge of the Second judicial district court this morning announc ed that he had overruled the demurrers of the defendants in the cases of the United States of America vs the American Lumber Company and Clark M Carr in which It was alleged that the United States had X no right or title to the land having transferred it to the Territory and that as the Territory was a sovereign body it could not be used except X by authorization of Congress or in the United States Supreme Court Judge Abbott holds that the Territory is merely a trustee for the X lands and that the United States does not surrender the right to de X mand an accounting at any time an d that the Territory is not a sover X X eign body