• Cap Streeter's Version
• Earliest Legal Actions
• A Creative But Fraudulent Claim
• The District of Lake Michigan
• Ongoing Reportage
• Cap Streeter's Army
• Later Days

Chicago Daily Tribune, January 17, 1902

Within weeks of the above article's publication, Cap Streeter was back in a tangle over his fraudulent land patent with President Grover Cleveland's forged signature. See A Creative But Fraudulent Claim.

And then in the midst of another legal battle, a lake side skirmish led to the death of James Kirk, a hired watchman. The news spread and was reported in newspapers throughout the country.

Atlanta Constitution, February 12, 1902

Chicago Daily Tribune, June 27, 1902

Washington Post, December 4, 1902


Atlanta Constitution, December 4, 1902


Cincinnati Free Press, December 4, 1902

Chicago Daily Tribune, July 10, 1902


Baltimore Sun, December 4, 1902