An Interesting Decision

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 17. - News come froni Bismarck of an interesting decisión b; Secretary Vilas in favor of the claim of John S. Waldron, keeper of a hotel at Wiuona, D ï., opposite Fort Yates, to the town site o Winona under the homestead laws as against tbe title of the Northern Pacific rail road et al., the same being within the fifty mile limit of that road and sold by them to a town-site company. Waldron's claim hitherto regarded as a joke, promises to giv the present settlers of the town trouble.