Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-03-06
TELEGR A p FL 10.
LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC SIDE.
Pacific SIope Timber Lands.

Pacific slope Timber Lands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Thc bill providing
for the sale of timbered lands in the States
of California and Oregon, and the Territories
came up in the House to-day ana passed.
Its provisions are:
SURVEYED lands not reserved, and which
are valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for
cultivation, and which have not been offered
for SALE may be soldto citizens or persons
who have declared their intention so to be in
quantities not exceeding 100 acres to any
person, incorporation or association of per
sons, and in all other Territories of the Uni
ted States not exceeding 40 acres to any one
person, corporation or association OF persons,
at the minimum price of 50 80 per acre, pro.
vided that nothing therein contained shall
defeat or impair any bona fide claim under
any law of the United States, or authorize
the sale of mining claims or improvements
of any bona fide settlers, or lands containing
mineral or coal, or lands selected by said
State under any law of the United States do
mating land for internal improvements, edu-
cation or other purpose; and provided furth-
or, that none of the rights conferred by the
act approved July 2, 1865, entitled :" An act
granting the right of way to ditch and canal
owners over public lands and for other pur-
poses" shall be abrogated by this act, and
all patents granted shall be subject to any
vested or accrued water rights to bitches and
reservoirs used in connection with such
water rights as may have accrued under ana
by the provisions of said act, and such rights
shall be expressly reserved on any patent is
sued under the fact.
Section 2 provides that all patents granted
shall be subject to any vested and accrued
water right or rights to bitches and reser-
yoirs used in connection with such water
rights as may have accrued under and by the
provisions of said act, and such rights shall
be expressly reserved in any patent issued.
Section provides that any person desir.
ng to avail himself of the provision OF this
act shall file with the Register of the proper
district written statement in duplicate, one
of which is to be transmitted to the General
Land Office, designating by legal subdivis.
ions the particular tract of land he desires
to purchase, setting forth that the same is
unfit for cultivation and valuable chiefly for
it's timber; that 1t is uninhabited, contains no
mining nor other improvements, except for
ditch or canal purposes, save such as were
made by or belong to the applicant; that de.
ponent has made no other application; and
that he does not apply to purchase the same
on speculation, but in good faith and to np-
propriate to his own exclusive nse aud bene-
fit, and not for sale, and that he has not
made any agreement or contract with any
pcrson whatever, by which the title which
he might acquire from the Government
should inure to the benefit of any person ex-
cent himself, which statement shall be vcri-
fled by the oath of the applicant before the
Register or Recorder of the Land Office with
in the district where the land is situated; and
il any person on taking such oath shall swear
falsely he shall be subject to all the pains and
penalties of perjury and shall forfeit the
money paid for said lands, and all right and
title TO the same, and any grant or convey
ance which he may have made, except In the
hands of bona Jte purchasers, shall be null
and void.
.. Section 4plovidcs that upon the filing of an
application The Register OF the Land Office
shall post notice of such applica.
ton, embracing a description OF the land,
for period of sixty days, and the applicant
shall publish the same, and il no adverse
caim shall then have been filed, the person
desiring TO purchase shall furnish to the
Register of the Land Office satisfactory evil
dence. first that said notice of application
was duly published; and second, that the
land is Of the character contemplated in
this act, and without improvements other
than those excepted, neither mining or agri-
cultural, and that it apparently contains no
valuable deposits of gold, silver, cinnabar,
copper or coal and upon payment to the
proper officer of the purchase money OF said
land, together with the fees OF the Register
and the Receiver, the applicant may be per.
mitted to enter said tract, and on transmits
SIGN 10 the General Land Office of the ga
pers and testimony in the case, patent shall
issue thereon; provided that If person hav.
ing a valid claim 70 any portion of said land
may object in writing to the issuance Of q
patent of the land so held by him, stating
the nature of his claim thereto evidence
shall be taken and the merits of said objec.
ton shall be determined by the officers OF
the Land Office, subject to appeal as In other
land cases.
Violence or strikers.
HAzLEToN, Pa, Feb. 27.-This morning
the miners who are on strike, about 800
strong, drew the fire from under the boilers
and stopped all the, pumps, set fire to the
engine house Ind shot the engineer, at Buck
mountain, eleven miles from here. The man
is not seriously wounded. II is almost inn.
possible to get men to keep the pumps going,
the bolice assisting TO do SD ut Ecley and
Upper Lehigh There are apprehensions Of
rough time around here. Men are gathering
in large numbers. AT Highlands, three miles
Two men were badly beaten. The report
says one cannot live The police have been
sent to Buck Mountain to start the pumps.
Another Notable Death.
ERIE. Pa, Feb 25.--John A. Tracy, first
president of the Erie and Northeast Railway
Co., many years director In the Lake Shore
and the Chicago and Rock Island II. R., and
one of the most prominent business men in
Western Pennsylvania, died here this fore
noon.
senate.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Senate last
nightagreedto withdraw several amendments
made on theNsundry civil appropriation bill
Among the amendments agreed to was strik
ing out the item for %, 274 for furniture and
work at the capital building, Olympia, W.T.
The committe reported an amendment re
pealing the last clause Of the sundry civil ap
preparation bill for the fiscal year ending
June 80 1874, which amended the act to ex
tend the laws of the United States relating
to customs and commerce to Alaska Pend
ing discussions the Senate OF 2:o0 A. N. I'D
journed.
The conference committee on the postofilc,
appropriation bill submitted report, whicl
was agreed to, and the bill passed The sal
airy Of the postmaster at New York wa
fixed at $1,000, but the salaries Of postmas,
ers Of all cities where the increase was pro
posed remain unchanged,