The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-05-28

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wa.h&asA sbaaal:-Tho order issued by
the conmissionersot TIA genssll ,,laad eaeA
dated April s, sdeolaring that fnaa tctan UPON
all entries Of the public land except private
Cash entries and such scrip locations a are not
dependent upon settlement and cultivation.
should hereafter be suspended in Colorado, DA-
kota, Idaho, Utah, WASHINGTON, Tefrit6rN NeH
Mexico, Mentan1, Wyoming. Nevada =; and n I"
small part of Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota.
and also declaring that final action should be
suspended upon al timber entries threnshcpI
the country, has caused great centsovefsy tn
the territories named and decided obpositi6H
from the AxeAse and Attorneys At Washipgt6A
an. and elsewhere = Who Sfe engaged In the bust
neee M sectfas atsnt. for claimants.
ton is pafalyzing land. business in all
Parts OF the country and doing great injury to
settlers who wish to proveup on their clsiraa
go that they can borrow money 10 10 on with
tho improvement Of their lantA Commissioner
Spark. said recently. when: asked for hin
That order wAs Intended to cover what term
INFESTED districta have written number Of
letters to people who are complaining about It,
and want it thoroughly understood that there
II l no disposition on my part to do honest set,
thieves that am otter k.ve DOZENS aSss Of f az.
approve Of tho 8rdef. FKo3 say Chat in many
regions not ono entry in fifty is bona fido: that
1t 10 business practice to do false swearing to
get title to land Timber entries are almost
people that I have said that We kh8Mld ala
pend final action on claims. This whole ofsca
including tho assistant c1mmiSsioneE In IaW
clerk And the Narionsa >chieta srs tp; hsrmonyas
to !, re aeGessfty. apd wisdom of that order We
ttelfed ~ over and thought. Of various means
to be employed for the end desired. One WA
to close the local land Offices; but in that event
settlers, arriving in: the district would find
themselves unable TO locate That plan would
not work Then It was suggested that We
c'cse the land office here, but that would b
for me to do except to say that would not ask
the secretary of the interior nor the president
to approve and sign patents when fbelieved
that fully one-half of them were fraudulent. In
this way l believe I have saved the public
domain,
FULLY A MILLION ACRES
OF land since April 3. The charge has been
made that the order was political ard ge0eiaph.
ical in its character, that the, south #as OK
cepted. There are but four states In the so{1tN
Where the United States has land ofhces-rltf-
i'd Alabama, loNisiar& and ARKANSAS. Texas
owns hsr 2*n lands. Il fancy there is some
1t cannot be said that the south is excepted be.
cause Secretary IaIlarie asonthern man The
south was excepted because the bulk of fraud ia
net N the South. There is five times as much
territory in the North that is not Included in
all Of Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas are not
included, and in two of these states-Michigan
and Wisconsin, know there Is fratld that We
ought to look after Itwae not the intention to
PROSTATE the lind business all over the country
Nothing OF the kind has been done What we
are really after is to prevent tho public domain
from going into the hands Of tanchtien and
epeculatore. The bona tide atttsr Can borrow
just as :thuoh hioney on his certificate of entry
or his duplicate papers as he can upon the pat
ent All the frst-class loan and trust COM
panies of the East desire to know is that the
borrower should be bona f1de settler and that
ne will be entitled to patent It is the knave
who wants his patent rushed through in TWENTY
four hours. YOU will find that to-day in Illi=
i forty out Of every one hundred entr$met
nave never gottuh theif batenes. They lie here
have simply the duplicates. But you Will lind
that the Louisina backbone patents we're taken
out of this office promptly, just as you will ind
patents have been taken in all caaes where
there is fraud.
EScounAe1Na THE SETTLERS. -.
When I am satisfied that there is good faith
on tle part OF the settler, there will be no diff
ficolty in his getting a patent shall satisfy
myselfhy means Of special agents and detec-
tives whom 1 can thoroughly trust and upon
them shall put such checks and counter de-
lection as win make it absolutely certain that
no false swearing or fraud can secure a pat
tent see that the fight is begun upon me
over the west and that the newspapers large
~ interested in. the whole subject of land
office business have opened fire upon me;
but l have determined to stand by the order
Meanwhile, bona tide settlers all over the west
pick out their land file their entries upon it,
and go on with their improvements. The land
is theirs just as much, during the FIVE years
which the lay requires them tc Stay tipon it as
it ever tan &c; and if they are worthy people
they need ID do Sd, canrl st See that, in order
to relieve these people Of some anxiety, I
should allow: thieves and rascals to take mil
lions Of the public domain by false swearing.