The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-09
PusHla'LrU LANDS.
3perstions Under Certain Glasses Of Ems;
tries OF Landtn the Northwest and Else
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Operations Under Certain Classes Of Ems
tries OF Land,in the Northwest and Else.
!. where auspsnded.
The commissioner Of the general land Office
las ordered that final action in the land Office
upon all entries Of the public lands except pri-
vate cash entries, and such scrip locations as
are not dependent upon acts Of settlement and
cultivation be suspended in the following
localities: All lands west Of the first guide
meridian, Kansas; all west Of range II west, IN
Nebraska; the whole Of Colorado, except lands
in the Ute reservation, all lands in New Mexico,
Montana, Wyoming and Nevada, and that
portion of Minnesota north of the indemnity
limits of the Northern Pacific railroad and
Minnesota l. Manitoba railroad. Final acton
in the land office is also ordered to be sus-
pended upon all timber culture entries under
the act Of June 8, 1878 which have not already
been examined; also in alicasos Of desert land
entries.y f @ys 20. ~. Z
4 There have been a good many charges Of
fraud made at Washington and throughout the
country in regard to pine and other land entries.
Minnesota had its share thereof during the
past two or three years, as all will remember.
Corporations and private synlicates have been
entries and then transfer their claims to the
former. 1t is doubtless true that this plan
has been practiced to a considerable extent
and the government and honest settlers
defrauded. To prevent further fraud
Of this nature is presumably the OBJ
ject Of the order. Its effect will be
to prevent final proving up on all pre-emp-
ton, homestead and timber culture entries-in
fact on all entries on public land except where
land has been offered for sale, in which latter
case one may purchase by private cash sales,
but only in this manner. Scrip locations are
also excepted, Tho object is probably to al
low the commission to investigate the numer-
GUS charges of fraud and refuse to allow final
proving up in cases where fraudulent intent is
evident It can work no hardship to
the actual settler as it will only defer his time
for final proving up, and it is not likely that
the government will throw any hindrance in
the way Of one who is proved to be an actual
settler. The order affects but little land in Min
nesota, only that between the eighth and tenth
correction lines and the fourth and fifth meri-
dians-the strip from Lake Superior west to
Red Lake reservation. Alarge portion of this,
also, will not be affected, as it is not yet sur
veyed 2t i.5it
The Fight Ratween Riel's Forces and the
81, va Poltca.
A correspondent learns the following con-
corning the fight between Riers forces and the
police and citizen soldiers on Thursday, March
i26 The story is direct from half breeds who
were present. Learning that the force was en-
route for Duck Lake, mounted half-breeds,
twenty in number started to reconnoiter They
met force of 100 men police and citizens
in sleighs, i and tho half breeds scat
tered Crozier, in command of the police,
thought an effort was being made to sur.
round him and ordered his men to fire.
Seeing half breeds falling dead at the first
fire, his followers returned the shots with
much execution The fight was 4shor,
but hot. The half breed, who tells the
story, & counted thirteen dead on the
field When the police returned the
route to Fort Carlton was traced with blood
The half -breeds lost four killed, and one In.
dian not in the fight was accidentally shot An
other story Of the half breeds side of the fight
is told 9. w. jackson, member of the terrific
rial council, Gays Gabriel Dumas, one of Riel's
ieutenants, told him Crozier was coming tt
take supplies from Duck Lake Dumas tool
thirty mounted men armed with Remingtons
and met Crozier's force q few miles from thu
spot where the trail enters cooEe ant
bluffs. Both parties stopped. The half breed.
were ordered to scatter in the bush, in ordel
that they might not be SO much exposed
Crozier thought . surround was attempted
and fred first The half breeds lost four Kill
led and two wounded. .Crozier had thirteen
! killed, who according to: the last story, were
left on the field Both half breeds above in
teryiewed assert that Riel's orders are snevel
4 to fire first IA: So IS 2 II Z Il ri