Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-28
Mer. rolnl. from &c usn.,al land omes.

The Commissioner IL Tie general land
bii,c has written the ~fpllowing letter TO w.
r. Green, d, banker Of Bangor LAX
In repiy to your letter 81 the Slh inst,
~icsirins 10 ba informed asto my aims and
purposes i'm my late r~uilngs, you are al
gised that ] propose 10 execute the laws as
thoy stand. Entryfnen OF public lands are
required to comply with the con
iitions prescribed 10y law. Their entries
must be confirmcs by this office before
satent can issue. The action OF the regis
Ter and receiver in the acceptance OF proofs
and issuing certificates is preliminary only
noE final nor conclusive. but subject TO re
view aud final action by this office and de-
partment. Conveyances, after final entry
and the issur Of receivers receipt, are al
lowable and legal ~ bel wocn the parties,
but purchasers before patent take their own
risk. The government has the right, aud
may cancel an entry for fraud, Hlegahty or
noncompliance with the law, These are
not 'innocer.t purchasers and have never
been so treated In the practice 81 decisions
~ the departments or by the courts. For
| your further information upon this point
! YOU are referred TO the decision otSectetary
Teller in the case SIC. p. CogsNell, 3 j. D.,
%: lido unt prOTose 10 sdufdTnt ititu5ulert
ehtties III knew them 10 De SO, and ] do
proposs to find out those which are honest
and separate from those which are TO be
found otherwise, aud have honest entries
patented and fraudulent ca nceled. . T.
Information having been received at the
~,et!sral hind Office that settlers in Dakota
are requested by clerks Of courts and local
officers TO make proof in duplicate, thus
involving them in double expense. caai aiis-
sionor Sparks instructed the register and
receiver at Aberdeen that this practice is
without authority, and must be forthwith
discontinued, and money Illegally collected
be refunded To the settlers,
Gen. IiaI!eck's Ennii,y 60 Gonsrai Grant.
Army officers here who know the secret
uf the bitter hostility thatexisted between
Gen. GIANT and Gen. Halleck sny that
when Gen. MeClellan'a private var papers
are made public a profound sensation will
be created and the hatred Of Grs.nt for
Halleck win be no longer n mystery. An
officer Who has seen the documents pre-
| served by Gen. Mcclellan says:
On Feb. 10, 1861, Gen. Grant sent his
famous unconditional surrender to Gen.
Burkner at Fort Douelson. The news OF
the surrender had thrilled the North from
| ono end to the other. Gen. Hulleck, then
at st. Louis, wa troubled at the great re.
rown no suddenly attained by his suboT-
! dinnte officer. Two days after the Aurren.
der Mctlellen tplcgraphed as Follows TO
HaIleek; Where is Grant? George d Me.
Clellan, ntajOr general commanding" The
same day Gen. McClelleu rereiEed the fol-
lowing: Gen. George Il, NleClellsni Wash:
ihgton: In answer to your question, would
sag Grant Is somewhere in the rear OF the
army drunk. H.W .Halleck. Major General
III course what Mcclellan desired 10 know
from his question was the whereabouts of
Grant f""cas. The reply Of Halieck was
all the more ineXcusable from the tact that
Grant had kept him constantly. posted Of
his aims and plaI,s. ard on hat very day
bad tclegttphsd Halleee thtt he proposed
to g~ahead on a gunboat and ~rccoanoiteF
the river in the direction OF Nashville and
his army would follow. Gen. Mcclellan
kept the originals Of all his dispatches and
certified copies we're made for the war de,
partment. Three or four years ago Gen,
Grant read these original dispatches, which
was the FIRST intimation that he had ever
had that they were in existence.