The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-01-28
More Points from the General Land oaaoo.

The commissioner Of the general land
office has writteu the following letter to W.
r. Green, q banker Of Bangor, Oak: IL \
In reply to your letter OF the 9th inst,
desiring to be informed as to my "ains and
purposes" in my late rulings. you are adj.
vised that ] propose to execute the laws as
they stand. Entrymen OF public lands are
required to comply with the con-
ditions prescribed by law. Their entries
must be confirmed by this office before
patent can issue. The action OF the regis
Ter and receiver in the acceptance OF proofs
and issuing certificates is preliminary only
not final nor conclusive, but subject to re-
view and final action by this office and de.
partment. Conyeyances, after final entry
and the issue OF receivers receipt, are al
lowable and legal as between the parties,
but purchasers before patent take their own
risk. The government has the right, and
may cancel an entry for fraud, illegality or
Noncompliance with the law. These are
not innocent purchasers" and have never
been 80 treated in the practice or decisions
III tho departments or by the courts. For
your further information upon this point
YOU are referred to the decision OF Secretary
Teller in the case of G. P. Cogswell, 3 L. D.,
~. LIDO notpropose to conform fraudulent
entries if knew them to be so, and do
propose to find out those which are honest
and separate from those which are to be
found otherwise, and have honest entries
patented and fraudulent Cancelled.
Information having been received ut the
general land office that settlers in Dakota
are requested bysclerks OF courts and local
officers to makeS proof in duplicate thus
involving them in double expense. Commits
sioner 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: tiers.
Gen. Halleck's Enmity to General Grant.
Army officers hero who know the secret
OF the bitter hostility thatexisted between
Gen. Grant and Gen. Halleck say that
when Gen. McClellan's private war papers
are made public a profound sensation will
be created and the hatred OF Grant for
a I. will be no longer 3 mystery. An
On Feb. l16, 1852, Gen. Grant sent his
famous Unconditional surrender" to Gen.
Buckner at Fort Donclson The news OF
the surrender had thrilled the North from
one end to the other. Gen. Halleck, then
at st. Louis, was troubled at the great re.
nown SO suddenly attained by his subor-
dinate officer. Two days after the surren-
der McCleilen telegraphed ns follows to
Halleck: Where is Grant, George B Nc
Clellen, major general commanding The
same day Gen: McClellen received the fol-
lowing: Gen. George B. Nice lellen, Wash
ington: In answer to your question, would
say Grant is somewhere in the rear OF the
army drunk. II. Halleck, Major General y
Of course what Mcclellan desired to know
from his question was The whereabouts OF
Grants forces. The reply OF Halleck was
all the more inexcusabls from the TACT that
Grant had kept him constantly posted OF
his aims and plans, and on that very day
had telesraphed Halleck1 that he proposed
to go ahead on a gunboat and reconnoiter
the river the direction of Nashville and
his army would follows Gen. \ Clellnn
kept the originals Of all his dispatches and
certified copies were made for the wsr 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.