Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-01-02

aA tAii aL rt.lAA % ~ eAi.s1if NtAAA
 be popular outEide of New Mexico and
 Arizona. Regular troops have mad,
 gallant pursuit but 1t has proved incl,
 fectual, although presumably all
 soldiers that could be spared for that purpose have been placei at Crooks
 disposal. Why not. therefore. le'
 frontiersmen have chance to punish
 the fpache mUrie-crs, under proper
 conditions. say under Crooks command
 ani they volli eiter the campaign
 with a yiror ihas would make it par
 ticula-ly lively for the Indians.
 l Chicago, Dec. 3O-The Daily News
 publisLeG a Washington special which
 says: Commissioner Sparks ot the
 land office who has teen so severely
 criticised for recent rulings on land questions, was GskeJ if it were
 as reported that he wished that
 he had not been confirmed in
 order to see whether or not the senate
 would now rejsc; him, and replied: I
 don't care Co discuss that Those who op-
 pose my work have stated repeatedly that 1T I had not been confirmed at the
 ont set, I would now be rejected. I said
 before and now reTeat, If the senate
 would investigate the conduct of ny of-
 fec and study the motive which
 prompted my decisions, it would not
 only confirm, but compliment me upon
 the faithful discharge oi my duty.
 When l took the office had no special instructions. I was expected to carry out tEs jaws and am endeavoring to do SO. Land matters we-o then in a deplnr- able condition; the offce had been con- ducted in a loose manner; there was TO
 trict obedience to law by suborlinates ]. and fraudulent entries of government | land was proceeding with impunity; in !. fact the public domain was being rapid l ly wasted. Non resident speculators were | acquiring far greater proportion of 1t than was going into the hands of bona lde settlers. I found organized rings which seemed devoted to the theft of fands. My object has been to check these violations and dii not expect to get along without GronsIng the hostility of great many people When asked fl he was thinking of resigning, he an- swered: No, SIT, l am not. nor have I so thought; on the contrary am firmly T solved to remain When questioned as to the statement that his decisions had been frequently overruled, the com said: I assure you upon my honor that there is not a single instance where my decisions have been over ruled. Of course 1t would be singular in the multiplicity of matters that come before this office If the secretary should not find occasion to reverse me. IL will happen, and often, presume, but thus lar, despite the ruling of a subsidized press and the deliberate falsehoois of ,, he corrupt combinations am trying to destroy, there has not been reversal. The nearest approach to my being over -uled was in the case of Clifford vs. the Atlantic < Pacific railroad. The rail 'osd had had a long line that was 1e- icribed in the act as running tO the Ps- .ific ocean. It was constructed from the Kansas terminus to San Bernardino on he Pacific slope, and thence 1t was eX- !, erded along the coast four hundred niles to San Francisco. Clifford had ettled upon public land along the res g rvstion claimed adjacent to this xtension. ruled that he held the land s against the claims of the grant along l his portion of its route by the Atlantic l ! Pacific company. Giford's clam was ( lrior to that Oi the road and hence e had Q valid claim, but went fur [ her and said the road had no grant long this extension and had exhausted ( Is right when it first reached the Pacific ( cean. If it had grant it was along be intended route from Kansas to S2n { It is obvious to the most