The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-15

President expects to leave Washington
next Tuesday for short visit to Flor
ida. He will be accompanied by Mrs.
Cleveland, the Secretary of the Navy,
Mrs. Whitney and Colonel and
Mrs. Lamont. The party will go by
special train and no stops will be made.
unless an hour at Savannah for drive
through the city. One day will be
spent at Jacksonville and one at St..
Augustine. The party will return to
Washington Saturday.
OF LAND RESERVATIONS.
In lieu of various propositions which
have been introduced during the ses
sion to modify the alien land law, SEN
ator Stewart, from the committee on
mines and mining, to-day reported a
bill to amend the claw, Dy providing that
it shall not IN any manner affect the
title to mineral lands or mining claims
in the Territories, which may be &C
quired or held under the mineral land
laws of the United States, nor to mills
or other reduction works or property
mineral lands in the Territories.
OCnotOl k0OOWdAb bO'0oJ 1CpO1 ICO
favorablv, from the committee on
mines and mining, the bill introduced
by him TO amend the mining laws. The
provisions have been published.
SIOUX RESERVATIONS.
The House committee on Indian
affairs to-day decided to report, in lieu
of others on the subject, a bill
providing for the division of
the great Sioux reservations, and the
REIMBURSEMENT of the Indian title to
the remainder. The practical effect of
this measure, if it becomes a law, will
be to open % settlement over 1000 900
acres of the 22,005,000 acres comprising
the great Sioux reservation in Dakota.
There are two general reservations
created by the bill, one in the nor tn and
the Other in the south of the present
reservation. The Crow, Creek and
Winnebago reservation remains as it
IS, with the exception of few town
ships which are excluded. There is also
small reservation created opposite
Fort Thompson, OF the lower Missouri
River. which is set apart for the occu-
pancy of the Lower Brule Indians, if
they care to take it. The principal
portion of the present reservation which
is thrown open to settlement lies be-
tween the White and Cheyenne rivers.
sUsPENDING AGRICULTURAL ENTRIES.
Acting Land Commissioner Stock
Stage: has issued an order suspending
all agricultural entries aud railroad
selections in township s, north range
pending investigation of their alleged
mineral character.
Stockslager said to-day that it is his
purpose, upon concurrence of the
Secretary of the Interior, to send a
mineral expert into this section, as we'll
as into Wyoming and certain localities
IN Arkansas, to determine the
character of the land with respect to
minerals. The acting commissioner
has instructed the government agent
at Bozsman, Montana, to suspeod &C
ton il the matter of the seizure
recently made of timber and cross
ties cut from the right of way of Rocky
Fork and Cook City Railway IN Mon
tana.
It appears that notice of acceptance
last year of maps of location of this
road through a small section of public
land on either side of the Grow reser-
vation. where surveys were made
through inadvertence, did not reach the
general land Office until to-day, hence
the seizures and order of suspension.
MAXWELL LAND GRANT.
Senator Blair introduced a resolu-
ton to-day which ,recites that the So
called Maxwell land grant" is re-
quired to be treated as public land, but
that this tract is now being treated as
a private land claim. 1t directs that
inquiry be made into the matter by
committee from the Senate with the
view to a relief of settlers.
CHOLERA AND CURRENCY.
The United States consul at CaIlae
reports that cholera is abating at Val
paraiso and Santiago, and that. owing
to lack of confidence in the Peruvian |
government, the paper money recently |
issued by it has so deprecated as to be |
almost worthless.
PLAN OF REORGANIZATION.
WASHINGTON. February 1.-THE spe-
cial committee have reported to the
committee plan to reorganize
the government of the District of CO.
Iumbia, by the appointment of one COM
missioner and fifteen councilmen by
the President. The commissioner is to
have supreme direction of the city's af,-
airs, and the councilmen are TO sustain
very much the same relation to him
hat the aldermen bear to the mayor in
other cities.
Refuses to Eat.