The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-04

highly confederate OF the best interest OF
an ignorant and helpless people. The
push the Indian hack into the wilderness
s.snc y to sr pu:h M s,% %% ayr ~ f inso tbs :" s.sass
s,n. For the adult The hrst step 9: 10
..cnte him ON a farm and for the child TO
The message refers NJ length To the
work of the Indian commissioners and
with the several tribes, and to the dispute
regarding the Cherokee outlet. The pres
provide for the territorial government of
Oklahoma
GOvERN LANDS.
In the administration of the land laws
way the adjustment of honest claims of
industrious settlers I'm public lands has
been pursued. The number Of pending
cases heard during the preceding admin
istratiOns has been greatly Increased.
Only those who IRE familiar with the con-
have been settled can appreciate the Sc
riots and often fatal to the
settler of a policy that puts his title under
suspicion or delays the issuance OF his
patent.
The manifest purpose Of the homestead
laws was tn promote Inc settlement of the
public domain by persons having n bona
fidc intent to make a home on the select
ed land. Where this intent is well estah-
iished and the reauirements OF - Inv
the claimant IL entitled to a prompt and
friendly. consideration of the case. But
where there Is reason to believe that the
claimant is the mere agent of another who
In seeking to svade n law Intended tn pro-
mote small holdings, and to secure by
and other lands, both principals and
agents should not only he thwnrted i'm
their fra.d,,icnt irpo but should ne
made To feel the full penalties OF our GRIM
innl statutes.
. The unsettled state Of the title to large
bodies OF lands i'm the territories of New
Mexico and Arizona has greatly retarded
the development of those territories. Pro-
vision should be made by law for the
prompt trial and final adjustment before
"a judicial tribunal or commission of all
claims based upon Mexican grants.
PENSIONS AND PENSIONERS.
The law provides a pension for every
the service OF the United States during the
civil war and IL. now suffering from
wounds or disease having an origin in the
OF those who endure the hardships of
our most bloody campaigns are now dis
n,' ~. .roan diseases ,nat hau u rea. nn.
doubt. Besides these are another
class, which is composed of men, many of
full years, and of re-enlisted veterans who
added a fourth year Of service, who es-
capped the casualties of battles and the AS
In sound health and have. since the close
of the war, been overcome by disease or
casualty.
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n FOCR NEW STATES.
The advent of the four new states, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Montana aud
Washington into the union under the
i'm the same month and the
admission OF their chosen representatives
20 our national congress- mt the same time,
Is am event as unprecedented AS il is i'm
The ce~rtiflcation of votes cast |
and of the constitutions adopted i'm each of
the states. was fled with me as required
by the eighth section of tho act OF Febru-