St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-25
H0MESTEADSETTLERS
How They Are Being Har-
asSei by Special Gov
ernment Agents.
Entries Of Bona Eide Settlers
Being Held for Can
collation..
The Seheme Is to Allow Sec
Petary Mobiles Sharks to
Draw $40 a Day.
Pine Spectators Dine and
Wine Those Sent Out to
Unearth Frauds.
Snecial to the Glnha

| Special to the Globe
| DULUTH, Aug. 23.-The recent visit
| of the honorable secretary of the in-
terror, John j. Noble, to Duluth, recalls
| to mind the fact that the Republican
party lays claim to great credit for its
management of the interior department
during President Harrison's administra-
tlon- The honorable secretary stated in
an Interview that his Office has adopted
the policy of believing every homestead
er honest until he has been proved dis
honest, in direct opposition to that of
the horrid Sparks. He said he had ex-
pedlted work to great extent, and was
now employed Oh eurrent-sbusiness
This Is very funny, in view of The state
OF affairs at the Duluth land Office.
Here the register and receiver are doing
their best to expedite business, but are
hampered by eight or ten speci al
agents who are in Duluth all the time.
! and trying awinlly hard to earn their
SO day apiece by holding for cancel
latlon, or otherwise Generally resulting
otherWise1, the entries of bona fide set
tiers. There are other homesteads be-
sides the one ruled over by Carnegie
that are on the verge of a revolution, a
silent one, which VIII be shown next
November under the Australian sys-
III
TINS district sits down in his little log
cabin to read in the papers eulogies of
ex-Conmissioner Carter praising his
work in the land department, and the
same mail brings him news that his
homestead entry, on which he has
spent all his time end money, has been
held for cancellation, coupled with a
statement that he has not resided on the
land. his faith in human nature is gem
orally pretty badly shaken. He knows
that the S10-a-oay agent has never been
near the Office, but withholds the patent
on general principles, and that fact does
not improve the settlers temper a bit
1t is fact, which your correspondent
has personally investigated, that up
wards of 400 entries of bona-fide set
tiers in this district are now hello for
cancellation in this way; that there
have been during the past year from
SIX to ten special agents in and around
the Duluth land Office with salaries
ranging from $500 to 5000
a year, whose whole duty consists in
holding up and delaying claims. while
there has not been one single hearing
ordered during that time. There are
claims held up today, on which the
claimants not only lived prior to making
proof, but are still living. Yet they
cannot procure patents. Republican
and Democratic LAWYERS alike denounce
1t as outrageous injustice, inexcusable
and cruel.
There are few other things. also, for
Which the settler feels thankful t?)
When prominent official of the land
of1lce at Washington visited this CITY
in June last, he was at once taken
IN charge by one of the heaviest
pine spectators in this country, one
whose name has been coupled with the
Rainy river depredationS. This gentle
man was taken down TO the Brule to
fish, and on their return he was fur
nished with private car fer trip over
the Duluth * Iron Range road-ali these
amusements paid for by the pine man
aforesaid and his friends. These acts
OF kindness to high and mighty Off
clal who was sent here to detect fraud.
not TO cover it. make the settler feel
that he ought not TO grumble, even if
his patent is not sent TO him, Tor pat
ents have been issued to the railroads
of the country to the extent of few
million acres. If you don't believe it.
read Commissioner Carter's report.
which was published short time ago.