The Mena weekly star., 1897-02-03
INDIAN LANDS.
In the Coming Allotment There Will Be
 No Surplus for Whites.
INSPECTION OF ANIMALS.
soFse Statistics About the Work of tIle Ru. reau of Animal Industry ry-Govern- ment Receipts for January
 Fall Below Expenditures.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-From the mn. merous inquiries received at the inte. rior department it is evident that there is widespread misapprehension about what is to follow the opening of the Indian territory. The writers are ot the impression that the cominfr allot. ment of lands and the dissolution ot tribal relations by the Cheroxees, Choc- taws Chickasaws, Creeks and Semi. holes mean the opening to white settlement of large sections oi country. The opening of the ter ritory will not be like that of Okla homa. It does not mean the same as the opening of the reservations of wild tribes. There will be no land added to the public domain by the change of conditions in the territory. The five tribes were recognized as civi- lized when they were given their lands; the great reservations were bestowed upon them as tribes CT communities. Now the government will step in. some what after the manner of a trustee. and divide the lands owned by the tribes among the individual members of those tribes. That is what allotment means in these cases. There will be no sur plus to throw open to homestead set clement. The Indians will exchange the present tribal title for individual title. They will hold under the new form of title just as they do under the present title. That is. they will own the land, but cannot sell or transfer it without the consent of the United States. Authority will be given these Indian owners to lease the lands they receive in the distribution. but not to sell. That will be matter for legisla- tion years hence, when the government shall have become satisfied that the Indians are capable of holding their own with the white man.
 Inspection of Animals.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The bureau of animal industry, division of the de- partment of agriculture, inspected the prodigious number of 35, ,91T, ,479 meat producing animals during the last fiscal year. Of these, 23,275,739 were in- spected at or for slaughter houses and 12,641, TAO in stock yards. whence they went to the established abattoirs of other places, or else i'll the posses sion of buyers. The number was made up of 1899, ,523 cattle, 314s46 calves, G. 31S,2 ,2S4 sheep and 21, ,T54 S26 hogs. The figures given are of living animals, ready for slaughter, but last year there were also inspections officially known as post-mortem," numbering 1S,SS3, 275. The law covers animals slaugh- tered or to be slaughtered in the coun- try for sale through the channels either of foreign or interstate com merce. That the inspection is not merely perfunctory is shown by an- other set of facts. Last year the ante norteiil inspections alone showed that there had beeu condemned unfit for food, 2s, ,S55 cattle, 2 SS7 calves. 13,2 sheep and 50,9Si hogs. making a total of S9.3o9 animals. These were marked with d condemnation tag. In regard to the 29,2T5, 739 inspections, it is noted that these represent nearly the same number of animals, but as to the 12,641, TAO inspected outside of abattoirs, there must be some deduc- tions, as the inspection is made at the scales and the animals may change hands several times, being weighed on each occasion, and thus must pass the inspector more than once. But the total of different animals inspected must still be enormous.
 Receipts Below Expenditures.
 WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-The treasury figures for the month of January which ended Saturday. still show deficiency in revenues. The receipts for the month have fallen S5,922, .95 below the expenditures.