La Junta tribune., 1899-03-25
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

revert 10 the benefit Of the state.
The general government has seen mt
TO make an appropriation sufhcient TO
cover all expenses. Two of the
national committeeman. Messrs.
Skiff and Ferdinand w. Peck,
! will visit Denver in the near
future to present the matter TO the
of the exposition.
Serious range troubles are Imminent
| in eastern Larimie county. Wyoming.
on the range between Salem and Little
| Horse creek. Mark Coad and c. J.
| Heysham. who recently placed large
number of cattle in This district. are
] having a conflict with number OF the
/ small ranchmen who have occupied the
| range for several years. IL Is alleged
that the smaller ranchmen gathered an
/ armed force of syiipathizers ana about
n week ago gave Coad and Heysfan
notice to drive their cattle of the range
by midnight of March 18th under pen
atty of having the cattle and themselves
killed II they failed 10 comply. Coad
and Heysham applied to the county nu-
thorities for protection and yesterdny
| Deputy Sheriff Warlaunont left Tor the
scene of the expected trouble. when IS
| sixty miles distant from here, 10 pre-
vent the stockmen from carrying out
| their threats.
referring to the dispatch from GleE-
wood Springs stating that the land
office there had received notice Of the
| failure of the general land office to
confirm the selection of some s0.OOO
acres of indemnity land in Routt and
Rio Blanco counties. l.. c. Paddock,
state appraiser and former register of
land. says: "The land selected was
checked of at the Glenwood office and
the state has paid its fees of 11s cents
an acre. The lists sent TO Washington
We're identically the same in form rs .
the lists sent before by other regis
| trars. Under new ruling. made by
I some new bureau chief. the general
land office at Washington now re-
quires a specific base to be set up
| against specific selection. This new
rule involves considerable office work,
as 1t requires us 10 go into the ques-
| tion of fractional acres lost. setting up
n fractional acre lost against the claim
for fractional acre selected. The
new land board has employed ]. T.
Joyce TO formulate the lists according
to the general land office rule, and the
work Is now going on. The state has
checked on the lands at the Glenwood
office and has paid Its Zee. and will
insist on n reasonable time to conform
10 the unreasonable requirements OF
the general land Office"
The governor OF New Mexico has ap-
pointed the following territorial officers:
Solicitor general. +. l.. Bartlett OF San
ia Fe: treasurer. Jefferson Reynolds of
Las Vegas; auditor. Louis NJ. Ortiz OF
Rio Arriba county: superintendent of :
public instruction, Manuel c. De Bacn
OF Las Vegas: superintendent of the
penitentiary. II. o. Bursum Of SOcorro;
librarian. Lafayette Emmett OF Santa
Fe: coil oil inspector John s. Clark OF
Las Vegas; public printer. James ID.
Hughes OF Santa Fe. District attorneys
were also named as follows: For Col
fax and Union counties. Jere Leahy of
Ration: for Grant and Sierra counties.
II. p. Barnes OF Silver City; for San
Miguel. Moro and Guadalupe counties.
f.. A. Spiess OF Las Vegas: for Chavez 1,
and Eddy counties, A. ]. Nesbit Of Ed
dy; for Santa Fe. Rio Arriba and San
Juan counties. r. c. Gortner OF Santa
Fe; for Bernalillo, Mckinley and valen-
cia counties. I. A. Finicai of Albu-
querQue: for SocorrO county, y. Alex
ander of Socorro. Other appointments
were: Penitentiary commissioners, +.
II. Pierce of Juan Nevarro. ]. L. Nc
I.auchlin j. Francisco Chavez and
Louis Baer; cattle sanitary board, J. f.
Hinkle. w. II. Jack. T.. q. Austen. n.
NJ Chaplin and NJ. Martinez; sheep san
itary board. Sol Luna. w. s. Prayer and
Henry w. Kelly: capitol rebuilding
board. +. A. Manzanares, w. II. Pope,
w. s. Hopewell. X. J. Palen and 8. g.
Cartwright: capitol custodian commits
sion. G. H. Wallace. Sol Spigelberg and.
A. Hinojos: bureau OF immigration, l..
Il. Prince, Felipe Chavez. w. A. Hawk
ins. Frank Springer and A G. Camp
bell: board OF medical examiners, G..
s. Easterday. w. Eggert. J. II. Sloan,
J. Cunningham. w. +. Tipton and I.
r. Martin.
The White River Utes are going to
fight for their old reservation in Colo
RADIO. II will be no sanguinary affair,
this attempt to recover possession OF
the green hills that border the WhiteS
river. After the Meeker massacre.
when the pressure of the white settlers
to enter upon a land which was be-
lieved to be too rich and fertile to be
left to Indians, became too grent to be
resisted. ii treaty was negotiated with =
the Ute tribe by which the Indians
decided all their lands in Colorado to
the government in trust. taking in
compensation q new reservation in
Utah. 1t was solemnly agreed that
old reservation should he opened to
settlement. that the lands should be
sold to actual settlers at $1.25 per acre
and that over all land not SO sold the
Indians should be allowed to hunt and
range their hertls OF cattle and ponies.
When the law providing for the crea-'
tion of forest reserves was passed,
President Harrison by proclamation set
aside many hundred thousand acres
included in the Ute lands as reserve
excluding NIL settlers from the benefits
OF the treaty with the Indians. Then
the government set up that the Indi-
ans must pay for their allotments in
Utah, out OF the funds derived from
the sale Of land In Colorado. With theA