Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-09
WORK ON IRRIGATION PLAN
Geological Survey Will at Once Take Up
Location Of Reservoir Sites.
FENCES ON PUBLIC LANDS COMING DOWN
Only Trouble that Seems Possible in
Nebraska is in the Vicinity of Al
lance, According to Com
missioner Hermann.
(From a star Correspondent.)


ram.)-Secretary Hitchcock, Director VOL
colt of the geological survey and Chief
Newell of the division of photography had
a conference yesterday upon irrigation.
| After reviewing the irrigation bill and its
| provisions the secretary issued letter to
| Director Wolcott, setting aside $l65,00O for
| preliminary work in surveys, ETC., as pro-
vided for in the bill. Director Wolcott
stated today that this amount OF money
was all that could possibly be used during
| the present summer in making preliminary
| surveys and locating sites for reservoirs.
He stated that the subject was so vast and
the field so little comprehended that the
department would move very slowly in the
| matter, but that whatever was done would
be done for the best interests Of the arid
and semi-arid west, which is to be vitally
benefited by reason Of the passage OF the
| irrigation bill.
| Colonel John S. Mosby of ex-confederate
fame, and who is special agent Of the
| land department detailed for work In Colo
| rado wyoming and the extreme western
portion of Nebraska, Is in the city on
| leave Colonel Mosby had an interview
! with Secretary Hitchcock this morning and
| In the course Of the conversation stated
that fences on the public domain In the
western part Of Nebraska were being taken
down without any great trouble. Commits
| sioner Hermann of the general land once
speaking Of the work Of removing fences
| erected by the cattle barons and large
corporations on public lands In Nebraska
stated that from Colonel Mosbys district
| he had heard little or no complaint,
that from other sections of Nebraska, par
ticularly around Alliance and other places
adjacent thereto, he had heard many COM
| plants as to the high-handed manner in
which the cattle barons were usurping
lands not their own.
May BE Some Resistance.
while l do not anticipate any trouble
| in western Nebraska" said Commissioner
| Hermann, growing out OF the removal OF
fences, still 1t would not surprise me II
there was considerable resistance. 1t Ia
not the business of the land department to
remove the fences. That matter rests en-
tirely in the hands Of the Department of
Justice. All the land department does
| through it's special agents, is to notify
the offending cattlemen. ranchmen and
others who are usurpers and notify them
| that their fences must come down within
| a certain time. Failing to remove fences.
within the time specified. 1t is the ousi-
| ness OF the land office to inform the United
| States district attorney OF the failure 10
comply with the laws demands, and he In
| turn directs the marshal to proceed to the
lands upon which the fences are located
with his i5rce of deputies and proceed to
level the fences to the ground"
Fight for Land once.
| Predictions have been freely made re-
| Gently that Senators Dietrich and Millard
| will be compelled to nominate new re-
| ceiyer of the land ONCE at Alliance. The
hRht between Van Boskirk and Darlington
is growing in intensity as days go by.
| Dorrington has made strong nght against
]. H. Van Boskirk who was agreed upon
| by the senators as the man who should sue
ceed him. Secretary Hitchcock has indi-
| Gated TO Senators Dietrich and Millard that
| unless some one else Is selected Dorring-
ton will be continued. Dorrington alleges
| that Van Boskirk was connected Win
rather shady transactions in the selection
of certain lands in the Alliance district,
though not directly implicated Van Bos-
kirk has filed counter charges and so the
war goes on with the inevitable result
| seemingly OF both men having to get out
of the way for some new man.
| The leave Of absence granted Captain
Louis G, scherer, Fourth cavalry, Depart
ment of the Missouri, is extended one
month.
The following oficers recently promoted
are assigned regiments as indicated: Gar
ence A. Stedmsn. promoted from major
| to lieutenant colonel. assigned to Sixth
| cavalry and ordered to duty In the De-
| nartment of the Missouri; Abner Picker
ing. promoted from captain to major, as
signed to Twenty second infantry, Depart
ment of the Missouri.
Iowa postmastens appointed; D. F
Cote, Walnut City. Appanoose county; W.
f. Briner. Westerville, Decatur county.
Rural free delivery service viii be es-
tablished in Iowa September 1 as follows;
Manson Calhoun county, one route; route
embraces an area of twenty-five square
miles, containing population of 500. Marion
Linn county, one additional route; area,
twenty square miles; population of $780,
Ottosen Humboldt county. two routes;
area, hfty-eight square miles; population
of TO- Wayland, Henry county, one route;
area, twenty-three and a half square miles,
population Of 500.
The postmaster general has allowed ad-
ditional letter carriers for the following
Iowa postof1ces: Des Moines. four from
September / and four from November 1;
Fort Dodge. /; Burlington, 1. and Du-
buque, two additional carriers TO date from
September l.
George S. Mitchell has been appointed
stamper in the Fort Madison, Ia, post
ONCE.
]. Frank Warner of Cheyenne. wyo., is
appointed state examiner OF surveys in
the general land once.
Fred Evans OF Grand Island, Neb., has
been appointed assistant inspector in con-
nection with the Bureau Of Animal In
dustry.
The secretary Of the treasury has
awarded the contract for heating the ex-
tension OF the Omaha public building to
Bellamy & Hornung Of Omaha at sls. $50
and the contract for the wiring system
to Henry Newgard OF Chicago at 1885.
. The comptroller OF the currency today
extended until July s, 1922. the corporate
existence OF the Fort Dodge National bank
OF Fort Dodge. la.
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