Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
CHANGES UINTAH LAND ORDER
President Rsopens to Entry $4,000 Acres
Withdrawn by Proclamation.
NOT NECESSARY FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSE
Action Taken at Request of Interior
Depar artment After Further RE-
port by Geological
Survey.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-The president
has modified his proclamation OF August
Withdrawing from entry certain lands in
| the Uintah Indian reservation and has re-
stored about 5000 acres. Following Is the
Interior departments offioial statement Of
the action taken:
The act OF March g. 1865. provides: That
before the opening OF the Uintah Indian
reservation the president may set apart and
| reserve any reservoir site or other lands
necessary to conserve and protect the water
supply for the Indians or for general agri-
cultural development"
Accordingly the United States geological
survey after investlga tion, made report to
/ the secretary of the interior recommending
I that certain described lands covering over
10000 acres, Including large quanItA
of agricultural lands, be reserved under sald
| provision OF law Upon this recommenda-
! requested the president to issue his procla-
| nation making such reservation and ac-
cordingly the president issued his proclalna-
/ Subsequently, complaints having reached
| the department that the said agricultural
/ lands properly should not be Included in
/ said reservation, Mr.. Ryan, the acting
| secretary, took the subject UP for further
consideration and directed the United states
! geological survey to make a supplemental
report stating specifically whether the
/ reservation OF these agricultural lands IS
! necessary for the conservation and pro-
/ lection Of a water supply"
| This supplemental report has been mace
/ and shows that the reservation OF these
! lands Is not necessary for that purpose,
but that they were included in the survey
| original report on the assumption that the
act authorized their reservation for "agri-
I cultural development which was speclnc-
| aily stated in II The acting secretary de-
! cided that their reservation was made only
! 'If necessary to conserve and protect the
water supply. and requested the presldent
/ to release them from reservation, Whlch
] was done today by supplemental proclama-
! tion. These agricultural lands are now SUP,
ject to disposition in the manner provided
by the law.
waIcott Replies to Charges.
| In response to published charges that
| officials of the United States geological
survey have used information belonging to
Hthe government for the benefit of the
Mining World, a magazine in which certain
members were said to hold stock, Director
| Charles d. Walcott today teegraphed 70
Acting Director II. c. Rizer for an ex-
PLANTATION from Drummond Mont, where
he is in camp. The explanation follows:
! Mail and newspaper clippings were re-
ceyed by me in camp August II. Inc
/ geological survey. or Its members, has not
and does not own or control the MIL Mining
! World No information has been sold or
/ given in advance of general publication TO
/ any Journal or individual, to my knowledge.
! for the Mining World made to DR.. Day for
! the purpose OF making iirst-claSs western
/ mining journal was approved by the, di-
that the Mining World was to be treated
| exactly as all other journals in all matters
pertaining to the survey. fraction or
the stock of the Mining World was sub
scrlbed for as a purely private matter by
articles based on technical papers irst
-publlshed by the survey have the ,approval
OF the director whether written by mem
bers of the survey or others.
| All Information and Illustrations are as
free to the outsider as to the survey mem
bers. The director has the most cordial
! relations with the editor of the Engineering
and Mining Journal and invites criticism
from this and other sources, as construc-
tive criticism improves the service. If any
one has evidence of wrong doing or in
udcous action on 5he Tsv par OF tbe any SSreetnr
asks that IL be sent to the president, the
secretary of the interior, the chairman Of
| the committee appointed by the president
y 10 Investigate the business methods OF the
| CHARLES d. WALCOTT
Navy Encourages Boxing.
Secretary Bonaparte, after a thorough
examination Of the records in the case Of
Raphael Cohen the coal passer on the
converted cruiser Yankee, whose death re-
suited from injuries received in a boxing
contest held IN an American warship in
Dominican waters on July 8, said today
that from an investigation OF the records
he saw nothing wrongful, although, Of
course, it was extremely deplorable that
Cohen should have lost his life. He added
that boxing and athletics generally are en-
couraged in the service, BECAUSE of their
beneficial influence on the health of the
men. as we'll as to relieve the tedium of a
sailors lIEe.
The court found that neither Cohen's ad-
versary nor any other person was in any
wise culpable and recommended that no
further action be taken. Admiral Brad
ford approved the findings of the court.
as at present informed, and the department
, finds nothing in the case that calls for
, action.
Filtration Plant opens.
Two beds of the new S4.50O,OoO alteration
plant, with a capacity each OF 100000 gal
Ions of pure water, were opened today.
The water from them, however, will not
be available for public use until Saturday.
The opening OF the beds is a source OF
great satisfaction to the health officials
who attribute much of the prevailing ty-
p phod fever to the consumption of un-
r uttered water. In sixty days the entire
plant Of twenty-nine beds will be put into
operation, thus insuring a complete filtered
water supply for the national capital.
Eleven new cases Of typhoid and three
deaths from the disease were reported
, today.
Charges Against TagEaFt.
II is now stated at the war department
that charges were filed there last April
against Major TaggaTt. who is suing his
wife for divorce in Ohio, but no action
has been taken on the charges nor will
anything be done until the termination OF
the present suit. The charges relate 10
matters out OF which the divorce suit has
2 grown. Taggart also filed charges against
Colonel Miner some time ago, but they
were considered trivial and were dismissed