The Elbert County tribune., 1905-02-16
DoINGs At WASHINGTON


in the Bohemian, Montana, land dis
trict, on account of the Madison river
project of irrigation. and 345.00O acres
in the Carson City, Nevada, land dis
! trict, on account OF the Truckee-Car-
son irrigation project.
Senator Crane has introduced a bill
nppropriating $250.000 for the estab-
lishment of leprosarium for the seq
regation of lepers and to prevent the
spread OF disease in the United States.
1t is provided that the institution shall
be situated on some q -ddoned mill
tary reservation or other suitable site
owned by the United States.
Senator Teller has proposed an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill designed. II 1t is adopted, to check
the Raven Mining Company and the
Florence Mining Company from absorb
ing more mineral lands on the Uintah
Indian reservation than they may be
entitled to under the provisions of the
opening act. giving them certain pref
erential mineral claims.
The following statement was made
public at the White House: THE
members of the Cabinet have all ten
dered their designations, and on the
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The members of the house commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce
to-day presented Chairman w. p. Hep
burn of Iowa with three-handled sill
yer, gold-lined cup. The cup is a re-
membrance of the recent Panama trip
of the committee and expressive of the
sentiment of the committee as to
Colonel Hepburn's presiding qualities
uuiins '"o i''e ~
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What has been done by the Agricul-
tural Department in its investigation
of the irrigation problem has been re-
ported to the house committee by DIR.
True and Elwood Mead of the bureau
or irrigation of the department. The
total irrigated area OF the country by
private enterprise is 9,500.000 acres, at
a cost of 5000 900 900. The committee
is planning a trip for next summer to
all of the irrigation projects of the
government. An invitation is to be cx-
tended to the Senate committee on ir-
A..o,hes uen1Ial Mooes ,,na.a az
pointed 'uuson harmon Vi Sn ,. az
mho m"s ,y n;,.,t
Cleveland, and Frederick N Judson, a
prominent lawyer of St. Louis, to in
vestigate the alleged action of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
in granting rebates to the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company. The employ
ment is with the view of taking legal
proceedings against the company If.
after investigation, such proceedings
seem justified.
80 ~, o,,,u s+an ,o
,,,ar5 ene,,;na ,ha Ir;rtat I,d;ar reser.
wa.u ot ~ a.s,a sn .ha un,,sa assaa
,h as hi,i ~ - penreserta,,ra goweII Of
frtab r. create a Land district and as.
tah,ish n land of,,ca for more conyen-
iant ct;on ~ tho h,,siress which
Iii he innida,t 10 tha onaning than is
n ffordad Nv, ,,rasart Iand oft,ca 10 ciIi-
uas Tho h;iI &c nassed nrovidas that
al ,hat nort;or ~ Iftah included within
that part of the Uintah reservation
which lies within the boundaries OF
Wahsatch county shall constitute a
new land district and that land Of
flee shall be located at Vernal. The
bill is similar to that introduced in the
Senate by Senator Smoot and now
pending before the Senate public lands
committee.
Tho uouse comm;ttee nm puh,ic
lands ordered /, fayorahle raport IN
Ranresentative prooLs, eao-acre home
stead hin making n conform in all
essential ,aatnras To tho hi, recentIv
renorted for south DaLota That fea.
ture ~ tho bilI nermittine sett,ars who
have made Homestead entry under
nresent laws r. Increase their entries
tn an appreciate area If Gao acres was
amended to annlv only to SETTLERS in
that mart of Colorado affected bv the
BROOKS bi,l and II was stimulated thai
any additions 70 nresent homesteads
shan no of lands ,,,ina ,di,oontthara