Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-12
Scott's Bluff
People Stir
Washington
Interior Department officials Reused
by Resolutions Printed in
The Bee. As
lFrom a staff correspondentl

tFrom staff Corrcspondent)
WASHINGTON, June n.-tSpecial Tele-
gram)-A special dispatch to The Bee
from scotts Bluff, under date Of June S,
conveys to Washington the news That
the unheralded appearance here of a
youthful emissary TO the North Platte val
ley from the office Of the secretary Of the
interior, who announced himself as an en-
gineering inspector Of the big government
irrigation project has started a commotion
In the community"
Inquiry at the Interior department de-
velops the fact that E. A. Keyes, an in
speotor Of this department. was dispatched
by Secretary Ballinger to the North Platte
country a week ago to look into irrigation
affairs there, and upon completion of his
Investigations TO return to Washington and
report to his chief. Why the presence of
Inspector Keyes in the North Platte coun-
try should create "a commotion" and call
forth resolutions which have been adopted
by citizens in that vicinity. as set forth
in The Bee, is inexplcable to the secretary
of the interior, He has sent out inspectors
from time to time to look into conditions
regarding the progress Of reclamation work
and render a report in order that officials
in Washington having charge Of these va
rous projects may have as near as may
be information at first hand.
So far as the so-caled cooperation plan
is concerned it may be said that the attor-
ney general in recent decision held that
there was no provision in the reclamation
act providing for the same.
II is not going to be the policy OF the
reclamation service of the Interior depart
ment to disturb existing conditions in any
manner whatever, insofar they may
refer to cooperative work as 1t may affect
various reclamation projects. Department
officials, to whom the clipping from The
Bee was shown, could not understand why
the mere presence OF an inspector from
the department in the North Platte irri-
CATION section should have so agitated the
good citizens of Scotts Bluff. They say,
from a hasty persual of the resolutions as
adopted, that 1t is quite apparent that the
people who passed them were laboring
under mlsapprehension.
In the resolutions it is suggested that
senators and members in the house from
Nebraska be called upon to look into the
complaint. AS yet, however, neither sena-
tor has been advised of any kick" nor has
any member of the house from Nebraska,
now in washington, any knowledge of
the matter.
President Taft today nominated Walter
l.. Minor to be postmaster at Morrill,, Nebi
and Charles E. Tanney at Summit s. D.
The big earth dam of the Belle Fourche
| irrigation project South Dakota, is about
two thirds completed. Its construction Is
being watched with great deal OF inter-
est as It will be one of the biggest earth
dams in the world. 1t will be more than
a mule long and lis feet high, Water was
running in all canals continuously through
out the month except two days when the
inlet canal bank needed repairs. The mair
crops receiving irrigation are native hay
and alfalfa.
Major Frederick M. Hartsook, of the
Medical corps, Is relieved from duty al
Fort Meade and will proceed to Fort
Wayne for duty
| Senator Brown offered his resolution to
amend the constitution making an income
tax unquestionably constitutional and after
! short discussion It was decided 10 vote al
the same time on the Brown amendment
June Is
Captain Evan E. Young Of Sioux Falls
| s. D., who won his title in the Philippines
with the First Dakota regiment, and who
entered the consular service after the
Spanish-American war, is in Washington
enroute to his new consular post at Sa'
| lonica, Turkey, to which he has recently
been appointed. Captain Young sails for his
far-away eastern assignment tomorrow
His first consular service was at Harput
| the assignment at Salonica being in the
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