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Show The disapproval hy tho Interior Department De-partment of the bills of Senators Kearns nnd Itawllns for the opening of tho surplus sur-plus lnnds of tho Ulntnh reservation to settlement, Is not surprising. It Is well understood that the Indian offlco would like to hnve this whole Western country coun-try reserved to the Indians exclusive!, banishing the whites from nn area a thousand miles square. But the fact remains that there Is In the Uintah reservation a vast nrca of land of which the Indians can maka no profit-able profit-able use. It Is merely a question whether these surplus hinds shall be held unused In perpetuity or bo made tho homes of white men who could mako profltnblo use of them, without hurt to tho Indians. Tho Indian llu-re.au llu-re.au is ngnlnst tho white min all the time; nnd nothing Is conceded by It. snvo when n Colorado company wauls to Invade Utah and m.ako a clean-up on tho reservation nsphaltum lanus. if Heaven would nnco In u decade or so bless tho Indian Commissioner with a llttlo liorso sense. It would bo such an unusual nnd pleasant n thing as to causo tho people to rejulcc. |