Show UTAHS HOPES PIGEONHOLED UNCOMPAHGRE PROCLAMATION INDEFINITELY HUNG UP Washington D C Sept 28 139J The proclamation opening the Un compahgre Indian lands Is now lying at the Interior department ready for Secretary Smiths approval and signature signa-ture It was offered to him yesterday by the olllclal having It In charge but he declined to take It saying that ho was not ready to pass upon It Ho gave no Idea as to when he will be ready for tho document and the ofllclal put In back with the remark that ho would not offer It again to the Secretary until un-til he called for It It Is not thought hero that Secretary Smith will approve the proclamation until after President Clevelands return re-turn to the city at which time the Chief Executive and his Secretary of the Interior can go over the question fully and finally before Issuing the longlooked for proclamation Even when It Is Issued considerable time will elapse between the IsHuance and the opening as Mr Smith has said that any one being eligible would have time between the two dates to get from any foreign point and arrive upon the reservation In time to make entry Another applicant for the vacant position po-sition on the Ulntah and Uncompahgre Indian commission has appeared In the person of the son of the deceased commissioner com-missioner Mr William L Davis of Arkansas Ar-kansas The applicant like Mr Kdleln th present clerk Is well recommended hut the latter has tho backing of Messrs Scott and IJyrncs the present commissioners Secretary Smith today modified the decision of the Commissioner of the General land Onice In the case of Fred W Thackwcll et al vs Central Pacific nail road company from the Salt Lake City district lIe holds that the evidence shows the land In controversy con-troversy to bo mineral and orders that the companys selection of the sumo on account ot Its grant be cancelled The mineral applications of the protestants arc to be accepted W E A |