Show UTAH LANDS S THROWN OPEN I 1 I 1 san juan county to be restored i abonce at once 4 the lands were withdrawn from I 1 entry in 1888 and reserved tor for I 1 the use of southern utes important tant land decision by secretary i smith sito site of wallace idaho involved I 1 washington D C oct 12 1893 1895 1 secretary of the interior smith today geni I I 1 t instructed the commissioner of 0 the general land office to take steps at once 0 o to reopen to settlement and entry the N lands within san juan county utah on november 14 the interior department I 1 part ment having been advised by the A commission appointed to negotiate for I 1 i the removal of the southern utes from colorado that negotiations for such I 1 remo removal ial had reached such a stage of 0 I 1 progress as to indicate that san juan county might be set apart for or their u use se directed the land to instruct t the he register and receiver Ite celver of 0 the district 1 I 1 in which san juan county was situated to allow no entries or filings V 11 upon the public lands in the county until further advised the treaty that I 1 was made by that commission on november 13 ISM was annu annulled by the I 1 last congress in february which act 1 I 1 allowed the indians to take lands in severalty severally in portions of new mexico kheiri and on the west forty miles of their present reservation 1 both the land office offee and the indian office have recommended that as the causes which led to the withdrawal of the lands have ceased to exist the til I lands in the county should be again restored to the public domain the order therefore of november 1888 Is i 1 revoked and san juan county will 1 again be opened to settlement j secretary smith today affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the general land office in the case of F P I 1 smith et al against the norta Nor northern tw I 1 pa ii i I effic railroad company from the coert dalene land district in this case on y may 28 1893 2893 P r P sn smith ath and nineteen I 1 l others residents of the locality filed a protest against railroad H banys selection alleging that the sections are not agricultural but marem 11 that the protestants and their grantors granfors gran tors had settled and made valuable improvements 6 prove ments on part ot of the lands a large portion ot of the town of 0 wallace I 1 ida standing thereon and that the i sections are in the midst of a welt well I 1 known mining country and embrace mineral locations made prior to the survey I 1 and that it Is not valuable tor for agricultural purposes after a hearing the local officers decided against the protestants which decision I 1 was affirmed by the commissioner the secretary says he sees no reason for disturbing their concurring opinions and dismisses the contest the secretary also reversed the theia de I 1 cison of the commissioner against the i defendant in the case of frank C davis against george frazer from the 41 lewiston district idaho daviss contest Is dismissed on the ground that he was not an actual bona fide settler and that lie he had no intention of making a home anthe land mrs frazers fragers Fra entry I 1 Is to stand intact I 1 the following fourth class postmasters were appointed today for wyoming I 1 black buttes sweetwater county J v J cortez corte vice williams matthews resigned uintah county W A melbourne vice taron CoDi comings tings 0 resigned la grange laramie county 0 J S vice 13 F yoder resigned lean leah albany county J M dark clark vice N F tomlinson resigned lone tree county mrs M all M farnsworth vice S al M johnson resigned lucerne I 1 f sweetwater county R E son vice J D barry dead wyoming albany I 1 I 1 county J S wilkins vice C n hall resigned A mexican war survivors pension was wag today granted to john griffin of lewiston ida jjr |