| Show FAVORS IMPROVEMENT AT A FORT DOUGLAS i 1 Secretary fy y of War Root Says He Will Advocate the III Enlargement of oi the Post Representative Sutherland Will Designate Who Shall Succeed I Postmaster Thomas Special to The Herald HerId 4 1 1 I i T D c X Dec 4 Senator RearM Kearns had Bad a conference to today tog g VV y day with the secretary of cf war wai in regard rard to the the rehabilitation of Fort Do Senator Kearns Xea urged the enlargement of the poet t poetto tto to accommodate a full fuU regiment reg He lie called attention to io tko tho t o desirable lo io being but hours S from the Pacific Paci c coast and that this time tilDe to toe the t e coast will be he shortened by the construction of the Salt Lake Los Angeles A railroad The beneficent climate makes Douglas a 11 desirable fort at which to recuperate troops troop brought from the Philippines 4 Secretary Root Boot received Senator wr Reams Kearns arguments favorably and paid id he favored the enlargement et argement of the post po He lie will call can the die attention of th board of general officers o now DOW considering tg ider the continuation and en on enlargement of permanent posts pota to the argument submitted by D Senator Karas Kf ams No further action has baa been taken in the tile matter of the ratification on of f the mining mining lease with White Bode Ro Indian reservation lands landa Agent who will leave for home howe Saturday said today 1 J came here under orders orden front from the interior department I 1 told the lt r Indians they not lease leap the land laud without permission of th U depart department ment nent but upon submission df of their request was instructed to bring br Dg t in inhere here There are but bat acres involved and the granting of tile the lease for fer this his 1 would not tic tie up the reservation from front settlement If it were opened to 10 the public the lease e would be advantageous dv in i that it would M uld finally Lually do de determine termine whether or not Dot valuable minerals exist on the reservation r It is a matter mattl however entirely with the interior deportment department d and I have lune no in ia interest interest terest in it beyond the presentation of the Indians wishes to the depart department ment Agent Myton denied emphatically the story sent to a at Salt Lake we paper that he refused to see ace a representative of that paper 8 By mistake he said a reporter was ent sent to the room adjoining mine mi in the hotel the occupant pant pan of which dosed the door in m his face fave fa faThe The Utah delegation is wrestling with a possible po change in the post poet ma at Salt Lake JAke City Cit the tern ten of Postmaster Thomas Thom expiring Jan Tan Jani JanAn 7 i An unwritten ritten rule of tie tue department places the poato ice ap appointments appointments I under control of members rs of the house ho excepting in the home towns of senators this rule n Senator Kearns K being a citizen ot oi of Summit county Representative pre Sutherland will probably have the call callin in n naming the Salt Lake City Senator Rawlins today introduced a number of bios i s the most import important ant being xing the following Granting G D lands landa to Utah for university purposes rp j adjudicating Indian Co sell zell ll portions portio of the Uintah reservation W to wE E allow selections of ands lands in reserve to satisfy state st grants granta es 1 k fish hatchery and station st in iii i Utah for eat at atI I a Provo Prove erecting public building at t Ogden den also aIo to keep k p In it Chinese i Jc exclusion Senator C D Clark of Wyoming W is confined to his room at the Riga Biggs Ri s sHouse House by illness and was unable to attend session aion se of the senate |
