Show Government May akc a Hand Washington June 5The fencing in of large tracts of public lands by cattle cat-tle companies or individuals has recently re-cently received a fresh impetus As yet It has not attained anything like the proportions it had in 18S7 when several million acres were Illegally appropriated ap-propriated The evil has not become serious enough to require drastic measures but as a number of complaints com-plaints have been received district attorneys at-torneys in the far west have been instructed in-structed to prosecute anyone infring ing on the public lands In case this does not have the desired effect troops may be asked for |