Show i ASrHAlTUMSCHfMfRS ACTIVE CONST OVEB THE LEASING 1 QUESTION IS RE VIE WED Will Be Adopted By the House and t Rejected By the Senate Ritchie Abandons Hope Special to The Herald Washington Feb 26Senator Rawlins I Raw-lins in the senate and Judge King in the house are fighting ttf prevent the insertion of the Uncompahgre leasing amendment in the Indian appropriation I bill Chairman Lacey of the house committee is strongly committed to the commitee I proposition as he has been from the propoition first but has not yet succeeded in I securing its addition I is probable that this provision if added to the bill will be approved by the house I but wi certain to be rejected in the senate I I Judge King is putting up a stubborn fight in the committee but it is not fght probable that he can prevent its addition addi-tion to the bill on the part of the house I ton I LAND OASES DECIDED i In the land case of the United States I vs Horace A Heath from the Salt Lake City Utah district the secretary secre-tary of the interior has affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the I general land office Heaths desert land entry is held ofce cancellation on the r ground that a special agent of the de riartmont reports that it Is not of the I character contemplated by the desert Il land law Jin the case of Charles A Parrott from the Lewiston Ida district the decision of the commissioner is modified modi-fied to the extent of calling upon one Tdppie a former entryman to show cause why his entry should not be cancelled within 20 days In default ol showing by him Parrots entry is tb remain Intact I RITCHIE COMING HOME JMr Ritchie left for home this evenIng even-Ing He has practically abandoned hope that he will be selected as attorney at-torney for Utah The present situation pints strongly to the nomination of Vyhlttemcre some time during the coming com-ing week Susie L Edwards was today commissioned commis-sioned postmaster at Sterling Utah and Hugh Cramer at Hailey Ida The secretary of the interior has ordered or-dered patented to the state of Wyoming a list of lands containing 25600 acres a the Sundance district selected under the public buildings grant A original pension of 10 per month has been granted to Terence Logan of Laramie Wyo x Private Martin Melvin company D Sixteenth infantry Fort Sherman Idc has been placed on the retired list Private James C Moore is transferred Douglas trans-ferred to the hospital corps at Fort J G |