| Show SHOUP WINS fIlS FIOIT1 Conferees on the Measure Providing for Opening Fort Hall Reserve Reach an Agreement I it Now Remains for Congress to Act on Report of Conference Committee Com-mittee WHich wit be Done Today in AmpleTime for Signature Sig-nature of the ExecutiveHow Lands will be Disposed of Located Within Five Miles of Pocatello Mies Pocateto TRIBUNE BUREAU 501 Fourteenth street street Washington D C June 4 11900 1 There Is light ahead for the Fort Hall Indian reservation Senator Shoup has demonstrated once moro his preeminent preemi-nent ability as a fighter For days he has labored with his brethren of the upper branch of Congress as well aa with his associates In the lower housft over the Fort Hall bill Differences however of n pronounced character character have presented themselves and the results of each days conference I was the same We have made progress pro-gress bul hava reached no agreement I AGREEMENTS REACHED f Today however an agreement has been reached The conference report has been signed by the managers on the part of both bodies on the part of the Senate by Senators Platt Sboup and Jones und on the part of the House by Sherman of New York Curtis Cur-tis of Kansas and Stephens of Texas I TOW remains for Congress to agree upon the report of the conference committee com-mittee which will be done tomorrow In ample time for the signature of tho Executive There are few changes in the bill a agreed upon The nev section sec-tion which was added by the House 1 acceptable to Senator Shoup with minor amendments made by him In the conference v DISPOSING OF LANDS 4 The provision that will be of most Interest provided that the agricultural lands within the fivemile limit of tho town of Pocatello shall be sold at public pub-lic auction for not less than no per acre that all mineral lands within tho fivemile limit shall be disposed of under un-der the mineral land law of the United I States excepting that the price of such lands shall be fixed at 10 per acre instead of the price fixed by the mineral land laws of the Unltcd States i StatesCOMANCHEBESERVE COMANCHERESERVE The weakness oC the KlowaComan che amendment tacked on to the Jforj JirJ HaLLblll hn j procn its strength for without the Fort Hall proposition It is generally understood that the openIng open-Ing up of the Comanche Kiowa and Apache reservations In the Indian Territory Ter-ritory would not have been accomplished accom-plished unless attached to some such strong measure as the Fort Hal bill TRIUMPH FOR SIIOUP The triumph of today is Senator Shoups His personality his Integrity and his sense of justice have contributed contrib-uted to the settlement of a question which has occupied the best thought ot the legislators from Idaho for many years I remains for Congress to agree with tlC report of the conferees and It Is believed that they i accept ac-cept tho report of their chosen arbitrators arbitra-tors PROPOSAL TO SELL INDIAN LAND Senator Rawlins today submitted to the Commissioner of Indians Affairs J L Gunlocks of Utah proposal to cell certain lands to the Indians cf Washington county Utah PERSONAL MENTION Inez Knight of Provo Is visiting hero on her return from Europe where she has been for the past two years She goes from here to New York and from there to Utah by the way of Niagara BILL TO PENSION UTAHN Senator Rawlinss bill to pension J K Groff 20 a month has been reported re-ported favorably to the House with Ian I-an amendment which leaves the pen hion bureau to fix such rate as his disability from wound of neck and disabity wounl anl head may entitle him to NEW POSTOFFICES Postoflices have been established at Stltes Idaho county Ida with Clara 35 Shannon as postmaster and atWood at-Wood Elko county Nev with Malinda J Wood as postmaster POSTMASTERS APPOINTED Utah Cedar Valley Utah county E 33 Hinckley vice Mabel Crafts resigned re-signed Cisco Grand county B A Greene vice IT 1 Cooper resigned Grover Wayne county D J Stewart t vice S A Allen resigned Terrace Box Elder county William G Hedges vice W II Parry resigned NevadaDyer Esmeralda county Camllle C Steart vice A P Dyer rcHlgned dPENSIONS PENSIONS GRANTED Utah Original Frank H Clark Salt Lake City c Mexican war widow Martha Medium Park Valley 512 war with Spain Annie Marl Snowden mother Salt Lake City 12 Idaho Original John A Ashbaugh Paycttc SG ADMITTED TO PRACTICE William B Livingston and Albert H Christensen of Mantl Utah have been admitted to practice before the Interior department 1 IDAHOAN MADE HAPPY Edward A Johnson of Idaho Falls Ida has been appointed a railway mal clerk I |
