Show MUST SELL AT AUCTiON i Situation Regarding the Lands in the Fort Hall Reserve a Unique One t Senator Dubois and Commissioner Hermann of General Land Office c Discuss Terms I of Opening Almost Certain to > Take Place May 15th at NoonRights of Old Settlers TRIBUNE BUREAU 1606 IT Street Washington D C April 3 1502 Within a few days the President will is suo a proclamation opening Fort Hall Idn Indian reservation to settlement The date of tho opening has not yet becn dcJlnltcly fixed butlt Is almost certain to bo May 15th at 12 oclock noon Today Senator Dubolo called upon Commissioner Com-missioner Hermann of tho General Land office and discussed tho proposed terms of tho proclamation Tho situation Is unique In tho beginning begin-ning the department wanted to adopt tho plans so succcsafullS pursued In Oklahoma Okla-homa which were based upon ho lottery lot-tery system but this la Impiactlcablo so far o tho Fort Hal reservation Is concerned because tho treaty stipulates that within live miles of Pocatcllo tho land shall bo sold at public auction that land under or tributary to tho Idaho canal shall not be sold for lean than hOper hO-per aero agricultural lands not less than J2EQ per acre and grazing land at r 2o The treaty further stipulates that mineral min-eral lands within Jive miles of Pocatello shall bo sold for not less than 10 per acre Tho question was what sort of a proclamation proc-lamation should be issued Senator Dubois Du-bois had In mind citizens who bellovo that they know tho locality or good mineral land and wished to protect thorn against outsiders who may seek preference prefer-ence rlghtr PROTECTING THE SETTLERS In discussing with Commissioner Hermann Her-mann the lights of sctllcrfc who had been living on the reservation for a number of years It was agreed that public sent ment ought to bo such that these old settlers should bo allowed to tako their lands under Government appraisement and that outsider should no r be permitted to bid against them I Is hoped thnta sentiment will bo created so strong that no ono will dare bid against tho old set tIers on thee lands I will bo recalled that when the town site of Poculollo was made and lands l there wcro sold at public auction community com-munity Interest created was so strong that no one bid against the men who had occupied the property and put Improvc m nthcrCD The coii r lsloncr orthicGenariil Land office Is anxious to hurry thp opening and It was his opinion that the President would Issuo tho proclamation not later than May lulh that ho would ciuoto the law In detail as outlined above and that tho opening will bo ordnlncd strictly 1 accordance with the act I IDAHO FEDERAL OFFICES Senators Hcltfold and Dubois arc tU Dubi tro radically oppose to tho confirmation of J B Yost as receiver of tho Lcwlston 11a land office and In all probability National Committeeman Standrod will have t name another candidate It la reported hero tonight that Lorenzo R Thomas will bo reappointed register oC tho United State lllnd oco at Blackfoot and that George A Robcthan will 0 tho receiver Tho Idaho Senators havo not opposed thcso appointments From tho I best Information obtainable today It la I quite probable that Joseph Perrault will bo reappointed surveyorgeneral of Idaho E J Dockory has indorsed Perrault warmly to Secretary Hitchcock WANT STORAGE RESERVOIR Senator DuboIs has received a petition from citizens of southern Idaho asking for the appropriation of 230000 to pay for works to storo tho water of GOo creek near Oakley In Cassia county thus reclaiming 600000 acres which may bo opened to settlement The Senator will oak other members of the Idaho dolesa tlon to tako tho matter up with him LAND DECISION REVERSED Tho Secretary of Interior today reversed tho decision of tho General Land office I j In tho case of John T Murphy on an appeal ap-peal from tho decision of the land cOmmissioner I i com-missioner In rejecting his application to r I select certain land In the Helena and Miles City land districts Montana PERSONAL MENTION I Hon Joseph H Hutchison former I LlcutGov of Idaho and wife are in v Washington Gcorgo W Walson editor of the Salmon i I Sal-mon da Recorder Is here t Erv W Johnson proprietor of tho Overland Over-land hotel Boise reached hero today Ii SInco coming cast ho has promoted sOme very important mining deals covering < coernS I Thunder mountain country II I 1 PENSIONS GRANTED I Idaho Original John Stull Howcdale II increase Richard B lou Hallcy SI I Wyoming Original l < Lutberi Palmer tj cka ii JoufJ q IL A heat neyt LJ increase Almond Stanaru Cff pcrS S |