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Show I NO CEMETERY ON THE SHERMAN RESERVE , . IN :daho. Proposition to Set Apart a Por- j tlon ef the Abandoned Fort for Burial Purposes Sidetracked Side-tracked MatUrs of Interest to the West. BY A. F. P rTTTiTPS. j Trlbuno Buroau, " a National Hotol, I j 'Wt WASHINGTON, D.- C, March 16. j : 7s$ Inquiry, at the, "War department to- BlvSj f lay elicited no' Information regarding Wgk ' K-hat troops are to garrison Fort If 1 jl Douglas, Utah. f" jj i ? The Eleventh infantry, which it was Mn (nought would be sent thore on lta ar il "Sir rival from Manila, will go to Fort Rus- rfi aJld Fort "Washakie. I The Senate Committee on Public i Lands-has authorized Senator Dubois, - y unanimous vote, to make an adverse , (eport upon Senator Heyburn's bill set- ('1 ting aside a portion of the abandoned 1jM Tort Sherman military reserve for a i 1 leroetery. i Ben&tor Dubois's bill, to amend the fiS komestead act so as to enable people rho have moiie public land entries and fl lolled to complete them, through no lault of their own, and who have not ht-Urs terted with the lands for pecuniary lM onsideratlon. to make a second filing, ms been favorably reported. Vflj Senator Smoot has been directed hy ' tit Committee on Claims to report fa- J i rorably a bill to reimburse tho Beckett l' ' Brewing company of Ogden for the loss f.VM if beer stamps in transmission through iM k maUH- ... The Senate committee has favorably A sported the Quarlcs bill for the dlo-'oeal dlo-'oeal of timber qn .public lands, with in amendment providing for tho sole it pub'llc auction, the proceeds to go i o the reclamation fund. , The Mondell lieu land bill haB been I imended by. the House committee so I is to give eutryinen the- rJght to ex- l (hangc holdlngM, in forest reserves rhlch contain valuable timber and to nake selections of Blmllar lands for B lomestead entry. M i , Tho Mondell bill to pay David Tweed h vj3 iff "Wyoming , $3500, compensation for f? frl , ' Aiding soldiers of the army and carry-j carry-j -anl' tvg dispatches -in 1S7H,' has passed - the k .Til ienate' and now goes to the President. k-,'?&m "WUHam. A.. Lee of Moscow, Ida., L letslgnated by. Senator Heyburn for ap- ' lointment as assistant paymaster of f JtH h nav'. has failed to meet the physi- " al test on account of a slight defect lu 4(iB tho heart, |