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Show i LANE FOSTERS BILL TO PROTECT SOLDIERS WASHINGTON. F-h. 7. Secretary Lane today recum mended to congress enactment of a bill designed further to protect soldiery, snilors and marines In the war who, before entering; the service, ser-vice, liatl Initiated desert claims on un-surveyed un-surveyed lands, coal claims, water power permits, canal riulus of way. pre-emption claims in Colorado and -Montana, and other claims initiated under special laws and not covered by exlstim? legislation. The present law protects homesteaders yid desert land clu imant s as well as I'Aiosd having mining locations. . |