Show UTAH LANDS THROWN OPEN I San > J ttO b r pp4tLUflCe Tho Lands Were Withdrawn from Entry in 1888 and Reserved for tho Use of Southern Utes Important Impor-tant Land Decision by Secretary Smith Site of Wallace Idaho Involved In-volved Washington D C Oct 12 1800 Secretary the Interior Smith today instructed the Commissioner of the General Gen-eral Land Office to take steps at once to reopen to settlement and entry tho lands within San Juan county Utah On November 1 1888 the Interior department de-partment having been advised by the commission appointed to negotiate for the removal of the Southern Utes from Colorado that negotiations for such removal had reached such l stage of progress as to Indicate that San Juan county might be set apart for their use directed the land ollicc to instruct the Register and Receiver of the district dis-trict In which San Juan county was situated to allow no enjttles or filings UIKJII the public lanA I thQ county until un-til further lulviwa The Jfeaty thut was made by4tiat commlsslWJ n No commlssl vember 13 1SS8 was nnnulleu by tn ° last Congress in February wli 1 act allowed the Indians to take lu s In severalty In portions of New MiJSr and on the west foAly miles of it jresent reservation ton Both the land olllee and the Inilli n ofllco have recommended that as thi causes which led to the withdrawal cuules wihdrawal or ho lands have ceased to exist the i lands In the county should be again restored re-stored to the public domain The order or-der therefore of November 1888 Is evoked and San Juan county will again be opened to settlement Secretary Smith today alllrmcd the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Olllee In the case of F P Smith et al against the Northern Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company from the Coeur IAlono land district In thin case onlY on-lY 28 1893 F P Smith and nineteen others residents of the locality filed a protest against the railroad com panys selection alleging that the sec bum are not agricultural but mineral that tho protestants and their grantors had settled and mado valuable Improvements Im-provements on part of the lands a large portion of the town of Wallace Ida standing thereon and that the sections are In the midst ot a well known mining country and embrace mineral locations made prior to the survey sur-vey alI that It Is not valuable for agricultural purposes After I hearing the local officers decided de-cided against the protestants which decision de-cision was alllrmcd by the Commissioner Commis-sioner The Secretary lays lie sees no reason for disturbing their concurring opinions and dismisses tho contest t The Secretary also reversed the de CMson of the Commissioner against tho defendant in the case ot Frank C Da 1lhe clDof vis ugum L ueorge razor iTem HIP Lewlston dlstrfut Idaho Davlss dlstro Iall avlsl con test Is dlBinlssedMutJio irrouatl that lie was not an actual bona fide settler and that he had no Intention of making a home on the land Mrs Frazers en t try Is to stand Intact The following fourthclass postmas term were ain Inted today for Wyoming Wyo-ming Black Buttes Swectwnter county T J Cortez vice Williams Matthews V1lams Jathows resigned re-signed Diamondvllle Ulntah county W A Melbourne vice Taron Comings resigned La Grange Laramle county J S limo vlco B F Yodcr resigned Leah Albany county J M Clark vlco N F Tomllnson resigned Lone Tree Ulntnh county Mrs M M Farnsworth vice S M Johnson resigned Lucerne Sweetwater county II K Son vice J D Barry dead Wyoming Albany county resigned J S Wilkins vlco C R Hall A Mexican war survivors pension penlon was today granted to John Qrlflln of Lowlston Ida I |