Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-31 | Page 2 | Scheme to Give Indian Lands to Veterans

SCHEME TO CI IV yE INDIAN LANDS lAN lANTO TO VI VETERANS AN Arizonan Proposes That i Gover Government e t Divide Area Not Used by Am Among ng F Former Soldiers Ol for V World orId war H veterans on Indian lands in I Western states subsidized by the the I states themselves is a prospective I solution of the soldier bonus problem according to members of the I Indian affairs committee of congress which passed through Salt Lake Sat Sat- Sat Sat-I The matter was suggested at ata ata I Ia a meeting at Parka Ariz and will wUl be I I investigated further after the committee commit commit- tee arrives at Washington W. W E. E Remington a former army captain of Phoenix representing the tIle American legion of Arizona appeared before the committee In advocacy of a aplan aplan aplan plan of the legion to found a cooperative cooper cooper- colony of service men men it if the government would set aside 80 acres I of unused Indian lands I IVe We Ve want to take over the land under under under un un- un- un der the homestead law and we do not i ask the government to give us us a I I penny said Remington Men who I have llave money will help those who have haven n nt lt in getting water wafer and equipment 1 i Jf f such lands Were turn turned over to the former s 's the st state fe of f Arizona Ari Art zona zona has has funds funds to assist assiat th the thes the's settlers was th the assertion of Governor Thomas ThomasE E E. Campbell C o of ot Arizona who emph emphasized sized the necessity of f Increasing agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- I cultural production I Remington stated that the homeI homesteading home home- homesteading plan was under consideration I I In California and Oregon and was to tobe I I Ibe be presented In other states I 1