Show UNUSUAL BRIEF IS FILED IN LAND UNO CONTROVERSY Testimony of Experts Is Puzzle to United States Official EVIDENCE IS CITED Various Theories as to Creation of World Advanced By BURTON K STANDISH Written for tor the United Presa W WASHINGTON April 3 Funny Funny letters are part of ot the routine of or the tho Interior department Just as Conscience conscience con con- science nce money Is part of ot tho the regular grind In the tho treasury department Usually the solid facts are arc boiled out of ot the tho humorous efforts filed tiled away nOd r tho the Incident forgotten until tho the facts are needed again But It Isn't always alway so IO It wasn't so with re regard to the report that recently came In from J. J B B. Stanford register of or the United States land office at San Francisco At the Interior department depart depart- ment they thoy are arc still puzzling over tho the proper pigeonhole for tor Stanford's let let- ter It seems the tho r register h had d spent twenty-seven twenty hours listening tr to learned geologists and r ha had pursued lc legal nl manuscript until he lie was nearly blind In tho the hearing of a case caso that Involved In the question of minerals contained d In government lan lands Ills His conclusions he summed up In a n. report which he en entitled tilled Uncle Sam vs Ys Pastor lastor A A. A A. Arata and nOlI forward to tho the secretary of or tho the interior It reads This case caso Is one In which it Is Js alleged that the lots taken up under the soldiers' soldiers additional r act arc more valuable Y for mineral than for other purposes Evidence Voluminous From the general mass of ot testimony test test- mon mony tak taken n the caS case caso revolves Itself I into one of scientific research and geological eolo an and general Several eminent geologists testified beginning with the formation of ot the earth arth way back In the tha prehistoric period pOllo when I 1 was wasa a n. tadpole and you wore a n fish There are arc two hypotheses as to the formation formation forma forma- tion Uon of or the earth either cither of which Is la Isas isas as bs reasonable as the other both theories are oro a basis of ot proof In this case When hen God Goll wafted warte this o sphere into space it was supposed to tobo tobo bo ho according to the tho nebular hypothesis sis a conglomerated of or dust that h had d been kicked off ott of other worlds an and drawn Into compact compact com corn pact mass S by molecular attraction The gradual chan change e then began According According Ac Ac- cording to lo Henry Millers Miller's Footprints of or tho the Creator God Cod threw everything everything every every- thing into the han hands s of the natural law In He lie ha had created and washed Ills hands of ot the Job and let the law work out ut From the crustacean and paleozoic ages and o others that at were were I I I 1 I centuries in the tho me ear earm gradually got ot Into the morning light of or animal anima creation The earth was without form orm and void old being composed mostly of glob glob- genoa gerina erlna ooze After Atter this gradual coal coal- and ami tho lie earth became me In Inhabited In- In habited tho the Lord watt was greatly Ie dl diH- diH pleased with his handiwork and caused a great reat rain to fall over O the earth for forty days and amI nights And Ami darkness was wu on fin th i face ot of the p. det-p. After the earth hail had been flooded and anel everything e had been n Purified and the waters receded then began the reformation of or strata and what was waN known as is the tue oll oily period was as at r III Ex Exports Experts I Ignorant g nora nt As ds will ilI bo ho NN seen U by the testimony these t g geologists ulo succeeded In elaborating elal- elal orating t. t extensively ten heh on un their own Ignorance in this regard and succeeded succeeded suc suc- uc- uc In convincing cun all an pre present ent that the they didn't know a damn thing about it it nor what the they were I about One OntO nf ot tJ tin these t highbrow wiseacres wise vIse acres acIe hIt il t to show shuw some signs ns of or human intelligence by saying raying the theland theland land was more for fOI minerals Hie ln other intellectual said that while hers ther were Indications of or oil around the claim was wat not worth wOIth a whoop from the mineral ral standpoint All admitted that the land was not worth a tinkers tinker's dam darn for tor nerl- nerl or grazing grazing- purposes that It I would be be- impossible to plow It unless a plow drawn by goats oats were wen II used that a 3 jackrabbit would starve stai to In a n futile attempt to cross it going from tram side to end The claImant claimant claim claIm- ant ta said caul ll he hc took tool It up for his children chil chih- dren who owne owned the adjoining lands It U Is evident c from the testimony th that t the land Is absolutely and anel positively post post- tI Lively vel no good for anything on cart earth h and should be removed remo Ve c are therefore nt ot a a. loss los to see nee seewhy wh why nn any should spend his time with it and why tho the government hO should spend time and mone money trying to take it away from froma a man who wants it as a curio curlu for tor his children If It will do his poor old heart an any goo good for Gods God's sake salte let him have It and go co his Va way in peace and sin no more We Ve therefore recommend that the tho complaint bo be dismissed and that the theman theman theman man bo be permitted to make legal title to the land and be told to vamoose with It to tho the moon where the woodbine wood wood- bine and the tho I I over o its first born I |