Show the stumpage question A short time since we referred to the fact of parties claiming to be connected with the land nand office visit ingabe lumber yard of armstrong an and d bagley and jn a aking adv upon them for government stumpage I 1 accompanying the demand with buncombe threats of the forcible C seizure of the lumber yard and the selling at public auction of the lumber found th therein orein this dose was repeated the other day by one ond gulbertson claiming 1 to be authorized zed by the land 0 office ace he was told by mr Armst armstrong rong roDg that he was perfectly willing to answer any legal process but nothing short of that that tha t he had given the matter into the hands bands of his attorney sy williams and young Y and it if he be hace had anything to say he could go and say it to 0 them re he furthermore lurther more intimated very pointedly that he did not want to be bothered individually about the matter any more and that parties coming upon his premises to welthis sell his property without the authority of the law would do so at the danger of having their constitutions so materially dama dame damaged that they would hae haye to fai fall fali ll 11 back upon ahe the bylaws by laws since those these circumstances of the other day an arrangement has been partially entered upon between the railroad companies dud nud somo of the ot other othen her hen leading lumbermen besides armstrong and bagley to bring this question if necessary to A fair square legal legai issue by taking it to the court of last resort which will certainly bo be done if it is pressed by the other side jt it is a question in which every railroad rali rail roAd company and all lumbermen are in interested terestea and if the matter Is to be taken into the courts all should ca come me to the front and lend their aid which will make it comparatively light for everybody concerned concer med Bed 14 bj taking ij a bold stand aRd and making a test case caso the question can cali bo be best brought to a final settlement hett dett I lement one way or other deciding whether or not it was intended by the law that the progress and development of newly settled settle A countries should be marred and under some circumstances rendered next to impossible without the progressive and hardy settler being compelled by the law of necessity to commit a theft under a law of the land laud if the law a of the country ever contemplated such a ung thing it is is time that that law W was repealed rep caled by congre 31 for fur to let it remain would the statute books of df the nation and would according to our yiew be both imko impolitic and unjust unjust especially to the hardy settlers settles of the great west who have daijo so cueli much to ward the general enrit enri ament of the country in and developing b i ng tho the public domain III in fact all nil all ali the tho value that bhuber possesses III lik in new countries is given to it by the adjacent settlers sett lemN without whoso choso presence it would W ouid remain iced till doomsday so to peak let tilo tho question therefore theredore ya be definitely settled |