| Show BY TE telegraph AMERICAN 27 tho secretary of the tho Interi orin orin orla hl biannual annual report refers to his bia recommendation of bf last year iii in regard to the indians and bays says ConsIderation of the number of agencies has been undertaken with a view to a better location of the indiana indians which will at the tho same time render more efficient ta tili tilt supervision possible and reduce the expenses of government and iebsen lessen the tho opportunities for fraud and speculation As far as tho the appropriations made by contreas Con Coo gress greas would permit permits agricultural implements and domestic cattle have been furnished to the indian tribes to set get the indians to cpr wark k for their own support and to encourage industrial d du I 1 habits an Anlu indian diati police has been organized at 22 agencies agencies and f om all of them favorable reports as to the working of the new system have been received instructions have been given to discriminate in the distribution of supplies and annuities which are not actual necessaries against individual indians who show no disposition discouraging idleness 41 e I 1 v k the Allot allotment af of land unions indians on the several reservations was ortle ordered red and ia is in progress 0 the facilities of education have been ei tended extended muchas as aa much as possible find and proper have been given for the instruction of indian chil child dronin practical pursuits ts the indian service has been re orga organ n jred otias its irs branches it was found necessary to a number oti a aenes eues cuts on account of improper practices raices or lack of business efm eff efficiency melen lelen 1 and great care has been taken ey in IU filling jhen then places with new now men important Import ant changes havo have been made in the tho contract system the dete clion 04 0 fraud hasl hasi by jab adus prosecution se cution and on the whole I 1 feel enabled tobay that the character W the service has haa beon been raised in point of integrity aud nud and efficiency the following id a full fuli text of that portion of the f the in tejiura ter lura iura annual chial re report in which he comments on the tho two acts pas ed last win W in ter tor Afi thorl zing iho citizens of nevada and the territories to taUe laue timber from the public linds linda for mining and domestic purposes and aud providing for tor or the paie pale of timber lands in california nevada oregon and washington territory secretary schurz schutz says in the opinion of tho the commissioner of the general land office which is orf record re cordin inthis this department these two acts are more calculated to hasten the destruction of the furl forests in the tho state states and territories named than to secure the preservation of them d tee commissioner of the general land office in a ietter letter officially to me expresses the following to opinion of the act relating to colorado nevada and the ter ten territories rl it ia is a fact well known that while almost all the timber umber land in ln thebe these tates states and all the territories ri except jin din dakota and washington is regarded as mineral only a small i portion is so in reality the effect effee dof bof of this bill will be in my opinion to the survey and sale peany of any timber lands landa or timber upon the lands in tiie the states and territories named thus cutting off large prospective revenues reven that might aud should be derived from the sale of such sueh lands or thet timber on them it is equivalent to io a donation of all ali he timber lands to the inhabitants of those states and territories which will now be found to be the largest donation of the public domain hitherto made by congress this bill authorizes the registers and receivers receive is of the land the districts in which the lands are situated to makeen make investigations without any specific directions from the secretary of the interior of or commissioner of the general land office to bettle bottle and bwll accounts aad re the moneys coming into t trani the saie sale of lands lauds buch auch amoun they may expend or cadet cause to be esc eSi expended this method will vill be found ex exceedingly cee expensive and result in no good experience has shown that the machinery of the land offices ia Is wholly inadequate to prevent the depredations schurz continues the rules and regulations issued in pursuance of the farst first section of this act are to bo be found in the report of the commissioner of tho the general land office herewith here bere with presented these rules were drawn up with a view boand intention ii of preserving young timber and undergrowth upon the mineral lands of the united states and to tho the end that the mountain bides aides s may not be left jett denuded and barren barron of the timber berand and undergrowth neb necessary essary to p a precipitation of the rainfall and anu melting of anqus in floods upon the fertile arable lands in the valleys below thus destroying the agricultural and pasturage interests of the mineral and mountainous portion portions of coull country ty make it the duty of the reg laera abid receivers to fee that trespassers umon upon timber lands landd n nt not t mineral min eral iral be liui thuly 1 re ort td frd t d I 1 that upon the mineral lands only umber timber of a certain alze aize be cut and that young trees and undergrowth be protected and that tim ber be cut out only for the purposes mentioned in the act these rules and regulations will be enforced with all the power left it to this department part ment to that end in order to save what may be saved raved but I 1 deem it my duty to call attention to the fact as set forth b by the commissioner missioner in the letter above quoted that the machinery af the land offices is utterly inadequate to accomplish com the object in view after careful consideration of the above named act and its probable effects I 1 venture the prediction that the permission given the inhabitants of the stasea and territories named therein to take timber from the public lands in any quantity and whenever they can nind rind it for all purposes except export and sale to the railroads will be taken advantage of or not only by the tho settlers sett lors and miners to provide economically for their actual current wants but by persons who see in this donation a chance to make money it will stimulate a h wasteful consumption beyond actual need and lead to wanton deat destruction ruction that the machinery left to this department to prevent pr event such waste and destruction through the enforcement of the rules above mentioned will prove An entirely inadequate that as a final result in a few years the mountain sides bides of these states and territories will be stripped bare of the timber now growing upon them with no possibility of its reproduction if it once onee tbt e w wasted asted off from slopes elopes lind and that aith the irrea irreparable rable rabie destruction of the fore forests t will bring upon those states all the calamities expert raf raps jarn rewa sf da tracts in europe and asia similarly situated il it appeals to mal me therefore that a repeal repeat of the above named act ace and t the he substitution of a law embody embodying ln g a more provident policy similar to that of the bill hereinbefore advocated Is in the highest degree desirable if the oest destruction ruction of the forests in these states be permitted the agricultural and pasturage interest interests in ni mountainous 0 U lita tita inous regions will undoubtedly be sacrificed and the valleys in the course of time will become unfit for the habitation of man the act for the tho sale of timber lands jit jik bithe the states of california oregon and nevada and in wash territory passed by con gt aiton at its last session is commented upon by the commissioner of the general and land office as fol foi follows lows it is a bill of local and not general application to timber lands of the united states and adds one more to the special acts for the disposal of public domain the price fixed is too low as sis much of the laud is worth from 5 to 30 per acre under the provisions of the bill the timber randa will in my opinion be speedily taken up and parsed into the hands bands of speculators specula lorm lora notwithstanding withstanding the provisions to pre pro vent such a result boil should nut not bo be sold with timber where land laud Is not fit for cultivation only timber of certain sizes should be he sold and young timber retained with a view to the reproduction of forests the bill should have limited the hale sale of lauds lands to persons persona who have farin farms sand and homes home within swithin th the estate detate or territory and it ought to have required purchasers to show affirmatively that they baj bal need of th the 0 timber for domestic uses the last clause of the second section will permit dermit any uny person applying for hor a tract of timber land and securing a certificate from the register to sell his right and interest therein immediately and the pur chaer although it may have been obtained by perjury may be entitled to the land section five provides that any person prosecuted under section 2461 of the revised statutes Statute a of the united states may be rell reli relieved eved of the penalty by the payment of sa 50 per agre acre for the laud land trespassed upon this is objection objectionable atle atie for the reason that the penalty nixed fixed ia Is altogether inadequate and does not require the payment nt of he costs costa of prose rrose cullen which are often greater than the penalty to be collected it should require that trespassers i should pay for the entire subdivision 1 trespassed upon there pan be no doubt that if f this bill becomes a law 14 it will be taken ad vantage of by persona who want to make money quickly chulz adds I 1 fully concur with tho ho commissioner of the general land once office in his 0 opinion thus thua expressed PORT GIBSON 27 dr buck clayborne Count county yh hav av ing received information before morning mornings that harrl harri fou kou page pages the degro desperado wiio who assassinated the chancery clerk of this county two years ago was at his bis house three miles from town went out with his deputies to arrest him one ono of tuo tue deputies robert lum luna was shot and instantly killed from a window the she sheriff on forcing the door wass waft shot ahot iu in tho bowels face and und arm and is in a dying condition thes harwood another deputy wab was W BB knocked into an old cistern an and d left for dead though he has since revive dand is not seriously hurt hurtt A posse left town and charlie wellman one of the tha posse pome while riding hear ilear paces hous house ewas was shot through the facci face arm leg and hand he ho is still alive the nas las sassin assassin escaped though some of his accomplices were killed SAN 27 the latest nawa from virginia says the entire face of the eroe broe crosscut acut od ori the 2200 foot level of the tho sierra nevada show shows sore ore averaging about 91 to i theton the ton the porphyry is now considered merely a horse horsa coasting sailors of this port are on a strike against a reduction in wages from 35 to 90 po 30 90 per def month their organization numbers about 1 1500 goo me mem m berb here CHICAGO 21 2 the tho tribunes st louis special it is alleged on reliable authority that since lit lib iab first success in chicago miss mias kellogg has become inordinately jealous and that yesterday quite a scene occurred between kellogg and max Bt because of the enthusiastic encomiums encomium lavi lavished shed on litta by the city pr press ess ees the happy operatic family seems beems likely to be broken up ruet ts ottury consolidation of the union and anti central pacific characterized by vy C P huntington of the central pacific and by the president odthe of the union Paci pacific ia 13 unfounded bal ekl 28 25 an au of gasoline umed used in the rodt lights occurred lo night at a tow low variety theatre on thames street bedore before the performance was to comme commence n ce about 20 persons were present in the hud Aud audience lebee in the womans comans dressing room back of the stage biage were seven alili actresses three of whom kate bradley nettle nettie lewis add nold marian davis were severely burned in endeavoring to escape being obliged to crosb the burning r dage stage to get out P B was very badly burned I 1 washington 11 2 8 hlll hill supervising architect of the treasury and mills milis a contractor and others charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and indicted at chicago gave bail balf in each today to day cincinnati 28 john john M X brul muller contractor for furnishing stone siona for the Chicago wab was arrested today to day charged wilh with unlawfully and feloniously conspiring with others to defraud the thie ghovri ment went bail is fixed at louisville 28 A very heavy snow pr prevailed availed here from three ck until hald half plat past elgha eight today to day NEW 28 the world I 1 washington special bays the question of electing barcelou Garc Gar celoa elou a democrat or smith greenbacker alftine by the l kit laruie was submitted to malue maine delegation which decided in favor ot garcelon be bt causa caus e be was a bard hard money man mis vosburg wire of the it roxi boyi v i arend gentleman led aed in jersy city for lot poisoning bis has written to persons persona asking for news of her husband saying that she la Is greatly troubled at tais pr prolonged absence the times amei vvs AVs washington special baye saye it ii reported that secretary mccary has bas deliberately evaded the army arms aimy anay away appropriation act by b y appointing young clerks of the department to second s it 14 i probable that thai his course will be investigated by congress 28 I ebbett ebbott holler the magician died at the continental lintel in this city to night after a very brief illness he gave an entertainment here hero on monday night last petersburg va 28 alhani camerons camerona tobacco factory one ono of the be largest in the Sta biatowas burned tonight to night the stemming facto factory rys adjoining was also destroyed the building covered nearly a full fuli square the loss will probably reach insurance between und idS sim SIZ NEW 29 the Z tribunes washington special bys ays representative enta tive page 0 california tn in tenda fends on the first dax day of the coming session to introduce a resolution for the reapportionment of representatives presenta tives in ln congress from the states of mississippi louisiana and south carolina based upon the actual voting population of thet e states page hab hae been giving close attention to recent in the south especially specially bince since it the became notorious that a large largo number of citizens of legal age in the states named have been denied their constitutional rights ot of suffrage and been consi considering derine deriDe the best methods of correcting the tho wrong which will be done by admitting from the south a fuli full quota of representatives presenta tives in election only a minority of the citizens were allowed to participate the yankton dakota special says rays an army arnoy officer la Is responsible for the statement that the supplies lor red clouds indians are still on the missouri Mie sour at the old agency warehouse and cannot be transported to camp inside of ten months theom Theof the officer fleer asserts that the indians are in danger of starvation and will certainly be ready for the war path in spring the times washington special says no one oue believes thal that cloveta Gl oveta proposed efforts against linderman will be more successful this winter than they were at tit the last session the democrats aro are tired of glov Olov Sl ovens erys erss investigation pranks and it is likely his L chemes |
