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Show Ijj NlS LOOKS SUSPICIOUS. ; JHi The news from Washington that, ostensibly ml for the creation of a forest reserve, an immense j iH tract of reservation land had been withheld from j entry, was generally greeted with surprise and infill in-fill f credulity. Such a proceeding, coming unexpec-! unexpec-! IjM tedly and at such a belated hour, certainly has a fBrl queer look, and the public will await with inter-i inter-i R1 est a little more information upon the subject. At Wmi first it was announced that only 50,000 acres ! Hp were to be withheld for certain governmental pur-Hlp pur-Hlp poses, which in itself was a mild shock, but fill'1 when it was announced later that the reservation , yljl: embraced an area of considerably more than 200,-j 200,-j ; 000 acres, there was widespread astonishment, min-I min-I iHI wk susPicin which was augmented when it ilH I was learned that the reserved acres were the most I :ffl I valuable and easily susceptible to irrigation on the S3 reservation, j Jw From this distance, it looks as if there had been 1 K collusion between certain high officials, by which HH the home seeker was to be the victim of a con-fj con-fj spiracy of startling proportions, j. 1 It looks preposterous that the government I SH should seriously consider anything so extraordi- I B nary and bootless as the reservation of this im-SSH im-SSH mense tract, and the matter is one worthy of : I wmt searching investigation. |