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Show DATE DEFINITELY FIXED Fort Hall Ceded Lands to Be Thrown Open Juno 17th. PROCLAMATION IS COMPLETE Document Wns Olvcn to tho Public Prlnti Yesteidn) Thete Ale No Preferential Rights by the Terms of tho Proclamation rullle Ssntt-ment Ssntt-ment Will, It Is Hoped, Be Stiong Enough to Protect the Old Settlers No Classification of Mineral nnd Non-Mineral Lands. TnmuNE nunr.AU, ) 1G0 K Street. Washington, P C , May 12 I When the President signed the proclamation proc-lamation opening tho Foit Hall Indian In-dian reservation to settlement, the date of tho opening wos left blank, for there was uncertainty concerning It Todtj, the document was sent to the printer calling for the opening of the teded lands June Kill, as tolcgraphcd to The Tribune several dajs,ago. NO PREFERENTIAL RIOHTS. Senator Dubois has all along ion-tended ion-tended that the old settlers on the reservation res-ervation should be given preferential rlghti by the terms of the proclamation, proclama-tion, but he says this was not done, for theee was no way by which tho department could protect these, settlers set-tlers being rotnpelted to abide by the treaty as ratified by Congress. SENTIMENT MAY PP.OTF.CT. The Fenntor snld today he wna greatly great-ly In hopes that a public sentiment will be created so strong that no one will dare undertake to dispossess these settlers, set-tlers, who have occupied the lands for 5 ears, bo they Indians or whites Pub. ilo sentiment protected the settlers In the Pocatello toivniltc. as none had the nervo to bid against them. NO MINERAL LANDS IN LIMIT. Senator Dubois has contended there arc no mineral landi. In tho five-mile limit, tut nswrtlonn to the contrary nrc persistent, and for th it reason the following statement by a t( sponsible nlllclal of the Interior department Is given. "The lands aro hy tho act of Congress Con-gress opened to disposal under the homestead. townMte stone nnd timber tim-ber and mining laws of the United States hut not any of the other lands, cxieptlng the land wllhln live miles of th boundary line of the town of Pocatello, Po-catello, shall be sold at public auction for not lets than JIO per ncro The act nlso requires that any mineral lands within said tlve-mllc limit shall he disposed of under tho mlnernl laws of the United States nt $10 per ncrc," NO OCCASION TO CLAKSIFY. Senators Dubois nnd Heltfeld have. In a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, In-terior, made a. statement that their own personal knowledge enables them to say that there nro no mineral lands whatever within the flve-inllc Ivoun-dary Ivoun-dary nnd therefore there Is no occasion occa-sion for any attempted classification of mlnernl and non-mineral lands wllhln such limits In advnnco of the sale. ACCEPT THE STATEMENT. In drafting the proclamation providing provid-ing for the opening, the commissioner of tho Clenernl Land olllcc ami the Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior have accepted this statement of the Idaho Senators, and In conrequenco no provision was made for the classification of the lands within tho ilvc-mlle limit, where tho snla Is to be at public auction If by nny chance It should prove, before the tlmo of rale, that there nra mineral lands within tho five-mile limit, they can still be segregated, nnd of course they must, under tho statute, he withheld with-held from sale and can only be din-posed din-posed of under the mining laws, as provided In tho act governing tha open, lug. Outside nf the five-mile limits the mining lands can only he disposed of tinder tho mining Inws. RULE APPLIES EVERYWHERE. The sime rule prevails on the Fort Hall reservation that prevails else. whre In tho United Slates. No classification classi-fication or vegregatlon will bo made nnd none la ever mndo respecting other tor i s of the public dnmnln, except wher there Is to bo ft sila at public nuctlon or something of n spetlal nu-ture. nu-ture. Outside of tho flve-mllo limits the land will bo disposed of ncrordlng to Its known character at the tlmo of the disposal thereof If nny land has been dlscoiercd to be mineral lu character char-acter this Known quality will prevent Its disposition under any other law than the mining lawn. MUST MAKE AFFIDAVIT. Fefore a person can make an entry under tho homestead or other lion, mineral lawn on lands outside the Ilvo-mlle Ilvo-mlle llmltB, he will be required us clse-vvheio clse-vvheio In the public domain to file the nflldavlt of some crtdlhlo person nt-qualnted nt-qualnted with tho land to tho effect that it la non-mineral In chanictct, and Is not claimed or worked under the mining Inws Under some of tho laws the non-mineral allldavlt must be m ido by the nppllcant himself. Under others oth-ers It ran le made by others familiar with tho farts. |