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Show TO OPEN THE RESERVE, E .i "'Ktc Settlers May Soon Enter H Uintah Reservation. JH Kb'ARNS BII.LT0 BE REPORTED V It Is Understood the Committee Will H Mako Unanimous Report That tho H, Measure Be Passed There Wilt H Also Be an Investigation of the H Chaiges that Fraudulent and Un. H fair Moans Were Employed to Se- H cure the Slgnatui 03 of Indians Who H. Favored Leasing Mineral Lands. H IH intniM, BUREAU, ) L lfior, K Street, V Washington, D C Peb IS, 1902. L It Is undeistool that there will be a HEj unanimous report made by the Senate BE committee on Indian affairs signed by H nil members with the possible exception H ot Semtnr queries nn Senator Kearns'n M bill for opening the I'lntali Indian r'ser- 1 v n I Ion to settlement, thus doing away HH with the subject of the lease ot mineral H kinds to tlio Plorenco Mining company. H It is nlsn stated thero will be an In- BH vesllgitlnn of the rhirgea lhat fraudu- U lent unfair means were employed In tho H procuiement of slgnnluies ot Indians on H the reservation who favored the lease. H It Is believed that Senator Quarles HH will sign the report, thus making It fl unanimous, but should he not sign tho H rcpoit In torn his exceptions lo the B unanimous report will be In the form HH or a stntrment respecting the measures H pursued hy the Plnrenre Mining com. H piny eoicernlng the obtaining ot the H signatures of the Indlnns to the lease. HH There will be n statement In con- fl ntctlon with tho report nf Ihe commit- IH tee In sending hick to the Senate the Keams bill providing for the opening of H the I'lntnli reservation to settlement, thnt In so far as the Plorcnce Ml- H nlng company Is concerned Its ofllcers H knew nothing nhout nny Improper Hf methods being pursued to obtain slg- flH natures or the Indians tn the proposed fl mineral lease, nnd If there was anything: H done that vvns not regular and proper HH It was without the knowledge of or H sanction or the company. Senator sH Quarles himself believes there Is little H If any ilouht that the reservation will H be opened tn the public during the pres- H ent session of Congress. H With iv unanimous report ot the Sen-. H ale committee early nnd favorable ac- H Hon Is guaranteed, nnd this should H give the measure the greatest possible B prestige nnd practically guarantees final HH passage of the bill opening the reserva- HH Hon to the public In the next sixty or ninety da vs. H STATE CAMPAIGN THIS YEAR, H Secretary perry S. Heath of the Be- publican national committee, Just be- HH tore leaving Washington this afternoon for Chicago on his via) lo Salt Lake H City, said that while tho Republican H national committee would not likely be active In Hie npproachlng State cam- pilgns, there was A feeling prevalent that the Republican part) will at least hold Its own at the polls In November. Secretary Heath does not share In the fear expressed by some Republicans that there would be any losses In tho Congiesslonnl dlsttlcts He believes that the Republican majority In the next ( ongress will be as great as In the HH present one, that In the Senate there (HH will be nn Increase ot Republican su- piemao, Ihe Republican national committee Is quiescent or passive In State cam-, paigns although It takes more dr less pail In selection nt Senators Un- tloiibtedly when the present session of Congress ndjourns theic will go over un- til the next session some of the lrhHH portant International and national Is- sues which must be completed nt the session beginning next December In the light of an expression ot the people at the polls IMPORTANT LAND DECISION. H An Important land decision, affecting a quarter section of land in Latah count), Idn, will soon be rendered by IIH the Department ot the Interior entitled Lleuallen versus State of Idaho. The H case Involves n new question, that where n filing Is tendered and bus- pended the amount Is not required when HH It Is In ranlllct with the grant, and the settler Is not required to get on and H mike Improvements until that matter Is disposed of. HH TRAVIS STARTS WEST. H W E Travis nt Utah and Idaho, well known as a mall-route contractor. left here today for Salt Lake City. Mrs. Travis will return to New York for a few weeks, when she will Join her husband In Utah H WANT POS10KFICE CONTINUED. H Senator Hcltfeld today received a re monstrance from 2G0 citizens of Preese and Cora, Ida ugalnst discontinuance HH of those postottlces The Senator Is In 9H full sympathy with the remonstrance HH nnd will do his utmost to prevent a discontinuance of tho olllces. ASSAY OPFICU AT PROVO. Tho bill Introduced In the Senate by Mr. Rnwllns for the establishment ot an nssay office at Trovo City. Utah, has been favorably reported by Mr. Keams ,HH without amendment. This bill provides the Secretary of the Treasury Is au- H thorlzed and required to establish an nsny olllco nt Provo City, the ofllco to ( be conducted under the provisions ot f the act revising and amending the laws relative to mints nssay unices and coin- jH age ot the United States, and 110,000, or so much thereof as may be ncces- 9HB sary, the bill provides, shall bo appro- HI prlated for this purpose. The measure Is now on the calendar and will prnb- ahly pass the Senate as soon as It can H be reached In tho regular order ot buat-,! ness LEASES MINERAL LANDS. H Chairman ot the Committee on Indian H Affairs designated Senators Rawlins, Clapp and Quarles as n sub-committee to Inquire Into the general subject of leises of mineral lands. l PENSION GRANTED. H An original pension of (6 per month jH was granted William Longstteet, Men- don, Utah. POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. H Idaho W. II. Cherry. Grause, Custer M county, vice H V McClellan resigned: P, S Stephens, New Plymouth Canon county, lce I.'mmA Veazey, resigned, |