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Show SITE FOR MINERS' HOME. Washington, April 2. The senate today to-day passed Senator Kearns' bill granting grant-ing to the trustees of the Judge Miners' Home of Salt Lake twenty acres of land on the Fort Douglas military reservation, res-ervation, to be used as a site for the Miners' home. The senate also passed Senator Rawlins' Raw-lins' bill authorizing the secretary of war to deliver old pieces of ordnance to Utah Indian war veterans. j I The Indian annmnrlo fl Kin ported to the senate today from the In- j atan affairs committtee, contains amendments made by the committee I appropriating $10,000 for allotting land ! on Shoshone reservation, Wyoming- ' providing for a treaty with Uintah and 1 White River Utes for the allottment of ! certain lands on the Uintah reserva- ! tion, and opening the remainder of the reservation to public settlement; pro- I viding for the granting of a . right of way for irrigating ditches across allotted al-lotted lands of the Southern Ute Indians In-dians in Colorado, and appropriating $150,000 for providing a water supply for Irrigation purposes for the Southern South-ern Ute Indians in Colorado. The senate passed the bill granting patents to the townsite of Basin City I Wyo., to its municipal authorities. The tu enW g0CS ? the President for signa- Citizens of MavfipM finnnir, -i Sterling, in Sanpete county, have forwarded for-warded petitions to Representative Sutherland, which he has filed with the secretary of the interior, requesting request-ing the secretary to create a forest reserve re-serve east of the three towns, embracing embrac-ing 133 sections of land. This tract is embraced within the area which the geological survey recently recommended recommend-ed should be withdrawn, pending a permanent settlement of the question whether a forest reserve should be created. cre-ated. The house committee on public lands today, by unanimous vote, agreed to report Representative Sutherland's bill granting the state of Utah the right to make selections of school indemnity lands in -accordance with the act of 1891. This bill has been fully explained in The Herald. |