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Show FEDERAL GOVERNED Washington, Jan. 17 The Department Depart-ment of the Interior has added to its other numerous duties that of directly di-rectly operating a public school. This is aside from the work performed by the Bureau of Edr.cst.or which is attached to the Department of the In terior. This public school is located in Yellowstone National Park and is conducted for the benefit of children of government employes in the parn. There being no federal appropriation appropriati-on for the support of such an institution, insti-tution, the parents of children are sharing the school room in one of the buildings of old Fort Yellowstone. Yellow-stone. This assistance was as much as the Department of the Intrior could offer through the park officials The establishment of this public school in Yellowstone brings to the light the very interesting status of Yellowstone National Park, the largest larg-est and next to the oldest of our national na-tional parks. It is owned by the United Uni-ted States. There is not one acre of it in private ownership. Congress, long ago, prescribed a system of government gov-ernment for the park, which in fact established it as a reservation similar simi-lar in character to the District of Columbia and such it remains today. The states of Wyoming, Mcntana. Idaho can not collect taxes of any kind within the park boundaries. All revenues and taxes collected by the park officers from the operation of the park are deposited in the Trea sury of the United States to the credit cred-it of miscellaneous receipts. Exclusive Exclus-ive control over the park is in the hands of the superintendent appointed appoint-ed by the Secretary of the Interior All persona violating the law and the rules and regulations of the park are punished by the United States commissioner, who is appointed by the federal district judge of Wyoming. Wyom-ing. The park Is not within a county of any state and no state officer has any authority in the park. |