Show front th dully ot NoT Walier 8 AN IMPORTANT LAND DECISION even secretary windom in bis discrimination against a great western industry is unable to attract to bis department part ment alie attention from chii side the mississippi which naturally centers in that portion 0 the interior department known as the genal land office the hostile attitude assumed by andrew jackson when in 0 the office will not eoon ba forgotten ilia course from first to last give tin impression that be was governed by one ruling idea namely that the western beet aler wherever you found him was a thiet and the truth wa not in him alie lawa pasel pase l by congress prescribing the ander which citizens obtain a small portion of abo public domain ft ere by the ikee commissioner burdened bird ened feitli absurd conditions subjected to fearful interpretation and of the manifold benefits intended by their framces instead of being watchful as his duties requited he captious instead of enforcing the statutes in the spirit thereof ins career was one of straining technicality instead of preserving the government ands from and grabbers he put the on the humble f ettler and compelled many a baor and honest man to loee his idar his scanty earnings and his rights I 1 only a western man can appreciate the difficulties under which the settlers to gel their little home only each a man ba chosen to administer the particular laws applicable to these cases if the government is disposed to be liberal it ill becomes the official to be stingy when congress thinks modifications are necessary in the present legislation it and it only has the power to make ahrin betty tyranny not to bo a requisite to appointment and an advocate a judge and a jury hi the fame personage should ahva s be dec ined it is gratifying to note eliat the new gen groff 0 nebraska takes a broad and generous view of bis prerogatives an inter suca case hai just bein decided by him and tha of his findings is worthy of mention we quote the paragraph as containing much that will be cheering to alie hardy occupants of some of our tough and forbidding western quarter sections the the annl entry of mary miers appealed from the local land at neb the claim wag inide that abe bad not the land the full ottlia by lau the chomg that she van i ti eulth and that he lliel apua the land as nag able nelch MOI how CM T left than the law re aba a s 1 BIU sal lahui that she lad on alie as continuously aa ghe u ai able and as much BO its WILI and safety the lau dues not require that ue and health hould be to maintain a there 1 not a particle of evidence that the claimant at au time to abandon |