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Show uu SCHOOL LANDS OF IDAHO PASSED ON Boise. Idaho, March 1. The state of Idaho has no preference right in the Marble Creek land selections, and had no preference right when lands in this district In north Idaho were selected. This decision was made by First Assistant Secretary Jones who bases his findings on the ruling of the supreme court of this state in the Balderson-Brady decision, wherein that tribunal held that Idaho held title to school sections 16 and 35, surveyed or unsurveled. This is the information informa-tion that State Land Commissioner George A. Day, who returned yesterday, yester-day, brings from Washington, where for more than a month he held repeated re-peated conferences on the matter. The ruling means, in brief, that tbo' Marble Creek land's which have been in controversy for years, are public lands, and the settlers who are holding hold-ing them and are bona fide will, get patent and title just as soon as the government can issue them, while the state will nave to fall back on the ,Coeur 'dAlene base, once within, but now excluded from the Indian reservation reser-vation by that name. The state lands to lose, not much, but slightly by the ruling. nn |