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Show oo SEEKS PROTECTION OF WATER SOURCE t Pocatello, Idaho, March 12. Mayor Theodore Turner and the city council coun-cil have petitioned tho secretary of the interior of tho United States for tho grant of part of the forest reserve re-serve lying on the bench, just wes' ot the city, for a city park for Pocatello. Po-catello. The. petition asks that no steps be taken by the department of tho Interior to alienate the title ot the land until the feasibllltv of the grant has been decided upon. The looci hno o oronflo claim. fiaiUdha eisl- ly parked, and it is the intention to make a game preserve there If the site is secured. One of the reasons put forth in the request is that the reserve should not be opened for public pub-lic entry for fear that the source of the Pocatello water supply would become be-come endangered. oo |