Show Abandoned Reservations WASHINGTON May 23ExSenator Van Wick has written a letter to tho Secretary of the Interior asking the appointment of appraisers for tho abandoned military reservations reser-vations in Nebraska and Colorado author ized under the act of ISSi to be sold to bo delayed till the next meeting of Congress He states that when Congress last adjourned an amendment of this act was upon tho calendar cal-endar and had the endorsement of the Committee Com-mittee on Public Lands tho effect of which would havo been had it passed to dispose of these lands as homesteaders instead of by sale possibly to syndicates under tho present law He has no doubt that tho appraisal ap-praisal and salo will bo delayed till Congress has another chance to amend the law |