Show THE FIRST TIMBER SEIZURE ISeceiver Wallace Takes PoSbessiots of Several Thousand Feet of Lumber at Schoficld Receiver I C Wallace of the Utah Land Office returned last evening from Schofield where be went several days ago in accordance with instructions from Secretary Lamar of the Interior Department Depart-ment for the purpose of seizing several hundred thousand feet of lumber which had been illegally cut from the public domain and valued at some publc per thousand I will be duly appraised and sold at public auction by the Receiver After seizing the lumber Mr Wallace put men in charge of it to guard against further encroachments on the Governments ments property This is the first seizure enacted by the Government in Utah for several years and is but the beginning of the policy of the new administration to put the screws to wilful lawbreakers |