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Show " HOW IS IT ? - Some time last summer President Cleveland ordered the cattlemen in Indian In-dian Territory to drive their stock off the reservations there. There was & good deal of complaining on the part of the cattlemen and their friends, and a delegation dele-gation went to Washington to tell the President "all about it." The delegation returned to the place whence it came, and in "the short visit paid to Washington learned more practical law than most men learn in a semester. The President taught them more law in one interview than Secretary Teller ever did know, or at least display, about the validity val-idity of a leasehold estate in Indian Territory. Ter-ritory. And the course of the President met with almost universal approval. The stand he took was novel merely because be-cause it was for the vindication of the law, no matter what influence was brought to bear against its enforcement. Even the threat of Colonel Corkhill to mandamus the President did not' seem "to .disturb him much nor to swerve him .in his determination. de-termination. But in i Utah . we have the same question in a small way.. Part of the " Uintah 'Indian Reservation is leased to cattlemen, not in the same manner as was done with the land in Indian Territory, but with the same result. A number of cattlemen hire Strawberry Valley in the summer for ranching cattle upon, and in the winter they drive their cattle down on to the Du Chesne. For this privilege they pay someone, who we could not learn, ten cents per head per year, and they do their own counting. All cattle belonging to any other parties are excluded as trespassers. tres-passers. At the present time there are some few thousand head of cattle in Strawberry Valley, and they will move on to the Du Chesne in a? little while: We learned these facts from a gentleman who returned from the Uintah Agency only a few days ago. now is it that such is the case? If cattle grazing upon reservations reser-vations in Indian Territory are upon such reservations unlawfully, why'are not cattle cat-tle grazing upon the Uintah Reservation there unlawfully? And how is it that such cattle are permitted to remain there undisturbed? This matter should receive the attention of Secretary Lamar. |