Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — Agriculture Census O. K. [ARTICLE]

Agriculture Census O. K.

The report of the Keep commission on the agricultural census of 1900 sustains the accuracy of the bureau’s figures. The commission is now preparing to probe the affairs of the Interior Department, as ordered by the President and suggested by Secretary Hitchcock. No attention will be paid to the land frauds. More indictments have been returned against western lumbermen, who have come into large tracts of timber lands through illegal practices. The Secretary is now after cattlemen in South Dakota and other States, W|ho are accused with engaging “dummy” settlers r to enter upon homesteads and themturn the Land over to the cattlemen for grazing purposes.