Items of Interest August 8, 1901 Issue

Items of Interest

Lone Wolf and other Indians made application to the United States Court in Oklahoma for an injunction restraining the Government from opening the Kiowa-Comanche lands for settlement. They urged that the act under which they were divested of their lands was unconstitutional. It was also urged that two million dollars, the price paid for the land was insufficient, and that at least five million dollars should have been paid. The application was denied by Judge Erwin July 29, and the opening of the lands was not in the least interfered with.

The total receipts of the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, amounted to $587,685,337.53 and the expenditures were $509,967,353.15, leaving a surplus of $77,717,984.38. The receipts were the largest in the history of the government, and the expenses larger than any fiscal year except those of the Civil War and the war with Spain.

Secretary Long issued the following general order July 29:—

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