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WITHHOLDS |INDIANS MAY APPROVAL| ~ SELLLAND Important Legislation Pro-|, State Board of Health Not| posedin Regarid to White Ready to Grant Bemidjia Earth “Reservation. Sewer System. Washington, April 12.—If a BOARD POSTPONES ACTION TO|provision that has been incorpor- MAY 3. ated in the Indian appropriation bill, which bill_soon will be pre- i Ciothing for Afl Mankind sented to the senate by Senator City Engineer McGilyray of Du- luth Represented Bemidiji at Board Meeting. into law, about aquarter of a million acres of land in the White Barth reservation belonging to the full-bloods will be:disposed to people anxious to buy them. The bill in question contains an amendment removing all re- strietions upon the alienation of land; belonging to the mixed- bloods on the Minnesota reserva- tion, and leaving it discretionary. with the secretary of the interior to remove all restrictions upon the alienation of lands belonging to the full-bloods. For a long time the people liv- ing in the neighborhood of the White Earth reservation have been anxious toacquire 10 or more townships of fine agricul- tural land, the property of full- bloods, whoare willing to dispose of them, but who cannot doso under the present laws. onac- count of the restrictions: as to alienation. The: revision of the bill permitting the full-bloods as well as the mixed-bloods to dis- pose of their lands outright has created some surprise in the in- terior department, inasmuch as the extension of such a privilege to the half-bloods is opposed; unless it is granted within the discretion of the secretary of the interior. The house com mittee on Indian affairs is opposed to removing the restrictions upon alienation of lands in the case of either tull- bloods or -half-bloods, except at the discretion of the secretary of the interior, and it recently re- ported favorably the bill intro- duced by Representative Burke of South Dakota, giviag the sec- retary of the interior authority to remove such restrictions under certain eircumstances. Tke proyisions just put in the Indian appropriation bill was in- serted on motion of Senator Clapp, chairman of the Indian committee. Ifit is passed by the senate it undoubtedly will be bitterly contested by the house in conference. St. Paul, April 11.—*Unless Bemidji has a sewer system at once, an epidemic will break out,” declared T. F. McGilyray of Du luth before the state board of health yesterday. “Typhoid is bound to result,”’ he continued, “and people will die. The city must have some sewage system at once.” Mr: McGilvray appeared be- fore the board as a represent- ative of the city council to urge upon the board the necessity of arriving at some decision con- cerning the kind of sewage plant the board would allow the city to install. The plans fora sewer system have been drawn for three years but the board has never made the necessary recom mendations concerning the style of a plant which should be putin. At the hearing yesterday, it was shown that if the board took action in allowing Bemidji to empty its sewage into Lake Be- midji it would, by its action, adopt a principle which might cause trouble all over the state. There was no doubt that the per- mission given to the city to dis- pose of sewage would to some extent contaminate the lake and the Mississippi river, which flows through the lake. Assistant Attorney General Simpson cautioned the board to move slowly in the matter, as it was one of the most important questions ever raised. By the action on this question, he said, the board virtually determined its policy in respect to the grant- ing to one community the right to contaminate a body of water which might be directly or in- directly the source of the water supply of another town. Mr. Bracken called attention to the fact that England had per- mitted the contamination of its streams by allowing them to be contaminatedand was now spend ing millions of pounds to clear them of this contamination. He said that it was a question which the board could not act upon hastily. Mr. McGilvray pointed out to the board the urgency of a sewer system in Bemidji.- He stated that the city was prepared to dispose of its sewage in a sanitary manner, providing the cost was not too great. Bonds were now being sold, he stated, for the con- struction of a sewer system, a plan of which he submitted to the - board for its approval. The plan contemplates the es- tablishment of a gravity system witha septic tank topartially filter the sewage. It was shown that the tank, however, would only purify the sewage about 50 per cent, and that partial contamin- ation of Lake Bemidji would re- sult. He stated that the city could not afford to build filtration beds which would entirely purify the sewage before it empiies into the lake. The board realizes that the proposition was a serious one and postponed action in the mat- ter until the next meeting on May 3. 1t is likely that the city of Be- midji will go ahead and construct the plant and let the board bring injunction proceediugs to test the matter, The lake, itis con- tended, is the only outlet for the sewage and the city, which is growing fast, must have a sewer system at once. Few cities in the state, it is urged, can afford to put in a sewage plant which will purify all the sewage, yet the state board of health under the code has full powers to-make every city, town and village in- stall septic tanks. Dr. Bracken stated that if it became known that Bemidji was Go to Naylor & Warrick for-all kinds of furniture at lowest prices. EYE 2 PT: C. J. Larson, the well known eye spec- ialist makes his next trip to Be- midji April 19, 20, 21, -and 22. All those having eye trouble and wishing to consult him .should call on him on one of those days. Office at the Hotel Brinkman, J. A. McConkey has opened up his new stock of groceries in the Masonic building. 1n a few days the same will be ready for the public. The balance of the old stock has been removed to this building but will be kept entirely separate from the new stock and will be sold at remarkably low prices to close out the same. Cases were cited where towns are contaminating - bodies of water which are bemng directly drawn upon by other: towns for their Cloud and Anoka was taken. Here it was admitted that the conditions were bad and that the water supply of one town was directly contaminated by an- other. It was suggested that the only action that could be taken to bring the matter of water contamination to a legal settlement was for one town suf- fering contamination to bring legal proceedings against the town responsible for such con- tamination. The board realized the import- ance of the matter and no action will be taken until after careful consideration. Theattorney gen- eral’s department will likely: ‘file an opinion on this. although under the new code the board can allow streams 10 be contaminated or proceed against . communities which are contaminating them. Clapp, of Minnesota; is enacted |[f | water supply. 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