Thereis a shrinkage in t he business^of the general land office according^to the annual report of Commissioner^Kemorcaux. Compared with 1894^there has l^een a decrease in land en^tries of lU.tm. and of (i.016,^S5 acres^entered upon ; a decrease of final en^^tries to the number of ^i,.^4, and :^^.-^0T^!^ acres entered upon, a decrease of^. ash receipts of $734,370. Discussing^the act of the last congress granting^lands to states for irrigation purpo^^ses, Commissioner Lamoreaux says^he believes that the necessity will^arise in the near future for the crea^^tion of a national commission whose^functions it shall Is^ to regulate the^distribution of these waters which^have their source in a superadjacent^state and which have heretofore been^used incommon by the jK-ople of that^and the subndjacent states.
ANNUALINSTITUTE.
LargeAttendance of Teachers and^Much Interest Manifested.
Randall,Miss Mercy Jackson and^Miss Augusta Wydert and the sing^^ing by Mrs. John Whit weree espi-c-^ially good.
Jri.iaHakims. Rec. Sec'y.
AiorsTA Wyiikrt. Asst. Sec'y.
