THROUGH TRAINS.—PASSENGERS THIS DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 11701, 6 October 1902, Page 5

THROUGH TRAINS.—PASSENGERS THIS DAY.

ntm nxntma fox th» forth. Mr and Mrs Ancell, Mr A. Johnson M H. S. Kyle, Miss Layton. ? raou DUNXDtN fob thb south. Mrs Crossan and son, Miss Mason, M Bartlett, Mr M. Willis, Mrs ,W. Sherty Mrs Nicol, Mrs Tiainor, Mr G. Delama Mr A. R. Willis, Miss Howes, Mr A.? Allen, Mr P. H. Watson, Mr M. FraerJ mOII THB SOUTH .FOE DT/NKJ>IH, I Mr D. B. Esther, Mr R. T. Whef, Mr H. Norman, Mr R. S. GilkJ, Mr W. Jenkins, Mr J. H. Carter, 'M&. Coventry, Mr R. Jopp, Mr S. N. Brh, Mrs Gilfedder and son, Mrs Tracey,;/rs W. H. Palmer, Mr A. Thomson, ,-jiss Hunt, Mr and Mrs Higgins, Mrs Brn, Rev.. Mr Fee, Mr and Mrs Murtaghllrs B. Lambert. ? J

On the high plains of Western Americaf twenty-flvQ acres df c fire-required for each head of cattle. ~ It is alleged'that ranchmen ("squatters" in' Australian par* lance) have* in recent years taken possession of vast tracts of these vacant, landai and although tho law.permitajrno individual tQ acquire more than 16Q even that only upon conditions impossible of fulfilment on those arid levels-r-haye obtained titles/br. fraudulent entries and proofs, at which the Federal Government officers have connived. Millions of acres, it is averred, have been thus closed against bona fide settlers., . .. ; Some of. the country known until lately as the Arizona Desert is now more valuabU than the best farming land in the Mississippi Valley. Irrigation has made fruit possible, and has thus caused the change.