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Show 38 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDULN AFFAIRS. in charge of the reservations to be visited were accordingly furnished to its representative, who is now engaged in the work. On the 25th of last May Governor Cutler, of Utah, transmitted to the Department clippings from Salt Lake City newspapers setting out the reported intention of certain capitalists to loot ruins situated on public lands and within Indian reservations in southeastern Utah. The " See America League'" purposed committing vandalism on an. extensive scale-to measure, photograph, tew down, and remove the ruins from Utah, and to erect them in Colorado for exhibition pur-poses. The governor asked that the Government intervene to pre-vent any attempt which might be made to remove these ruins without permission. On June 9 the Office reported to the Department the action already taken for the protection of ruins and referred to the bill then be-fore the Congress which would create the Mesa Verde National Park in the southwestern corner of Colorado, while a pending amend-ment to that bill would extend similar protectiob to the ruins within the Southern Ute Reservation, which adjoined the proposed park Meanwhile it was recommended that superintendents in charge of reservations in southeastern Utah and vicinity be directed to see that the warning placards were still posted and to take any other action ' practicable to prevent any molestation or injury of objects of archeo-logical and ethnological interest within the reservations. The super-intendents were instructed accordingly, but no reports have been re-ceived from them indicating that the. threats of vandalism have been carried out. The act for the creation of the Mesa Verde National Park, approved June 29,1906 (34 Stat. L., GIG), describes the boundaries of the park and provides for its care and protection. I t also provides that pre: historic ruins within 5 miles of the boundaries shall be Subject to the same regulations and protection as the ruins within the park. This covers the cliff dwellings in the Southern Ute Reservation, in many respects the most extensive, characteristic, and beautiful in the whole country. SALE OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS. - Since the Supreme Court of the United States in the Matter of , Heff (197 U. S., 488) held that Indians who have received allotments are citizens of the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the States and therefore have the right to purchase intoxicat-ing liquors, it has been much more difficult to suppress the sale of liquor to tribal.Indians and to prevent dealers from taking liquor upon the reservations, and especially upon allotments. : The Office insists that the allotment of land and the issue of trust |