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Show BEPOXT OF THE 00MW88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRFI. 107 The 8 plats, showingreduced station grounds at the following points, were approved November 27,1901: Tulea, sections 1 and 2, tdwnship 19 north, range 12 east. Mingo, sections 30 and 25, township 20 north, ranges 13 and 14 east. Bushyhed, section 21, township 23 north, range 17 east. Dawson, section 27, township 20 north, range 13 east. Verdigris, sections 2, 10, and 11, township 20 north, range 15 east. Sequoyah, section 13, township 22 north, range 16 eaet. Taneha, section 1, township 18 north, range 11 east. Catale, section 15, township 24 north, range 18 east. December 5, 1901, there were approved plats showing additional station grounds at Afton (18.47 acres) under the act of April 25,1896, and December 23 plat of amended station grounds at Bristow, on the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad. The company was authorized January 16, 1902, to survey a liuo through the Cretk and Cherokee nations, and the Osagd Reservation, under the act of March 2, 1899. March 27,1902, the office reported upon an amended map' of definite location of a branch line extending from Mingo to Muskogee, submit-ted under the act of February 28,1902. The controversy between this company and the Mnskogee and Western Railroad Company is mentioned under the head of the latter company. St. Loujs, Oklahoma and Southern Railroad Company.-This line is operated and owned by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, and extends from Sapulpa, Creek Nation, to the Red River, a distance of 192.60 miles, the last section of which was completed in March, 1901. The road was constructed under act of March 30, 1896 (29 Stats., p. SO), and damages were assessed in favor of individual occupants through whose land the line extends, as follows: Creek Nation ......................................... Seminole Nsflon .......................................................................... ....... 440.00 ........... Total .................. i .................... The company has not yet issented to this award. It claims that it has settled with theae occupants; that it entered into a contract with the contractors whereby the latter were to pay for the right of way, and that if the company should now prokeed to settle with the occu-pants for the assessed damages it would have no legal claim against the contractors. It is also claimed that the assessment is excessive. The company refnses to dissent from the assessment and refuses to request the appointment of referees, as provided in section 3 of the act of March 30, 1896. It was notified March 25, 1902, that it would be allowed twenty days to make payment of the damages assessed or show |