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Show REPORT OF THE COMMI88IONER OF INDIAX APFAIR8. 147 In the Cherokee Nation, the towns of- Grove. Choteau. Webbers Falls. Centrali&. Adair. Hauson. Vinita. Nowata. Welch. afton. Oolagah. Clammore. ' Bartleaville. Chelsea Ramona' Sallisaw. Fairlaud. Muldrow. Talala. Collinsville. Bluejacket. Vian. Pryor Creek. Fort G~baon. Tahlequah. Stillwell. Catoosa. Weatville. Lenapah. In the Creek Nation, the towns of- Clrukaville. Cheeotah. Holdenville. Sapulpa. Okmulgee. Eu£aula.. Briatow. Tulsa. In the Choctaw Nation the plats of the following towns have been approved: Antlers. Tamaha. Cameron. Talihim Caddo. Whitefield. Enterprise. Howe. Gmt. Calvin. Hoyt. Guertie. Poteau. Kiowa. Redoak. South McAlester. In the Chickasaw Nation the plats of Woodville and Silo have been approved. None of the towns in the Cherokee Nation have yet been surveyed and platted, and in the Creek Nation only Muskogee, Wagoner, and Moundr have been surveyed and platted. Segregating land for town sites.-The Indian appropriation act of May 31,1900, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, upon the recom-mendation of the commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, to segregate land for town-site purposes in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee nations "at such stations as are or shall be established in conformity with law on any line of railroad which shall be constructed or be in process of construction in or through either of said nations prior to the allotment of lands therein." September 12,1900, the com-mission recommended that land for town-site purposes in the Creek Nation be segregated at the following stations: Mounds, 160 acres; Beggs, 160 acres; Okmulgee, 160acres; Winohell, 160 acres; Henrietta, 157.13 acres; Alabama, 80 acres; Wetumka, 160 acres; and Yager, 120 acres; also in the Chickasaw Nation at the following stations: Francis, 160 acres; Ada, 160 acres; Rolf, 160 acres; Scullen, 160 acres; Bryant, 155.45 acres; Ravia, 157.02 acres; Madill, 160 acres; Helen, 156.09 acres; Woodville, 160 acres; and Gray, 80 acres. The lands were segregated by the Department, but the Department afterwards decided that land for the town site of Gray, in the Chickasaw Nation, should not have been segregated, inasmuch as it appeared that a town would never be built there. Therefore, July 31, 1901, the Department revoked its former action in segregating l a ~ fdo r town-site purposes at that station. |