OCR Text |
Show The next day (May 16) Maj. French, Capt. Carpenter, Lient. Good-win, and Agent Eells were served n-ith a temporary order by the sheriff of King County, issued by t,he judge of the superior court at Seattle, restraining them from further preventing the construction of the road until a hearing of the matter could be had, and ordering them to appear before the superior judge on May 20 and show cause why said temporary order should not be made permanent. On the above date the case mas removed to the United Ststes district colurt, on motion of the defendants, and set for hearing on June G. The cause mas heard by Judge Hanford, of the United States circuit court, and on June 13 he rendered a decision granting the plaiutiff an illjunction pelzde~zte lite, as prayed for in his bill of complaint. The Department of Justice has directed the United States district attorney for the district of Wash-ington to appeal the case to the higher courts, mhere it is now pending. CR0\7 nESERTAT.\TlON, ilOh-T. Big Horn. Sotither~s 12uilroarZ 00?1ol,l2laiay.-By act of Congress approved March 1, 1893 (27 Stats., 11. 529, and p. 497 of this report), the time within which the Big Horn Souther11 Railroad Company (under the act of Congress approved February 12,1S90) ~uiehct o~~st ruictst road was extended two years from December 20,1892, so that the company may have until December 20, 1894, to construct its road through the reser-vation. The act also changes the line of routeof the road t l~rougtlh~e reservation, makingit practically a new grant of right of way. Mew tion of the progress made by the company loolring to the construction of the road under this act mill be made under the heading "G~.ants - ~- referred to in previons a~>nuarelp orts." ACTION PENDIXG BEFOEE CONGRESS, :IXD~LV AND OItIAIfOhIA TEI<IIITORIES. In the last annual report, under the above heading, attentionmas invited to the fact that b~l l sw ere then pending before Congress grant-ing the Pan-Anzerican Transportation Company, the IZnnsas City, Pitts-burg and Port S+~&iRthai ltuay Con&pa~&ayn, d the Ka~bsasC ity and Pac<fic Railroad Co~npanye ach a right of way through tile Indian and Okla-homa Territories. So far as this office is aware none of these bills mere finally acted on by Congress. Since the last annual report a bill mas introduced granting the Okla-homa ,lfidla~zd Railzcrry Cornpan?/ a right of may through the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, which, however, was not finally acted upon by the Fifty-second Congress. OTHER XNDIAIY RESERYATIOXS So far as this office is amare no final action was taken by Congress on the bills of which mention was made in the last annual report grant- |