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Show 106 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIBN AFFAIRS. after some years, was finally decided by the Department in favor of the Indians. The Indian agent of the Neah Bay Agency, Wesh., was then instructed to put the Indians in possession of their land, whereupon Nr. Pullen sued out a writ of injunction in the United States circuit conrt, district of Washington, northern division, against the Indian agent, John P. McGlpn, to restrain the agent from removing him from the Qnillehute Reservation. Itfay 2, 1898, William H. Brinker, special United States attorney, employed by the Attorney-General as special counsel in the case, reported to this office that he had pushed the case to trial and had succeeded in securing a anal decree, rendered April 30,1898, dissolving the injunotion and dismissing the bill filed by the plaintiff, and that the way was then clear for this office to direct the United States Indian agent to remove Nr. P d e n or his tenants from the lands in controversy. The Washington Fur Oompany was involved in $he case of Pnllen, and its rights on the reservation were also passed upon, in determining the rights of Mr. Pullen, by deparrtmental decision of Mmch 1, 1893. (Public Land Decisions, vol. 16. p. 210, et seq.) May 12,1898, Samuel G. Morse, the successor of Agent McGlynn, was instructed to serve notice upon Mr. Pnllen, his agents or tenants, to remove within a reasonable time from the lands in controversy and beyond the boundaries of the Quillehute Reservation, taking with them their families and all personal effects. If they failed or refused to com-ply with this notice, he was told that he should forcibly eject them from the lands in controversy and from the reservation also, provided his police force was sufficient to just~fyh im in taking this action; if not, he should report the facts to this office for further instructions. June 24,1898, Agent Morsereported that the removal of the personal effect^ of Mr. Pullen, who was then absent in Alaska, had been accom-plished; but that the Washington Fur Company had upon the reser-vation some 60 or 70 tons of goods, which it would be difficult for them to remove, because they were situated 40 or 60 miles down the coast from Seattle, Wash., and only occasionally could sohoonera rnn down to that point, loaded or unloaded. July 12,1898, he was instructed to give the company ample time to remove their goods. August 1,1898, United States District Attorney (+&y, for the district of Washington, notified this office that on July 8, last, there was served upon Agent Samuel G. Morse a restraining order based upon the peti-tion of complaint and affidavit of Sutcliffe Baxter in the case of Leman S. Mayer, as receiver of the Washington Fur Oompany, and that he had prepared a demurrer thereto, which had been sustained by the court; but that the court, however, had allowed the complainant thirty days in which to file a new petition or complaint. The attorney stated that he could interpose another demurrer, and thna fight the whole matter over again. It is trusted that the partialvictory already obtained by the Govern. ment will be made complete when the second demurrer in this case |