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Show REPORT OF THE COXMISBlONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 55 March 26,1901, Special Allotting Agent John K. Rankin was desig-nated to make the allotments to the Crow Indians as above authorized. June 26, instructions were given him (approved by the Department June 27), and shortly thereafter he entered upon duty. Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, 0kla.-Since it had been found impossible to complete the allotments on this reservation by December 6, 1900, Congress, by the act of January 4, 1901 (31 Stats., 727), extended the time or opening the reservation not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, and made an appropriation to cover the cost of the allotment work. It was conducted by Inspector Nesler with much energy and ability. The final schedule was certified by him June 1 and approved by the Department June 18,1901. Wichita Reservation, 0kla.-As stated in the Annual Report for 1897 (p. 22), thework of allotting the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians was suspended by resolution of the Senate adopted June 1,1897, until the compensation to be allowed and paid those Indians for the lands in excess of allotments should be finally determined. January 31, 1901, the Court of Claims, by direction of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered a decree dismissing the petition of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, and adjudged and decreed that the members of the Wichita and affiliated bands were entitled to 160 acres each out of the lands ceded by the agreement of June 4 1891, and that the same should be set apart to them by the United States, to be owned in severalty, in accordance with article 2 of the agreement. It also entered judgment as to payment for the eurplus lands, etc. February 15, 1901, the Department directed that the work of allot-ting these Indians be resumed. Messrs. A. J. Perry, of Nortonville, Kms., William R. Kirkpatrick, of El Reno, and A. R. Museller, of Perry, Okla., were appointed special allotting agents and they were instructed as to their duties March 11, the instructions being approved by the Department March 14. March 25 Special Allotting Agent John K. Rankin was instructed to take temporary charge of the work. May 24 Inspector Nesler was instructed to relieve Special Agent Rankin (who wm to resume work on the Crow Reservation), and May 27 he was instructed to take charge June 1. June 24,1901, Inspector Nesler forwsrded his final schedule, whichwas approved by the Depart-ment July 2, 1901. A schedule of twenty-seven allotments made to adopted members was approved July 4. 1891, on which date the order opening the snr-plns'lands of this and the Kiowa, etc., reservation to settlement was issued by the President. Contested allotment, Umatilla Reservation, 0reg.-An Indian named He yu tsi mil kin, an occupant of the Umatilla Rwervation, Oreg., was allotted under the act of March 3, 1885 (28 Stats., p. 840), the southeaqt quarter of 8e9 20, T. 3 N. R. 34 E., conta~n:ng 160 acres. |