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Show REY3RT OP THE CO~S8IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 85 maps, not conforming to Department regulations, were returned to the applicant with instructions. Corrected maps and formal application were filed in this o5ce August 27. Meantime there was filed, July 29,1901, by Messrs. Hutchings,West & Farker, as attorneys for J. E. Campbell, an application, mom-panied by maps of definite location, both in proper foim, for per- ,mission to locate a telephone line from a point on the south line of . .''<.~it he State of Kansas adjoining and along the right of way of the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad to a point at or near Wagoner, in the Creek Nation, Ind. T. The line of route as shown upon the map of definite location is coincident with the line shown on the map of definite location filed by the Claremore Telephone Company. The above applications are now pending before the Department. Cherokee Nation Telephone Company.-By Department reference, informal application dated April 2,1901, was filed in this office by W. H. Gates, manager, for pernlission to locate and construct a telephone line from the town of Pawhuska, in the Osage Reservation, to the east side of the Osage Nation, in the direction of Bartlesville, 1nd.T. Instiuctions and regulations were forwarded the applicant by this o5ce June 12. Colorado River Telephone Company.-Informal application was filed in this office by R. P. H. Laney, secretary, on the 23d of last May, for permission to construct and maintain a telephone line across the Yuma Indian Reservation, beginning at a point on the right bank of the Colorado River opposite the town of Yuma, Ariz., and extending thence in a northerly direction across the Indian reservation. Instrnc-tious andregulations were forwarded Superintendent Spear, of the Fort Yuma school, for the information of the applicant. Robert H. Hall.-August 6, 1901, Robert H. Hall, of Tnlsa, Ind. T., was granted authority by the Department to survey and locate tele-phone lines in the Indian Territory, commencing at Tulsa, Ind. T., and from that point radiating to numerous towns in the Cherokee and Creek nations and in the Osage Reservation, and extending a short di~tance into the Territory of Oklahoma to the town of Chandler, the combined length of the lines being about 444 miles, as follows: From a point on the Indian Territory-Kansas line near Caney, extend-ing southerly through the town of Tnlsa, Ind. T., to the town of Hol-denville, in the Creek Nation, Ind. T.; from a point in Lincoln County, Okla., near' Chandler, extending northeasterly through the town of Tnlsa to Vinita, in the Cherokee Nation, Ind. T., and from a point at Pawhuska, Osage Keservation, Okla., extending southerly and sonth-easterly to the town of Muscogee, Creek Nation, Ind. T. Indian Territory Telephone Company.-Application was filed in this office by Oliver Bagby, president, July 12, 1901, for permission to lccate a telephone line from Vinita, Cherokee Nation, Ind. T., along thc south side of the light of way of the St. Louis and San Fancisco |