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Show 86 REPORT OF TEE COMMfSSfONER OB INDIAN APPAfRS. &lroad to the town of Sapulpa, Creek Nation, Ind. T.! a distance of 78 miles. The application and map of definite location were submitted to the Department August 10. August 14 the company was author-ized to construct a'telephone line along the route described in the application and shown on the map of definite location. Indianola Telephone and Telegraph Company.-Appiication was filed in this office June 26,1901? by Walter B. Richie, general manager, for. permission to locate a line of telephone adjoining the right of way o&@., the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company from the north to the south line of the Indian Territory. June 29,1901, the Indian Territory Telephone Company, through its attorneys, filed a protest against the granting of such right of way to the Indianola Telephone and Telegraph Company. This protest was transmitted to the Department July 3, together with the application and maps of definite location of the Indianola Telephone and Telegraph Company. The protest of the Ind,ian Territory Telephone Company was dismissed, as already noted on page 83, and by Department letter dated July 26,1901, the application and maps of definite location of the Indianola Telephone Company were approved and authority granted the company t,o construct its proposed line. J. Blair Shoenfelt, agent of the Union Agency, was designated to assess the damages suffered by the Indian nations or by any individual occupants through whose lands the telephone line will iun. His instructions contained in office letter dated July 30 were approved by the Department August 3. Minnesota Telephone and Electric Company.-Informal application was filad in this office by W. R. Banmhch in behalf of the Minnesota Telephone and Electric Light Company for permission to locate a line of telephone through the W'hite Earth Reservation in Minnesota, between Bemidji and Deer River, along the right of way of the Great Northern Railway Company. Regulations and instructions were for-warded the applicant by this office April 19. No further action bas been taken by the company relative to perfecting its application. Minnesota Electric Telephone Company.-Informal application was filed in this office by D. N. Tallman, president, March 18,1901, for permission to locate a telephone line across the Leech Lake Reser-vation in Minnesota. Instructions and regulations were forwarded applicant April 19. Nebraska Telephone Company.-Application wm filed in &is office by C. E. Yost, president, June 10, 1901, for permission to locate and construct a telephone line through the Omaha and Winnebago Reser-vations in Nebraska, along a route beginning at Homer, Nebr., and terminating at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency. The Indian agent, Charles Mathewson, stated that the line, if constructed along the route proposed, would no doubt follow the public highway and would do no damage to any allottee on the reservation and that the constluction |