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Show 88 REPORT OF THE 00MMI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAES. Puget Sound Telegraph Conipany to locate a telegraph line across the Port Madison Reservation some time subsequent to the year 1870. The records of this office were examined and nothing could be found indicating that application had ever been made for the location of a telegraph line on that reservation, and the company was so advised August 7. Snohomish River Boom Company.-February 25, 1901, E. E. Brehm, president, filed in this office a request for permission to locate and construct a telephone line across a corner of the Tulalip Reservation, in the State of Washington, extending from the town of Marysville to a point on Port Gardner, in sec. 31, T. 30 N., R. 5 E., W. M., a distance of about 23 miles. The application was submitted to the Department March 14, and on the 26th it authorized the survey and location of the line of telephone as proposed on condition that the company prepare maps of definite location in accordance with Depart-ment regulations. The agent of the Tulalip Agency was designated to assess the damages suffered by the Indian allottees by reason of the location of the line. No further action has been taken by the company in the matter. E. P. Sparrow and E. W. Black.-May 31,1901, application was filed by the parties named for permission to locate and construct a tele-phone line along the wagon road connecting the town of Pawhuska, Osage Reservation, and the town of Elgin, on the south line of the State of Kansas, a distance of 25 miles. The application and axcom-panying map showing the proposed line were submitted to the Depart-ment June 12, and on the 14th of June authority was granted for the parties named to survey and locate a line along the route described. F. H. Wright.-July 5,1901, the Department approved the applica-tions of F. H. Wright for authority to survey and locate a telephone line in the Indian Territory and a line in the Kiowa? Comanche, and Apache Reservation, in Oklahoma, as follows: Beginning at the town of Chickasha, Ind. T., extending thence westerly to the west line of the Indian Territory, and thence westerly in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation to a point on the north line of said reser-vation south of sec. 36, T. 8 N., R. 15 W. Also beginning at Ana-darko and extending thence in a southerly direction to a, point on or near the east line of the Fort Sill Military Reservation, thenoe easterly to the west line of the Indian Territory, thence easterly to the town of Marlow, Ind. T. July 8 further authority was granted F. H. Wright relative to the construction of that portion of the above-described line in the Indian Territory. July 18 he was further authorized to locate and construct a telephone line from a point on or near the e a t line of the Fort Sill Military Reservation in the Kiowa, Comanuhe, and Apache Reservation, Okla., to a point at or near the south line of the town of Lawton, O!&. July 26 the Department authorized the loca- |