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Show 108 REPORT OOB THE 00MM188IONEB OF INDIAN AFFAW. March 2,1899, and seoepted the relinquishment filed by the Seattle- Tacoma Fhilway Company. Commissioner McIntyre, of the Crow- Flathead Commission, was designated to assess the damages suffered by the Puyallup Indians, tribal and individual, by reason of the loca-tion of the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway line. Owing to illness, Mr. McIntyre was unable to proceed with the work, and it was assigned to Commissioner James H. McNeely, of the Crow- Flathead Commission. Upon request of the company, the Department, on July 12, appointed as referees to determine the cornpensition to be made certain minor heirs and ahsent Indian allot,tees 0. B. Hayden, L. E. Sampson, and J. A. Wintermute, all of Tacoma, Wash. Com-missioner McNeely's report of July 21, with schedules of damages, and the report of the referees were transmitted to the Department August 2, and were approved the same day. The schedules show a total award of $7,773.65. This amount was turned over by the railroad company to Superintendent Terry, of the Puyallup Consolidated Agency, and August 9, under Department instructions of August 2, he was directed to pay to the several parties in interest the amounts awarded each, except in the cases of four allotments whose ownership has not been determined by the Department. The matter is now in process of adjustment. Shawnee, Red Pork Coal and Railway Company.-May 23,1901, N. W. Bliss, attorney fol: this company, filed in this office an application for permission to survey and locate a lintof railway in the Indian Territory commencing at Red Fork, on the St. Louis and Ssn Fran-cisco Railroad, and extending thence southerly and southwesterly to Tecumseh or Shawnee, Okla. It was shown in the application that the company had acquired a line of road partially graded for a distance of 10 miles southerly from the town of Red Rock; also, that the com-pany had acquired certain coal leases in the Creek Nation and proposed to operate them in connection with its railway franchise. The applica-tion was accompanied by a map of definite location showing the 10 miles of the line of road represented as being partially graded, which was snb-mitted for approval under the act of March 2, 1899. For the reason that the application and map were not prepared in accordance with the regulations of the Department the papers were returned to the com-pany May 23. July 24, 1901, corrected papers were transmitted to the Department. The Departnient, August 5, directed that the com-pany be given thirty days to explain how it proposed to hold these coal leases in view of the Department orderof July 23,1901, directing the Indian inspeotor in the ludign Territory to cancei all permits for mining coal in the Creek Nation. August 9 the company was advised accordingly and given the thirty days' notice. No further action has as yet been taken by the company in the matter. |
