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Show 94 REPORT OF THE (10XMIR8IONER OF IXDIAN AFFAIR8. (tila Valley and Globe Northern Railway Company.-February 19, 1901, the Attorney-General was asked to institute suit to compel this company to repair and maintain roadways in the San Carlos Reserva-tion, but March 27,1902, the San Carlos agent was instructed to make an effort to collect from the company damages equal to the cost of the labor necessary to construct a new roadway to avoid the obstruction caused by the railroad company, estimated to be about $287.50. He reported May 12 that the company refused to settle on the terns sug-gested, and May 23 he was requested to secure from the company an offer of settlement. Indian Territory Traction Company.-The application of this company for permission to locate an electric railway connecting South McAlester with Raileyville, Krebs, and other surrounding mining towns, under the act of March 2, 1899, was approved January 4, 1902, upon con-dition that the company would furnish satisfactory evidence of its good faith and financial ability. This was furnished July 23,1902, together with map of definite location showing a route 15.10 miles in length. The map was approved July 25, and August 4 United States Indian Inspector Beede was instructed to assess the damages. Jarnestown and Northern Railway Company.-The act of March 3, 1901, provided that the amount of compensation agreed to between this company and the Indians of the Devil'a Lake Reservation, N. Dak., shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Sissetou, Wahpeton, and Cut-head Sioux Indians within sixty days after the passage of the act. October 25, 1901, the company trans-mitted $1,845 to cover the compensation due, which was accepted October 31. The Northern Pacific Fhilway Company owns and oper-ates tbis line. Kansas, Oklahoma City and Western Railway Company.-September 5, 1901, application was made for permission to survey a line through the Cherokee and Creek nations, and the Osage and Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations, under the act of March 2,1899. The appli-cation was not in regular form and satisfactory evidence of the good faith and financial abbility of the company was not furnished. There-fore upon rehuest of the company, the application and other papers were returned February 11,1902. Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Gonthwestern Railway Company.-This line is owned and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-way Company and extends southerly from the Kansasdndian Terri-tory line in township 29 north, range 13 east, through Bartlesville, a distance of 57.79 miles. The latter company applied for approval of a map, under the act of April 25, 1896, showing additional station grounds, comprising 6.9 acres at Bartlesville, Cherokee Nation. March 5,1902, the company was informed that inasmuch as it did not have any existing station at Bartlesville when the act was passed it can not acquire any ground there as additional to a then existing sbtion. |