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Show 100 REPORT OF THE OOMXISSIONER OF INDIAX AFFAIBS. Section on main line from point 20.2 miles northeast of Oklahoms City to southeast comer section 19, towns hi^ 15, north. ranee 2 weat (13.55 miles). submitted under act February 28, 1902, andtransmitted to Department Auguat 16,1902. First section, Wybark branch, extending 20 miles northeasterly from Wybark, Creek Nation, approved July 3, 1902. Second section, Wybark b c h , 10 miles, in Creek Nation, approved July 3,1902. Third section, Wybark branch, 17.18 miles, in Creek Nation, approved August 15, 1902. Fourth section, Wybark branch, 20 miles, Creek Nation and Osage Nation, Okla-homa, approved August 9, 1902. Fifth section, Wybark bmnch, 12.04 miles, Osage Nation, Oklahoma, forming connection with main line in section 23, township 21 north, range 8 west, Angust 6, 1902. Station grounds, maps filed July 23, 1902, under act of March 2,1899, but proof of service of notice on allottees not yet filed, aa follows: For grounds between stations 594 and 614, Wybark branch, 11.4 nliles from point of connectionwith the Miwuri, Kansas and Texas Railway at Wybark; also for grounds at Coweta, between stations 1120 and 1140, Wybark branch, 21.2 miles from Wyba~k. Under the act of February 28, 1902, maps have been submitted as follows: Amended location of 1.8 miles of the Wybark branch in sec-tions 35 and 27, township 16 north, range 18 east. Amendments of original location-one on the Wybark branch for a distance of 1.61 miles through the town of Tulsa, Creek Nation, and the other on the main line between railroad stations 3901+50 and 3990+50 in Pawnee County, Okla., a distance of 1.7 miles. Selection of terminal grounds in the southeast quarter of section 19, township 15 north, range 2 east, Licoln~CountyO, kla., at the junction of the Guthrie and Oklahoma City branches, embracing 40 acres. The first was transmitted to the Department July 28, the last two August 25, 1902. The company has made payment for damages to occupants in the Cherokee Nation on the main line from Stevens to Bartlesville, and tribal damages have been assessed through that nation. Damages are being adjusted on the Wybark branch in the Creek Nation, and the agent for the Osage Agency has been designated to assess damages through the Osage Reservation. Appraisement of tribal damages made on the 11.51 miles in that reservation, extending westerly from Bartlesville, in the sum of $1,421, was approved August 16, 1902. Referees were appointed to appraise the damages to o e a i n occupants in the Cherokee and Creek nations with whom amicable settlement could not be effected. Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Company.-September 20, 1901, there was approved under the act of March 2, 1899, map of definite location, showing a line crossing four Indian allotments in townships 35, 36, and 37 N., R. 13 E., Mount Diablo meridian, in California. October 31 Special Allotting Agent Casson reported that the chief engineer of the road had agreed to compensate each allottee in the sum of $100, and afterwards;, January 27, 1902, reported that the ice-president of the company declined to do so. February 15 and |