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Show REPORT OF THE COMMIBBIONER 08 INDlAN AFFAlREI. 139 SETTLERS ON NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, MONT. All of the white settlers or beneficiaries of the appropriation made by the act of May 31,1900 (31 Stats., 241), "to pay for certain lands and improvemenb" within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont., have been paid. As reported last year, the claim of Charles B. Jefferis could not be settled until he was able to convey to the Government a clear title to his land and improvements. This he has done, and the deed was approved by the Department and the consideration paid to him. Otho S. Hon, one of the settIers, filed a claim for $2,400, as shted in the last annual report, in addition to the $2,100 which had been paid him upon his execution of a quitclaim deed for his lands and improve-ments. His additional ilaim was also allowed by the Department and has been paid. Katherine A. Toohey made a claim similar to that of Mr. Hon, which wrw also allowed, and she has been paid both for land and improvements, the total consideration being $3,000. There are seven other settlers within the northern portion of the reservation. Senate bill No. 3369, Fifty-seventh Congress, first ses-sion, providing for the purchase of their rights and improvements, was referred to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, but did not become a law. OPENING WALKER RIVER RESERVATION, NEV. The Indian appropriation act of May 27, 1902, provides that lands on the Walker River Reservation in Nevada, irrigable from existing ditches or extension thereof, shall be rillotted-20 acres to each head of a family and not exceeding 20 acres to such Indians as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate. After a majority of the heads of families shall have accepted their allotments and consented to relin-quish the remaining irrigable land, "and land which is not necessary for dwellings, school buildings, or habitations fur the membersof said tribe," the allotted heads of families are to receive $300 each, and the relinquished land is to be opened to settlement and disposed of under existing laws. Plans for carrying out this legislation an$ for safeguarding the interests of the Indians are being matured. WADSWORTH TOWN SITE, PYRAMID LAKE RESERYA-TION, NEV. The Indian appropriation act approved July 1,1898 (30 Stah., 571), contains a clause authorizing the inhabitants of Wadsworth, in the |