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Show I The resignation of William.E. Casson on December 29, 1906, was 1 accepted and Howard G. Bartlett, of Rome, N. Y., was commissioned to fill the vacancy. Agent Bartlett has been assigned to make allot-mentsko Indians on the public domain in California and Arizona in ~ ' the neighborhood of Needles. There is a great deal of work to be done in making and adjusting fourth-section allotments in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. In Wash- , ington the Northern Pacific Railway Company has relinquished its right to certain lands within its grant in townships 33 and 34, range 44 east, because those lands have long been in the occupancy of certain Kalispel Indians. The tentative allotments made by Special Allotting Agent John K. Rankin August 20, 1897, to the Rootenai Indians ought to be -followed up and the lands allotted under the fourth section of the general allotment ad. Owing to the rapidity with which the public land available for allotment to Indians is being appropriated, this work should be prose-cuted without the interruptions which have been so frequent during the last three or four years, so that the Indians on the public'domain may be provided with homes before all suitable and available lands have passed into the ~ossessiono f white settlers. THE BURKE LAW. &+v I devoted considerable space in my last regort to a consideration of tle act of May 8, 1906. (34 Stat. L., 182), commonly known as "the Burke law." One of its important provisions was the authority con-ferred on the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee simple to allottees whenever he was satisfied that they were competent to care for their own affairs. Under this act 881 applications have been received, and the number of cases acted on favorably up to September 1 is as follows: Klamath River, Cal. --.....-... - 2 Southern Ute, Colo -------------- 1 Nez Per*, Idaho. ....--.---1.8- .-- Iowa, Kans. ...--....-....--.1- --- Potawatomi, Kans. ..---..-.-4- .-- Klckapoo, Kana. .-.--..-..-.2 --.- Sac and Fox, Kana and Nebr .-.- 5 Santee and Ponca, Nebr. .---.-3-0 .- Omaha, Nebr. ..-.-----.-24- .----.- Winnebago, Nebr -.-.r-.-.- 10 I ~ Leech Lake, Mlnn .--L- .- --_..-. -7 . White Earth, Ddinn -----.-----10. .- I Cheyenne and Arapaho, OKla ---.15- Sac and Fox, Okla ------..-14- ----- Clttzen Potawatoml and Absentee Shawnee, Okla -----._1-18. ------- I Klckapoo, Okla ---.--..---- 1- -.---- Oto, Okla---------__.-----.--.-- 7 Ponca, Okla 3 Klowa, Okla _..--12. - Grnnde Ronde, Oreg. ._.._.87_ _--__ Sileta, Oreg. .......__-.25_ _------- Umatilla, Oreg. ...--,---.-39- .---. Crorn Creek, 8. Dak .----..-.2 ---- Sisseton. S. Dak ..-.------31- ----.- Lower Brule, S. Dalr. ----.-2 ----- Rosebud, S. Dak .---.--___.3.4 .____ Yankton, S. Dal i. -..-..---67- ---- C l i l e a . . 1 Seger, Okla --.---.-....---1- --.--- Yakima, Wash 5 Quapaw, Ind. T..-: La Pointe, Wls -.....--.--------- :& Oneida, Wis 171 - mtal-----_------__.--.--. 753 |