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Show 62 DOMMISSIONEB INDIAN ~FAIRS. continues, and rights of way for pipe lines and tank sites have bean granted to the following: Prairie Oil & Gas Co. National Refining Co. Wichita Katural Gas 00. Magnolia Pipe Line Co. Cosden & Co. Yale Katural Gas Co. Creek County Gas Co. Only Oil Co. Charles B. Ehaffer. Gulf Pipe Line Co. David Gunsberg. Oklahoma Pipe Line Co. Quaker Oil & Gas Co. Indiahoma Refining 00. Kathleen Oil Co. Oil Production Co. 7 Toxaway Oil Co. HIGHWAYS. The local authorities throughout those States in which there are reservations have shown increased activity during the past year in mnlcing applications for permission to open and establish public highways across Indian lands. About 25 applications have received approval and as many more are now pending. WHITE EARTH LAND SUITS. The prosecution of the White Earth land-fraud cases has been carried on with such dispatch as has been possible under the con-ditions. The Government has lost one very important point: Judge Morris, of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, had rendered an opinion holding, in effect, that an allottee having less than one-eighth mixture of white blood should be considered as a full-blood Indian, and that, therefore, such allottees' restrictions were not removed by the acts of June 2,1906 (34 Stat. L., 353), and March 1, 1007 (34 Stat. L., 1034). The cases were appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, where the decision of Judge Morris was overruled, the court holding that every Chippewa Indian who had an identifiable mixture of other than Indian blood derived from ancestors who have other than Indian blood is a mixed-blood Indian. The Government thereupon appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal, on June 8, 1011, handed down an opinion upholding the decision of the cir-cuit court of appeals. WHITE EARTH ROLL. The Indian appropriation act approved June 30,1913 (38 Stat. L., 88), contains a provision for the preparation of a roll of Chippewa Indians allotted within the White Earth Reservation, Minn., by n commission consisting of two persons appointed by the senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The court appointed as such commission Mr. R. J. Powell, an attor- |