Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-23 | Page 8 | Will Press Their Claim

WILL PRESS THEIR CLAIM. Blackfoot Indians Hope to Get Fay for Large Tract. GREAT FALLS. Mont.. May B. The Blackfoot Indians havo determined to make claim at Washington for all the land lying between Sun river and a line n short distance north of Helena Tho amount Involved Is nearly .on....sm , acres. They claim that a strip of land along the Sun river was sold hy them but that they never sold thS land beyond. Thl; Is an old claim and It Is now revived re-vived because of a similar case In California Cali-fornia In which, after thirteen years struggle, the Indians won out and re- retvo.l C t'T th nteste.l land With such a case as a precedent, the Indians are hopeful of a satisfactory adjustment ad-justment of their claim.