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Show PROrtEIJ PRESENTED Iff . . r " 'DISPUTE 0 VEIi LANDS. ... , : BUTTE, Mont.. May 15. An interesting land problem, involving about 200 ranchers ranch-ers of Carbon county, la presented for settlement by" the Interior department. The Ispue Involved dates back nearly ten, years, growing out of the relinquishment of two. townships of land by Long Bear, .Hie famouB'old war chief of the Crows. This relinquishment,- it Is found, was never , accepted by the Interior department, depart-ment, "and all the patents and deeds to various ranches are void should the Secretary Sec-retary of the department, live up to the strict "letter of -the law, and aU land would revert to the original owners, the Indians The attorney for the heirs of Long Benp hav -Instituted proceedings to recover J1000, as purt of i2MK) which waa paid to the departed chief for the relin-QiiUhmcnt relin-QiiUhmcnt of the land in controversy.- |