| Show TROUBLE OVER TOWN LOTS legislation will be needed to right bight matters in indian territory town sites Musk muskogee 1 T there are towns in indian territory in which the government has not yet completed plated the wile sila of town lots the first towns that were appraised and tha lots sold under government supervision are now making final settlement and every day the indian agent sends out hundreds of notices to the principal chiefs that floal final payment has haa been made on lots lota in n the various towns some peculiar conditions havo have arisen and without relief legislation legi the government will never be able to close the townsite business in some of the towns there are lots lota which are not worth the appraised value and they have never been sold as 03 the government cannot accept less than the appraised value luiere I 1 here will have to be legislation allowing to make disposition of such property again there are hundreds of instances purchasers have made mada payments in lots lint but have not made the final payment the deeds cannot be issued until the final payment Is made these payments must not run ran over 60 days past due and ten per cent interest antei inte iest to is charged but there is no way to enforce the ha payment of the interest or the last payments either cither it the purchaser wants arnts to let the property drop in such cases capes the property reverts to the tribe and there lt it stands they are found in every one of the government towns in the territory it Is believed by the town townsite gite department of the indian agency that such relief will be provided in the inda indgin in bill this session of congress con gresa |
