Show RULING mum indian department announces that certain duplicate indian allot ments mente on the reservation are oper to tc entry an important ruling was recently made by the ludian indian deportment department nt at washington regarding duplicate in dlan dian allotments on the former uintah reservation thice of these allot mets mente in sections five omd and six town ship faur south range two bao west er filed upon immediately afterwards by county attorney T W odonnell tom Dir darchell chell and C D cook the first of last april the men above mentioned to tile file upon the land and the applications wore re fused by the register and ic te celver of the local land office on the grounds that they indian allot ments they showed on the maps map a as such euch and the register and receiver z coull of course do nothing else mr odonnell acting as attorney for himself and birchell and cook at once prepared exhaustive briefs on appeal and forwarded them to the commissioner of the general land office who took the matter up with the indian depart ment attorney odonnell was thor on cm the subject having haing previously studied if IC at great length and his briefs were among the most compi ehens lve ever sent up from this county ile he gave another evidence of his capability as an attorney in his contention that said lands were not indi a allotments he cited the corn com missioner of the general gone rail land office to many court decisions and acts of congress upholding him in his bents the decision of the indian depert department deportment ment was a short time azo it announced that the lauds lands open to entry though the ap pile ants had no preference rence rights they were soon on hand band however how eNor and nd filed it appears that when the allotting commission made the allotments in 1898 to the indians of the reservation luceta Jack jackrabbit rabbit and others were ere not satisfied with their allotments and they were given others the original allotments were supposed to hae been cancelled but et they appeared on the maps mapa as indian lands the three farms in question are located on the duchesne river about halfway between myton and the in dlan dian village on the south side of the river myton Is eleven or twelve miles from the indian village the fuhman Fuhr maji ditch camp Is now located at that point taking out a ditch which will water mater the indian lands of that section it Is said that there exe are other such allotments on the reservation and many people anxious for good farms are busy hunting them up |