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Show COURT OF APPEALS DENIES JURISDICTION SAN FRANCISCO, April 5. The L. S. circuit court of appeals decided to day that it had no jurisdiction in the appeal of Eugene Sol Louie, a Soeur D'Alone Indian convicted of second de gree murder, for a review of the decision de-cision of the United Stnles district court of Idaho, northern division. The appeal should have been taken to the U. S. supreme court, the decision stated, since its sole question was as to whether tho state or federal courts had jurisdiction over crimes commit ted on former Indian reservation land which had been patented by the Indians In-dians themselves. |