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Show I GOES TO THE CAPITAL i Secretary of Interior to Decide Uintah Uin-tah Lands Claim. I l'roceHllitr pending in the United i Slate district court nt Salt Lake jCilv Involvb'T approximately sixty-rive sixty-rive thousand acres of land in the I Uintah Indian reservation, alleged by i the government to have been pur- dinned in violition nf tlm act of eon-Itrrue eon-Itrrue of March 3, 100J!, will be tromt-IJTerred tromt-IJTerred In the furiNilIcllon of llw secretary secre-tary of the interior by the provision 'f the act siiiireved bv the pnsidenl. i May 14. lf'Jf. In complaints filel 0i the Unill Stale district court, by I Former I'm led Slatv !)iri-l ,M-toniey ,M-toniey Hay, it is alleged that the laud was obtained by dummy entries in order lo evade the provision of Hie law which limited the amount whicli could 1h bought by on individual or eorHiratioii to six hundred ami forty acre. The defendant are David Smith, Maud Smith, Alice Smith, William Coleman. Janet Hatch (nnirt-j gagee), Thomas .lime, lliehanl Jones, Kliaabelh Jones, lliehanl Jones company, com-pany, Blanche Smith, Delhert T. Coleman, William IT. Lindsay and Thorns June. The act approved by President Wilson, Wil-son, a copv or wheh wa i-wWveil last Wednesday by Italph S. Kellev, Sail Uke City chief nf the field division of tho general laud office, reieal the provision of the net of Mareh 3, 100r, which limted the amount of land that could bo purchased on the reservation by one individual or eor-IMiration. eor-IMiration. In addition, any dewrt-mental dewrt-mental or court preeetxliiig iunlilut-wl iunlilut-wl on the gnniud that a larger area than six hundred and forty acre has been directly or indirectly acquired are left lo the discretion of Ihe see-lary see-lary of the interior. He may grant title tn the diputed land or request their nppraiMinent, in whicli case the ieron claiming title must my the difference lietweeu the pureliasing price and the appraisal value |