Show Indians Have Right to Ruling Holds Statute Fail to Apply to Known us Open Area Indians in the Uintah reservation will be able to vote on November 5 for the first time in a number of years if Uintah county officials follow an opinion written Saturday by Deputy Attorney General Grover A. In the answering a question raised by the Sterling John Talbot of Giles held that the legal ban on voting applies only to those living on closed Uintah is what is known as an open since the lands contained therein were restored to the public domain more than 30 years ago and since have passed into private ownership among tiie white and Indian Right Challenged Registration and voting districts were established and the residents of the reservation voted until when the provisions of the statute were called to their attention and their right to vote The statute provides that persons living on Indian or military reservations are not residents within the meaning of the law relating to unless they acquired residence in some county prior to taking up residence on the understand that with the recurrence of each election this matter has been a serious bone of contention among the people in Uintah Giles Statute Inapplicable Continuing he extended study of the problem I am of the opinion that the statute in contemplated Moreover the changed conditions in the locality in question with reference to the attitude taken toward the occupants of the lands in question by both state and county public authorities in lie levying and tion of together with the general jurisdiction assumed by and county public officials the affairs oT the citizens residing upon the doman within the indicates clearly tiie inapplicability of the statute in said if there is any doubt as to the of hii that matter should referred to the next In the he believes any doubt be resolved in favor of granting the franchise to the citizens residing on the Uintah rather than denying the |