Show senator thomas called up in the senate recently and secured passage of senator kings king s bill authorizing payment of 0 to the ute indians for timber and aej other lands taken front from them by the government in 1905 in reporting the bill senator thomas directed attention to the fact that hat since it took back this land icord the indians some 36 acres in in uintah county the government has collected in timber and other fees in fit excess of a million and a halt half dollars so that after payment io to the indians the government still will be halt half a million dollars to tho the good tribune |