made for him to address meetings at St. Peter, Albert Lea, 

 St. Cloud, Stillwater, Bemidji and possibly one or two other 

 Minnesota towns. 



THE bureau of Indian affairs of the department of the 

 interior is investigating alleged destitute conditions 

 among 150 Indians about Mille Lacs, complaint of which 

 was made to Governor Eberhart some time ago by citizens 

 of Mille Lacs. 



Governor Eberhart referred the matter to the Indian com- 

 missioner in Washington, and in a letter yesterday the act- 

 ing commissioner says that the department expects to act in 

 a short time. 



It is said about sixty-three families of Indians belonging on 

 the White Earth reservation have moved to the border of 

 Mille Lacs lake, and although many have been persuaded 

 from time to time to move back to the reservation, they have 

 again gone back to Mille Lacs lake, where they say is their 

 tribal home. 



JUDGE McCLENAHAN has filed an order in district court 

 at Bemidji denying the application of Michael Schmidt 

 of Superior of a temporary injunction restraining the 

 Swan River Logging company from operating its railroad 

 across forty acres of land to which he has title in the Stur- 

 geon lake country. The court holds that there is no ground 

 to warrant the granting of the application and the matter will 

 not be decided until the case comes on for trial on its merits 

 in district court in November. 



Schmidt some time ago sold the Swan River Logging com- 

 pany the rights to his timber on the tract in question. A 

 railroad was built across the land and the contention of 

 Schmidt is that his property is thereby damaged. The log- 

 ging company stood ready to put up a bond to safeguard 

 Schmidt against damage, and alleges substantially that the 

 litigation was brought with a view to prevent it from taking 

 the timber off in the time fixed in its contract, as it is now 

 worth much more money than when the original agreement 

 was entered into. 



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