18 The Oregon Surveyor | Vol. 45, No. 4 By Pat Gaylord, PLS Surveyors in the News Surveyors were much in the news during development in the Pacific Northwest. Through the archives of the University of Oregon Library, this column revisits and celebrates some of those stories of our profession. Boundary Line Dispute Daily East Oregonian Pendleton, Oregon Friday, June 1, 1906 North Line Nez Perce Reservation Must Be Resurveyed. Advices from the Nez Perce Indian reservation state that there is a sharp contention over the exact location of the north line of the Nez Perce reservation, and while Uncle Sam’s surveyors are making another survey several of the farmers in the conflicting zone have gotten into the courts. This week R.B. Dobbins, a farmer living near Cavendish, got out an injunction against his neighbor, D. E. Pippinger, prohibiting him from farming a certain Indian allotment, part of which came in the disputed territory. Mr. Pippinger is consulting his attorneys as how to proceed in having the injunction dissolved. He recites the facts as follows: “I leased last year 120 acres of on Indian allotment belonging to Moses Ky-way-puts. I put part of it in fall grain, and expected to summer fallow the remainder. When I went to cultivate my summer fallow this year, I found that Dobbins had sown it to spring grain. “He contends that the reservation line is of a mile south of where the Indian survey places it and where the plats say it is, and says that the land in question is not Indian land. Surveyor Hurlburt is here fromWashingtonmaking a new tracing of the land and is replatting that part In dispute. Meanwhile, Mr. Dobbins has taken the matter into court with an injunction. I have secured Fogg & Tannahill to appear for me and themotion to dissolve the injunctionwill argued before Judge Steele early next week.”
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