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Show EEPOBTB OF AGENTS IN COLORADO. their studies. I am hopeful of a better attendance later in the season, when the in-centives to absence are removed, whirh couaist in hunting, fiahiug, and berrying expeditions. The children alwaysdesire to accompany their parents, and they deaire them to goalong. SUPPLIE8. The supplies for the support of the Ind~ansd elivered a t the agency during the pal3t year were of uniform good quality and of sufficient qusnt~ty. No complaint hasbeen made by the Indians either on account of the qualit or quantity of the supplies fur-nished them. Tho annuity goods were of good quafity and amply sufficient for the needs of the Indians. 8ANITARY. The sanitary condition of the tribes is as good aa could he expected, when we t,akke into condition the prevalence of syphilitic diaease with which they are moreor leas affected. WHISKY. The conduct of the tribe for thepast year has been goad. No acts of violence have occurred among t,hemselves, nor have they had any difficulty with the whites. No depredations at their hands have been reported. In this oonuection I desira to call your attention to the prevailing and growing tendency of these Indians to use spirituons liquors. Surrounded and in daily oontitot with a mixed popolat,ion, some of which are of the wurat element in thecountry, they have every facility for engaging in this traffic. The vicious white man is illwqs ready to sell, the bad Indian is always ready to buy. Only a few oases of iutoxioa- $ion have occurred in close proximity to the agenoy, although in parts more remote they have bee" enabled to obtain the article in quantities to suit themselves. Two deaths have oocnrred from the 118s of liqnor. Some steps should be taken to sup-press this evil. I would suggest that the aervioesof some suitable person he secured to ferret out and bring to justice parties who engage in this traffic. CABH PAYMENT. The psraspita whioh was paid to the Indisnsin the month of Mar, and whioh gave much satisfaction to the Indians, does not in my judgment produce the good results that would foilow if the payment mas made at an earlier date, for the reasOD that for weeks about the time of such payment they devote their time to feasting, gaming, and other sports, which divert their attention from farming, which requirea st this season of the year an undivided attention and ome. REMOVAL. Abont the close of the year 1886 most of the chiefs sod hedmen of the bands wm-posing the tribe interviewed me in referenoe to their removal to a more desirable res-ervation, girin as reBBOn8 for their desire to remove that their pmaent reservation WBB not deslrefie on account of its formation, being a, nsrrow strip 16 miles wide by 110 miles long; that the agency was looated in the eaatern part, in oonsequenoe of which (the greater part of them live to neatward) they were often compelled to go to the agency for rations and other porposcs under greet'difficulties; that owing to the great depth of snow, the almost impassable condition of roads caused by swollen streams, and onsocount of the ecuiiar shapeof the reservation, they have thagreat-est difficulty in kesping their ierda from going off and mioglingwith those of the whites, and that their Failure todo so has involved them in diaputes with the whites; that they are unable to keep their herds upon their reservation, also unable tu keep those belonging to the whites off. These chiefs and headmen requested that their wieh for rrmoval'he laid before the Department, which request was forwarded by 5 oammunioation to the Hon. Commissioner of Indian Affairs December 28, 1885, t.he resnlt, of which vas that authority was granted to me to go to Washington with ? delegation of the chiefs for the purposo of conferring with the authorities io referenoe to the matter. Their grievances were laid before the Department, after whioh they returned to their reservation fidi of hope that thoir wishea would be gratified, and at, an early day be removed to s, reservation meeting their wants and wiahes. Their desire for removal frolrl this looation has inoreased duriog this summer into. s eonstant oixmor and muttering ; they are daily expressing their discontent, ooupled with threats that they iuteod to leave the reservation without authority. Statistioa are herewith inclosed. Tbe total number of Indians is97U. 1 have the honor to be xonr ohodient sarvaut, CFDT. I?. STOLLSTEIMER, Unitad Stotw Indian Ag&. The Co~n~a s rol ;Eonw Ixnrarr APFAIW. |