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Show -- I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XVII Ross FORKID, AHO, Mnvek I, 1878. COXXISSIOXTORF IXDIAANFB AIRS, 7Tashi,~gtan,D . 0. : OEcer in command of troops here has orders to hare an officer and trenrr-firemen report to commanding officer at Fort Hall, sixteen miles distant fmm agency. and bal-ance of command to return to Salt Lake at oone. This -ill lrarc agency entirely without proteetion at a time when the presence of troops ir r e v neerrsary, as the Bannocks, npon realizing that their ponies am to be driven avar and mld, will be more exasperated than ever. They have only been kept under subjection tbmngh fear 1 of troops kept at the ngenep. Employes believe they will be in danger of their lives, and -ill leare ton man if troops are withdrawn. Thisix also the feeling of the settlers in the community. I respectfully request that a. comp&uy of at least 6fty man be left at the agency. Prompt and 6ecided action necessmy. Answer. DANILSON. War Departmeut has been requested to leave at least fifty sol&iers at your agency. E. A. HAYT, Conmissioner. Ross Fom, IDAXMOr,c h 4, 1878. Co>nrIssrosEn OF 1s~1A.FiB~A IRS, TTnrrk.i+>onD, . C. : Has \Tar Department ordered troops to remain at the agency 9 The troopa expect to leave in the morning. Unless one oompanp is ordered to remain here the agency will be abaudoned. Answer. DANILSON. WAR DEPARTXESTM, avch 4 1878. COX~ I ~ S IOL~vE~Ru vA FFAIRS: All troops at Fort Hall hare been ordered to remain there until forther orders, and until we can hear further as to the state of &airs at the post. OEO. W. McCRARY, Swdtary of Wa?. Ross FORKID, AHO, Naroh 25, 1878. Co u r n r ~ s s ~ oINa ~D~I A~Ns r u n s , Washitgmlt; D. 0. : Military here and mg8elf recommend that the order to sell Bannook ponies be re-voked, and ponies retuned to them. Number captured does not cripple them for offensive operations, and tends to make diaaffecffected ones mom tronblesome. Twenty-five families have commenced farming. All of them have lost poniea. One man who came in last fall, and not impliated in the ahooting,loses twenty head. Expmse. of driving and selling ell leave scarcely mything to invent. DANILSOX. OFFICE OF I~PIAANT P~IRS, WaaAbrgton, Xarrb 26, 1678. DANII~ONA, gent, Roaa Fak, Idako: Militmy commander eonsentiug, the ponies can be returned, provided Indians will do more farming than they would aithont them. E. A. HAYT, Conmrn~8~sioner. IND-11 |