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Show I XX REPORT OF THE COMMlSSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Wnn DEPARTMENT, Fashirigtor~C i$, April 11, 1678. SIR: I have the honor to transmit for $our information a, copy of a, telegram from General Crook, stating that the Indian ponies lately tnkenfrom the Indians at Fort Hall Agency should be returned to them; he also repmts in regard to the additional troops sent to Ross Fork, Iilaho, and recommends their return to Salt Lake. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. W. McCRARY, Sewetavj of Far. The Ron. SECRETARY OB IXTERIOR. mADQUAHTER8 DEPARTXEST OB THE PLATPE, Omaha, Nebraska, Ap11123, 1878. [Genoral Order8 No. 34.-E-t.] % * * 2. Companies D, E, and G, Fourteenth Infantry, are relieved from dut,y at Fort Hall Agency, Idaho, and will return without delay to their proper station, Camp Douglas, Utah. The commanding officer of the battalion will detail a, commissioned officer and twenty-five enlisted men to remain at the agenoy, and the officer thus detailed will report to the commanding officer Fort Hall, Idaho. * * * * I By command of Brigadier-General Crook. ROBERT WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjlbtant-Gsrteral. OFPICE OP LXDIAN &PAIRS, Washington, June 5, 1678. Telegraph immediately fill report of the situation of you Indians. Nothing has been heard from yon, and the papers are filled with mmars. E. A. HAYT, Cmnisaiono: Ross FORK,I DAHJOme, 6, 1678. COMMISSIONERO B INDIAAFNFA IRS,W aahCngton, D. C.: Nine hundred s;nd eighty Indianshere, moatly Shoshones, engaged in farming. Mast of the Bannocks have left the asenov- . Have seen bv uauem thsv are committin-e depredations in Camas Prairie mdvicinity, one hundred and 6fty miles west of agency. A Shoshone has just come in from them md confirms newspaper reports. Indians here ~ - are very muoh excited. One offloer and twenty-five soldiers here; need more troops. Will keep you amised of situation. DANILSON, Agmt. Ross FORKID, AHJOun,e 10, 1878. Cenawss~omO F INDIA&NAIR S, Wa.a8hington,D . C.: Could not keep roaming Bannoeks here when the amount of supplies was soeroely enough to feed Indians engaged in f d n g . See your dispatches of April 3d and 9th. All quiet at agency. DkNILSON. In the light of succeeding events it is evident thatneitherthe military officers at Fort Hall, nor General Crook, who made a visit to Fort Hall for the purpose of ascertaining whether the troops ought to remain there or not, nor General Sherman, who thought unfavorably of the agentbecause he wanted troops to remain at the agency, had a true ap-preciation of the effect which the unsuccessfi~al ttempt to capture arms |