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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 13 I right, title, and claim to all the cbontry claimed by them, and accepted a reservation described in said article by natural bou~~dariesu,p ou which they agreed and hound themselves to locate immediately after the ratification of the treaty. The ratification of this treaty was advised and consented to by the ' Senate. Julv 2. 1SGG. and the same was nroclaimecl br the PresidenL ~ e b r u a r yi 7, i870. ' At the date of pr&cla!nation t6e Jlodocs were found 011 their reservatioo, where they remained until April, 1870, and then left for their camp ou Lost Rive< There is evideuce t,hat Captain Jack and his band mere prepared at this time to remain up011 the reservation. and settle dowr! in the way of I civilization, if there had been ordir~arye ncouragement and a.ssist!auce, . and if the Klamaths, who largely ontnu~nbered Captaiu Jack's hand, and who were their hereditary enemies, had allowed them so to do. This band began to split rails for their farms, arld in other ways to adopt civilized habits ; but the Klamaths dema,nded tribute from them for t,he land they were occupying, which the J'Iodoos were obliged to render. Captain Jack then removed to another part of the reservation, and began again to try to live by cnltirating .the ground. But he mas fbl-lowed by the .sa,me spirit of hostility by the Klamaths, fiom which he does not seem to have been protected by the agent. Theissne of rations seems also to have been suspended for want of funds, for these reasons Captain Jack and his band returued to their old home on Lost River, where they became a serioos annoyance to the whites, who had in the meanwhile settled on their ceded lands. .This annoyance led to serious apprehensions on the part of the military authorities, and under date of t l ~ c1 9th of March, 1872, the honorable Secretary of War transmitted to this Department copies of correspondence between t l ~ em ilitary in regard to the matter. A copy of this corresnondencewas sent to Sunerinteudent Odeneal bv the In-dian Office, April 12,1872, with directions to have the Modocs removed, if uracticable, to their reserratiou; and if removed, to seethat they were properly from the Klai&ths. The superintendent was then instructed, in case they could not be removed, to report the practicability of locatiug them at some other point. The superintendent reported on the 17th June that their reselration was the best place for them to he located, hot that he did not believe it practicable to remove them without using the military for that purpose, and that if they should resist, he donhted whether there was force enough i n the country to compel them to go. In reply, the superintendent was directed, July G, 1872, to remove theru to the Kla1nat11,reservation. The attempt to execute this order resulted in a conflict between the Modocs and the troops and the white ~ettlers. For the purpose of examining into the same, and, if possible, to procure a peaceable solntion of the difficulties, a com-mission was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior in Jannarylast. This coriimission, as finally composed, consisted of A. B. Meacbm, late superintendent Indian affairs for Oregon, L. S. Dyar, agent for the Klamath agency, and Rev. E. Thomas, and by direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under date 'of March 22, 1873, they were put under the direction of General Canby. While engaged in a conference. with Captain Jack, chief of the Modocs, and other representative men of the tribe, on the 11th of April, General Canby and Dr. Thomas were brutally murdered by these Indians, and Mr. Meacham severely wounded. Thus ended thenegotiations with the Modocs, who, afterseven months' |