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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 field aqaiu%t them. On the 10th of Septelnber a secoud engagement occurred between the renegades and a party of Sau Oarlos police, which was in advanceof a force of United States troops all11 Io~liau soonts enlisted by the War Department, whom they hadjoi~~ri(lll the parsnit. The loss to the hostiles was reported to have beer1 l'2 killetl and 13 oap-tnred. 011 the 13tl1 of last mouth 3 chiefs with 187Apaches snrreudered at Fort Wingate, Bncliog themselves unable to snccessfolly carry on war in a country thorooghly occupied by United States soldiers and . Indian scouts. These, with 51 who have since snrrenilered; have beeu taken to the old Hot Springs reservation, where their fioal clispositiou will be ~lecitledu pon. Active stouting must still be oo~~tinueidll , order to secure to Sol~theilstern Arizoua and Southweutrrn New MexicO free-dom from raids inil~ie by other renegacle~ who w .re outlawed xt the time of the Sontheru Apache auil Ohiricahna re~~~ovals. EEMOVAL OF TEE PONOAS. - The unfortunate location of the Poncas on acconl~! of their exposure to unfriendlr contact with the Sioux, which has bee11 a matter of fre-quent eomlnknt in the annual reporti of this office, has led to the re-moval of that tribe to the Indian Territor~i,n accordance with provis-ions contained it1 bhe last two Indiau appropriation bills. As the initiative step, Inspector Ke~nble in Jauuary last visited the Poi~casto obtaiu their cons?ut to a settlement among tlle Osages. They at first rliselaimed any wish to remove and tinally ngrrerl to look at the Indian Territorj, but were infor111ed tllac the expe,nse of' se:~ding a dele-gatioo could not be incnrred without cnuselrt on their part to a surren. der of their Dakota lands. Such consent wils gire,n by the Poncas in formal conncil. on the 27th of Januilrr. with the undrmtandine that ;it& the retur; of the delegation, fil~aile potiations should he combleted in Washington. Unfnrtonatelg the tlelepatiou of ten chief^, on accolint o.f- t, he fail6.e of the Osaees t n show hos~~itwlitvin. clement weather, aud ~ ~ - other causes, became disbearte~le(la t thk onts'et, declined the frirpdly advances of the Eaws, refused to looli farther, so;irdelg noticed the rich lauds aloug t l ~ eA rka~lsasR iver, s r ~ d01 1 reaching Arkansas City, eight left in the night ou foot for the Ponca agency, which the1 re;:chetl in. forty da.ys. The other two, with the inspector, their agent, and Rev. 5. D. Binman who had accoml,auied the delegation, selected that north-east part of the Quapaw reserve which wasset apart in 1876 for the loca-ti011o f the "oal~tive"1 11dia11osf tho Trrrit0r.y. On their return. thev fouud the tribe di~illed in sentiment. the more < insomuch that before the starting of that half of the tribe which ball sig nitird a willingness to retuovt., forty-five troops were seuCfrom Fort Ran-dall for their nrotection from t l ~ ete rrorizir~et actics of the other 1)art.v. The adverse 610uence. hoiever, so far pre&iled that orkly one huh,lred and seventy crossed the Nio1)mra On the 171h of April. A N Oth~em~ were two of tho thrre chiefs uow living who macle the tribd t.reaties with the United States in 18.17 and 1836. The train co~ltainingth e agenuy e.u[~pliesh ad prearcled, and hall already reached Columbus, Nellr. The mistortunes which attended ererg step of I heir journry sonthward, are thus described br the Illspector Kemble. The part; reached Columbus, Nrhr., en roule for the Indian territory, Aprtl 18th. hsvi t~gb reu thirteen days i n rnskiug the joursey from the ageuoy thither, a. diatauoe |
