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Show 152 INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS part the United States government promised to ex-tend its protection to them ; farms were to be laid out, grist and lumber mills built, schools established, houses furnished and annuities paid to the principal chiefs ; and the tribes $ 25,000 for the first ten years, $ 20,000 annually for the next twenty years, and $ 15, 000 annually for thirty years thereafter were to be distributed. The Indians were also to hunt, dig roots and gather berries on all unoccupied lands, to fish in their accustomed places, and erect houses for the purpose of curing their fish. On the 18th of September of the same year Colonel Irish successfully negotiated a similar treaty with Piede Indians at Pinto, Wash-ington County. Meanwhile the hostiles were not inactive, and notwithstanding the vigilance of the settlers and the militia, frequent raids and occasional murders were still perpetrated. Some of the smaller settle-ments were entirely deserted, and herds of stock which had formerly ranged freely over the moun-tain's grassy sides were collected in the valleys near the larger villages where they could be closely watch-ed. Lurking in the adjacent fastnesses the Indians would swoop down in the night time or at an unex-pected moment, and almost before the startled set-tlers were aware, or before the local home guard cauld be collected to repel the sally, the bold marau-ders would be safe from pursuit in the rugged coun-try through whose passes and defiles they success-fully drove their stolen cattle. The season's work yielded them as plunder two thousand head of cat-tle and horses, in obtaining which they had killed either by massacre or in fight, between the thirty and |