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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN APFAIRS. 115 Railroad maps filed under act of ReDruwy Z8, 190Z--Continued. Name of company. DO ............................................................................. Shswnee-Teeumseh Traotian Co.: Right of way, Indian Territory .................................................... St. Loliis snd San Franoisco R.R.: Y track at Pmeia. Ind. T .................................................................. Stack yard8 at Eoldenville. Ind. T ........................................................ Additional grounds at Reggs, Ind. T ................ ..:. ............................ Pi e line nt Cntoosa. Ind. T ............................................................... ~Bd i t i o n ag~m unds atluskahoma. Ind T ............................................... Additional gronllds near Albion. Ind. T ............................................ Additional gmundsnear Randolph. Ind. T ....................... : ....................... DO ..................................................................................... Vinita and Western R. R.: Righl of war, TI. 25 and 26 N., R. M E.. Ind. T. ................................... Total.. ........................................................................... A NAVAHO DISTURBANCE SUPPREST. Early in November, 1905, the superintendent in charge of the Na-vaho Agency, Ariz., asked by telegram that troops be sent to the agency to prevent threatened trouble. In his following explanatory letter he said that a vicious Navaho had, after attempting to commit rape, resisted arrest, and had been joined by three other disreputable and dangerous Navahos; that while he (the superintendent) was at Chin Lee these renegades, with about 15 other Navahos 'from Black Mountains, captured himand by threats forced him to agree to the pardon of the Indian who had attempted the rape, and that the im-mediate cause of his request for troops was that he feared these rene-gades would, as threatened, cause more serious trouble at a dance soon to be held by friendly Indians. At the request of the Department of the Interior, based on a rec-ommendation of this Office, the War Department ordered a detach-ment of troops to the scene, with the result that the t,hreatened trou-ble was averted, and two other. disaffected or renegade Indians were arrested by the Indian police supported by a small detachment of troops. A further result of the presence of the troops was an agree-ment on the part of the leading Navahos to arrest the remaining ringleaders of the disaffected Indians. On December 7 the superintendent reported by telegram that the six leading Indians of the party who attacked him at Chin Lee were I 24.a 5.25 : .... -9 - 665.59 ........ ........ . 8 4 .88 6.6 .88 86.86 39.45 57.4 2 ........ 869.10 |