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Show 70 REPORT oI?T HE COYYI~SIONERO F INDIAN AB'FAIRB. INDIAN LANDS SET APART TO MISSIONARY SOCLETIES AND CHURCHES. Tracts of reservation lands set apart during the past .year for the use of societies and churches carrying on educational and missionary work among the Indians are as follows: TABLE 16.-Lands ad apart m Indian resations fw the we of religim sooie~iesfiwn Augwl 31, 1901, to August 21, 1902. Church or aooiety. Date. Aores. Reservation. Foreign and Domestic Missionary SooMy, Prot Sept. 9,1901 6 Lemhi, Idaho. estant Episcopal Cburoh. Roman Catholic Church ......................... Se t 20 1901 1 Potawatami, Kms. Woman's Home Msaioa Society of Dlethodi~t O$.' 28:1901 6 . Jioarills. N. Mex. Episeapal Church. Amerioan Mleslonary Assoolation. .................... do ....... 40 Rosebud, 8. Dak. DO ................................................. do ....... lti4.28 Do. Rman Catholic Church ......................... Feb, 11.1902 el Yuma Cal. Women's Baptist Home M i ~ o Sno ciety ......... May 10,1902 8.02 Moqu: Arie. Protestant Episcopal Chnroh ..................... June 3 1902 nu s cal. Northern Pacific Board Missions, Presb~terian July 1:1902 ? h~aiab,Waai. Church. Mission Board United Presbyterian Church. July 15,1902 10 Farm Springs, Oreg. North America. First (Ottawa Indian Bsptist Church ................ do ....... 20 Ottawa. Ind. T. Romnn Cathoiic church ......................... Jan. 13 1902 11.51 Yakima Wash. American Missionary Aa4ooiation. ............... Aw. 19'1902 26.92 Rosebud 8. Dak. Lutheran General synod .............................. do .: ..... n.60 ~ h i t e ~ b u n t a iAnti s. Boa& Home Xissions, Presbyterian Church ..... Aug. 20,1902 160 Navaho, N. ex: . A table giving all lands on Indian reservations set apart for mission-ary purposed will be found on page 568. As reported by the Indian agents, no missionary work of any kind is now being done among the Indians of the Western Shoshone Agency, Nev., and the Colorado River Agency, Ariz. - LOGGING ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS. La Pointe Agenoy, Wis.-September 28,1892, the President approved rules to govern the sale of timber on the allotments Of the Lac du Flm-beau Reservation that had been conveyed by patent from the United States to the Indian allottees under the provisions of the treaty of September 30,1854. J. H. Cashway 8u Co. was the successful bidder for the timber to be sold. No contracts for the sale of timber on that reservation have been approved during the past year. Under the same treaty the President approved, December 6, 1893, similar rules for the sale of timber on the allotmenk on the Bad River Reservation. Justns S. Stearns, of Ludington, Mich., is the author-ized contractor on this reservation. No contmb covering timber on this reservation have been approved dun'ng the past year, but during the latter part of January last Agent Campbell forwarded for consid- |