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Show seas are not so tractable, and exhihit.but little desire for improvement. All the assistance they receive frolu the Government is supplied out of the limited awouut appropriated for the general incidental enpeuses of t--h-e -~-~ r v iirn eO ~ P P O ~ . ~ l ama%ag &ii,XThe Indians belonging to this agency are the KI* maths. and IvIodocs. and the y~hoosliiu. and Wal-nah-~eeb ands of ~nakes,numberinga~to~etheraboat4,0o0f 0m, ho1n.only^l,0f8a re reported at the agency. They.have a reservation containing 768,000 acres, set apartforthem by the treat5 of October 14,18G4, and byExecutive order of March 14, 1871, situated ill the extreme southern portion of the State. This reservation is not well ada~t edto arrrieulture. Theclimate is cold and uncertaiu, and the crops a& conseq~;entlg liable to be destroyed by frosts. It is, however, a good grazing couutrg. Although this reserva-tion is. comvaratiticelvs~iakin. G., .a new one. the Indians~locatedu ~ o nit :Ire lnnk~l~*cgo rnu~eu;l:~l;lper ugres.;, both ill faru~iogo perariuun i ~ in~ d lulnbcriug. A 1):irr ul' rllz Mo~lors,\ vl~cai ~r lol~11yy t~c;ttyt o this agency, aud mho.kere at one time located upon the &servtztiou, hare,-on &i. c o u ~o~f tt heir troubles with the Klamaths-due principally to the over-bearing disposition of the latter-left the agency sad refuse to return to it. They desire to locate upon a small reservation by themselves. Under the circumstances, they should be permitted to do this, or elsebe sllowed to select a tract on the Malheur reservation. There is no school at ~ r e s e ti~n to ner&btioufo r these Indians. Under treatv of October 14. 13&,w~thr 11c ~ I ~ L I I : I ~ I,IttS:.,, &1p,)rt>pvi2tio1f1tm.s tl~cir~ P I I P a~r~c Ib ci11~ ~nndcfo r n li~nittdu 111nl1t.ro i yeiird, :I$ iollo\vs : For beueficial objectr;, t5.clUU. l t l ~ l e ?i uswllroe~~sttsi ll dlru. after which tbr\' become eulitlcd to '$3,(iOb annually for live years ;) fir keeping in repah the mills, shops, and buildings, $1,000; for purchase of tools, materials for mills and shops, aud books and stationery for school, $1,500 ; and for salaries and subsifiteuceof various emplo~&s,i~~clupdhiuysgi cian and teachers, $9,600. Tho Wal-pah-pee h;l.nd of Snakes, under the treaty made with that band August 12, 1865, have a limited a~p u i t y(n ine installments still due) in benefical objects of $1,200. ,Wull&eur reservation.-This reservation set apart by Executive order , of September 12, 1872, is sitnated in the southeasteru part of the Btate. 'Upon thisit is the iutentiou of the Department eveutaally to locate all the roving and stra~gliugb ands in Eastern aud Southeastern Oregon, which car1 be iudnced to settle there. As no fu~idsa re at the disposal of the Department with which t,o make the neoessary improvements, and to provide temporary snbsistence for Indians removed, the work has not yet been tgirly com~uenced. The 111dia.ns who should be collected upou this reservation are now :t const,ar~sto urce of annoyance to the white settlers. The.)- hang about the sett,le~i~enatnsd military posts, begging and tea ling, a ~ i d u ~ ~ l esosmse. prompt measures be tiken to b r~n gth em under the 'care and control of an agent of the Government, serious trouble may result at any time. Congress shoold make theneces-sary approprii~tiood iuring the coming session to lnaintaiu an agent for these Indians, to erect the agency buildings, andto provide subsistence . for such as may be collected aud re,main upou the reserration. Indians not upon resercations.-There are a number of Indians, proba-bly not less than 3,00U, ' 6 renegades," and others of roving habits, who hare no treaty relations with t.he Government, aurl are not in charge of any agent: The tribal names of some of these are the Ciatsops, Nestu-cals, Tillamookp, Neh:alims, Snakes, and Nez PercBs. The L'+enegades," such in fact and so called, roam on the OoiU~biaR iver, and are of consid- 51 A |
