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Show report in person to this office, the Department having decided, Septem-ber 5,1896, that the swamp lands within the reservation were not sub-ject to allotment. The order of thepresident of May 11,1894, authorized allotme~ltsto the Indians located on the Elamath Reservation on such portions of the reserve as were not covered by the grant made by the act of Jnly 2, 1864, to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of a military road from Eugene City to the eastern bonndmy of said State. (13 stat., 355.) January 20,1897, the Department decided that the lands covered by that grant were subject to allotment, regardless of the claim of the California and Oregon Land Compay, grantee of the Oregon Central Military Road Company, to which the legislature of Oregon had in turn granted the lands October 24,1864. Special Agent Worden was there-fore instructed to complete the allotments to the Indians. Accord-ingly he soon after returned to the reservation. Recently injunction proceedings have beeu instituted to prevent him from allotting lands within the grant to the State. On the 14th of August he had made 755 allotments, the whole number of Indians being reported at 951. In view of the decision as to the swamp lands,it is probable that many of his allotments will have to be revised, much of the reservation being overflowed land. Recently Special Agent Worden has been relieved from duty and Special Agent John H. Rankin has beeu assigned to that work. Lower B d 6 Reemation, 8. D&-May 12,1897, Sylvan Winter, special allotting agent, transmitted to this offlce the schednles of allotment8 made on the Lower Brnl6 Reservation, and stated that since their com-pletion about one-half of the Indians so allotted had abandoned their allotments and removed to the Rosebud Reservation, and that $they should be allotted there it would seem to be just to those remaining on the Lower Brul6 Reservation to readjust the allotments thereon, especially as to the timber lands. About 550 of these Indians have gone to Rosebud under the provi-sions of a clause contained in the Indian appropriation act of Jnne 10, 1896. A clause contained in the Indian appropriation act approved Jnne 7,1897, provides that $5,000 shall be expended to survey and resur-vey, if necessary, the lands in the Rosebud Indian Reservation, 9. Dak., south of and near the White River, where the Lower Brul6 Indians now reside. Recommendation has been made for the surveys provided for, and it is expected that these Indians will be finally settled at Rosebud. Rosebud Reservstion, S. Dak.-The work on this reservation is pro-gressing satisfactorily nuder the direction of Special Agent William A. Winder, who, rtccording to his report of Jnly 24,1897, had made 1,428 allotments; the whole'nnmber of Indians on the reservation entitled to allotments is approximately 3,500. |
