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Show nor have they had on war paint. No fights and no quarrels have taken place between settlers and Indians or between soldiers and Indians. The roads have sU been open for travel, 8nd no one has been stoppe an no one prohibited from enter-ing the reservation, exoept an ahown by the letters to the sheriffs. No one has been esnanltedor insulted as I c m find out. Not a shot has been fired b.r sn.ron.e, an d no one hss been hurt or killed. There are no renegade Crows here and no Sioux, and there have been none. Every.t hing- has been done by me I possibly could do to bring-themurderers to jnatice. I have never considered it nusnfefor the aettler. toremain st their homes. I am entirely satisfied in my o m mind that there was not the alighteat danger of an outbreak by theIndiana. The newspaper reports, which I saw to-day for the first time, ere all grass exsg-garationa. If any such things had occurred as given in the papers, I surely would have notified you at onoe. This is a full and aomplete report of affair8 at this agency up to date. I will keep you fully iuformed if anything should transpire. All of which is respectfully sub-mitted. I m, very respeotfolly, your obedient servant, GEO. W. R. STOUCX, Captaia, Third Ififantq, AoMng United States Indian Agent. TONGUE &VER AGENCY, June $3, 1897. SIR: I have the honor to makes, further repcrt on the sffsirira a t t h i ~ag ency grow-ing out of the murder of John Hoover by Stanley. I made report of the oapture of Stanley and all conditions of the Indians and of the reservation nnder date oPStl3 instsnt. Since then nothing of great consequence has ooonrrad. On June 9 Sheriff Gibh and three of his deputies &Ted at the agency. I informed him thst I was entirely willing to turn over to him any and ail Indisns for whom he had warrants; he presented warrants for Yellow Hair and Sam Crow, whereupon I immediately sent for them and upon their appearance I delivered them to the sheriff. An escort of eavslrv was rennested in order to assure their safe arrival at the r%ilroadstation, aud on the morning of the 1Otlr instant they left tlln agena~rf or ifonebud Station. YheriffGihh informed nlo thst the jn-lge of tbe Ptnte court advised him that the o.r ooer mode of nrocednre would he for the sheriff to oresent the warrants to the A agent, and thst the sgent would then deliver the parties to be arrested to the sheriff; a different way ffom that the sheriff formerly insisted npon, that of entering the r-~es~e~r vation with as manv d e~n t i e sas he ma t ed. even to i c om~ a n vof nnoreaiieed " . . .. niilitiu, withont the consant of t l ~ osg ent. I tol'd Sherirf Gihb that if hn (leaired to rerttaintoendesvor to obtain eridoncr I auuld assist him all I roald. but hc drclined, I as he would be nnable to be suoeessful in his inquiries. I also told him if he had other Indians to arrest to come up quietly without heralding his intentions in all the papers and to the settlere in this country so as to frighten them sod cause them to leave their homes again, thinking that the Indians woold resist. Everything is quiet, the same as it has heensince the discovery of Hoover's body, with the exception of the day the fieht between Stanley and the sheriffs was advertised to take olace. The 1ndGns areorderly and at their homes attending to what duties they heye <levolvingupon them. I apprehend nothing fartherin the way of excitement and I alarms. I I have endeavored to ohtain evidence to arrest Stanley's aaoomplioeq if any, hut have been nnauocessful, and I am almost oonvinced that there am none. I I must ae-a in uree U D O ~v an the necesaitv of buvioe out the hons fide settler. on I - & " - v ~ ~- the reservation, ejeoting the squatters, fencing in the reservetion and atockiog it with cattle. I can see no other way to make these Indians self-supporting. I . . I am, very respeetfnlly, yon; obedient s6rvsnt, GEO. W. a. STOUCH, Captain, fiird Ififfintry, Actimg Uuited Siatee Indian Agent. The C o ~ n n s a r o t ?o~r ~m 1m. AFFAIRS, Wmhimgtm, D. C. |