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Show -.--Li order was taken pro confosso against five of tho defendants. Tho appollants filed a joint and soveral answer, upon which and tho bill a decree was ontoro • making tho preliminary injunction permanent. The decree was affirmed by the circuit Court of Appeals. 148 Fed. Rep. 684. Tho allegations of the bill, BO far as necessary to state them, aro as follows: on tho first day of nay, 1888, a tract of land, the property of the unitod atatoo, was roscrvod and set apart "as an Indian reservation as and for a pormancnt homo and abiding place of tho Gros Ventro and Assiniboine bands or tribes of Indians in the' state ( then Territory) of .Montana, designated and known as tho Fort Bolknap Indian Reservation." The tract has over since been used as an Indian reservation and as the homo and abiding place of tho Indians. Its boundaries were fixod and defined as follows (25 J'tat. 124); 3oginning at a. point in tho middle of the main channol of Hi Ik River, opposite the mouth o:f Snake Creek; thence duo south to a point due west of tho western extremity of the Little Rocky nountnins; thence due east to the crest of said mountains at their v/ostern extremity, and thence following the southern crest of said mountains to the oastorn ox-trcmith thereof; hence in a northerly direction in a direct lino to a point in the middle of tho main channel of Milk Rivor opposite the mouth of People's Creek; thenco up Milk River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning. Milk TUtfor, designated as tho northorn boundary of tho reservation, is a non-navigable stream. Large portions of tho lands ombracod within the reservation are well fitted and adapted for pasturage and tho focding and gracing of stock, an,i |
