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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 27 &sing out of the land grant to the military wagon roads and a claim recently made by the State of Oregon to the swamp lands within the' reservation, it is doubtful whether he will be able to complete the work until these qaestions shall have been finally settled. Rosebud hervation, 8. XI&.-The work on this reservation is making satisfactory progreas nnder the direction of Special Allotting Agent Wil-itam A. Winder. Additional snrveyshave recently bee11 recommended. Loner B d 6 ICeservation, 8. Dak.-The work of making allotments in t11e fie16 to the Indians of the Lower Bruld. Reservation, S. Dak., mas about completed whet1 my la,st aunual report; was made; but all the schednles have not yet been transmitted to the o@ce by Allotting Agent Winter, for the reason that he is waitirtg npon the surveyor-general of that State for certain plats from which t ~o)bt ain the correct quantity of lmd contained in certain lots and fractional subdivisions in order to give the same in his schedules. The fact tthat many of the Lower Brul6 Sioux have removed to the Rosebud Reservation, soat11 of t,hc white River, will disturb the matter of allotments on the Lower Brule Reservation, and poatpone its settlement for some time to come. Shoehone Reservation, Wyo.--The report of John W. Clark, dated August 23,1896, shows that he had made to date 1,100 allotments on t l ~ eS hoshone Reservation. Recommendation bas been made to the Deparbent that certain fractional and full townships within the reser-vation be survey.ed as the public lands are surveyed, nnder contract with the snrveyor-general of Wyoming, 80 that all the Indians may ' have allotments made to t h m covering the lands upon which they have settled and made improvements. NONRESERVATION INDIANS. The work of making a1Iotme1lts in the field to nonreservation Indians was suspended temporarily by the death, November 4,1895, of Special I Allottit~g Agent Bernard Arntzen. February 5, 1896, the President , appointed James H. Kinnane, of Ealamazoo, Micb., as his successor. Instructions prepared for the guidance of Agent Kinnane in making allotments under the fourth seetion of the general allotment act, as amended by act of February 28,1891 (26 Stat. 794), were transmitted to him March 14,1896, and he entered on duty the 25th of that month. He was first assigned to the Duluth (Minn.) land district to investi-gate some 350 applications for lands there alleged to have been made by Indians in order to obtain the timber and for speculative purposes rather than for agricultnre or grazing. Claude N. Bennett is now engaged in assisting Indians in the vicinity of Susanville, Gal., to make a11plication for allotrnenk. Some 300 Indians in that section have asked for lands in severalty, and he will make them if the lands claimed are subject to allotment and the applicants are found to be entitled thereto. |
