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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAii AFFAIRS. 3 9th Angast {they pledging that the hes should not be used against the whites, but only for the purpose of securinga support for themselres by hunting) by the latter officer, who reported in regard to the matter that he never knew the Indians to be better satisfied and so contented ; that they left for their hunting grounds, and he was snre there would be no trouble with them. But he judged too favorably of appearances, for some members of the tribes were either then. or had been but a few davs previous, committing gross outrages and mhders of citizens upon the Saliue and Solomon rivers Bu* the substautial cause of this war is to be found in the fadthat the department, for want of appropriations, mas compelled to stop their supplies, and to permit them to recur to the chase for subsistence. The pursuit of the buffalo to their favorite hauut,s on the Saline and Solomon rivers brought them into the ~*icinito~f -t he Kmsm settlementg and of their enemies the Ka~r sa nd Osages, and presented to them temptations to gratify the spirit of revenge which seems to have possessed them the moment Agent Wynkoop, in obedience to orders, refused to deIi17.er the ams and a~nmunitionw hich the peace commissioners ba*l promised them. Equally as troublesome me the Kiowas and Comanches, a part of whom have been guilQ of raiding the past year into Texas, the Chick* saw nation, and at the Witchittl agency, aad h a ~ bero ken faith with t.be government,; and it is not, i~nprobablea U ~ tfh ese tribes may be dra.wn into hostilit.1es and join those of the Arapahoes and Che~e~muewsh, o are being driven south into their country. They have a numberof aaptives taken in their raids whom thev aromise to ~ i vuev . Their doin.,a so. , and pron~isingu ot to raid upno T;Y;~'S citizens <or 11p;tn their 1ndi:111i leigl~. bors, will be made cou(litious u.po n which thril. annuit.y g- ood5 isill l)c distributed to them. The friendly portions of these four tribes, who depreoate war and had no part in the recent raid^ and hostilities, it is feared will suffer with the guilty in the enforcement of the measures adopted hg the military to punish the offenders. To prevent this it was deemed proper that steps should he taken to gather them at some suitalde point on their respective reservations, under the care of their agents, and provision made for *.heir support,. With this object in view Agents Boone and Wynkoop have been directed to repair to Fort Cobb and gather around them there such of these tribes mare friendly, and those who.my come in pi-OL'-iug to be neaceable. If the hostile nortion of these tribes ~ l nolt c ease their war. 'and outrages, autl join tl~e'peacr>il,ldyi sl~oaal,t l~rsxhohld1 1,. Iml~ishrd wit11 .;ewrity, and the elainln ol' rhr gailt). I I ~ I RtJh~e goveunueur I L U I ~ V C trrarr srir~i~latio~~sclrc.lahvr eCd ol~nr rafo rfeited. ~ostiliiiest,o some e~t e n t , "~eeHt st on the part of the wild, warlike Apaehes of New Mesioo a,nd Arizona Territories, and an unsntisfaotory conditioc of things will continue with these t~3bes until sometXing is done in the way of establishing them upon reservations or restricting them to partidar districts of countryl with such aid as policy may require to bring about a,nd maintain a friendly disposition on their part toward citizens and neighboring tribes. At least treaties of peace should be entered into with them, and a clear t~nderstanclingh ad of their r e b tions to the government for the better protection of persons and property. I here call attention to an interesting report made by Captain Charles A. Whittier to General James B. Fq, c?lnmanding military division of the Pacific, giving an account of the principal tribes in Arizona, a copy of which was furnished your department by the honorable Seeretar>- of War. It is among the papers herewith. Information ha& been received from the gorentor of lcl;ll~o Territory |