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Show OO~ISSIONER OF INDIAN AFRAIRS. 73 of collecting the required proofs in support of applications previously made by Indians in that valley for lands included in the Washington Forest Reserve. VANCOOT= AND WALLA WALLA DISTBICTB, WASHINWMN. Special Allotting Agent Keepers, who had been allotting lands along the Columbia River, transmitted to this Office on November 19, 1904, a schedule covering 33 allotments to Indians in the Walla Walla land district, Washington, numbered from 1 to 33, inclusive; also, a schedule of 120 allotments in the Vancouver land district, in that State, numbered from 75 to 194, inclusive. DlIIPVTm BETWDN PAWUSE INDlANS AND WEITES, WASHIXOMB. For some time there has been friction between the Palouse and Snake Indians and the white people near the mouth of the Palouse River and thereabouts. On May 31, 1905, Senator Levi Ankeny re-quested this Office to send some officer to that neighborhood to investi-gate the holdings of the Indians and, if possible, adjust the disputes between them and the white settlers. On July 1 Samuel L. Taggert, special Indian agent, was instructed to go there and assist the Indians in securing title to their respective homestead entries, show them the boundaries of their lands and the boundaries of adjacent lands be-longing to white settlers, and endeavor to adjust the disputes between Indians and whites. He is. now on the ground and engaged in the work assigned him. From his reports it appears that he will be successful in his under-i taking. IREIGIATION. The act of April 21,1904 (33 Stat. L., 189), carried an appropria-tion of $185,000 for const~ctiono f ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irrigation tools and appliances, and purchase of water rights on Indian reservations, of which $35,000 was immediately I available, leaving $150,000 available for the fiscal year ended June i I 30, 1905. i The ad of March 3,1905 (33 Stat. L., 1048), appropriated $185,000 for like purposes for the fiscal year 1906, of which $25,000 was made 1 immediately available. The principal expenditures from the sums mentioned are as follows: ~ Crow Reservation, ~ o n-t- ---.--.--.--------$-15-,O -M).- 00- -----.._.--...-- Wlnd River Resenation, Wyo- ------------....-1.6,. OM-). -00. ------------ Yakima Resematlon, Wash ----.--.....--------2-7,.3.00...00. -.-----.-. Mescalem Reservatlon, N. Mex- ---------.--.--.--1.,-50-0.-00- --.--.-..-- I sun Carlos ~em~a t lobni,z ------......--iziziziziziziz.iziziziz.iz.iz..iz.. 1,920.00 Port Peck Reservatlon, Mont --.--.--.--..---rV.rVrV.rVrVrVrVrVrVrVrV.rVrVrV.rVrV 6,018.56 Misalon re8ervations. Gal-----.-.-----------------.--.-------- 15,554.73 |
