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Show ~ ~~ ~- Inex (aU great favorites wit,), the chiefs and headmen) was not unattended with trou-ble snd danger, but withpatience, intermixed with a, moderate degree of firmness and kindness, they more finally given up to he tried aocorcling to the lam-s of the mhitea. Thes w r e held in arrest until the follon,in-e day.., when, with a stron-g detail of Indian police, under command of Captain Crow Dog ml a single white man, S. M. Bay, chief of police, they were without troublesent to Fort Randall, there to btl heldsubjeet to the reqnisition of the governor of Nobresks for trial. Crow Dog and his detail reported, an +he 15th of August, that the prisoners had been transported in safety and rrithout serious trouhlc, and had been regularly turned over to Col. George L. Andrevs, com-manding Fort Rmdall, Dakota. Much oredit is duo to Spotted Tail, Crow Dog, and others, for the pert they took in the matter, s r ~w ithont their ~saistanoei t mouldhave been ~mtlyrnored ifficult to have bronght this trouble to a satisfactory ending. ICAGA-BOB-DU, OR DRIFTING GOOSE'S BAND OF SIOUX INDIANS. Prior to 1879, this band, numbering about 150 souls, occupied a small tract of country on the James River in Dakota. They had a few acres in cultiration and were mainly self-supporting. They remained friendly to the whites during the Sioux outbreak in 1862, some of them serving as scouts for the United States troops under the command of 1 Gen H. H. Sibley. 1 In 1878, the fertile lands occupied by them attracted white settlers to that region. In order to enable this office to determine the rights of these Indians to the lands which they occupied, three townships, embm ing their homes, were set apart as areservation by Execntive order dated Jnne27,1879. The General L md Office records showed that up to Feb-ruary 28, 1879, only one homestead and four pre-emption declaratory statements had been filed in the locallandoffice for lands i~isaidtomships. The agent at Sisseton Agency was directed to go to the reservation, and, with the assistance of the Indians, ascertain the extent and character of the improvements made by themselves, as well as the number and location of whites within these towuships and the improvements made by them. It was found that all the buildings erected by the Indians were on two quarter-sections, and that the land tilled by them was in patches on six quarter-sections. Thirty-six whites had settledin said townships. The Indian title to the lands falling within said reservation was ex- *inguished by the Sioux treaty of 1868, and the agreement called the Black Hills agreement of 1876. It was hally concluded that the right of the Indians could not be successfully maintained as a,gainst the adverse claims of the whites, except, perhaps, to the two quarter-sec-tions on which their houses were built; and the Indians were informed that they could initiate homestead claims only on such portions of the townships set aside for their use as rrere not, at the date of the Executive order, occupied by the whites. The Indians anally agreed to remove to the Crow Creek Reservation, where there is an abundance of good land, and requested that some one from this office be sent out to assist them in selecting locations on |