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Show XI1 RIE'OBT OF THE COMMISSIOWEE OF MilIAX AFFAIRS. not only sufficient to absorb their whole yaar's orop, bwtalso to demaed, in payment for debt, even the amount left ova for seed For this rea-son traders have been enjoined not to give Indians credit, but to let them pay in cash and products as far as +hey may go. These granazies md root houses, which are necessary to make sure that the Inaims do not part with their seed to sati~fypa ssing wan$ have been wmpleted or we in warse of coastructiou 4br the followbg agencies: Cheyenne River, Loyer Brulk, Cmw Creek, Yankton, Fort Berthold, Sisseton, Blackfeet, Crow, Flathead, Shoshone, Yakama, Tulalip, Neah Bay, S'bkomiah, Siletz, Umatilla+ Bound Valley, Chey-enne aad Arapaho, Pa~ne eO, s3ge, San: and Kox, Smtee, Omaha, Win-nebago, Cseat Nemaha, and White Essth. L IiYDIAN POLICE. It is about two years since the generalestablislmentof an Indianpolice force, whioh h a pwved to be exceedingly beneficial to the service. The policemen have shown the utmost Melity to $be .government, and, when neoessary, have arrested even &iends and relatives wiih absdute.impar- .tSity. At the Pine Ridge Agency, on the 8th of September last,.a r m e r was dispatched from the camp of Yomg-Man-Afraid-of-his-Ho~ses to notify the.agent of the emape during the night,of eleven Cheyennes, who had taken with them twenty-two head of horses mdponies belaw-iog to the &oux. Polioe Captain Sword, with nine of his men, was sent in pursuit, and the nex% day ov&k tbe Oheye-who had twel~e h a s the start of the poli-n Osage Creek west of tk0 B k k Hius, about 125 miles distant from the agency. Swofd and his party imme-diately surrounded tbe fugitives and demanded their s m d e r . Spitted Wolf, the leader of the mmaways, refused, and W w off his blanket, which aumng Indians eigui6es a challenge to m o d combat. The poliee immediately opened 6re on the party, killkg Spotted Wolf. The mmabder then mrsndefed, and a two-days march were brought hwk to theagenay. Mmy other equally noteworthy ins@ncea of fidelity have occurred, and as a whole, where agents have entered into the spirit of the system, the results have been of the best possible charmtw. There is but one &rawback, . d k h should be removed by Congrew. The pay of policemen which is ked by law ah $5 .per month hid be increased to $15. The men enlisted in the police service arc u s d y heads of families, and $5 per month is the mest pittance. ' Indians ,engaged in other avoeatiens at the various agencim are paid $15, aad teamsters, with their ponies, often earn $30 per month. Especially at . larger agencies, where there is considerable police work to be done, the payment of the police should be increased as above proposed. At present considerable diasatisfactio~is felt among the Indians onaec~mt . of the scanty pay, and agenb .report grmt difticul6y 'in keeping a Ml quotaof suitable men. This should not. be thecase, as our police system |
