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Show II of hlte -ers I sell •licit I h e l \ t i v - si.-i) and - "f ,,d, ilar l i e s , V to ,ek, nuts, S M . . . . , • . - . . . . . . INVESTIGATION OF INDIAN FRAUDS. LTAtr. A considerable number of Ule Indians belonging to Ihe, Uintah Vallov i Hue i agencies, together with 01 In is ri mining at huge in the Tei rilory. I„ , satisfied from MII inns causes, congregated during I he past siiiuiner In San I', mid vicinity and assumed a hostile attitude, coin mil ling some depredal ems i citizens of that seel ion. I'.,\ I lie prom pi action and wise counsel of l.ieuleua II. A. Morrow, Thirl cent h In fan I iy, coin ma in hug at. Camp Douglass, I In- I in induced to cease their depredations and return to their respective agencies. CAI.ll'OltNIA. The only operations of the military in connection wilh Indian affairs in during the year, reported to this Ullice, is a trip made by Captain It. F. Hen nianding at Camp Didwcll, for the purpose of looking after certain Indian with having committed depredations upon citizens. Tho charges were fount well sustained. INDIAN 'n.UKI lOUY. .11 I ind Whit,, inning . i t .. I " County poll w l o ir Ill-Colo,,,,| liana were t h i s S l a te I I I .1, COIII-s charged 1 to lie not the nee, . O ld i l l , - Fort itivju " ' . I t, •ami ' . S, " g o r e s . 'II of o u t - 1 (0 • c on . , - ie I he I hu 'Oil, • l i t , •', l l . - l l l , • ' • and A large number of whites front Kansas having settled in the. Cherokee country, west ol ihe ninety-sixth degree of longitude, ihe commanding general of the DeparMueiil of •Missouri was called upon, in compliance with law, to remove them. Captain .I. .I. I'phain, of the Sixth Cm airy, w as assigned, » it h a detachment, of troops, to this duty, ..The work was promptly and judiciously accumplishcd, without any violent collision with the in 11 uders, about fill ecu hundred of whom were removed. A considerable number of whites of luminously had character having followed the progress of the Missnnii, Kansas, and Texas Kailway into the. Choctaw country, a, detachment -of soldiers under Lieutenant, Do Hart I.. Quimhy, Second Infantry, was sent, lo the scene of the difliciilty, charged with removing all unauthorized persons beyond the limits of the Territory. Subsequently Colonel J. A. Hurilie, Iuspeelnr- General United States Army, visited the Choctaw country, lo supervise the removal, which was^'ffected thoroughly and without serious trouble. Of the many scouts and expeditions during llio-year by troops stationed at posls along the northern and western borders uf Texas, and at Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, against hostile Indians raiding into Texas, the one most successful in indicting merited punishment upon the marauders was the expedition in command of Colonel it. S. MelConzio, Fourth Cavalry. Ihe troops under Colonel ,Melvi:iizie, on the 2'Jth of September, struck a camp or village of Qua-ha-da Coiuanches on McClelbin's Creek, being no other than the camp of Maowi, tin: most disalfecled and dangerous of all the " Out Coiuanches," and, after a brisk tight, carried ihe village, killing twenly-lhree Indians and taking one hundred and twenty-four prisoners, principally wiimeu and children. The command lost two killed and two wounded. This signal example to the Coinuncbes was promptly followed by the surrender of tho only two white captives remaining in their hands, and by a Large increase in the number uf Indians on the reservation. It is not doubted that this righteous retribution for long courses of cruel and cowardly outrages will bear further fruits uf repentance. It. is the intention of the Department to provide liberally fur Ihe nurture, care, and education of the children thus captured, but, meanwhile, to hold them, when turned over by the military, (in accordance with the expressed intention of the General of the Army,) until such time as their tribe shall restore all stolen stock,-and give ample assurance of future good behavior. NEW MEXICO. Tn this Territory tho only operations of the military during the year, in connection with Indian matters, as reported to the Indian Office, were, tho removal uf the Apache Indians from Canada Alamosa to the Tolurosa reservation, which was successfully accomplished by Lieuteminf-Coloiicl Thomas C. Devin, Eighth Cavalry ,-iu May last: and a slight skirmish, in which, however, no one. was injured, between some troops and hostile L'le Indians, at the Abiquiu agency, prior to its removal from Abiqiliu to Ticria Am.irillu, its present location. f i n s l l l l l The operations against the hostile Apaches in this Territory have been too active and varied to allow a detailed account of them tube presented in this coiuio, mm. Aiuuug tho most important results, however, may be mentioned an engagement I ' +}0\m>>.*.:*w<FJ2f-l**Bm*-- •ww'«^^«wiii)i«iui'iw»'«Pi.»>mjw-»rj^P*-^^ |