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Show 12 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 8qumon.-Only a few demoralized Indians are on this reservation, which is surrounded by logging camps of whites of very immoral habits, 'who debauch the Indian women and furnish the Indians with whisky. It is recommended that the laud be sold for the benefit of the Squaxons, and they removed upon the Pnyallup reservation. Soutlh Bay, of about twelve hundred acres of poor quality, is entirely unoccupied, and it is recommended that it be sold for the benefit of the Indians included under the treaty. Malcah agency, in the extreme northwest part of the Territory, near Cape Flattery, has within its charge about six hundred Indians, called Makahs, who seem to be contented and peaceable, being isolated and remote from other tribes, and but little exposed to contact with the white race bv reason of their secluded situation. Thcv live chieflv bv fishing and the sale of furs of the beaver and other animals. ~othin& flatterin-p can be said of their schools, or the condition of their reserva-tion. QuimieM agenoy.-The Indians in this agency are the Quinaielts, Qnillehntes, Hohs, and Quelts, about six hundred in all, on a reserva-tion of oue township, ten miles along the coast. The soil being sterile, they have made but little progress in an agricultural way. A road, how-ever, has been opened to a tract lying back of the reservation a few miles. which can be made nroductive. and afford means for their sub-r . The s chool put in oper~r io1l;~;l t ).ear llns not s~~ecc*c.daent lw ell :IS t>xpt'clcrl; it Ilns, nrrcrtheless, briw ir~~tromenr:itnl overcoming, in a measure, the opposition and superstitious notions of these Indians with respect to the subject of education. This is what is reported of them by late Superintendent McEiuny, but the present incumbent of that office, Colonel Samuel Ross, remarks that the agency is in the best condition of any in the Territory, but in what re8pect he does not par-ticularize, except that the employ6s a,ppear to have been always at their post, and that the agent conducted its aflkirs with honesty and good faitah. ~~ ~ Ghel~alisr apervation, set apart by order of the President, on the bot-tom lands of the Ohehalis and Black Rivers, which make their confluence near its boundarv. contains about five thousand ares. most of it beine ~ ~ " , very guud l:11111. The 111di;rnsI I ~ ~ iI tI i rv the ~ h c l ~ ~Yl ihson, ~ w ar& 1$;1,y, Chinook, Co\rlite, Clatsop, ;IIIII other tril~esI, I U I I I I ) C ~i~~IbIo~u t[ line Lu~~dretdh.e n,!nnautx ot' tribes i t 1 the suoth\re%riv art oi rl~e'l 't!~+itorv. vho wt:& ovrrk~tkcdi n the genrrul treaty : i ~ ~ a ~ ~ e n~d~ ~e8r5~4-t~s&; donbtlras t i~rt he reasou tb;~tt hry h11c1q uietly subolitted to beir~yd id-notiseetied ot' their lnllds hv tllc vhitrs. n ~ ~\\,(IIlII ar~:8 11 nrcsc.nl in cl~urre of a government farmer. "There is no't,reaty with theie Indiaus, hence they do not receive aa much assistance as other tribes. Most of them resrde off the reservation. and among them are efficient workers. living in comti,rtablr hou~es. Tllc school ~~~' t i l tel ioam~~, ~~enlcilcsdr p a r on t& r r s e r r a t i ~h~a~s ~no, t 11ren eompletetl for waut of filn~lr;. Superinte~~denr JlcKet~nvix of the o~diniolt~h at thest: Illdinnti 911011111h nve somt! ex1)ress guman& that theyAwill not be disturbed in the possession of h e i r present homes. Colville. 9~okane.OkinakaneS. an Poel. and Lower Pend d'oreilles tribes. living in'thi nort.heast part of the Territory, and numbering about three thousand souls, claim a large extent of country. Many of them are farmers, possessing horses, stuck, and good improvements. The affairs of the department among these Indians were formerly adminimtered by the military oecer in charge of Fort Colville, but of late years they have been attended to by a special agent or a government farmer. At this |