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Show which I~aveb een porch:~sed,w ill, jt is hol,ed, h:lvr reached the reserv.z-tion before the fall of snow, aud It may be erl~tcted that the Indiaus, seeing the evidences of a burnose on-the nirt of the denartment to fulfill-the treaty stipulatio~& a; far as praciicable, will beLinduced to come in and avail themselves of the benefits thereby provided. The tribes now in the sunerintendencvare the Tabeouache and Orand River Pampa, and UCntah btes, estimaEed to number about seven thousand. They live chiefly by hunting the buffalo in inbe country of the Aranahoes and-Cheyennes; there being none on their own, anduare p e w a 6 1 ~di s-posed, no difficulty having arisen during the past year, except with some miners on Douglass Creek,,whom they ordered otf as trespassers upon their reservation, but who ~n fact were not, the land being fifty miles distant from the reserve; the matter being explained to the Iu-dians, no further trouble is apprehended. None of these bands have ever had schools established for them. Under their late treaty, however, full provision is made for the education of their children, the United States agreeing to furnish a school-house and teacher for every thirty children who may be induced to atteud school. The late governor of Colorado, and ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs, Hon. A. C. Hunt, is of the opinion that the Capote and Weminuche Utes in New Mexico can be induced to go upon this reservation, notwithstanding their objections, aud he suggests that they should be informed that the delivery of s~~pplieast the old agency would be stopped, and given to them in their new home, as provided by the treaty to which they are a party. Efforts have been made to get the Utes to permit the Jica-rilla Apaches to reside among them, and with success, they consenting, but the Apacbes are averse to crossing the Oolorado line. WTOWNG. In this superintendency there is a reservation set apart by the treaty with the Eastern baud of Shoshones, and the Bannack tribe, concluded July 3,1868, for the use of these Indiaus, formerly embraced in the Utah superintendency. They number about 2,500, and are friendly, being under the leadership of Washakee, a nlan distinguished for his loyalty and many virtues, but who, it is said of late, is losing his in-fluence over many of his people, Congress having failed to make the necessary appropriations for the fulfillment of the stipulations of the treaty, nothiug has been done towards establishiug the agency and eon-centrabng the tribes embraced in it. Their agent, under the instruc-tions of the superintendent, Governor Campbell, informed the Indians that no issue of annuities would be made to them except on the reserve. This caused great dissatisfaction, one of the chiefs charging (and justly, too) that the United States had not compliedwith the treaty, and there-fore they were not obliged to go upon the reservation. Hostile Sioux visit this co~mtrv. and conflicts occur betweeu them and these tribes. Red Cloud and 1;; baud an: irported as having beeu duriug the past summer i n \Viud Hivvr Valley; on sever;~lo ecilsions a nurrlber of n.Lirrs were murdered, and considerable stock was taken off bv them. The Sl~oshollrsa lso iosr tlnirt~o f a party of fifty uf rheir bext"w;~rriorss ent our a~aul sth ese S~I I ItIoS r eeo\-i2rl lorsesarolen by rhru~b, riugattacked bv a xu~erior force in a aosition from whenue it was di&cult to retreat. Ti~eren 'ax also a coudic<i n Srl)tember last bct\vceo about one huntlred Sious warriors a1111 eolupally of IJnired Stnres curfalry, resultiug in the killing oi four and v.ou~~dini lpl n l l r of t l~eIu tlians. If is ealnesrly hovt'd that dongress will at the n<xt session thereof promptly appropnatelhe |