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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIOh%R OF INDIAN AFFALRS. 47 I reservation is to be their fntnre homo, and that no anuoities d l he given them nt any other ace Sth.%hxf Richard KO-, of Pesnsyl~aniab, e employed as interpreter to the com- I miaaion ; and 6th. That theaoooities of the Western Shosl~ones,N orthwestern Shoshones, and Go-ship band of Utea be placed at the disposal of the oommisslon. I Tlla above molornendsatiot~srn sef with the approval of rllr Department, autl gou are heralq atirhorired to carrs the &une loto cCcct. lnsrructiuus will be muad to Ct,lonrl I lwrm. ilt Salt Lake Citv... I:tnh. to mnsfrrto you the snnuitygoob referred to in your letter: Very respectfully, your obedient servant, EDW. P. SMITH, Comaiiasioncl. J. W. P0rn,U9 Esq., bpe~iol Con~miiasioner, @., Preaent. While Special Commissioner Powell was thus engaged at Washington, Special Com-missioner Iugdls vieited a. part of the Nurthwestrru Shoshooees in Caahe Valley, and, returning from this expedition, mads n, trip to the Pai-Ute reservation in Southern Ne-vada. The apecial oommi~sion met agein in Salt Lake City. In obedience to the instructions received tho oommission then proceeded throu h the Territory ofUtah to its southern line, vieiting a number of tribes on the way, ta%- ina with them s quantity of goods to be distrihutedto thasevsral tribes a the7 ahould be-met from timebo time. - San~etimes the oommisaianers traveled in company, at other times they eeparated for the purpose of facilitating their operations. On this trip many of the Indians brloogiog to the Uiotah agency were visited, es-oeoiallv the Seu-%rits. ss aome snxietv had been entert8,inrdlest theneIndinus ahonla I ;gain &nnn,~r~lrtoh ~.ird q,n$ationa an"tl~zw rtiem~:ntr. It io~,ndr bar t h ~hio dof rhrironm accord given np their m u n n d l n ~li t'c, and thvg rignrfictl their willi~ngncast o co on n reacrvntion and nclo~~tltw Iiolnir*~~i ivilizedm en. The rc:mou~w l,i~Itt hrv &signed firr so doing were veG interesting. They stated that their people had been dying very fast of late years, so that their nnmhers were greatly redocerl, and they were speoially terrified on eooount of some disease which had carried off more than twenty of their number in lass than a week, only *short time before the commission met bhem. Sanle of their people attributed this to sorcery praotioed by other Indians, others to sorcery practiced by the white inhabitants of Utah, but the great majority seemed to consider it a pnnishment for the petty wars which they had waged of late years. Whatever the cause, they had determined to abandon the country, and part of them were about to join the Utes of the Uintnh reservation, another to jaiu the Pah-vants, anothw the Pai-Utes near the head of the Sevier, and la fourth t6e Utes of Colorado. They were informed that the Government of the United 8taEes expeoted them to go on the reservation at Uintnh. The ah-vtsntsbere next viaited at Corn Creek, near Fillmore. This tribewasfound to he much smaller, and the people in a, much more destitute condition than hwl lwen represented to the conmission. Ka-nosh, the principal chief, is an elder brother of Pi-an-ump, principal chief of the Go-si Utes, and the Pah-vants and Gwi Utes, altboogh speaking different laognages, affiliate socially, and often 50 on their hunting exoursions in wmpaoy. From this paint an l n d ~ a nrn unar was sent to bring Pi-an-ump and a number of 00-si Ut,e ohiefe to confer with I<&-noeh and such other Indians as might be collected here in regard to the propriety of their all going to the reservation at Uintah. ~ i i rsun ner was successful in brin iug in the deaired Ittdiaos, 80 that the Gosi Utes were well representad at the oonsjtation held at &nosh's amp. They remained with the wmmiasioners several days, and great pains were taken to explain to t.hern the intention of the Government in collecting Indians on reservntioos. The result of this t,dk was very satisfactory. In obedience to the first part of the aecoud clause of their inatmot,iaas,via: "That aome of the chiefsand principal men of Pat-Utes be induced tovisit Uintahrreasrvation, and encanraged to make their homes at that placq" the commission sent for Tsu-gu the priuoipal ohief of the Pai-Utes, of Utah and Northern Arizona, and a number 08 subordinate chiefs. The only ones who oo111d be induced to meet iit were Tau-gu and Mo-ak-Shin-su-xv, ohief of the U-ai-Nn-ints, who live in the vicinityof Saiot George. They informed the eommissiou that, induced by cousiderstions presented to them in former converastions, they had hdd a geoerai council for the puipose of consnlsin,o about the prupriety of going to Uiutsh, and tho 8llgCustioo had heen repelled by all the people, aud there wan no voice raised in favor of their going. They averred that the Utesof Uintah hsd heen their enemies from time immemorial; bat1 stnlcu their women and children i had billed their grandfathers, their fathera, their brothers and |