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Show REMOVaL OF INDIANS TO SILETZ AG-ERCY. Acommission consisting of Benjamin Simpson,esq.,of Portland,Oreg.; J. H. Fairchild, United States Indian agent at Siletz agency, and George P. Litchfield, United States Indian subagent at Alsea, mas appointed by the honorable Secretary of the Interior, July 19,1875, to visit the coast. range Indians in Oregon, and, in accordance wit.h the provisions of the Indian appropriation act approved March 3,1875, (Stat. at L., vol. 18, p. 446,) to remove them from their present reservations to the Siletz reduced reserve. . The colnmission have visited the aeencv and report the Siletz Indians as consenting to the removal, and a< aciually removing, September 29, 1875, to the reduced reserve. The Alsea Indians have not yet assented to a removal, and the commission recommend the removd of all Gov-ernment property, and euch Indians as are willing to accompany it, to the Siletz reduced reserve at once. ~ S C ~ ARPACOHE INDIAN INVESTIGATION. \ Upon the recommendat,ion of this Office, Hon. John McNulta, of Bloomineton. Ill.. a late member of the Indian Oomlnittee of the House of l lal~rest?ut i t i~w~as ,a pl,oilltnl, .\Iarcl~1 1, 1875, by the i~i,oorableS ee-retnry of tho Illterior, a corn~~iiarjiolltror visit thc .\lrsailrro .4)1wcL1a1 11- dim arn'ncs ut Foit St:lntolt. 3. Mex.. nud lllake iuvestiratiorl of the allege$ outrage and massacre of 1ndiAns upon that reserve by a party of Mexicans and Americau citizens on the 1st of Ja~luaryla at, which resulted in the murder of three Indians. the loss of their mouertv. and subsequently the abandonmeut of their reservation ; anci a retaiiation on their part, followed by a further attack on the part of citizens and ""......". 311.. 3lcNultn ma8 instrllrted to look into the causesof sucl~co nduct OI I the part of tho vitirena,nnd toaaloyt sllch methods, it'poasible, :IS \vo~~lrl prevent its recurrence,and to assire the Indians of protection during good behavior or of punishment when they commit depredations. Inasmtich as grave charges were made by the military relative to t,he managenlent of affairs at the agency, and reflecting upon the adminis-tration of those representing the Indian Department, Mr. McXultaiwws instructed also to inquire fully into all alleged irregularities at the agency, and report the cause of the irritatipn and conflict which seemed to exist between the military and the agent at the Fort Stanton Indian reserve, and to endeavor to procure harmony and co.operation between them. Mr. IfcNulta was further charged with the duty of reporting what sett,lers were within the limit,s of the reservation, and located there prior to theesta.blishment of the reserve by order of the President dated May 29,1873, t,he value of their improvements, and whether a,ny necessity existed for their removal, and whether any change should be made iu the boundaries of the reservation to meat the wants of the Indians and avoid conflict with the rights of bona-fide settlers. In oompliauce with these instructions, Mr. MoNulta ~i s i tedth is reser-vation, also the Cimarron agencj, which be was verbally requested to do, and has filed his report giving the result of these visits and hi8 investigation of the questions therein involved. The Cimarron Agency. The Indians of this agency he pronounced <'an unmitigated nuisance" to the citizens, and should, for mutual benefit, be removed to the resar- |