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Show I CONCERNIBO INDIAN TRIBEB. 99 a country fast settling up, lead them into lewdness and intemperance, petty depredations, and occosioual conflicts with white men. Two hundred and four Gosi Utes in Nevada and 256 in Utah, not included in the above enumeration, speak a language allied to the Shoshones, but are intermarried with the Utes. They cultirate small farms, scattered on each side of the boundaryline, from which they are from time to time driven off by the whites, and need o n l ~pe rmanent homes to speedily arrive at oivilieatiou and self-support. WALLA-WALLAS. I The 129 \Irolla-n7allnsw ho are on rile Urnntilla reserviltiot~i n O~Q~ROI I have already been mentio~~ecilll con~~eetio\vni lli the Cajuses. Others are roan~illen ith the 6- r~u-e cndeson tlie Colunrl)i;l River, a.hosr IIuIn. ber is not k%own. WIOHITAS AND WACOES. The Wichitas, numbering 228, tlie Wacoes GG, Tazomanies 102, and the Keeclbies 90, located with the Caddoes in the Wichita reservation in the Indian Territory, are in much the same condition as reported last year. Their boardinpschool, which was filled to the utmost last year, has been enlarped. For the first time in five years, the crops of tbis agencyhave escaped severe loss or entiredestruction by drought br pass-hoppers, and 45,000 bushels of corn have been raised, besides a large .quantity of regetables. WASGO AND WARX SPRINGS INDIANS. The Iudians on the Warm Springs reservation in Northern Oregon :are 304 Warm Spriugs, 326 Wascoes, and 56 Z'eninoes. The two latter tribes are the most advanced in ci~ilizatiouo f any in the State. Their ,condition, as compared with t,hat of the Warm Springs, is reported by the agent as follows : Among <,he Wasooes aodTenioaesalmost all are either provided vith houses or have the material rready to build as soon as they can get land allotted, and all are satisfied of the advantage and oomfort it will he to them to haw houses to lire in. The differ-ence between them and the Warm Springs, in this respect, ir meet marked, and is the direct result of the form of religion held by each. The Wasooes and Teninoea have, as a general thing, expressed themselves as adherents to the Christian religion, while the Warm Springs tenaoionsly adhere to their own belief. The former are anmioos to improve their co~ditions s much ns possible, and to locate themselves somewhere permanently; the latter are averse to giving n their old unrestrained, vanrant, and precariooa modes of living, but when iodividoaf8 have thrown of either th& old babits OP belief, thcy have simultaneously adopted civilized habits and Ghriatianitv. These 680 Tndians hare cultir,ated 800 acres and raised 4,000 bushels of mheat and 1,000 bushels of potatoes, which, with beef of their own raising, and salmon, their favorite food, in abundance, not only furn-ishes a comfortable subsistence, but, for the most thrifty farmers, a sur-plus for sale. A considerable rerenue is also obtained by the sales of several thousand ponies annually, which wlth the cattle range the year round on rich crazine-lands. and renuire little or no care from their owners. KO ratbks a& isnued except ion few old and tlecrrpit members of the tribes. A Sabbath-school an11 pmser-meeting are well xItf!u(l~d. Councils are oneued with Draver bv oneof the Iniiians. Tern~erance ilnd moral it^ prevail, and tho Lireinidns of a court of head-men nl;l,ointed by the bead-rhief, who is clt.(~teda n~~oal lasr,e illvariably reg>eered. I n general prosperitj. a largeproportion of fhese Indians are neir1.v abreast |