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Show BEPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLIII land" not allotted nnder said act nor reserved for the fatnre use of aaid Inclians shall, after thirty days' public notice by the Secretary of the Interior, as in said act provided, be disposed of by the United States ta aatuet settlers only, under the pro-visions of the homestsad law, at the prioe and on the terms as to payment aa in said act oroaded. Therefore, this is to give notice ti!at noun of asid land, wbcthc~. "pine lands" ur "a~rienitorslli(~d8.n)' i r l ~ i nri lesaid reaerrarloosof~aidC bippena lnldinnn in Jlinne- ~arn. viz. White Eartl,. R+ci Luke. Leech Lake. Clss Lake. Lake \\'inonbagusltish, I , , - White Oak Point, MilleLac, Fond du Lac, Boise Fort, Deer Creek, md Grand Portage, areopen or will be open tosale or to settleuent by citizens of theUnitedStstas until advertisement to that effect, as required in said act, shall bs given, and then only as provided in mid act. All persons are, therefore., hereby warned not to go upon any of the lands within the limits of the reservations as heretofore existing for any pur-pose or with any intent whatsoever. No settlement or other rights can be secured upon said lands, and all persona found unlawfullg- thereon will be dealt with as tres-passers and intruders. Jom W. NOBLE, Secretary. Owing to the limiter1 balance.of funds remaining of the appropria- ! tion of $150,000 made by section 8 of this act, $00,000 of which mas I appropriated for a specific purpose (payment of interest), but little has . . been done toward carrgingout the further provisions, that is, tho sur-veys, appraisals, removals, and allotments. SOlW!HEBN UTE AGREEMENT. The agreement made with the Southern Ute Inaiaos, of Colorado, in the fall of 1888, which has excited great popular interest throughout . the country, is still pending in Congress. Frieuds of the Indians are lothto believe that it will be for the best interests of the Indians to take them from the fertile valleys of their pre8ent reservation and set. tle them upon the barren, unprodutttive lands of the proposed resersa-tion in Utah. They believe that they should have lands allotted to them in severalty on their present reservation, where it would be reasonable to expect they would eventually become self-supporting, 1aw.abiding citizens. My own views upon this subject were fully set ont in a report to the Department, dated March 1,1800. As I see no reason to recede from the positioo then taken, and as the conclnsion~re ached and the grounds of 111y objections to the ratifica-tion of the agreement mere specifically stated in said report, I will re-peat them here: . , First. From an examination of the records of the various councils held with the Indians by the Commissioners, it does not seem to me that the agreement =cached . , fairly represents the wishes of the Utes; that their consent was reluotsntly given, ' . .' and, under stress of such considerations as appealed stiongly to their fears and very largely to their prejudices against a civilized life. Second. The prOgres8 already made by these Indians in civilization will be rudely interrupted by the removal, and they will be plaoed amid surroundings much more hostile to their progress in learning the white man's ways than those emidst which they sra now situated. Third. It will be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, fortheGovernment to carry |
