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Show 54 EEPORT OF THE COMXISSIONER OF INDIAX AFFAIRS. remarks, came from the Comanche country to his agency at various (late$ during the past year. Oila (sometimes called A"out1iern) Apaches.-This tribe is co~nposed of two bands, the Mimbres and Mogollons, and nru~~baebro ut 1,200. They are warlike, and hare for yeilrs been generally unfriendly to the Gov-ernment. The cit.izeus of Soubhern New Mexico, haviug long suffered from their depredatory acts, loudly denla~~detdh at they be ren~ored, and, to comply wit11 the wish of t l ~ epe ople, as well as to prevent serious difiiculties, andpossibly wa,r, it vas a year or two since decided to pro-vide the Iudiaus with a reservation distar~ftr om their old home and there establish them. With a view to that a considerable number of the111 were collected ea.rly last gear at CaBa(1a Alaruosa. Suhse-quentlj-, by Executive order dated Norembcr 9, 1871, a reservutio~m~a s set a.part for tllcln wit11 otller roving bands of Apaches in the Tnlarosa Valley, to mhich place 450 of them are reportred to have been re~noved during the present year by Uuited Sti~tes troops. These Indians, althoughreu~oveda gainst their mill, were a t first l~leasedw ith the chauge, but, after a short experience of their new home, beuame dissntisfied. and no small portion left the reservation to roam outside, disregilrdiug t,he systelu of passes e~ta~blishe(lT, hey bitterly ol\jeot to the location as unl~ralthy,t he climate being severe and the water l~ad. There is undoubtedly mneh truth ill these complaints. They ask to be take11 back to CaBada Ala.mosa, their old home, promising there to be penceable and quiet. Of course nothing cau be said of t11el11 favorable to the in-terests of erlo(:iltio~a~n d labor. Suol~ofth ese Indiaus as re~nr~,oiuu the reservation are being fed by $he Governmeut. They hare uo treaty with the United States, nor do they receive annuities of any kind. Jicurillu Apaches.--These Indians, numbering about 850, hare for severad years been located 13-ith the Muache Utes, abont 650 in nuln-ber, at theCimamon agency, npou what is called "Maxwell's,Grant,"iu Northeastern New- Mexico. They have no treaty relations with the Gov- . enlment, nor have t,hey ally reservation set apart for them. EfYorts u7e.re made some Fears ago to hare them, with the Utes referred to, remove to the large Ute reservation in Colorado, but without success. The Cimarrou agency, homerer, has lately been discontinued, and these Apaches will, if it can be e&.oted without actual cooflict, be removed to the Jfeacnle,ro agencyat Fort Stanton. . Pour Ilundred Jicarilla Apaches are also reported as being at the Tierra Amarilla agency. The Jicarillas have l~eretofores upported themselves by hunting, with such assistar~ce as this Depar tme~h~at s been able, without spec~fica ppropriatlous, to render them. ~Tfuache, llreen~in,uche, uud Capote Utes-These bands, the Muache band, numbering about G50,heretoforeat the Cimibrron agency, aud the other turo bands, uumbering 870, at the Abiquiu agency, are all parties to the treaty made with the several bands of TJtes ill 1868. Ithas been desired to have these Iudiaus remove to their proper reservation in Oolorado, but all efforts to this end hare thus far proved futile. The discontinuanceof the Cimarron agency may hare the eEect to cause the Moaohes to rernove either to that reservation or to the Abiquiu agency, now located at Tiarra Amarllla, in the uorthwestern part of the Terri-tory. These three bands have generally been peaceable aucl fkiendly to the whites. Recently, however, some of t,hem have shown a disposition to be troublesome., but no serious cliffici~ltyi s apprehended. None of them appear dibposed to work for a subsistence, preferriug to live by the ch;~sa and on the bouuty of the Gorernmeut; nor do they stlow any incliuation or desire to have their children educated and taught |