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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XVII Their exposure to raids from the Sioux, whose hostility arises from the fact that the Poncas are on lands claimed originally bydhe Sioux and included in their permanent reservation, has hitherto been a serious obstacle in the way of the proffress in civilized life which they seem dia. posed to make. It is believed that when the necessityof giving a large share of attention to self.defense is removed they will readily come iuto a condition of self-support by agricultare. The proposed removal will not only beliefit the Poncas, but the re-serve thus racated will otier a suitable home for some of the wild bands of Sioux, nLe~e,s it11 a set of agency-boil~lings1,0 0 111di.lnI lot~ses,3 1111 500 acres of i~nprovedl aud to start with, the rxperilnent of tl~eirc ivili. zation mav be tiied to advautace. l;or tl~is"remoral,c onditiouedh~th~e eollsent of the l?o~!ms,C ougress at its last se';sio~a~o nroprinted 825,000. li t l~eeR i)rta now being n~adc to gain such consedt'are soccessful, the move will be commenc<d early in the spriog. The above-named sum will not, however, defray the ex-penses of their removal, and purchase from other tribes the land on whioh they shall be located, and provide for the outlay necessary to establish them in sllch a way as fairly to reimburse them for improvements sur-rendered; and I most edrnestly hope that such additional provision will be made as wilt enable the office to give them a fair start iu their new location. REMOVAL OF THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES. It, is with cratificatiou that I am able to reoort the abolition of the ~hiricahuare servation in Southeastern ~ r i z&aa nd the removal of a majority of the Indians belonging thereto to the San Carlos reserve. ThLt this move. thoueh undertikei with erwe aoorehension, was accom-plished without difficulty is due in large'measuie to the hearty support and coo-operationa ftorded the officeb y the governor of Arizona and the general Eommanding t,he department. Up to April last, the Chiricahua Apaches kept the pledge made by their chief, Cochise, to General Howard in 187'2, so far as regards the citizens of the United States. It is reported, however, that raids, more or less frequent, in whioh the Chiricahuas have been ,assisted by L c ~ i ~ i t ofrro~m' 'o ther reservations, aud by renegades, have been made over the border into Mexico. est>ecially in the State of Sonora. The Siisl~~es$oefs t l~em ouurniu&i v l ~ i c hc o~~ztitutt'dth e Cl~iri(:al~nrae serve atior~le(al l~eciulf acilities for nuccesntul ruarautling, : I I I ~t he reports of losses br citizens (,f 3Ierico from 1ndin11i ncl~raiousu re co~~tirmeb(yl report o"f Special Cominissioner Williams.. In March last a quarrel, resultiug in the death of two men and a grandchild of old Cochise, caused a separation in what is kuown as Cochise's band of Chiricahuas. Nost of them uuder Tam, sou aud suc-cessor of Cochise, came iuto the agency; the others, under the lrdcler-ship of Skiuya, remained in the Dragoon Moontaius. Ou tbe 7th of April, a few of Skinyah followers, while under the influence of liquor, murdered Messrs. Rogers and Speuce,station-keepers atSulphurSl)r~~~ys, twenty-six miles from the agency, and proceeded to Sau Pedro Xiver settlement. fifteen miles above Tres Alamos. where thev killed (ma ranchman and wonnde(1 another, stole four hoises, and th<n fled tu I l ~ e Sau Josh Mountains, fifteen miles north of the Mexican line, wl~creth e band took a stroue nosition. from wh~cbo, n the follow in^ dav. il detach. melit of United zt'ates eava1r.v was unable to dislod2e {hem. rbe attacking party mere met by a furious fire from an unseen foe, and were obliged to retreat with the loss of one man. Notmithstauding the fact that the Chiricahuas had repeatedly refi~.srd 2 IND |