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Show LITTLE OHIEE'S BAND OF CHEYENNES. Little Chief and his bandof Cheyennes, numbering about 200, left Sid-ney Barraogs on their way to the Indian Territory October 20,1878, and. arrived .at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency on the 9th of December last. It seems that Little ChieE and his band were. traveling southward at the same time that Dull Knife and his band were raiding in the opposite direction. Fortunately the two bands did not meet and strike hands. In Naroh last information mas received that these Iudians were greatly dissatisfied and were about to break out on the wavpath. As matters seemed serious enough to warrant it, Little Chief and five others were permitted to come to Washington io May last and present their case. They stated that they had been informed by military officqs at Fort .Keogh that if on arrival at the Indian Territory they Tere not suited with the country t,hey might return to the north. Little Chief was very. earnest in the preseutatiion of his case, and was sustained by the other members of the delegation. For some time it appeared doubtful whether. they would voluntarily wnsent to go baek to the Indian Territory, but by perseveringly following their arguments and making plain the requirements of the law in their case, their full consent mas finally ob-tained, and they Tent back to their homes cheerfully and withthe evideut intention of remaining there quietly and peacefully; which they have so far done. THE OUTBREAK OF THE UTES. By the treaty of March 2,1868, two agencies were estal~liahecol n the Ute Reservat.ion in Colora(10, the Los Pinos Agency in the south for the Tabeqnaehe and X w h e bands, and the White River Agency in the north for the Pampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands. Abundance of game on and near the rese.=vation with which to supplement the half rations provided under treaw enabled the Utes to postpone indetinitel~ the time when they should be compelled to adopt civilized habits and means of subsistence. Owing to their proverbial friendliness to - the whites and loyalty to thegovernment, their frequent excursions outside the reservation gave comparat.ive1y little uneasiness, and was often en-conraged by those who wished to gain possession of the large quantities of peltries which the Utcs inn&lly secared. By this means the Indians b'd no difficulty in obtaining in abundance the arms, immunition, an0 whiskey which were denied t l i o~n t heir mseivation. . . The Los Pinos Utcs, under the personal intlueke and example of On'- ray, have yielded more readily to agencywntrol and seemed more in-clined to make a small beginning in civilized habits t.han thoseat White River.. ' The latter, moreover, for a few years paat.have been divided into two fsotions, under rival chiefs, betwee.n whoin a bitter auimosityhas exist&{, and any meas~~reproposebdy t'he agent needed only to be sup-ported by one partx to be gposed by the other |