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Show meohcsuical business. They cannot pvemome their disinclination to confiuement. There is no power, either on the part of the Indians or myself, to compel the adoption of this mode of life. Our police never worked to our complete satiafiiction or met onr expectat,ions, partlr from our inability to indnce our bast Indians to accept positions, and partly from the demoralizing effect of the excitement during the last year. I oannot recommend its reorganization a t present, but should recon~msrtdt, he appointment. of at least one ener-getic white man for that fipeoial duty. Amangenients have been made in aoco~daucew ith the desire of the department, nn well as many of the Indiana, to have them do our freighting this fall. Many of them are enthnsiastic on the subject, but we must wait for res~11tb~e fom speaking with oerteintv. Raspe~tfullys ubnutted. J. J. CRITCHLOW, reited Stales Indian Agent. The CoxMlssrosEn ow INDInh- Arr~rna. OPFIDRU NITEDS TATESI SI)IAASG ENT, Cobille Agency, Tl'nsh., Arrgvst 18, 1880. 811t: I hare t,lre honor to subn~itm y einhth annll%l report of t,he condition of the Indian service at this agency. Of the 5,5081ndians under my charge, 1,748 are living upon the reservations assiped them. The Cmar d'Aldoes, 450 in number, are a11 upon their renerve ; the Lakes, Okanagana, and San Paels (913) areliving upon the Colvill6 reserve. and the Met-how8 (315) are uponthn Columbia reserve. Thoso living off t,he mserveiions are 1oo;ttep as follows: The Colvilles (670) are settled on the east side of the Colmnbia River, between Kettle Falls and the mouth of the Spokan River, with the exception of a few families mbo are located in the Colville Valley. The Ypokeus (685) am living along the Spokau River and vicinity from the Spokan Fall8 to its junc-tion withtheColamBia. The Callispelsor Peud d'oreilies (400) areprinoipallyuponthe Callispel Lake, an enlargement of the Pend d'Oreille River, about seventy-fire mile8 from Spokan Falls. Aconneil was held a t Spokan ~ ~by 1Col. 1H. C~lay W ood, on tbe 17th of June, with a view of iuducing tho roving bands, or such Indiansas were not pormanently located, to go up011 a reservation or take up land in severalty. Some fifteen or twenty Spokena expressed a willingness to take homesteads and remain where they were; others ex-premed n disinolinntioa either to looate land or go upon a reserve; the greater number of the Spokan Indima, however, hove farm8 upon wl~ich they have made improve-ments, aod from which they raiw most of their ~nbsistence; the same is trua in regard to the Colvilles. Thechief objection to Indians availing themselve.ea of blre homestead aot arises from tl~eira isiuoliuntiou to sever their tribal relations, and from their iua-bility or unwillingness to pay the eomruissious and feesneeeseary to aecclre their Imd. I f they oottld be relieved from the necessity of making thesepayn~eotist would greatly enoourege them, and pave t.he way to so easy nolrttiou of the present difficolty. The annual v~sitso f roving bauds of I~>di sntos this aeetiou of connt,ry ia a source of great annoyance, not onlyto the settlers, but to the Indians who rightly belong here as well; the ostensible object of their visit is for the purpose of gathering roots and obtaining fish, but their real object ia to enjoy a seaaou of dissipation, gambling, &e., and their conduct is having a visibly <leruornlising effect upon the Indians of $his agency. Notwithstancling the most ~trenuuuse ffortn pou t.11e part of the agent to prevent the sale of intoxicating liqnor to Iudians, it is to be regretted that the traffio hm much increased within the past year. Three perties have beon detected and are held far trial at the ]>eat term of the district conrt, but from the facility with whicL Indians not living upon the reservation con prooure liquor, it is almost imllossible to suppresrr the Wade. In mew of the many dmawbscks to whiolt the Indians of this snenoy are subject, there is muoh encouragement in the progreas they are making in k l i z e d pursuits. They are continually increasing their farming operations, and the number of acres brought under cultivation and the crops raised will be largely in excess of any former period ; while many new farm are being taken, there is no evidence of any of the old ones beino abindoned. During theyear 1,000 acres have been broken hy the Iudians, end they have not 1889 than 7,000 aores under fenoe, 2,000 rods of whioh has been made ii:o present year. Their wheat crop is estimated at 18,000 hlshels; oats at 17,003 bnshels; oom, 500 busltcls; potatoes, 3,000 boshels; aud abont 1,100 bushels of |