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Show REPORT OF' THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLV tors and camps, where no hygienic nor dietary measures can be e~lfo~ced, t8he p11Ssiciau is emharrassed'iu tile effort to better tlie condition of t,hose for !!-horn he feels great responsibility. The medical corps eon-sists of 65 physicians, and it is fair to infe,r that their duties werefaith-fully performed. A tabulated state~nentw ill be foi~ndo n pa.ge 309 showing the nntnbar of pat.icnts treated, diseases, &c. From this it ap-pearsthat thegreatest morbific agent^ have been~nalariaal ndpulmonary diseases, especially tlie former. This is particularly noticeable, among the Indians in the Indian Territory. HUALAPAIS. For several years the Hualapais Iudians roamed unmolested among the mountains of Northwestern Arizona, in the vicinity of Camp Beale Springs, and subsisted t,hemselves in the Indian way. But in 1873, when it was represented that they were on one of the principal lines of travel, and that mining camps were springing up all around them, it was recommended, by both civil and military officers, thit they be removed from that section and looatedupom some reservation. Accordingly, in the spring of 1874, 580 of them were removed to the Colorado River Reserve, and there regularly rationed. Partly OII account of their dissatisfaction with the location, and partly owilig to their ~uuwillingness to submit to the requjremeut that they should labor for a portion of the ration, they left the reservatiou the following spring, and returned to their old haunt.s; and the. agentre]?orted that, on eousnltation with the commanding officer of the department, it had been decided to allow them to remain there during good behavior. The proje6tion of the Southern Arizona Railroad brought settlers into 6hat country; their stock ranged over the grounds on which the Iudians hanl depended for nuts and seeds; game grew scarce; and the Hualapais becanie so destitute tbat it was feared t,hat their povert,y would lead them to depredate on sett.lerq and that a collisio~i would result. Such reports led Governor Fr6mont to viait them in persou in December, 1878, and he found them impoverished bnt friendly, and exeeedi~~gdlyes irous of being allowed to remain there and hunt. Noth-ing further was doue until the fall of 1879, when the Hualapais became so desperately poor that, aa a measure of both humanity aud polier, rations were issned t.0 nearly 700 of them by the War Department, un-til spring opened. Duiing the succeeding summer they.subsisted them-selves, but in the fall of 1880 their destitntion again called for relief, and the War Department provided for another issue of rations, with the ~u~derstaridintgh at the funds expended therefor should be reim-bursed the military by t l ~ eI nterior Department, whenever the neces-sary appropriation s l io~ldb e obtained. I n thedeficiency act of >faroh 3, 1881, $15,000 was appro1)riated for the Hualapais, with whieli t.he War 1)el)artment acco~~nwt se re paid. The needs of these Inclians we this fall greater t.hanever. The oflice |