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Show 158 REPORTS OF AGEXTS IN ~V~ SHINGTONTE RRITORY. this the Indians guilty of crime should st the same agency and in the presence of de-aerriog ones, be issued five or six times the amount anpplied to the latter? It is my firm conviction and in this opinioll I am snpported by the gentlemen of the oommis-sion, tbat the h t t s and White Rivera, if they are to remain together, must be treated with equal liberality. Their issues must be made in common ; they must be looked upon as members of the same tribe. It will be my earnest endeavor to briog ahout a oonsolidatton of those two tribes, for opon this in my opinion, depends the future suo-oess of Indian affairs at t , b i~ag ency. I am, very reapectfillly, your obedient aervaut, J. J. CRITCHLOW, United Stntts Indian Agent. The Couurssroiien OF 1xn1.1~ AX.X&IHS. Owrcrc UNITED STATES INDIAN AGENT, Colville Agency, IYasbingfon Territory, Augwt 18, 1881. Sm: I have the honor to aubmit my ninth annual report of the agency under my charg-e . COUNCIL WlTA SPOKANES. On the 26th of October, 1a0, I was requested by Col. Wm. J. Pollock, United States Indian inspector, to meet bin1 at Deep-creek colony, 17 miles from Spoksne Falls, where he proooaed to hold a council with the roving hands of Spokane Indians. I met him as directed, but no Iodiaos being. present the meeting was adjourned to Spokane Falls, where, after doe notice, the representative men of the Upper and Middle bands of Spo-kanes met in council. They were informed by Colonel Folloek that i t was the dcsire of the government that they should either take up homesteildv or go st once upon the Colville or Cmur d'AIbne Indian reservation, as the country riw being rapidly settled upon in eooseql8enoe of the bnildiog of the North Paoific Railroad through it, and uo-less they took immediate st,eps to secure their homes, their land would be appropriated by the whites. Many of them manifested a disposition to tske up land, and hsve sinoe taken out the papers UeC08SaCY to secure their homesteads; more wonld like to do so, but think its. harshill to have to pas the office fees of 8i32, while others sre unable to raise the necessary amount. RESELLVATIOH FOR LOWER SPOKBNES. In alludi,n to tho rrrcrvxriwn lately set mido Ly ( . s e ~ ~ ~o~rdIeir vof~ J iton~ilry1 8, 16-1, for tho Lower Spoknttva, i r is lo ha regretted thnt tho r ~ r ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o~f ~Cucl.~ E~. OA. a t i u . Watkioain l d ? i . a ~C~o~l.l W illia!o.l.l'ullork in la*. I'!~it$~dYt;8t+In.8d iuu inanrrrora. for the setting aside of the 6-mile strip on the east side of the ~o l&n b i a~ i v&f i im' t h i mouth of Kettle River to the mouth of the Spokane River,aas not adopted, as the homes of the Colville Indiaos would have been included, which would have been but justice, a8 they were the first to ask for the addition. I t is not to be wondered at thnt they consider themselves nnjnatly treated in tbat their request was tnrnsd to the ben-efit of others. CENSUS. In compliance with inatructions contained iu Office Circular, No. 56, Civilization September 27, 1880, reqoiriug "Indian agents, their assistants, and employ6s" "ti mitke a oamplete enumeration of all the Indians * and obtain auoh facts as may be neceisary to cxhihr the ~ ~ ~ t l i ol fi l~hel lJQ V~,TSI trihns and tlleir loroyrraj i l l civllirstioll." nud "report 3117 RSlrn C H I ) P O ~ ~ I UI I~IPZIIIT I ~ ~ i l l tlli8 (.IBIIII(.P~IUU" TO Maj. J. 13'. Punall, aperial serut, L.L.U~U.B ulrau, I ~ U C C ~~~i~ ~ UIUSPI I ~ ~ VofJ this nzenuv ha* been obtainea, and thi.pa+rs forwarded to your office. But as it will neoeikarirg iu-valve some extra expense, of whioh Major Powell has been informed, to tske the een-sue of the four reluaining tribes, some of the111 living more than one hundred miles from the agency, and no funda to defray the expsnse having, an get, been provided, the work has oeeessarily been suspended. The reduction in the empl0~6fo rce of this agency, viz, the farmer, olerk, and two blacksmiths, at a time when their services ere rnore than ever required, oannot but operate to thedisadvantage of t,he Indians sod of the public service. It is not passi-ble for an Indian agent eod his interpreters to give %he neoessery supervision over 3.500 Indians, inhabiting it oountry 200 by 150 miles in extent. iu cwo different Terri-tories, bud at the same time perform the olarioal work of the office and sttend pro~erly to the other businesa that neoeaaarily devolves opon an agent in the discharge of his official duty. |