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Show -" . ...,. .. -.. . . REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAh' AFFAIRS. LXVIE noxer, J. H. Koontz, and J. H. Kenzie, of Umatilltb County, Oregon,. appointed by the Department, were instructed by this office to nlaBtt the required appraisement. So far no report has bee11 received of the progress of the work. Upon the return of the survey and appraisement, if the same shall be approved by the Department,, the lands 're to be sold at public auction at the door of t,hecourt-house in the town of Pen. dleton, aforesaid, after thirty da,rs' ptiblic notice thereof. Only 640 acres aan be sold under the provisions of the act aforesaid. The funds arising from the sale of the lands, aftm deducting the ex-penses of the survey, appraisement, and sale, are to be placed to t'he credit of the Indians, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum Der anuum, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from time to time so mneh of the principal and accrued interest as he mas see fit in the support of an industrial school for the Indians of the Umx-tilla Reservation. MALHEUR RESERVATION. . . Under date of May 17 last, I submitted to the.Departlnent the ques: tion of restoring the remainder of the Malheur Indian Reservation, in t l e State of Oregon, to the mass of the public domain. I t mas stated that the reservation wm no longer needed for purposes of 1ndia.n occnpa.lio~~i that it was an expense to the Government, in that it had been fanpa necessary to keep tl person constantly eluployed in the protection .of the Government buildings there, aud that it was very doubtful if Con-gress mould gra,nt authorit'y for the sale of any portion of the reserva-tion for the benefit of the Indians, who have persistently refused to sett.le thereon. As the resultof this step, the rema,inder of the reserva-tion (except 320 acres, up011 which the buildings belonging to the Old Camp Harney Military Reserve are situated) was refitored to the public domain by Execlitive order, dated May 21, 1883. Under the provision of lam contained in sections 2122 aud 2133 of the Revised Statutes, on Mux 23 following tho General Land Office was directed to sell the agency buildings, together mith two sections of land upon which the same are situated, and this office is advised that the proper steps ha.~e been taken to effect the sale as directed. .. . There have been no Indians upon the Malheur Reservation since thg outbrealr of the Bannaok war in June, 18iS. A11 t,he Indians then be-longing to the agency left the reservation, and at the close of said Far those who had taken part in the hostilities, together with many other Indians who belonged at Malhenr, were removed, mith their women and children, to the Yakama agency, in Washiugton Territory, where they are permanently sett,led. Those who did not go to the Yakama itre living in the vicinity of Camps McDermott, in Xevada, and Bidwell, ii California, near the Oregon line, and the town of Win~~emucea,in Nevada, where they procure a livelihood by cultivating the soil or laboring among the whites. |
