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Show L REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF .INDIAN AFFAIRS. last manifesting a disposition to settle down to the pnrsnitsof civilized life. I t is probable that all of Paddy Cap's hand oan.he brought together on this reservation and placed under the charge of the Wext-ern .Shoshone Agency, and possibly some of the other roving baids, seeing the benefits and advantages enjoyed by their brethren in having a permanent home, may be induced to settle there. This is a most encouraging step toward the settlementof the future of this wander-ing people, and it is my desire and intention to use every means within my power to gather the remaining bands of these Indians upon that reservation or some other in that vicinity. 'TROUBLE IN THE SAN JVAN COUNTRY, NEW MEXICO. By an Executive order dated May 17,'1884, all those portions of townships 29 north, ranges 1415, and 16 west., south of the San Juan River, being a portion of the addition to the Nav+jo Reserve, were re-stored to the public domain. By reason of this rest'oration strife 8prnng np between the Indians and the whites for the ownpancy of this conn-try, the Indians unwilling to give way to'tbe whites and the whites determined to settle on the restored lands. The relations between them became so strained as to give rise for a time to the most serious ap. prehension. Special Agent Parsons aas sent to that coltntry last spring to make a thorough investigation of the difficulty growing oit of the dispute as to land rights between the Navajo Indians and the white settlers, and as a result he advised the restoration to the Navajo Res-ervation of dl the lands embraced m the aforesaid Executix-e order a;s the only permanent solution of the difficnlties on the Sea Juan River. He also advised the appointment of some trustworthy man to repair to the scene of the trouble, 100 miles from the agency, and replesent the Indian service. Troops (two companies) were stationed there last spring, and by Executive order of April 24,1886, the aforesaid lands were restored to the Navajo Reservation. Since'then comparative quiet has been established. EASTER3 OHEROKEES, NORTH CAROLINA. In referring in my annual report for 1885 to the adverse decision of the Oourt of Olaims in the snit of theoe Indians against the United . States and the CherokeeNation West, it was stated that thecapc would be taken on appeal to the United States Supreme Conrt. The Supreme Conrt, in rendering its decision in March lLt, already quoted on page XLV of this report, decreed that if the Cherokees in North Carolina or any other State east of the Mississippi wished to enjoy the benefits of thecommon property of the CherokeeNation they must comply with the constitution of that nation, and be readmitted to citizenship as pro-vided by law. Looking to the very best interests of these Eastern Cherokees and their settlement in permanent homes, removed from the annoyances to |