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Show 60 REPORT OF THE COMMISYIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. homa, for generbl show and exhibition purposes. The bond given by the firm was also for $10,000. April 13,1894, to H. S. Parkin to take 10 Indians, with their families, from Standing Rock .Reservation, N. Dak., to the Atlantic seaboard, for the purpose of showing the transformation from savagery to civiliza-tion, and for the further purpose of disposing of articles manufactured by them. A $5,000 bond was required of him. ' July 2,1894, to Mr. Stone, of Perry, Okla., to enter into agreement with some Indians of Ponca, etc., Agency, Okla., for the purpose of going East and playing ball. B e was required to file a bond of $5,000. August 22,1894, to William L. Taylor ('(Bpck Taylor") to take not toexceed 25Indians fromRosebudReservation, S. Dak., for general show and exhibition purposes. The bond.given by Mr. Taylor was for $5,000. In a few cases during the year authority has been granted for Indians to attend industrial expositions or local celebrations. This has been done at the urgent request of responsible parties having such matters in charge, and in the belief that the visits would have an educative influence upon the Indians themselves. The office, however, in grant-ing the permission, exacted such conditions and restrictions as would secure to the Indians good treatment and protection from'bad conlpany. SALE OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS. No further trodble has been experienced in connection wit11 the sale of liquor to enlisted Indians since Judge Hanford, of the United States district court for the district of Washington, decided in the case of United States against Pox that Indians enlisted in the Army whose tribe is under the charge of an agent are also under the charge of an agent of the United States, within the meaning of section 2139 of the Revised Statutes as amended by the act of July 23, 1892 (27 Stats., 260). As I stated in my report for 1893, enlisted Indians had caused much trouble by furnishing intoxicating drinks to Indians on reserva-tions in the vicinity of the military posts where such enlisted Indians were stationed. Capt. Uooke, acting agent for the, Blackfeet Agency, Mont., reported the establishment of a saloon on the summit of the moiintains along the western boundary of the reservation, and stated tliat he had laid the matter before the district attorney for Montana. His action in the case was approved in office letter of June 23,1894. It appears, however, from a later report from Capt. Cooke, that a question has arisen as to whether thesaloon is within the reservation or on the pub-lic domain, and that an official survey will be necessary to determine the question. This matter will receive early attention. Lieut. Plummer, acting agent for the Navajo Agency, Aria., reported, June 6, 1894, that a great deal of whisky was being sold to tho Indians of his agency at certain places in New Mexico, and that it was very difficult to obtain white witnesses to the fact of the selling of |