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Show risk, and captured a lawless band of Indiaiis well supplied with arm? and ammunition and turned them over, as' stated, to the Fort Berthold Indian agent. Theagent has had authority to so scatter these Indians over the reservation as to end the influence over them of Crow Flies High. No information has been received of any dissatisfaction or trouble among them since their return, and it is thought that they will ta.ke their allotments and make at least a start toward civilization arrd self-sup port. ISABELLA RESERVATION, MICH. Nothing of special interest has occurred on the reservation during the past year except the annulment of sales for taxes of the "not so competentn tracts and action looking to the refunding of moneys paid for taxes on such tracts. The State of Michigan ha8 been taxing these lands for several years past and several sales have been made on account of onpa payment. The decision of the supreme court of the State having been to the effect that the said lands were not taxable renders necessary the annulment of such sales and the refunding of all moneys paid for taxes. At the request of the auditor-general of the State of Michigan a list of the "not so competent" tracts mas fur-nished him August 15,1894, for the purpose of refunding. SALE OF TIMBER ON JICARILIJA RBSERVATION, ARIZ. The Indian appropriatioh act for the fiscal year ending June30,1895, contains, under the head of " Miscellaileous supports," the following provision relative to the sale of timber on the Jicarilla Apache Indian , Reservation : The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under snch rules and regula-tions as he may deem proper and necessary to protect the interests of the Indians and of the United States, to sell or otherwise dispose of a. quantity of timber, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value, on the Jionrilla Apache Indian Res-ervation, the proceeds to he used by him in the purchase of sheep and goats for. the benefit of the Indians belonging thereto, as will beet tend to pronlote their welfare and advance them in civilization. This provision of lam is in pursuance of a plan formulated by this officeand the Department for the relief of these. Indians. They are very poor, and are almost entirely dependent on the Government for subsistence a d support. Their reservation is, for the most part, bar-ren and poorly adapted to agricultural purposes, and, owing to the great altitude of the country, averaging about 7,000 feet, the seasons are too short and cool to enable crops to mature with any degree of certainty, According to the last three or four annual reports of,the agents in charge of these Indians, the crops yielded so poorly as to be altogether discouraging to the Indians. To this fact, no doubt, as much as to their inclination, is due the restless and roving disposition of many of the Jicarilla Apaches, |