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Show They would have been here in thirty hours after his arrival, if he had ordered the advance. But if there had been any ontbresk, he would have brought the troops with him without awaiting a peraonal investigation. Colonel Randall is an old Indian fighter. Twenty years ago he wan stationed at Camo Hamev.,. in Orer-r on. He there knew L'Ma.ior Jim,"the Shoshone ohief who was here this week. The two recognized each other at sight yesterday, when meeting for a powwow in Alturas Hall, this town. Lintenant Irwin. aetin-rr lndisn a-ee nt a t Fort Hall. who eame here Thursdav".. a lso left this afternoon by the train. The interpreter and the Indim policeman from Fort Hall went by the trt~il. They areescorting the Indiansand their ponies out of the country-to keep them together, and see that none refuse to go. None will rafilse, as they understand that they must go. The Indinns were loath to leave the prairie. They were living on groundhogs and roots, and nothing else. They claimed that they had killed no game whntever, and a few had nnl"v caurht a few fish to eat. All thia is within the law: but the - settlers know that the Indians havevialsted the law every year heretofore, and that they are liable to kill any Kame that they see. They therefore wanted them removed. when Lientenant ~rwinbroveo nt to the prairie, bef onndindian eampoodiea every mile or SO for 20 miles. The lodges were oauelly in some depression-in ravines, gullieq washes, where the abundance of blue flowers indicated tho presence of the Quamassin. of the botanists, that the Iudians know as oamas. They were evidently elated, happy in anticipation of a big harvest two weeks hence, when the tubers or roots would be at their best. In the evenings the Indians gathered in dorena at some o e n t d lodge and had a "grass dance." The whites were friendly, aa Lieutenant Irwin saw whites visiting at every Indian otsmp. He even ssw young white girls go there unattended in the evening. There was no alarm anywhere, that he could see. No fences burned, no stock turned into settlers' fieIda, no out-rages. The grass is abondant, belly high i l l many places, and will not be eaten, although there moat have been a quarter million sheep, besides large numbers of horses and cattle, on the prairie this year. Only one settler oomplained of the Indians-5. G. Humphrey, of the splendid Willow Creek ranch. He said to Lieutenant Irwin: "My wife i~ gone and won't return as long as the Indians are around. I want yon to take the varmints away; we do not want them hero." Lieutenant Irwin went aa far assoldier, 33 miles or so west of Hsiley. He ordered .I1 Indians to Hsiley, and some started at once. By 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon all were in town. They had between 300 and 4W ponies, and perhaps20 bucks were in the orowd. The total number of Indians, squsws and papooses included, waa sbout 50. They had a pow wow with the army officers, assented to the orders with-out a murmur, and agreed to leave at once. They went up Qnigley Gulch for the night, and this afternoon started for Fort Hall by the old stage road to Blsckfoot. Some of the business men of Hailey wished the Indians to stay for thoraces on the 5th and 6th, but the army officers did not feel at liberty to permit it. Having come thia distance to rid us of the presence of Indiaus, they had to see them off without delax. The 18 or 20 Indiana that live at Bliss haying gone home a few dsys ago, there ia not a single "red rnmN on the prairie. CHEROKEE FREEDMENPAYMENT. In the case No. 17209 of Moses Whitmire, Trustee for the Freedmen of the Cherokee Nation, u. the Cherokee Nation and the Uuited States, the Court of Claims, in its decision of February 3, 1896, ordered and adjudged that the Secretary of the Interior was anthorized to appoint three r~mmissionerx to ascertaiu and determine who were the individual |