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Show ranchman, was found about 3 miles north of the reservation. The kill-ing or murder of this man was at once charged to the Indians by the settlers and ranchmen, who became very much excited and armed themselves for the purpose of seeking revenge. Soon reports were current in the newspapers of an outbreak of the Northern Cheyennes. May 25 Capt. G. W. H. Stouch, U. S. A., acting Indian agent of Tongue River Agency, reported that the man was undoubtedly killed by Indians belonging to the reservation and that he mould make a thorough investigation to discover the perpetrators of the crime; that he did not fear an "outbreak" on the part of the Indians unless it were forced upon them by the whites, and that he had requested the commanding officer of Fort Ouster to send two troops of cavalry to the agency to prevent trouble between the excited white settlers and the Indians. He recommended that a troop of cavalry be stationed on the reservation in place of the infantry then there, and Jnne 1 this office recommended that the War Department be requested to send there three or four troops of cavalry. May 31 Captain Stouch telegraphed that he had arrested an Indian known as "Stanley," who had confessed to the murder of the sheep herder, and that he vould turn him over to the civil authorities at any point outside the reservation which the sheriff of Ouster County might designate. June 4 Stanley was taken by Captain Read, U. S. A,, with one troop of cavalry as an escort, and was delivered to the sheriff at Rosebnd Station, to be taken to Miles City, Mont., for incarceration and trial. June 11 Captain Stouch telegraphed that he had delivered to the civil authorities Yellow Hair and Sam Crow, as accomplices of Stanley, and that the Indians on the reservation were quiet, newspaper reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Jnly 31 this office recommended that, in view of the peaceable state of affairs, the War Department be asked to give the necessary orders for the withdrawal from the reservation of tho infantry detachment and of all but oue troop of cavalry; it also reported concerning the question of fencing the reservation in order to avoid most of the causes of contention between white cattlemen and the Indians. The details of the arrest and delivery of Stanley are given in reports from Acting Agent Stouch, as follows: TON%UE RIVER AGENCY, MONT., June 5, 1897. Hon. COMMISSIONERI NDWAYPF IURS, Washinnton, D. C. SIR: I have the honor to report the obnditian of nffaira at this agency as brought about by tho murder of John Hoover, s, white man, and by the ospture of the mur-derer, David St;mnley, a Cheyenne Indim. Under date of May 25 I made report to you of the finding of the body. The body df the murdered man was found on the 23d of May, which was reported to me on the 24th. On the 25th I sent orders to Whits Bull for him and his band to I vomu to rllnagenry nr ouer,na 1 w.ta po s~l i \ eil t:it rhla band held the mnrderer,rheir homea hclni: in rhe sieinrrg of rho crruu. They arrlratl at llle agency nerr Jay, the |