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Show 94 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Question. Are you aoquainted with the Zuni ptrehlo grant; and if 60, how long have jrou known it, and-where is it ("the old pueblo of Zuni") loclatedP Answer. I em-since 1 . 0 ~rem~e mber--on a high mesa, southeast of the present Indian town of Zuni, end distant about 3 miles. Question. Have you anyjuterest in aaidgrant; andif so, what interest have you9 Answer. I have, ae one of the heirs. - PEDRO(h is x mark) PINO. Suhserihed in my prwenee and sworn to before me this 19th day of April, 1880. [SEAL.] WALTEGR. MAIMON, Notary Ptcblio, Other papers furnished were the same as those furnished by the General Land OiXce. Witch Hanging in ZnH Pueblo.-In my last report reference was made to the arrest of a number of the Zniii Pueblo Indians for "witch hang- . iug." February 25 last the acting Indiau agent for the Pueblo Agency forwarded to this office a copy of a letter dated February 24, from the United States attorney for New Mexico, stating that the five principal men engaged in the witah hanging had been indicted; that four were then in jail in Los Lunas, and a warrant had been issued for the other one; that the petit jury was discharged on the second day of the tenn and, as the indictment was not returned until the third, there would be no chance for a trial until the last of September, 1898. The acting agent had reported February 3 that there was no fbrther need for the presence of the troops which had been detailed to make the arrests and to preserve the peace afterwards. Connsel for Pnehlo8.-July 12 last the Department authorized the employment of Mr. George Hill Howard, of Santa Fe, as counsel for the several pueblos in their land and other matters, under an item in the Indian appropriation act for the current year. PYJUMID LAKE INDIANS, NEVADA. The Indian appropriation act, approved July 1,1898(30 Stats., p. 694), contains the following elause relating to the Pyramid Lake Eeserva-tion, and the inhabitants of the town of Wadsworth located thereon: That the inhabitants of the town of Wsdsworth, in the aounty of Washoe, State of Nevada, he, end they are hereby, authorized to proceed and acquire title to the town site of suoh town under the provisions of section twenty-three hoodred and eighty-two of ehapter eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the reservation and sde of town sites on the publio lsnds, and on oomplit~noe with the provisions of such town-aite laws the inhabitants of said town of Warls-worth aha11 acquire title in manner and farm as provided by the atatutes aforesaid: Provided, That the proceeds of the sale of the land in such town aite shell he paid into the Treasury, and he used by the Secretary of the Interior for the Piute Indians of the Pyramid Lake Reservation: Provided fwther, That if there are any Indians residing in aaid town and in possession of lob of ground with improvements, they shall have the same righta of purchase under the town-aite laws ss white citizens: Andprovided fuvther, That the tract of land situated near to and north of the town of Wadsworth, and upon whiah ia located the Pyramid Lske Indian schoolhouse, oontsining one hundred and ten sores, more or less, sball he, aud hereby is, reserved from the town aite hereby established, nnless it shell he determined by the Seoretary of the Interior that haid tract is not needed fbr Indian school purposes. |