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Show in the United States Treasnry. Suit was first brought in the Court of Claims in which judgment was rendered against the Indians. The Mopreme Court reversed the judg~nent of the Court of Claims and remanded the case to that court with instructions to enter a new judg. ment in favor of the Indians for the net amount actually received by the Government for the Kansas lands less the amount to which the Tonawanda Senecas would have been entitled and less other just deduc-tions. By their treaty of November 5, 1867, the Touawanda Senecas surrendered their interest in the Kansas lands and their pro rata share of the fund provided for removal to Kansas. In antioipation of a call by the Court of Claims this office on May 5 last submitted to the Depart-ment a statement showing the basis upon which the settlement with the Tonawandas was made. TURTLE MOUNTAIN CHIPPEWAS, NORTH DAKOTA. Ratitication of the a.greenient concluded with the Turtle Mountain Chippewas October 22,1892, is still delayed, and the Indians therefore continue to be in an uosettled condition, not knowing what to do or to expect. The ratification of this agreement has been repeatedly urged. A bill (House 9282) was introdnced during the last session of Con-gress referring to the Court of Claims the claim of these Indians for payment for about 9,000,000 acres in North Dakota which they declare have never been ceded by them. It mas favorably reported by the House Committee on Indian Affairs (House Report 820), and is still pending. TORTURING AND BURNING OF SEMINOLES IN OKLAHOMA. Early in January, 1898, alarming reports appeared in the newspapers of an impending outbreak by the Indians of the Bemiuole Nation aloug the borders of Oklahoma on account of outrages perpetrated in that vicinity. After a searching investigation it was found that the threat-ened disturbance was due to the burning of two Seminole Indian boys at the stake by a mob of white men from Oklahoma in revenge for the killing of one Mrs. Leard, a white woman living in the Seminole Nation. The facts as to the murder of this womau and the burning of the Indians arc briefly stated by Leo E. Bennett, United States mar-shal, in his report to the Attorney-General, as follows: On the evening of December 30,1897, Mrs. Leard, or Laird a white woman, residing on the '.McGeisy farm,: 20 miles west of hewoka, Seminole Nation, and probably 5 or 6 mlles east of the post-office of Mand, Okla., was visited by an Indian, who asked to borrow a sad-dle. This was refused him. He tarried a while, and Mrs. L. became uneasy at his presence and ordered him away. He leftl but very soon after returned, and entering the house unannounced plcked up a gun and attempted to shoot the womau. The gun failed to fire, and Mrs. L. started to run, whereupon he struck her with the gun, b~eakingth e |