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Show 100 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Thlocw, and Moses and Peter Tiger, were arrested and otherwise mal-treated in their persons by said mob of United States citizens; that he was unable to obtain afidavits or statements from the two last named, for the reason that they were in prison at Fort Smith, Ark.; that Palmer Sampson, son of the said Mrs. Sukey Sampson, and Lincoln McGeisey, son of said Thomas F. McGeisey, were the two Seminoles who were chained to a tree and burned to a crisp in the most fiendish manner by the mob; that Mrs. Sukey Sampson lost a horse, bridle, and blanket valued at $80; that Mr. McGeisey lost two houses, a barn, some sheds and other outhouses, a well, some fencing, corn, lot of books, trunks, clothing, and house and kitcheu furnishings, all of which he values at $2,615.65, and that with the exception of the valoatiou of $1,250 placed upon the "frame and hewed log house" by Thomas MoGeisey, which he, the agent, thinks is fully double what it is really worth, the valua-tions are approved. The act of Congress approved July 1,1898, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the current fiscal year, contained the following provision : To extsl,le the Serretsrg of the lnrrrior to canse an examination and investigation to he mado o f outragas and iqju~.icaa lleged to have her" perperrsred ou incliviclonl Indians beloncin~to the seminole tribe b~ an armed mob or band of lawleas pereons who invrsded'thi Seminole country during the months of Deoemher, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and if, upon suoh examination and inveatigetion, it shall appear that outrages and injuries have been ao perpetrated and thst the United States is under tre%ty obligations to psy for suoh ontragca and injuries, he shall ascertain the amount whioh should be properly psid eaid Indian or Indiana, or their legal heirs or representative6 and pay such snm or sums as he rnai deem just and reasonable, and for suoh purpose a sum not exoeeding twenty thooaand dollars is hereby appropriated. As a11 the facts in the case are now before the Department, it is thought that indemnity will soon he paid by the Government to mem-bers of the Seminole Nation injured by the mob of lawless whitesill this disgraceful occurrence. Further, the whites guilty of the outrages are now being prosecuted hy the Department of Justice. SALE OF CITIZEN POTTAWATOMIE AND ABSENTEE SHAWNEE LANDB, OKLAHOMA. Up to the 2d of Angust, 1897, there had been approved by the Department (under the act of August 15, 1894, authorizing these Indians to dispose of their patented lai~ds2) 58 wnveyances, aggregat-ing in area 29,438.05 aores, valued at $174,782.09. Between Angust 2, 1897, and August 5,1898, there have been approved by the Depart-ment 95 conveyanoes by the Citizen Pottawatomie Indians, at an aver-age of $4.71 per acre, via, 88 in Pottswstomie County, aggregating 7,903.06 acres, for $37,142.50, and 6 in Cleveland Uounty, aggregating 740.43 acres, for $2,763.18, and 1 in Oklahoma County, 80 acres, for $1,281.25. During the same period there have also been approved by |