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Show There have been sold from the same, as reported by the Puyallup com-mission up to June YO, 1899, lots and blocks to the amount of $45,033.50, of which sum $17,272.09 was paid in cash at the time of the purchase, the balance being nsually on five-year payments, with interest at 6 per cent per annum. Deferred payments have been made to the amount of $18,026.73. Tbe money arising from the sale of the agency trmt lots is deposited in the Treaanry of the United States, and is used, under the Puyallup act of March 3,1893, in defraying the expense of sale other than the salav of the commission. Total amount reoeived from sales of allotted lade ...... .... $63,735.82 Total mount received from sale of agency traot lots . . . ... . 36,298.82 Grand total received. ...... ...... .. .... .... ...... .... 99,034.64 SALE OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS. Since the passage of the act of January 30,1897, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to Indians, the office bas been able to cope in a larger degree with illicit whisky sellers, and, where it has been possible to obtain evidence against offenders, the traffic, so far as outward appearances indicate, has been decidedly interfered with. During the past year many prosecutions have been instituted and numerous convictions had. May 3, 1899, the United States Indian Agent at the Oolville Agency, Wash., reported that seventeen white persons and two Indians were convicted at the April term of the United Btates circuit court, convened at Spokane, Wash., and were sentenced to serve terms of from two to eight mouths in the penitell-tiary and to pay a fine of $100 emh and costs of trial. Patrick Mar-tineau was convicted and sentenced for giving whisky to pupils of the Indian school at Chamberlain, S. Dak.; Andrew Wilson was indicted for selling liquor to Indians of the Mescalero Agency, N. Mex., and Barney Bckstein and Albert Davis were convicted for liquor selling to Indians of the Uintah Agency. Special Agent R. J. W. Brewster, of the Department of Justice, has oondncted several investigations, notably nmong the Seminoles in Florida and the Ohippewas of the Leech Lake Agency, Minn. Com-plaints from other quarters have been received and are being carefully inquired into: with the view of apprehending and punishing the guilty parties. ADMINISTRATORS AND GUARDIANS FOR OI'PIZEN INDIANS. The generally irresponsible charaoter of administrators and guar-dians and their sureties, appointed or approved for citizen Indians by local courts under the methods now in vogue, has frequently been brought to the attention of this office. The subject was fully discussed in ofiice report to the Department dated Juue 26, 1899, and in compli- |
