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Show NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, MONT. As reported last year, it was decided that white settlers or benefi-ciaries of the appropriation made by the act of May 31, 1900 (31 Stats., p. 239), "to pay for certain lands and improvements" within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont., should be paid by war-rants drawn in their favor on the United States Treasury, and that the beads of 46 Indian families residing east of Tongfie River should be paid for their improvements through the United States Indian agent of the Tongue River Agency on that reservation. With one exception all of the white settlers for wbom appropriation was made have been paid as per their agreements, and they have removed from the reservation. Payment has been withheld from i' Charles B. Jeffe~isu ntil be shall be able to convey to the Government a clear title to his land and improvements. Meantime he has left the reservation and his premises are under the care of the agent. Mr. Jefferis and wife duly executed a deed, but the abstract of title, dated September 12, 1900, showed that a notice lis pendens was filed on the same date of a suit by W. C. de Normandie against C. B. Jefferis. The Department therefore directed, October 11,1900, that the deed should not be accepted nor payment for the land made until tLat suit should be finally disposed of. Mr. Jefferis's .attorney has been so notified. Otho S. Hon, one of the settlers, bas filed claim for $2,400, in addi-tion to the $2,100 which was paid him upon his execution of a quit-claim deed for his lands and improvements. His claim has not been disposed of. The 46 Indian families have been paid for their improvements and proper vouchers have been filed by the agent. The survey of the northern boundary of the reservation developed the fact that seven additional settlers are within the reservation bound-aries. They are without title to the lands occupied, and their improve-ments are small, estimated to aggregate only $2,965. January 29, , 1901, this office recommended that Congre~s be asked to make an appropriation to pay for their improvements, but Congress failed to make the appropriation requested. THE CASE OF LITTLE WHIRLWIND, A NORTRERN CHEYENNE. In the annual report of this office for 1897 (pp. 80-87) are fully set ont the facts relating to the killing of a white sheep herder, John Hoover, by David Stanley, a Northern Cheyenne Indian belonging to the Tongue River Agency, Mont., and to the arrest, trial, and con- 8593-01-11 |