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Show I ~ 36 REPORT OF THE 00XMIEEIO.NEE OF INDIAN AffRdIR3. was thought to be for the present controlling, to adopt some method whereby the question involved may be reviewed by the appellate court. At a recent date practically the same question arose in respect to the town sites of Washunga and Red Rook, located respectively in the Raw and Oto reservations, Okla. ~ x e s eto wn sites are entirely surrounded by Indian-reservation lands, and unless it be held that they are still Indian country it will be difficult to prevent the iutro-ductiou and sale of liquor there. Several investigations of alleged infractions of the liquor law have been made by special agents of the Department of Justice, and numerous prosecutions and convictions of offenders have been had during the past year. I EXRIBPTION OF INDIANS. But few requests for permission to engage Indians for exhibitions ' and shows have been received during the year, owing to the fact that the policy of the Department not to authorize their engagement for such purposes has become quite generally known. All such requests have been refused. With one exception, requests of officials in charge of State or county fairs or festivals, that Indians from various agencies be allowed to participate as an attraction, have also been refused. The exception was in the case of the annual carnival and festival at Denver, Colo., as to which the Department telegraphed the mayor of Denver, August 23, 1902, as follows: Your telegram 21at received. Department for several years has consistently declined to permit Indians to take part in exhibitions, but last year waived rule in ease of twenty-fifth anniversary of admisaion your State into the Union, held at Colorado Springs, on guarantee that Indians should take part only in historical pamde. Practice of Indians camping your city for past several years was witbout Department knowledge or conaent, as ia reported vkit of Arapahoes and Shoshones to Cheyenne. But for purpose stated in your telegmm and guarantee of expenses, including return, will not object to Indians named going to Denver, providing also that they be properly guarded against exoessea. May 21, 1903, Jacob White Eyes reported that 8 Navaho Indians were stranded at Coney Island, N. Y., without means of reaching their homes; May 19, a Tuscarora Indian was reported as stranded in St. Louis; June 13, David P. Dyer, United States districtattorney for east Missouri, reported 16 Indians from the Kiowa Agency, Okla., stranded in St. Louis from a Wild West show; and July 31, the United States district attorney at Jauesville, Wis., reported that 16 Pine Ridge (S. Dak.) Sioux were left by a show at Jauesville without means of getting home. In all four cases they were advised that as they had taken the responsibility of leaving their reservations without pemission they would have to look to their employers for help, and that this Office had no funds to aid them. |