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Show 122' COXMI88IONER OR INDIAN AFE'AIBB. 4 per cent per annnm. Ten per cent of such proceeds may be used in paying pro rata the entire expenses incurred in the sale of these lands. In 1884 when allotments were made in the field to the Indians of the Puyallup Reservation, the population appears to have been 565. The Puyallup Commissioners reported November 10,1894, that they found upon the reservation 498 of the persons named in the allotments, 155 men, 148 women, and 195 children, and that between January 30, 1886, the date of the issnance of patents for these allotted lands, and the date, November 10, 1894, on which they made their report, there had died 56 men, 42 women, and 108 children, making a total of 206 . death; of the Indians named in the allotments. There had been born between these dates and were living at the time of their report 119 children. The report of the superintendent of the Puyallup Indian school for the year 1904 shows the population to be 508, consisting of 239 males and 269 females. DEATH OF CHIEF JOSEP.H -A T NESPELIM, WASH. . The death of Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perch tribe, which occurred last month, removes from our Indian population one of its most noted characters. His retreat with over 500 mdians, including women and children, through Idaho and Montana, closely pursued by United States soldiers under Gen. 0. 0. Howard, has always-been acknowl-edged aa masterly generalship. The retreat covered over 1,000 miles, and lastedfrom June 14 to October 5, 1877. After their surrender to General Miles, these Nez Perch, then numbering431, were sent to Fort Leavenworth, and thence to the Indian Territory, where they remained for several years, always homesick for the mountains and valleys of Idaho. In 1883 a small party of 33 women and children were allowed to go back to their old home, and they were followed the next year by 118 others. Joseph and the remaining Nez PercB, numbering 150, were not allowed to return to Idaho, because of the murders which they had committed just before striking out on the war-path, and they were sent to Washington. There, in an excellent loca-tion, under the Colville Agency, Joseph psaed twenty unreooncilbd years. The report of his death is thus given by Capt. Jolln McA. Webster, in charge of the Colville Agency: Isincerely regret to report that Joseph, chief of the Nee Per&, is dead at Nespe-lim, on the Colville Reservation. Hisdeath, resulting from heart failure, occurred i at 5.45 p. m., September 21, and he was buried at noon on the following day. Most of his oeonle were absent from Nes~elima t the time on their annual nilgrimage I . . . .. . to the hop fields around SorthYakium, and the rrgnlar filneral services have been defemd until their return, wl~irhM r. ~lcCrossona, dditional fanner at Scs~elimm lt-agency, writes me will bein a few days. Many of the Indians throughout this sec-tion aremaking arrangements to hold commemorative services at different pointa, ahowing the esteem in which he was genemlly held among them. |