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Show INDIAN LANDS SET APART TO MISSIONARY SOCIETIES AND CWRDHES. Tracts of reservation lands set apart between August 15, 1906, and July 1, 1907, for the use of societies and churches carrying on educational and missionary work among the Indians are: Resermtim Zmds set apart for sodeties md churches. Church or society. I Date. I Acres. I Location. Roman Gatholio.. ...................... July 17, 1906 20 Pine Ridge Reservation 6. D&. . Mi?sioq to NsvahoS (Interdenomina- 1 Aug. 28, 1906 1 80 / Nrwaho Extension ~ e s ~ r v a t l o~nr. r e Can~ention. Presbgtedsn Boardof Home Misionq.. Apr. 6, 1907 .7 Camp MeDuwdi Reservation, Atis. M. E. Ni~sionSoeietyofS outhemCe11- ..... do ....... 4 Yuma Reservetion, Cal. iornia. Roman Catholiic. ....................... Yay 8, 19M 160 Pine Ridge Reservation. S. Dak. General Conference of bleanonites of June 8. 1907 1 ~ o r t ehrn cheyenne Reaervstion, North America. Mont. TEE UPEEAVAL AT 0-1. The troubles between the two factions known as the " friendlies" and the '' hostiles " in the Hopi pueblo of Oraibi in Arizona were not settled at the time my last report was made. Their differences, political and reggious, had culminated in the forcible but bloodless eviction of the local hostile party, and $heir sympathetic visitors from Shimopovi, by the friendlies, in the early days of September, 1906. Though no arms, and so little unnecessary violence, were used in the final act of this little drama, one OE two hostiles were slightly hurt in the scuffle. For them, and a few others who fell ill later, a temporary hospital was eshblished in one of the Indian houses on the mesa. Every effort was made, also, to reduce the conZtions in the hostile camp to the normal state of comfort known to these Indians, by allowing any who wished to return to their old dwellings and bring away such provisions and other belongings as they needed. The site'chosen for the camp was remote enough from the pueblo to avert any immediate danger of further physical eontiict between the factions. Authority was granted to the superintendent in charge for the temporary r.mployment of 25 Navaho police.should their services be necessary. Pending the arrival of a representative of the Office, the superintendent was directed to ascertain how many of the hostiles would be willing to cut loose from the leadership of thechief agi-tators and return to the mesa or to some point nearby under piedge no longer to resist the authority of the Government; to warn the friendlies not t,o molest the hostiles who behaved peaceably; to reopen |