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Show 92 REPORT OF THE OOMMIBSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. and they were returned to the Navaho RRservation. In June, 1907, the two-year terms of the other four-Denet, Lakai, Cladhy, and Tolghin-allowing for commutation, expired, and they were accord-ingly delivered at the agency by the War Department. For the care and transportation of these prisoners the War Depart-ment has submitted vouchers in the sum of $2,375.12, and the claims have been forwarded to the Auditor for payment. INDIANS IN UALIPORNIA. My last report referred to the investigation of conditions among the Indians in northern' California undertaken by C. E. Kelsey, for-merly secretary of the Northern California Indian A4ssociation. His services were secured as special agent to carry out the provisions of the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 333), which appropriated $100,000 for the purchase of lands, water rights, etc., for the Indians of California; and during the fiscal year just ended the following expenditures in southern California have been authorized: At San Manuel, the purchase of two small tracts aggregating 13 acres for $2,125; at Las Coyotes, the purchase of 160 acres in the San Ysido Canyon for $800; at Campo, the purchase of about 1,200 acres from J. A. Becker, L. A. Dyball, and the heirs of Horace G. Smith, at a cost of $14,500; at ~a changat,h e purchase of 235 acres for $6,650 and the expenditure of $2,500 for piping water; at Pauma, the pnr-chase of $400 worth of cement and tools for the Indians to use in finishing a reservoir begun by themselves; -at Coachella or Cabazon, $1,200 for pumping plant and wells; at St. Augustin, $l,150for the same purpose; at Morongo, $500 for testing the water supply; and at Cahuilla, $600 for improving Lh& water system. This makes a total expenditure authorized in southern.California of $30,425. By direction of the Department certain tracts of Government land adjoining Palm Springs, Twenty-nine Palms, Inyaha, Capitan Grande (including that part called Conejos), Laguna, Cuyapipe, Campo proper, La Pasta, and Manzanita reservations have been with-drawn from all forms of settlement and entry,' for the use.of the Indians of these reservations. It is purposed to issue patents for these lands under the current Indian appropriation act (34 Stat. L., 1016) in the name of the band inhabiting the reservation to which the lands will be annexed. There is still under consideration the purchase of a tract for the San Pascual Indians, estimated to cost between $3,000 and $5,000. Other work planned involves the settlement of the claim of Peter McCain, an occupant of Indian land on the Manzanita Reservation, who owns improvements there valued at $2,000 to $2,500; the fenc- |
