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Show 94 REPORT OF THE COMiW&IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The following Indians also are reported as being in need of land: Crescent City, Del Norte County; Loleta, Bucksport and Mad River 0 in Humboldt County'; Cahto, Sherwood, De Haven, Westport, Fort Bragg, Noyo and Potter Valley in Mendocino County; Stewarts Point, Dry Creek, Cloverdale, Sebastopol and Bolinas in Sonoma County; Lakeport and Sulphur Bank, in Lake County; Paskenta, Tehama County ; Elk Creek and Grindstone Creek, in Glenn County; Stony Ford, in Colusa County; Ione, Kichey and Jackson Valley irl Amador County; Lemoore, in Kings County; Laton and Sanger, in Fresno County; .Mariposa, in Mariposa County; Groveland, Cherokee and Tuolumne in Tuolumne County; Murphy's Sheep Ranch, in Calaveras County; Nashville, in Eldorado County, and Possibly some others. Of the appropriation of $100,000 there has thus been authorized an expenditure of $62,458, exclusive of the salary and travelimg ex-penses of Agent Kelsey, leaving not more than $30,000, in round nlim- 'bers, available for further operations. The Office has been auth6r-ized to continue Mr. Kelsey's services for so much of the fiscal year ending June30, 1908, as they may be needed. In all probability the entire yeaT will be needed to complete his work in hand and t~ perfect the adjustment of the desert and timber allotments made to Indians under the fourth section of the general allotment act of Februaq 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), another'duty which will be assigned him.. It will be seen from this review that the current appropriation will be wholly inadequate; and to place the Indians of this State in a position whereby they may become self-supporting a further appro-priation of at least $50,000 should be made by the next Congress. THE &EMHI INDIANS. In the latter part of last April a party of 8 Indians removed from the Lemhi to the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. A second party of 30 went soon after, and other companies followed, until all the Lemhi Indians had been removed. Their farm machinery and cattle were shipped by rail from Red Rock, Mont., to Ross Fork, Idaho, and are now on the Fort Hall Reservation. Arrangements had already been made for the reception and settlement at Fort Hall of the Lemhi Indians, and their long-mooted removal was finally accomplished with little difficulty. Tendoy, the old chief of the Lemhi Indians in Idaho, died on May 9, 1907. In the early days he rendered valuable service to white settlers, protecting them from marauding bands of Indians who were passing through the country, especially during the Nez Perc6 war, when, owing directly to his influence, the Nez Per& did not molest any white person in the Lemhi Valley. |