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Show REPORT OF THE' COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 131 was obvious fmm the beginning that no hostile purpose animated the military authorities; that they recognized the peaceful errand on which the Utes had set out; and that their purpose simply lo impress the Indians with the total futility of longer resistance to the will of the Government and to bring them back without the firing of a shot or the shedding of a drop of blood. Even the wish not to disarm the Indians unless they showed some purpose of misusing their hunting weapons showed tact and consideration. No military assistance would have been called upon in the matter but for the fact that the governor of Wyoming communicated to the President his inability to mpe with the situation through the local civil authorities; and the same action, I assume, was taken there that would hare been taken In the case of a large body of ignorant and armed white men traveling through the same country and disregarding the game laws and other local police provisions. Whatever credit, however, attached to the military management in this matter belongs with the War Deparhnent, as the Department of the Interior became merely an interested spectator after the military authorities had been directed by the President to take charge of the business. Early in March Capt. Carter,P. Johnson, of the Tenth Cavalry? came to Washington for the purpose of arranging for some perma-nent disposition of the Indians. His plan was to lease a sufficient body of land from one of the Sioux tribes and settle them on it. At the time of his visit Special Indian Agent Downs, in charge of the Cheyenne River Agency, was here. At a conference in which the President joined, it was decided to find homes for the Absentee Utes on the Cheyenne River Reservation in pasture No. 2, on which the pending lease was due to expire on June 1. At a general council held on April 15 the Cheyenne River Indians consented to lease the four northwestern townships of pasture No. 2, containing ample wood and water, to theUtes for five years from July 1, at an annual rental of 4+ cents per acre. These terms were accepted by the Utes, who voted that their rent might be paid from their annuity funds. The lease was executed, and approved on May 20, and on June 11 the commandant at Fort Meade reported that the last remnant of the Utes had left for the Cheyenne River Reservation. There the -4bsentee band has remained ever since. PAIUTES. The Indian appropriation act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 325, 376), appropriated $15,500 for the " San Juan Pah Ute Indians" and the " Kaibab Indians " in Utah. An investigation of their con-dition by Inspector Chubbuck last year developed the fact' that it would be difficult to determine just what Indians would be entitled to receive the benefits of this fund, and accordingly by the current Indian appropriation act (34 Stat. L., 1049) the money was reappro-priated and made available for the use of the "Piute Indians in southern Utah and northern Arizona?' 1 They have lately been visited by Inspector Churchill, and on Au-gust 30,1907, he recommended the establishment of a day school for |