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Show I 2. REPORT OF COMMISSIONEE Ol? INDIAN AFFAIES. : ,. was to be averted. Captain WiU'iard then determined upon a night march and gave his soldiers their first information of the object of the expedition. Saddles were stripped and each man was supplied ~ i t Ih00 rounds of rifle ball and 20 rounds of revolver ball cartr~dges, and at 1.30 a. m. on October 28 the men were quietly awakened and ordered to saddle and mount without noise. The moon was about half full. The police and the other Indians with the command expected to be ambushed on the march if the proximity of the soldiers had been discovered by the hostiles, but Captain Williard assured them that the secret had been well kept. He was right. The San Juan was forded at daybreak some 3 miles from By-a-lil-le's camp, and about 5.45 the hogan in which By-a-lil-le, Polly, and other Indians were asleep was surrounded and nine Indians were cap-tured. As there proved to be several other hogans in the neigh-borhood, the Indian police, supported by a detachment of troops, were sent to arrest all the inmates. The police warned these Indians to surrender without firing, but, apparently not seeing the soldiers, they opened fire upon the police, and this at once drew a response from both the police and the soldiers by which two outlaws were killed and one wounded. None of the soldiers was injured, but the horse of a sergeant was killed under him and he was shot at several times. The skirmish lasted fifteen to twenty minutes, and by that time all the hostiles in the neighborhood had been killed or captured or had escaped through the heavy underbrush. The command proceeded with the police and the prisoners to Aneth, and the Indians held at Four Corners were ordered released. Soon after reaching camp, Captain Williard learned from an Indian who had wme to the trading post that the outlaw who had been wounded had been carried off by his friends after the command had marched away. In the afternoon a detachment went back to the place of the morning's skirmish to find and care for the sufferer; but no one could be seen there except some sick Indians and several old squaws. The friendly Indians expressed satisfaction over the capture of the vicious ringleaders and even urged that By-a-lid-le and Polly be killed because they had kept the Indian settlements in a state of constant terror, which would continue as long as the two were alive. In view of their bad character the superintendent and Captain Williard recommended that these two Indians be confined in a d l - tary prison at hard labor for ten years, and then be sent to some other reservation and never permitted to return to the Navaho country. As to the other eight-Sisco, Hosteen-et-so, By-a-lid-le-be-tah, sr., At-city, Bis-cla-e, Tha-el-chee-nah-ki-be-ga, Cliz-e-slon-be-ga and Mele-yon- Captain Williard recommended that they be similarly con-fined for two years. The superintendent concurred except as to |