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Show 120 REPORT OW COMMIS8IONEB OW INDIAN AFFAIRS. senso of sight thut violence would be of no avail, and that the shed-ding of blood on either side would be entirely useless. The pres-ence of a military force in the neighborhood had the desired effect of entirely preventing any show of violence or even resistance op the part of the Indians, who generally concluded to go to work. Matters were quiet through the winter with scarcely any change; the troops remained in camp and the Indians continued peaceable. Captain Johnson visited them once a month and submitted reports as to their condition. Many of the Indians were employed during the fall and a part of the winter on construction work for the Missouri River and Northwestern Railway Company; their earnings amounted to $1,805.40, and matters were progressing favorably until about January 1, when the company suspended. Some $218 are still due, which the compmy will probably pay after its reorganization. Some of the Utes removed to the Rapid City School in South Dakota, where they were employed in the construction of fences and other farm labor; for this they were paid $1,036.73. A considerable num-ber of the children attended school, and were subsisted and clothed, like the other pupils, at the expense gf the Government. Toward spring a widespread desire was manifest among the In-dians to return to their home'on the Uintah Reservation, which was not discouraged. The matter was discussed at several meetings, until finally there was a general agreement among them to return, and active preparations for the trip began about the middle of May. Captain Johnson was detailed by the War Department to go with the Indians, and Henry Harris of Fort Duchesne was induced to act as interpreter for the removal party. On June 10,11, and 12, author-ity was granted Captain Johnson to expend for- Subsistence $4,420 Wagons and harness_------.--------------------------------------- 3,000 Rent of camping grounds en mute- ----------._--1,6.U-O .--------------.- leidental p e n s 600 E n n 5W The War Department had already placed at his disposal a numher of mule teams sufficient to equip the expedition. On June 29 Captain Johnson telegraphed the office that he and 225 Indians had left Thunder Butte for Rapid City. On July 14 he telegraphed that the wagons he had ordered from the factory had just arrived at Rapid City, and that a delay of three or four days would be necessary to set them up and reorganize the expedition for the h a 1 start to Utah. On July 24 he left Rapid City with 360 Indians, comprising the entire numher there and on the Cheyenne River Reservation. On August 3 he reported that he had arrived at Fort Robinson in good condition. A family of four persons deserted shortly after leaving Rapid City and were later found on the Pine |