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Show 14 co-BB EEDWS mma to, all their Snenw sad; &O a& p m r wtki%hs to ,p~evsnt liquors being used at the time. . Failing to receive satisfactory as&rancea, I postponed the pay-ment, whereupon the Indian council, the county and municipal authorities, and business men, confronted with our unyielding deter-mination to enforce the law, hastened to express their intention to cooperate. The payment was made, and it was the "driest " one on which a distribution of money had ever been made in that nation. This law was invoked with good reaults at the payments to the Xiowa, Sac and Fox, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Pawnee, and other Indians, and will be applied hereafter at all such payments. The awakening sentiment among Indians has been shown during the year in a number of striking instances where no liquor was to be had at large gatherings of these people. At Flathead the chiefs were deeply interested and prior'to and during a celebrhtion talked to the Indians on temperance. On May 6, 1914, under written orders from the superintendent of the Fort Lapwai (Idaho) Agency to ascertain whether liquor was being brought on the reservation, while attempting to search a party of Indians returning home, Samuel Tilden, an Indian policeman, h o t and killed William Jackson, an Indian. Tilden was indicted in the State courts. At the trial Tiden was convicted, but on ap-peal the State supreme court remanded the case for a new trial because of certain recbrd errors. The case is still-pending. Two persons were indicted for intiodueing liquor into the >Indian country, and on their plea of guilty were sentenced by the United I States district court of Oklahoma to two years in the penitentiary and to pay a h e of $500. On reaching the penitentiary an applica-tion was made to the United States district court of Kansas for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the act of January 30, 1897, provided only a minimum punishment of 60 days and h e of $100, and that the court was without authority to impose any-thiig except that minimum. The writ was granted, but on appeal by the Government the district court was reversed by the circuit court of appeak. Tulapai, or tiswin, is an intoxicating d r i i made by fermenting sprouting corn, and is used by the Apache and some other south-western Indians. Its simplicity of manufacture is only equaled by the resultant debauch. Superintendents of raservations where it is usually made and consumed are cooperating with the Indian 05ce in stamping it out. As it is not imported into the reservation, but brewed where consumed, the task of breaking up the practice is di5cult. |