The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-11-04
CONDENSED NEWS.
THE RED NAN.
Annual Report Of Indian Commissioner Atkins,
Portions Being Of Particular Interest to North.
Woaternera.

Annual Report Of Indian Commissioner Atkins,
Portions Being Of Particular Interest to North.
wssterners.
Following are the extracts from the In
dian commissioner report just issued
which are OF special interest to the north
west: During the year seventeen certiti-
oates OF allotment in severalty have been
issued to the Indians OF Lake Traverse
reservation under the treaty with
the Sisseton and with the Wahpeton
bands OF Sioux; two to lands on the White
Earth reservation under the treaty with
the Chippewas OF the Mississippi, conclud.
I'd March 10, 1857; fifty-five to the Sioux
Indians at the Rosebud agency. Patents
have been issued as follows: Two hundred
and eighty-one to the Chippewas Of Lake
Superior on the Bad river. Lac Court
oreilles, Lux Anse and Vieux desert
and Fond du Lac reservations; three
OF Sioux; 123 to the Santee Sioux
Indians; 6S to the Chippewas OF Saginaw,
Swan Creek and Black River; 167 to the
Puyallup Indians: 46 to the Skokomish
Indians; one to an Omaha Indian and one
10 3 Winnebago Indian. The total number
OF certificates is Sc, and OF patents 600;
grand total, 776. Special agents are now
engaged in allotting lands on the Crow
reservation in Montana. During the sea-
son Of 1885 ITS contracts for the cut
ting, sale and delivery Of pine logs
under department authority were made
by individual Indian patentees OF
the Lane Court d d'Oreilles, Bad River and
Fond du Lac reservations attached to the
La Pointe agency, Wis. Under this cen.
tract the Indians banked 63, 945, 769 feet
OF timber at prices varying from So to $6.25
per thousand feet. The net gain to the
Indians on these transactions was $751;
2S1.46, OF which SOS, S,O06.7O was taken
out in merchandise and supplies and the
rest, $73,274.76, was paid in cash to the
Indians. Since the date Of my last annual
report the Milwaukee, Lake Shore 4 Western
Railway company has completed its road
through the Bad river reservation in Wis
consin. and has paid the Indians in their
tribal and individual capacity what is
deemed to be q just compensation for the
right OF way as provided for under the
terms of the treaty under which they hold
their lands. The deeds from individual In
dian patentees to the railroad company
are now before the secretary awaiting his
approval. The Duluth Huron Il Denver
Railroad company has applied for informa-
ton as to obtaining a right ofway through
the Lake Traverse reservation, and has
been referred to congress for legislation.
Application has recently been made by
the 0rdway Bismark & Northwestern
Railway company for authority to make
preliminary survey for a railway project
ed from a point about ten miles south OF
Fort Yates, thence TO run southwesterly
through the Sioux reservation on the most
feasible route to the Black Hills. l have
referred the matter to the Indian agents
on the reservation, and instructed them
to acertain and report the sentiments OF
the Indians on the subject. During the
year $244, 9SO.1S annuity or
TREATY MONEYS
were paid, and $26e, $50. A interest on in
vested funds. The fear expressed in my
last annual report that cash payments to
the Indians in Wisconsin were doing them
little permanent good is strengthened by
reports since received. lam informed that
much suffering is likely to ensue among them
during the coming winter. l have recon-
mended that part OF their money be ex
pended for them in the purchase OF subsist-
ence supplies to be distributed to them by
n special agent. In December a bill was
introduced in the senate by Senator Dawes
to divide portion OF the reservation OF
the Sioux nation ofIndians in Dakota into
separate reservations, and to secure the re-
linquishment Of the Indian title to the re-
mainder. This bill passed thesenate Feb. 1,
1880, and favorably reported by the COM
mittee on Indian affairs in the house ofrepre
sentatives. 1t was never referred to this
meets with approval. The rights OF the
Indians appear to be carefully guarded,
and their consent, as provided in the treaty
of 1868 is necessary before the provisions
of the bill can be carried into effect. The
Great Sioux reservation, including Crow
Creek, contains an area OF 1858, 12S
acres. The area OF the square reservation
provided Tor in the bill is estimated at
12,S45. .521 acres, and a reduction
of S,747,6O6 acres. This reduced area
allows very nearly 500 acres for each In
dian. Recommendation was made last
year that congress be requested to appro
;nr<ste certain sum OF money to reimburse
carta,~ bands OF Chippewa Indians for the
Samaoas ,>ud injuries sustained by them in
the cnnstrpc ION of the upper Mississippi
reservoirs. 1t i, hoped that the recently
APPOINTED commiss,,n nu in it's negotiations
with these Indians has a 'rangeo sa!ls-
may be made them for every .'9ury tney
may have sustained by reason OF .-'e con'
struction OF such reservoirs.