The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-05
CONDENSED NEWS.
THE Z MAN.

Annual Report Of Indian Commissioner Atkins,
Portions Being OF Particular Interest 80 North
weSterners.
Following are the extracts from the In
dian commissioners report just issued
which are OF special interest to the north
west: During the year seventeen certif-
Gates OF allotment in severalty lay 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 IN the White
Earth reservation under the treaty with
tine Chippewas OF the Mississippi, conclud.
ed March 10, 1867; fifty-ive 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
GRIZZLIES, Lux Anse and Vieux desert
and Fond du Lac reservations; three
to the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands
OF Sioux; 1913 to the Sanoee Sioux
Indians; 6S to the Chippewas OF Saginaw,
Swan Creek and Black River; 1877 to the
Puyallup Indians; 46 to the Skokomish
Indians; one to an Omaha Indian and one
to a Winnebago Indian. The total number
OF certificates is SO, and OF patents 600;
grand total, 776. Special agents are now
engaged in allotting lands on the Grow
reservation in Montana. During the sea-
son Of 1S85-S6 17S 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'Oreilles, Bad River and
Fond du Lac reservations attached to the
La Pointe agency, Wis. Under this cen
tract the Indians banked GO, 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 $131,-
281.46, OF which $685. 06.7 10 was taken
out in merchandise and supplies and the
rest, S73,274.76, was paid in cash to the
Indians. Since the date of my last annual
report the Milwaukee, Lake Shore Western
Railway company has completed it's 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 a just compensation for the
right OF way as provided for unde the
terms OF the treaty under which they hold
their lands. The deeds from individuality
dian patentees to the railroad company
are now before the secretary awaiting his
approval. The Duluth, Huron & Denver
Railroad company has application informa-
ton Srioa obtaining a riratof way through
the lrtha Harris made no answer, but
AMY CIlcu. DuO IClJ NV OuIJ N0EH l
the Jed, but abandoned; and in her
RaiIrn condition it did really seem q
a PRIV that anybody should take her
ed frhe hand and induct her into g.
Fortttian home. A couple of days
UPWARDS, having received a few
rsisr words in season from the
on Pain, she appeared once more be-
to athe Magistrate, who administered
the ther lecture to her and handed her
year to a red-faced gentleman with
Whiskers, who was the Christian
werehg the home where she was to ha !
vest9 Iunus!- Rc ,rur 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. i have recon-
mended that q part OF their money be ex-
pended for them in the purchase OF subsist-
ence supplies to be distributed to them by
a special agent. In December a bill was
introduced in the senate by Senator Dawes
to divide a portion OF the reservation OF
the Sioux nation oiIndians in Dakota into
separate reservations, and to secure the re-
linquishment OF the Indian title to the re-
mainder. This bill passed thesenate Feb. /,
1886, and favorably reported by the COM
mittee on Indian affairs in the house ofrepre
sentatives. 1t was never referred to this
office to report, but in it's main features
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 Grow
Creek, contains an area OF 1883, rs
acres. Tho area OF the quare reservation
provided Tor in the bill is estimated at
~l2,845,52 acres, and q reduction
OF 8,747, 606 acres. This reduced area
allows very nearly 500 acres for each In
dian. Recommendation was made last
year that congress be requested to appro-
pirate a certain sum ofmoney to reimburse
certain bands OF Chippewa Indians for the
damages and injuries sustained by them in
the construction OF the upper Mississippi
reservoirs. 1t Is hoped that the recently
appointed commission in it's negotiations
with these Indians has arranged q salts
factory basis upon which all compensation
may be made them for every injury they
may have sustained by reason OF the con-
struction OF such reservoirs.