St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-11
THE INDIAN TREATIES
A Statement of the Arrangements Made
With the SavageS on the Minnesota
Reservations.
The Concessions and Personal Advantages
y Granted Them in Return for
Their Lands.
Candidates Already Springing UP
for the Late Congressman
Prices Place.
Suspension of a Duluth Paper--
IOwans Angry at Lawyer Goudy,
of Chicago.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The commits
sion. consisting of Bishop H. B. Whipple,
of Minnesota. Col John W. Wright, of
Tennessee. and Maj. c. F. Larabee of the
Indian office, appointed under all act of
congress to negotiate with certain tribes
and bands of Indians in Minnesota, Dakota,
Montana, and Idaho and Washington ter
ritory, have submitted to Gen. Atkins, COM
missioner of Indian affairs, report of their
operations up to Dec. l, 1856. The report
says thai two seperate and distinct agree
mentS have been effected as the result OF
their negotiations one with the Indians OF
the White Earth. Leech lake CasS lake,
Lake Winnebago and White Oak Point res
ervations and the Gull river band. and the
other with the Indians OF the Red lake res
ervatiOns. By the
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT
with the White Earth, Lake Winnebago
and other scattered bands of Cnippewas,
concluded Aug. II. 1856, the unoccupied
lands Of the White Earth reservation are
thrown open for all the tribes and bands OF
Chippewas in Minnesota. The Indians
now occupying the reservation, which con.
tains about 500. 900 acres. being first per-
lDllltu W iUdh6 SfICCllOIS IOi luChSCINCS.
The quantity of land each Indian will be
entitled to receive under the agreement is
as follows: Each head of a family, I60
acres: each single person over Is years of
age. 80 acres; each orphan child under IS
years of acre. 50 acres; each other person
under IS years OF age. 40 acres. Every
Indian will receive patent which shall be
of legal effect. and declare that the United
States will hold the lands thus allowed for
the period of fifty years and such further
time as the president may direct in trust
for the allotee or his heirs. according to the
laws of Minnesota. At the expiration of
the fifty years the land is to be conveyed to
the allOtee in fee. 1t is further provided
that the laws OF marriage. descent par
ttiOn in force in the state of Mi. dsota
shall apply thereto after the first patents
shall have been executed and delivered.
The Indians are to have the benefit of and
be subject to the
CRIMINAL LAWS OF THE STATE
IN all Ottenses, the penalty for which is
death or Imprisonment in the state peniten-
tiary The residue of lands, after all allot-
ments have been made. is to be patented to
the consolidated tribes in common and held
In trust, as in the case of individual allOt-
nrentS, and every child who may be born
within the fifty years limit is to have a
tract of forty acres. Provision is made for
the support of the Indians removing to
White Earth to be continued until they are
able to take care of themselves. but in no
event to exceed two Years. Each head of a
family and each male Indian over IS years
of age. when he becomes permanent resi-
dent upon his allotment. will be provided
with a comfortably hewed log house. cook
stove, Il yoke of oxen, pillow, wagon and
a cow, an AK and other implements of hus-
bandry. Each Indian shall have five acres
of land broken for him and be provided
with seed for his first crop. Industrial and
district schools are to be established for all
the children GA the reservation. Additional
farmers. carpenters. blacksmiths and clerks
are TO be employed, and in the employment
of farmers, artisans and laborers prefer
ence is, in all cases. to be given to qualified
Indians. To enable the government to
carry out these designs. the Indians cede a
large tract of land belonging to them north
of Leech lake. which is to be sold upon the
most advantageous terms possible. The
lands are to be
APPRAISED AND SOLD
in forty-acre tracts to the highest bidders
for cash: and the fund arising from such
sale is to be placed in the treasury and draw
interest at per cent, which shall be eX-
pended annually for agricultural, mechan-
icaL educational and other purposes best
calculated to promote the welfare and civil
iZatiOn of the Indians. 1t is further agreed
that whatever sums of money may be found
due these Indians on account Of former
treaties or agreements shall be paid to
them. Proper decentralization shall be
made for losses sustained in the cOnStruc-
ton by the government by dams and reser-
vOrs at the head waters of the Mississippi
river. The expenses of removal of the
several bands, their subsistence, together
with additional carpenters, farmers. ETC.,
are to be betrayed by the United States
The agreement contains several other pro-
visions intended to protect the persons and
property and improve the moral conditions
of the Indians. By the terms of the agree
ment with the Red Lake band of Chip
peWaS, concluded Aug. %, 1856, about
tWO-thirds of their reservation. or an area
estimated to contain over 1000, 600 acres
Is coded to the United States to be sold for
the benefit of the Indians. The portion
eeded embraces a vast timber section, said
to be of almost incalculable value. These
eeded lands are to be appraised and class
fled into timbered and untimbered lands,
and sold accordingly. The timber nds
are to be sold into one hundred-and-sIA> =
acre tracts, one-fOurth cash and the baIan.e
in three equal payments. with per cent
interest on deferred payments. The funds
derived from these sales are to be
PLACED IN THE TREASURY
10 the credit of the Red Lake Indians and
pear interest. which is to be expended in
heir civilization and education and in max
ng Improvements on their reservation.
The Indians declined to take their lands in
Ieveralty at present, but provision was
made for indivual allotments in future
The report says these Indians require i'm
mediate help, and it was agreed that the
United States should advance 500. 600 to
De expended in the building of a saw and
grist mill and in the erection of comfortable
houses and the purchase of certain needful
implements. Schools are provided for as
n the case of White Earth Indians. Right
If way is granted for the construction of
wagon and railroads across the diminished
reservation when, in the opinion
Of the president the public inter-
ests demand them. Free and undiSputed
navigation of Red lake is secured, and pur-
.haserS of timbered lands under the agree |
ment are 10 be permitted to pass unob- |
structed through the reservation for the |
purpose of removing timber cut upon the !
eeded territory. AS with the White Earths |
de criminal laws of the state of Minnesota /
are extended over the reservation in certain |
eases. These agreements cannot become !
operative until they are approved by con-
greSs.
Duluth Paper Suspends.
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 1O.-R. G. Mitch
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