Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-02
act Of March 2. 1889. These should
all have early attention by congress.

| act of March 2, 1889. These should
all have early attention by congress.
cEssIoNs BY VARIOUS TRIBES THROUGH
| THE cHERoKEE COMMISSION.
| Early In April of this year the commits
sion appointed under the provisions of
section ii of the Indian appropriation
! act, approved March 2. 1889, was re-
turned to the aeld (uuder the chairman
ship OF Hou. David Il. jerome of Michi-
gam and proceeded TO the Indian Terri
tory.
The commission undertook negotiations
| with tribes occupying lands west of the
Sc deg. of longitude within the Territory
| of Oklahoma IS constituted by the act OF
May 9, 1890, and met with almost in
mediate success.
Agreements have been concluded with
the following Indians, subject to ratitica-
| tions by congress, whereby they will take
allotments in sereraity aud relinQuish
the surplus lends in the United States,
| viz:
The Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi
| This reservation contains iT9 66S acres.
1: is estimated tina. l55 600 acres will be
required for alIotments, leaving q sur
plus of some S25. 900 acres, for which
the sum of S4S5 900, or about 81 40 per
acre, is to be paid.
| The Iowas-This reservation contains
! 22S Ais acres; ~ ,4ls will be required Cor
| aliotments, leaving q surplus of some
| PIG goo acres, for which the sum of SS4
! $50, or about thirty-nine cents per acre,
| is to be paid.
| The Abs: ntee Shawnees and Citizen
| Pottswatomies-Tbis tract OF land cor
=, Gains SIS ,S77 acres, Of which us. ST
. acres will be required for allo'ments.
leaving q surplus of some 400 .00C Rcre.,
for which the sum of S225 200, or fifty
SIX and one fourth cents per acre, is tu
be paid.
These agreements were submitted by
the president to congress, where they
are now pending. When ratified, they
will result in opening to homestead set
Element some 9+l 200 acres of land, the
aygregate amount to be paid therefor
being 1874 $50, and average price of
81. cents per acre.
By clause In the act Of August 10,
1890. the sum of $40 600 Is appropriated
TO enable the secretary OF the interior to
continue the conn isson, and it is now
in the territory of Oklahoma engaged In
negotiations with the Cheyenues and
Arapahoes, which at the latest account,
promise 10 be successful.
For this duty special agent was ap-
pointed under date OF June 24, 1889. He
has not as We: flashed his work nor filed
any statistical or complete reports Of it;
but from his bulletins of progress made
each week, sufficient data has l/en OBJ
tanned to show that the number of In
dams of the Rosebud agency was greatly
overestimated, and that issues of ratIons
we're being made to chiefs and head men
for over two thousand more Indians than
were actually present on the Rosebud
agency reservation. Immediately upon
receipt of this information, action was
taken by the Indian Office TO reduce the
quantities of food for the delivery of
which contract arrangements for the
fiscal year had been made.
knowledge of the extent of the ability
of these Indians to support themselves,
when procured in accordance with the
provisions of the act, will be of great
value IN assisting the department to
carry out the provisions OF article of the |
agreement approved February 2S, 1877,
which among other things provides that !
''such rations, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, shall be continued |
until the Indians are able to support |
themselves. This provision of the |
agreement while imposing upon the gov !
eminent the obligation to sustain the !
Indians until they are able to support |
themselves. imposes upon them no less |
the obligation ami duty to address them
selves TO the task of becoming self
supporting.
If the terms of the recent agreement !
made with them are speedily provided |
for and enforced, it is believed that this
tribe will presently be distinguished for
20 mid vil int.
it he's heretofore been for bravery and
intelligence in savage warfare. Fair and
generous treatment by the government is
the best means to bring about this de-
sirabla condition.
APACHE INDIANS IN ARIZONA.
A portion of the Indians belonging on
the San Carlos reservation, in Arizona,
continue to give some apprehension of
outbreak among them. The overt acts
of violence and the disturbances created
are caused mainly By a few renegade To-
dnns. In order to maintain greater
security OF life aud the preservation OF
peace in the territory. it was determined
by the military authorities coin manding
them to be necessary to remove the
disposed Indians to some
place where they could be more securely
restrained. The military post of Fort
Union. In New Mexico, was selected as
the best place Tor that purpose, and to it
sixty- eight OF the dangerous class of the
Apaches of San Carlos were removed in
March, 1890, where they are now
detained under military control. The
rations furnished them by the war de-
pariment should have been paid for out
Of the appropriations made to the de-
partment of the interior. "to subsist