Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-30
WORK FOR INDIAN BUREAU
Provisions Of the Last Appropria-
ton Bill.
Interior Department Will Not Urge Red
Men to Sell Their Lands - The
Decrease In the Number
of Schools.

Washington, March 23.-,The Indian
ion of Secretary Smith. will find consid-
cradle work provided for In the last
Indian appropriation bill. which will
keep IL quite busy during the coming
IF the visiting delegations OF Indians
no matter from what portion OF the
country they came, that If they have
no desire to sell their lands the depart
so; that he prefers that they should
keep their lands, where they can make
use of them. To one delegation he re-
Gently said he thought 1t would be a
reservation tract among themselves in
some equitable manner and farm such
portions as they could and lease the re-
mainder to farmers who would pay
them a reasonable sum for the privi-
tege.
A commission or an officer Of the gov
eminent will have to be designated by
The secretary to negotiate with the
Otoe and Missouri tribes TO see If there
IAN be purchased from them sufficient
.ands upon which to allot and locate
he Iowa tribe Of Indians. If IL seems
advisable 10 the secretary he is author
zed to secure allotments for the Iowas
y lands which may have been or
nay hereafter be ceded to the United
States by the Comanche. Kiowa and
Apache. or the Wichita tribes, in Okla
loma. 90
The intruders on the Cherokee lands
will also receive the attention Of the in
terror department. The new law di-
'ects the secretary TO suspend efforts
:oward removals until the value of inn
Drovements of these intruders can be
iscertained and approved by he secre-.
AIRY and submitted to congress. When
an intruder is rendered the appraised
salue of his improvements he must re-
move or pay rents according to the
'ate in the country. The law makes 1t
plain that the intruders must remove,
after January /, 1896.
The secretary will also examine and
'eport TO congress the claims of the Sac
and Fox Indians of Mississippi now re-
siding in Iowa. Two provisions in the
law will permit more or less business
,or the Indian Office and the secretary.
The secretary is allowed TO use s25, 600
FOR the benefit OF Indians not specially
mentioned. but who may become needy,
out of money which may not be used
'or the purposes named in the a%ppropri-
atoms act; also to remove from reser-
yations or sell property not needed and
to apply the proceeds or property to
reservations where II may be needed.
The secretary Is also directed TO APP
point a commission to dispose Of tho
surplus lands in Brown county, Kan
sas, belonging to the Potawattamies
and Kickapoos.
A provision OF the Indian bill which
those opposed to eastern schools be-
ieve will result In decreasing the num-
Der Of pupils in those schools. is that
which prohibits the sending OF Indian
children out OF the state and territory
where they reside, unless the consent
IF the parents is obtained.
Probably some difficulty will arise
when the secretary comes to carry out
the portion Of the law providing for a
decrease Of 20 percent in the number Of
contract schools. He Is not allowed TO
make contracts with more than so per
cent of the contract schools with which
contracts We're made for the present
fiscal year. To decide just what schools
shall be given up will cause some trou-
bic, as all will probably desire to be re-
tanned.