Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-02

their plan is to contest his right to a
seat in the senate. Among others who
are expected to arrive later in the inter-
est of those opposed to Mr.. Clark, is eS-
State Senator Fred Whiteside, who, it is
said, will be here in a few days.
Montana, who for the past eight years
has been county attorney of Fergus
county, spent a couple of days in Wash
ington this week, seeing the sights. Judge
Smith was on his way to Montana after
a visit of a month at his old home in AL
bany, N. Y. He left last evening for the
west.
Senator Mantle on the 21st introduced
and yesterday reported from the commit
tee on Indian affairs, of which he Is a
member a bill establishing the bounG-
aries of the Northern Cheyenne Indian
Reservation, Montana, and making ap-
preparations for purchasing imprSve-
mentS thereon and certain lands Sltuat
therein, for purchasing cattle, fencing
the reservation, and for other purposes,
and at once by unanimous consent Sc
cured the passage of the same. The obs
JeCt in introducing and securing its pas
sage at this late hour was to strengthen
the amendment proposed by him to the
indian appropriation bill. which is iden-
teal with the one passed, and which is
now pending before the committee on
conference on said Indian bill. 1t may
be said that in allowing the matter to be
taken up at this all important time, when
moments are golden, a fitting compl-
ment was paid the senator, and it was a
strong testimonial to his standing among
the members of the body to which he be-
longs that upon his report, a measure
covering an expenditure of some 5000 900
was allowed to be taken up and passed
without objection. The text of the bill,
and, as stated before also Of the pending
amendment, is as follows, and is given
for the benefit of your readers:
Be it enacted by the senate and house
Of representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that the
following described tract of land be. and
the same is hereby set aside as a reserva-
ton for the permanent use and ~rcupanc
of the Indians 10Y occupying or belong
ing upon the Northern Cheyenne indian
Reservation, which reservation shall be
known as the Northern Cheyenne Indian
Reservation, namely:
Beginning at the point in the middle of
the channel of Tongue river at it's inter-
| section with the southern forty-mile linn
it's of the grant to the Northern Pacific
Railroad thence west on the
said southern fOrty-mile limits to its, IN
tersection with the eastern boundary line
of the Grow Indian Reservations; thence
| south on said boundary line to its inter-
| section with the line dividing townships
five and six south; thence east on said
! dividing line of townships five and six
south to it's intersection with the line di-
viding ranges forty and forty-Cne east:
thence north on said line dividing ranges
forty and fOrty-dne east to the llne) d.
viding townships four and five south;
thence east on the line dividing townships
four and five south to its intersection will
Cook creek; thence down Cook creek to
it's confluence with Tongue river; thence
down the middle Of the channel of Tom
que river to the place of beginning: Pro-
vided, however. that if upOn the survey
or resurvey of the boundary lines already
established it shall be found that the
| main stream of Cook creek on or near the
range line between ranges forty and for
tyrone lies south of the line diVidlnG
| townships four and five south, then in
| that case the lire running north on the
range line between ranges forty and for
ty-one shall extend north only to the i'll
tersection of said line with the main
stream of Cook creek, and thence down
Cook creek as hereinbefore provided;
Provided further, that in the erection of
the reservation boundary fence along
said Cook creek the same shall be so
ItCle do ~ "a SAA> 49, AhOA
as may be between the north and south
sides thereof: Provided further, that
certain tracts, approXlmating siXty-five
acres, lying west of Tongue river, in sec
tions twenty-six and thirty-fOur in town.
ship four south, of range forty-three east,
owned by Joseph Scott, and the northeast
quarter of section three in township
three south, of range forty-four east, be-
longing to Saint Labra's Mission, and
the south half of the northwest quarter of
section ten in township two south, OF
range forty-four east, belonging to r.. z.
Colbert, shall be excepted from and not
included within the reservation bound
aries named.
Sec. :. That the following sums be, and
they are hereby, appropriated, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, namely:
For the payment of settlers within the
said boundaries for lands and improves
ments, $3.50, AS: Provided, that the secret
tary of the interior shall and does, in his
discretion, ratify and approve, under The
provisions of section ten of the Indian ap-
preparation act approved July first, eiEh-
teen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtteth
Statutes. pages five hundred and nindty-
six and five hundred and nlnety-seVen),
the agreements entered into thereunHer
by United States Indian Inspector James
Mclaughlin with the settlers included
within said boundaries, submitted by him
to the secretary, with his report, dated
November fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, and shall find, upon in
yestigation hereafter to be made, that
the improvements of the settlers referred
to remain intact and in good condition:
Provided further, that the settlers shall
remove Immediately from the reservation
upon the payment of the sums, according
to their respective agreements as ratified
and approved by the secretary of the in
terror.