Show I I CALL THE CATTLE HOME Not Oor the Sands of Dee Hut From the Red Mans Home General Sheridan Interviews the Chiefs and Reports Some Rascality President Cleveland Settles the lhii i lies and the Cattlemen Too Sheridans Report on the Cattlemen WASHINGTON August Sheridans report to the President on the results of his recent i investigations into the troubles in Indian Territory was made public last evening He 1 j i says he first sent for Agent Dyei who said 1that theArapahoes were well dinposed but w f l1 rt 1 li ftif i e ffh q yelnes I and would be obliged furnish a contingent j of braves in case of hostilities That the Cheyennes were peaceful except 1200 represented rep-resented by the chief Stone Calf who were I ugly I NO PROGRESS TOWAnD CIVILIZATION WAS UKINQ MADE i Dyer thought that to a certain extent the I proximity of the cattlemen was irritating but that the only way to settle the trouble was to disarm the Indians and awe them into submission by a display of military force General Sheridan next interviewed Stone Calf who represented the disaffected Indians In-dians The burden of their complaint was leasing their lands though they had many complaints againt the agent and others of > iicially connected with the agency They said that when leases were made their opposition op-position was manifested whenever consulted o opportunity offered in the strongest terms THEY HiD REFUSE TO SIGN THE T1A811J And had never accepted any of the lease i money Pressure had been brought to bear I upon them but they had resisted and thus there had sprung up a division in the tribe between those who favored and those who opposed the leases and the result was a division in their places of living The Stone Calf element had mostly made their homes in the neighborhood of an old military cantonment can-tonment and the northern fork of the Canadian and Wichita and this country was covered with leases Then came new people and herds of cattle were grazed from one end to the other of their lands They complained I com-plained that thatTEm TEm IONIES WKJIK SOLES Their j little herds absconded and their garden gar-den patches overrun Matters were aggravated I aggra-vated by the killing of Running Buffalo by i a trespassing horse trader named Horton in May j 1834 The Indians became frenzied at I this act and it was with great difficulty that a general massacre was averted This discontent I dis-content and irritation rapidly increased I from that date and peaceful control by the i agent ceased Instead of trying to conciliate j i ate them the agent became more rigorous i endeavoring to set them down on restricted I I I pieces of land and threatened them with the militia if they refused obedience They Haw in the course of the agent their concentration concen-tration on a few acres of land and the balI bal-I ance of I i i THKIB RESERVATION MUCTICALLY TRANSFEHBED j TO CATTLEMEN For a longperiod of years Jf not permanently perma-nently The Cheyennes General Sheridan says I aare fine specimens of wild Indians and as they still maintain most of their aboriginal I customs and loyalty to nomadic habits uncivilized I un-civilized nothing could have been more mistaken mis-taken than an endeavor to crowd upon them in quick succession the customs of civilization civiliza-tion None other than the slowest and most I patient processes could succeed with them I General Sheridan next interviewed num I ber of those who had signed the leases and gathered that while they had agreed to the I I leases they had become sick of the bargain I I was apparent that the signing had been I j done in an individual capacity and by encouragement en-couragement if not forcible persuasion of I the former agent J O Miles his employes I and a large number of interested individuals individu-als who lived lawfully and unlawfully around the agency They now say they had made a mistake General Sheridan then gives TH STORY OF A LEASE I He says that the lessees claim that a general i council was held in the beginning and that the chief and head men representing 95 per pr cent of the Indians consented The General 1 Gen-eral says that whatever may be the truth as to this there is no denying the fact that the ths a < encv and its surroundings under Agent I iYiles was worked in behalf of the cattle I men that Miles took a formal part as representative I repre-sentative of the Indians and that his name i appears in all leases in his official capacity I I that whatever their feelings at first later on the Indians became favorable to leasing their lands and the General hints at the doubt whether their consent was really obtained ob-tained to some of the later ones while i THE WHITES HAVE AGGBIEVED THE INDIANS i I The latter have also angered the whites There is no doubt in General Sheridans I mind that affairs of the reservation should j be reorganized There are within the limits to J many white people who have no lawful business All who are not owners and em bURinesc Al connected ployes or who are not officially with the agency or military posts should be obliged to leave at once General Sheridan in conclusion refers to I the i recommendations he has already made and which have been made public and I alludes to the appointment of Captain Lee as acting agent which together with the decision of the President with respect to leases will he feels confident end the dif culties so that there need be no further apprehension ap-prehension of an outbreak The Indians he says are settling down to the new condition satisfied that the President means to treat them kindly justly and firmly and he has every reason to believe their future would be I one of peaceful prosperity IJ I |