OCR Text |
Show 31 ore nbout (lie Kickupoos. Washington, 15. The recent proceedings pro-ceedings in regard to the return of the Kickapoo Indians to the United States are in accnrdi nee with the action ac-tion of the Mexico, n government and our own in April of last year. For !tho realization of such a project it was jsuggested that the United States ap-, ap-, point iigcnts and advise the govern-i govern-i incut of Neueva of the time and ' place, on the frontier, where the j agents would present themselves to I tho Indians. The government of ! Mexico would in such cases provide that the authorities,, who represent it in that region, should take part in ; the conferences, and if the Indians ! should freely determine to leave Mexico to settle in their own rcserva-i rcserva-i ion in the United .States the Mexican j military forces would escort them to a point on the American frontier ! where the American troops might receive them. The Mexican covcrn- J ment further advised that the agents, to treat witli the Indians, would be persons other than those who made a j former attempt, in order to avoid reviving re-viving suspicions aud prejudices against those persons, which might exist in tho minds of the Indians, and the Mexican government promised that noie of its authorities, accused of being opposed to the removal of these Indians, should have any part in the , execution of the plan suggested. Washington, 10. The Mexican border investigation committed' have returned to Washington to prepare their report. They have been engaged en-gaged considering since January 10, and have hoard the evidence, in addition addi-tion to 1,300 expartc atVidavite, of several women nnd children who had escaped from the Indians.- These appeared before the commissioners and told the story of their terrible sufferings. suf-ferings. The Comanches are said to be mainly engaged in the business of stealing and selling the children child-ren and women of the white settlers, set-tlers, while the Kickapooa and Lip-ans, Lip-ans, and the Mexicans disguised as such, chielly confine themselves to cattle stealing raids. These raids are so frequent that stock raising within with-in 200 miles of liio Grande lias been well nigh abandoned. |