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Show INDIANS IN BUCKEAM. Some little time ago, in speaking i of the Indian census, being taken at Unitali and White River by the Indian In-dian youth Kichaixl Komas, wc ; noted the fact that there were no ! such Indians as the Weber Utes, al- though the erudite and gentlemanly Indian agent in charge of the Uintah agency iu lS7i had reported to the' Indian bureau a !it of just Will members mem-bers of this tribe Young jvnmas, in talking of Lhe-e mythical Indians, liiuihcd heartily at the idea and considered con-sidered that agent a superior lightning light-ning calculator, as well as "a pretty smart while man" on general pnnei- U now transpires that Mr. Ceo. W liiga!-, whti was a. pointed special conimissioner to take tlie census ot the Indians of Utah; AnzonaiXcvada, and California, has made i. '-'lort Ui the department at Wellington showing the acUial number of In dians in the above States and Territories Terri-tories to he 10tnoit. The estimated number upon which all appropriations appropria-tions have b:-cn based for years was twenty-live thousand. A pertinent pertin-ent question which naturally :u-iscs is, what has become of the annuity goods supplied by government govern-ment lor lo.OOO Indians for a series of yea lis whose number may be gucKscd at but cannot bo computed. And if Indian agents have been able In secure three-filths lurecT an appropriation ap-propriation in these Territories ana" States, than they were entitled to, how has it been in other parts of the country? . Col. C. E. Boudinot, the celebrated Cherokee, places the total number of Indians in the United Suites at some two hundred and thirty-five thirty-five thousand. The appropriation demanded by the Indian bureau for the coming fiscal year is placed at S6.765.779. Are there but two-fifths this number of Indians, or one hundred hund-red and forty-one thousand less than have been drawing annuities; nnd are Indian agents to devote to their own private purposes three-fifths of this appropriation, or over four million dollars worth of goods ? The Indian bureau at Washington estimates the total number of Indians, exclusive of those in Alaska, at three hundred thousand, or sixty-five thou- sand more than Col. Boudinot's fig- Ulco, u -enbreniolv liberal margin for speculation, aside from, and above, that left for the benefit of agents. Before Congress appropriates the six million seven hundred thousand and odd dollars modestly asked at this session for the nation's wards, it would not be amiss to enquire into the Indian census question quite extensively. ex-tensively. It is a subject that will undoubtedly un-doubtedly prove very interesting. A good many people would be glad to know how many savages in buckram there really are. |
