Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-12-28 | Page 1 | Agreement is Signed

SIGNED I I Indians on the Colville Reservation Willing That the South lf l Be e ened d I Sp kline Was Der DIt trA TA S mt b t the tIte from Wash Wab of t Indian lands on the halt half of the Colville reservation to the tle government nt is a agreed eed to by the tribesmen on oa the Colville Indian reservation The fact was made public today that adult Indians had signed the agreement To make the agreement binding not less than signatures were but Major James sl specIal ecial Indian and Captain John licA CA Web Webster ster U S a A Indian agent clinched the agreement by securing signatures signature over the necessary number The loh agreement which must be ratified by to make it binding includes the payment of a 8 million dollars to the Indians for lands already ceded on the north half provides that allotments of eighty acres shall be made from flom lenin 01 the south half to landless Indians on the reservation further provides that the proceeds from the sale of the remaining lands shall 1 be 8 held in trust for the In Indians anel the interest thereon at 4 per percent er cent shan shall be expended for their improve mert that mineral lands shall shaH not be in eluded in the allotments of sales having already been open to location