| Show THE POOR INDIANS for the Relief of bj W tt Ts assaph saph to ali washington ov 21 tho an nual report of tho commissioner of indian affairs contains tho following cassago pas sago the necessity for varly legislation to provide a suitable and permanent home for tho mission indians of california is urgent they aro estimated to number about thousand and anro scattered in small band over san diego san bernar dimand los angeles counties earning a precarious livelihood bating small patches of land and working for ranchman ranchmen ranch men and white settlers when opportunity odors many of them occupying by ranco lands which their an had cultivated from timo immemorial and to which alicy supposed they had a right but cheso lands lately been found to bo within alio limits of private land claims cl tims confirmed by tho courts to alio granlees grantees gran tees tho mexican government before alio acquisition of california by tho united slates in many cases the owners or occupants of cheso ranches have availed themselves of tho labor of the indians in cultivating the land frequently quent ly most unjust and oppressively low rates and the indians leayo also been permitted to occupy and cultivate tracts for themselves but now desiring todis rose of tho ranches or use the whole for own the owners have threatened the indians summary ejectment this together i with tho conflicts arising from arcs puss by cattle abid dorsee belonging to the indiana up n the land of ranchman ranchmen ranch men and settlers ho kept these poor people in hot for two years past until at tho present day they aro in a state of tho most abject poverty to bo found anywhere on the american continent levs oral small have been set apart by the executive order for buton account of the jack of water for irrigating purposes and the consequent sterility of oil they have been found to bo of little value moreover the agent reports that hn efforts during atio past year to suppress alio sale of intoxicating liquors to his indians leavo not met with gratifying success attention is invited to the annual report of mr lawson agent for the mission indians and in view of tho facts therein disclosed probably will b needed to secure sufficient land lo 10 enable cheso indians to support themselves by their own labor says concerning tho indian prisoners of war taken to yakima agency last winter that they have received very careful training and havo improved in every respect lie adds Indian civilization is carried on at yakima agency on business busi nesa principles tho end and agui of are kept constantly in view no timo is lost and every put tomora lo earn his own subsistence and work out his civilization the three hundred indians now in tho vicinity of malteur malheur agency and forts ecuer inott and bidwell should also be sent to Ya kaima malteur malheur agency should bo abolished and tho lands included in the reservation should bo appraised and sold the proceeds of the sale to be in vested for the benefit of the indians |
