By the terms of this treaty, a new reservation was to be set apart for the Choyennes and Arapahoes; hostile acts on either side were to be seitled by arbitration; no whites were to be allowed on the reservation; a relinquished" by the Indians, but they were "expressly per- mitted to reside upon and range at pleasure throughout the un settled portions of that part of the country they claim as origi- nally theirs." The United States reserved the right to build roads and cstablish forts in the reservation, and pledged itself to pay "annually, for the period of forty years,"" certain sums of money to each person in the tribe: twenty dollars a head till they were settled on their reservation; after that, forty dollars large tract of country was to be a head, To this end an accurate anuual census of the Indians was promised at the time of the annuity payment in the spring.

The Indians went away from this council full of hope and satisfaction. Their oldest friends, Colonel Bent and Kit Carson, were among the commissioners, and they felt that at last they had a treaty they could trust. Their old roservation in Colora do (to which they probably comld never have been induced to returu) was restored to the public domain of that territory, and they hoped in their new home for greater safety and peace. The Apaches, who had heretofore been allied with the Kiowas and Comanehes, benefits of the new treaty. A small portion of the tribc chiefly young men of a turbulent nature-still held aloof, and refused to come under the treaty provisions. One riotous band, called the Dog Soldiers, the end of the next year, they also decided to go southward and join the rest of the tribe on the new reservation. Occa sional hostilities took place in the course of the winter, one of wich it is worth while to relate, the incident is so tvpical a one.

On the 21st of February a son of one Mr. Boggs was killed and scalped by a party of four Cheyenne Indians about six mies cast of Fort Dodge, on the Arkansas River. On inves were now allied with them, and to have the were especially refractory; but, before 4*