tigation, it appeared that Mr. Boggs had gone to the Indian camp without any authority, and had there truded off eleven one-dollar bills for ten-dollar bills. The Indian on whom this trick had been played found Mr. Boggs out, went to him, and demanded reparation; and, in the altercation and figbt which ensucd, Mr. Boggs's son was killed. This story is given in the official report of Licutenant-coloncl Gordon, U.S.A., and Colonel Gordon adds, "I think this case needs no further comment."

The Cheyennes did not long remain at peace; in the sum- mer the Senate had added to this last treaty an amendment requiring their new reservation to be entirely "outside the State of Kansas, and not witbin any Indian territory, except on consent of the tribes iuterested," been partly in Kansas, and partly this amendment left them literally without auy home what- As the reseration had on the lands of the Cherokees, Under these circumstances, the young men of the tribe ever began to join again with other hostile Indians in commit ting depredations and hostilities along the great inail-routes on tlhe plains. ently deserved vengeance by the United States troops, and in the summer of 1867 a Cheyenne village numbering three hun- dred lodges eral Haucock. Fortunately the women aud children had all Hed on the first news of the approach of the army. Soon after this another council was held with them, and once more the sOon were visited with summary and. appar- Again they was burnt by United States soldiers nnder Gen precarious peace was confirmed by treaty ; but was almost im mediately broken again in consequence of the failnre of the comply with the treaty provisions. That some members of these tribes had also failed to keep to the treaty Governmont to provisions is undoubtedly true, but by far the greater part of The substantial canse of this them were loyal and peaceable. war," however, to be "the fact that the Department, for want of appropriations, compelled to stop their supplics, and to permit them to recur to the chase for subsistence." was acknowledged by the Indian Burcan itsclf was