dependent on them. not arrive whien they were due. Their agent writes, in 1875: On last year's flonr contract not a And even these inadequate rations did single pound was received until the fourteenth day of First Month, 1875, when six months of cold wcather and many privations had passed, notwithstanding the many protestations and urgent appeals from the ageut." thoronghly subjugated Cheyennes went to work with a will. In onc short year they are reported as so anxious to cultivate the ground that, when they eould not sceure the

The now usc of a plough or hoe, they used "axes, sticks of wood, and their hands, in preparing the ground, planting and eultirating their garden spots.

The Nortlern Cheyennes are still on the Red Cloud Agency, and are reported as restless aud troublesome.

In 1877 they hoe Ageney, in Indian Teritory. The Reports of the Depart- iment say that they asked to be taken there. The winter of 1866 and the summer of 1867 were seasons of grcat activity and interest at this agency. In the autumn they went off on a grand bnffalo hunt, accompanied by from Fort Rno. Early in the winter white horse thieves began to make raids on their ponies, and stole so many that many of the Indians werc obliged to ponies to help them return home. Two hundred and sixty in all were stolen-carried, as usual, to Dodge City and sold. few were recovered; but the loss to the Indians was estimated at two thousand nine hundred dollars. were all removed to the Cheyenne and Arapa- a small detail of troops depcnd on their friends Such losscs arc very discouraging are but a repetition of the old story that brought on the war of 1874."

In midsummer of this year the "Cheyenne and Arapahoe Transportation Company" was formed: forty wagons wero sent out, with harness, by the Government; the Indians fur- nished the horses; and on the 19th of July the Indians set out to the Indians," writes their agent, and