of. "It is no exaggerated cstimate," says the agent, "to place the number of sick people on the rescrvation at two thousand. Many deaths occurred wich might have been obviated had there been a proper supply of anti-malarial remedics at hand. Hundreds applying for treatment have been ref1sed medicine.

The Northern Cheyennes grew more and more restless and nnhappy. desire to be sent "In council and elsewhere they profess an intense North, where they say they will settle down as the others have done," says the report; adding, with an ob- tuseness wich is inexplicable, that "no dilference has been made in the treatment of tlhe Indians," but that the com pliance" of these Northern Cheyenues has been "of an entirely different natnrc from that of the other Indians," and that it may be "necessary in the future to compel what so far we have been unable to effect by kindness and appeal to their better natures."

If it is "an appeal to men's better natures " to remove them by force from a healthful Northern elimate, which they love and thrive in, to a malarial Southern one, where they down by chills and fever-refuse them medicine which can combat chills and fever, and finally starve them-then, indced, might be said to have been most forcible appeals made to the better natures" of thesc Northern Cheyennes. What might have been predieted followed.

Early in the autumn, after this terrible summer, a band of soie three hundred of these Northern Cheyennes took the desperate step of running off and atiempting to make their way back to Dakota. They were pursned, fonght desperately, are struck but were finally overpowered, and surrendered. They surren- on the eondition that they should be dered, however, only taken to Dakota. They were unanimous in declaring that they would rather dic than go back to the Indian Territory This was nothing more, in fact, than saying that they would rather die by bullets than of chills and fever and starvation.