should always and died, and were buried in every respcct. There is plenty of good, cool water there-pure water-while here the water is not good. It is want to gct back where my childreu were bon, That country is better than this siekly. Are yon going where my hus not hot there, nor so band is? Cau you tell when he is likcly to be released?

obliged to reply to her that they

Tho Senators were were not going where her husband was, and they could not tell when he would be released.

In view of the accounts of the sickness and suffering of these Iudians, in 1877 and 1878, the reports made in 1879 of the industry and progress at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency are almost incredible. The school children have, by their earnings, bought one undred head of cattle; 451,000 pounds of freight have been transported by the Indians during the year; they have also worked at ing hay, hauling wood, and splitting and hauling rails; and have carned thereby $7121 25. Two of the girls of the school have been promoted to the position of assistant teachers; and the United States mail contractor between this agency and Fort Elliott, in Texas-a distance of one hundred and sixty-five miles-has operated almost cxclusively with full-blooded In- dians: "there has been no report of breach of trust on the part of anv Indians connected with this trust, and the contractor making brick, chopping wood, mak expresses his entire approval of their conduet."

It is stated also that there was not sufficient elothing to furnish each Indian with a warm suit of clothing, by the treaty," and that, "by reference to offieial eorrespond- ence, the fact is established that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes are judged feited their trcaty reservation by a failure to settle thereon," and their "present reservation not having been, as yet, confirm ed by Congress. Inasmnch as the Indians fully understood, promised "as legal riglits to any lands, having for- as aving no given to them in and were assured that this reservation was