"Their reservation was overruu by the enterprising miners; treaty stipulations were disregarded and trampled under foot; towns were established thereon, and all the means that cupid ity could invent or disloyalty achicve were resorted to to shake were disturbed in their confidence in the Government. They the peaccable posscssion of what they regarded as their vested were informed that the Government was destroyed, and that whatever troaties were All resistance on their part rights, sacrodly secured by treaty. They made would never be carried out. proved unavailing, and inquietude and discontent predominated among them," says the Governor of Idaho, in 1865. Shortly after, by the organization of that new Percés' reservation had been removed from the jurisdiction of Washington Territory to that of Idaho.

A powerful party was organized in the tribe, advocating the forming of a league with the Crows and Blackfcet against the whites. The non-arrival of promised supplics; the non-pay- ment of promised moncys; the anchecked influx of miners throughout the reservation, put strong weapons into the hands of these disalfected ones. Territory, the Ncz But the ehicfs "remained firm and unwavering in their devotion to the Government and the laws They are intelligent-their head chief, Sawyer, particnlarly and tell their people to still wait patiently." And yot, at so this very time, there was due from the United States Gov- ernment to this chief Sawyer six hundred and twenty -five dollars! IHe had for six months been suffering for the com disposing of monest necessarics of life,, and had been driven to Iis voucliers at fifty ries. The warriors also, who fought for us so woll in 1856, were still unpaid; although in the seventh article of the treaty of 1863 it had been agrced that "the claims of certain members of the Nez Pereó tribe against the Government, for scrvices rendered and horses furnished by them to the Oregon Mount- cents on the dollar to purchase necessa ed Volunteers, as appears by certificates issued by W. H. Faunt