their treaty," and that "as many again as were taught were turnod away from school for lack of room,"

The Presbyterian Board of Forcign Missions has contributed during this year $1750 for missionary work amoug them, and the Indians themselves have raised $125.

Their reservation is thus described: "The majority of lad comprising the reservation is a vast Inxuriant pasturage for thousands of their cattle and horscs. The Clearwater River, ffowing reserve, branching out in the North, Middle, and Sonth Forks, greatly benefits their locations that they have taken in the val leys lying between snch river and the bluffs of the higher land, forming in one instance at Kaimaih-one of the most pictn resque locations to be fonnd in the whole North-west. Situated valley six miles, varving in width from one-half to two miles; in form like a vast amphitheatre, surrounded on all sides by nearly per- pendicular bluffs rising one of the prettiest valleys rolling prairie, affording as it does directly through the on either side of the South Fork, in length abont in a two thousand feet in height, it forms imagine. A view fron the living panorama, as one sees the vast fields of waving grain surrounding well-bnilt and tasty cottages adorned with porches, and mauy of thc convenienccs found among iu dustrious whites. The sight wonld lcad a stranger, not knowing of its inhabitance by Indians, to inquire what prosperous white settlement was located here. It is by far the most advanced in one can bluff reveals a the ways of civilization and progress of auy in the Territory, if not on the coast."

How long will the white men of Idaho permit Indians to oc cupy so fair a domain as this? The small cloud, no larger than a man's hand, already looms on their horizon. The closing paragraph of this (the last) report from the Nez Percés is:

Some uneasiness is manifest about stories set afloat by renegade whites, in relation to their troatment at the expiration of their treaty next July, but T have talked the matter over, and