Superintendent of the Northern Superintendeney held a coun- eil with the

"They expressed," he says, "a strong desire to have some arrangement made by which they would be allowed to oceupy portion of that reservation. It was represented that the Omahas wished it also. I found that I conld not gain a their consent to go back to their reservation, and I had no means within my reach of forcing them back, even if I had deemed it proper to do so." The superintendent recommended, therefore, that they be subsisted where they arrangemeut be made for their satisfaetion, or some concert of were until sonie action agreed npon between the War Department and the In- terior Department by which they can be kept vation after they shall have been moved there."

In September of this same year the agent for the Winne- bago lReserve wrote that the absence of a proteeting force had cen one of the reasous of the Indians leaving in such num bers. Both the Winncbagocs and Sioux who have stayed here ave lived in fear and trembling close to the stockade, and have refused to separate and live upon scparate tracts of land."

He gives some further details as to the soil and clinate. The region has been subject, and the destructive visits of grasshoppers and other insccts The soil has a great quantity of alkali in it; it is an excessive on their reser general rule, to dronghts, as a ly dry climate; it very seldom rains, and dews are almost un- known here: almost destitute of timber. It is generally supposed that game is plenty about here. This is an errone- ons impression. There are but a very few small streams, an entire absence of lakes, and an almost entire destitution of tim ber-te whole country being bundreds of miles around; hence there is but a very little small game, fish, the bnffalo roamed over this country, but they have rcceded and very seldom come here in any numbers. The Indians one wilderness of dry prairie for or wild fruit to be found. In former times