moulded ball of the same weight as the one cut from the body of the Indian, was found noar by and identified. Notwith standing this direet evidence, which was laid before the Grand jury of Dakota County, tlhat honorable body was unwilling to find a 'true bill;' for the reason, as I nnderstand, that it was only an Indian that was killed, and it would not be popular to ineur the expensc of bringing tlhe case to trial. This is but another illustration of the diffieulty of punishing wrong cominitted against an Indian. I need hardly say that the Indians, when comparing this murder with that of a white man, committed eight years ago by five of their young men- who, upon less dircet evidence, were sentenced to imprisonmnent in the State Ponitentiary for life-are struck with the wonder ful difference in the application of the same lay to whites and a white man for a Indians,"

The report from the Winnebago Agency for 1879 tells the story of the sequel to this unpunished murder of Ilenry IHar ris. The agent says: "In my last report I referred to the mur der of one of our best Indian farmers by a wite inan, who was afterward arrested and discharged without trial, though there was no question as to his guilt.As a sequel to this, one white man is known to have been killed last May by Holly Seott, a nephew of the murdered Indian; and another white man is supposed Walker, two young Indians who have left for Wisconsin. The murdered whito men had temporarily stopped with the Indians Their antccedents are unknown, and they to have been killed by Eddy Priest and Thomas are supposed to have belonged to the fraternity of tramps. Holly Scott was arrested by the Indian police, aud turned over to the anthorities of Da kota County for trial, the State Legislature having at its last session cxtended the jurisdiction of that county over this reser vation, by what anthority I am unable to say

The effcct of these murders was to nnsettle the Indians, nearly all industry being suspended for several weeks. They