that a white man is bound to respect, they are iujured and annoyed in many ways. Their stock are stolen, their fences broken down, their timber destroyed, their young men plied with whiskey, their women debauched; so that, while the un- eivilized are kept in a worse than savage state, having the crimes of civilization forced upon them, those farther advanccd and disposed to honest indnstry, aro durance."

discouraged beyond en- In spite of all this the Delawares raised, in 1866, 72,000 bushels of grain, 13,000 bushels of potatocs, and owned 5000 head of cattlc.

In July of this ycar a treaty was made with them, providing for the removal to the Indian Territory of all who shonld not decide to become citizens of Kansas, and the sale of their lands. The superintendent of the Fort Leavenworth Agency writes at this time: "The running of the Union Pacific Rail road throngh the Delawares' diminished reserve has been a sourec of grievous annoyance and damage to the Dclawares, as has also an organization styled the Delaware Lumber Company. Out of these two companies grew imuch complaiut and investigation, resulting in the appointment of a to sell to the railroad the timber required for the eonstruction of the road, and no more being thus restricted" (i. e., being prevented from helping themselves to the Indians' timber), immediately their business, and stopped their mills," bat not before they had damaged the Indians' property to the amouut of twenty eight thousand dollars.

Twenty thousand dollars' worth of stock and tweuty-eiglht thousand dollars' worth of timber having been stolen in two special agent The Delaware Lumber Company gave up years from this little village of farmers, no wonder they are "sufficiently prepared to move." also to render them in haste to be gone. The perpetual expec- Other canses lhave conspired tation of being obliged to remove had unsettled the whole com 12