Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society (Volume 8) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...W. G. COFFIN. Superintendent of Indian Afi'airs. W. H. MARTIN. Agent Sacs and Foxes. W. A. HARLAN. Special Agent Cherokee Indians. P. P. ELDER. Agent Osages. G. C. SNOW. Agent Seminoles. JOHN GOODELL. Interpreter Sacs and Foxes. This treaty was also signed by representatives of the Chickasaw. Osage. Pottawatomie. Shawnee and Seneca. Quapaw. Seminole. Creek. Kaskaskis. Peoria. Wea and Pinakeshaws. and Western Miami nations. and witnessed by their interpreters.-Rept. Comm'r of Ind. AFR. 1864. p. 362. make such order. According to the report of Wolcott and Barnett, commissioners to set off the eighty acres to individuals, there was a surplus of 140 sections of land remaining, and which could be opened to settlers. This recommendation was approved by Judge Usher, February 27, 1865." From Mrs. Duvall we quote: "Many things occurred while we were at the Sauk and Fox mission to ever mark the place in our memory. One day we noticed the fiag at the agency at half mast. My husband mounted Charley and Joe and told them to go guickly to the agency. They returned with the sad news that our home at Delaware. Miss Jane Thrift "7 returned there with her to remain. She also took Charley Keokuk. Of Charley Mrs. Duvall writes: "We were here three months. He furnished amusement for the boys. He would sit on the gate post and the boys would crowd around him. On one occasion he was missing, and I was very much frightened, for I knew how much his father thought of him. The soldiers were returning from the war and were on parade. I pushed my way through the crowd, and close up to the music I found Charley, perfectly lost to himself. At another time he was gone, and I found him on the engine of a train that was standin, and I...