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After further review, Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock recommends the appointment of William O’Neil as the lumber scaler at the Chippewa Indian Reservation.
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1903-08-21
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock encloses copies of all correspondence since April 10 regarding the transfer of Native Americans from Warner’s Ranch, California.
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1903-04-22
Charles Fletcher Lummis agrees with the recommended procedure for transferring the Native Americans from Warner’s Ranch to the Pala Indian Reservation.
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1903-04-20
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock orders Inspector Jenkins to proceed as quickly as possible to Riverside, California, and begin his investigation of the situation among the Native Americans at Warner’s Ranch.
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1903-04-21
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock elaborates on orders telegraphed to Inspector Jenkins regarding the transfer of the Native Americans at Warner’s Ranch, California.
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1903-04-21
An official has been dispatched to investigate the conditions among the Native Americans at Warner’s Ranch, California.
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1903-04-21
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock sends an update on efforts to transfer the Native Americans at Warner’s Ranch, California, to the Pala Indian Reservation. He requests that the matter be left under the authority of the Department of the Interior, even in the face of appeals for military intervention from Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-24
Charles Fletcher Lummis assesses the situation of the Native Americans at Warner’s Ranch, California and believes that they need to be relocated as soon as possible.
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1903-04-21
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock relays to Inspector Jenkins the content of his communications with Charles Fletcher Lummis concerning the possible use of soldiers during the transfer of Native Americans from Warner’s Ranch, California.
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1903-04-22
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock informs Charles Fletcher Lummis that it is inappropriate for him to continue signing letters as Chairman of the Advisory Commission, because the commission no longer exists.
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1903-04-14
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock approves the instructions for Indian Agent Lucius A. Wright to transfer the Indians of Warner’s Ranch, California, to the lands purchased for them at Pala. Indian Inspector James A. Jenkins has been sent to supervise the transfer.
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1903-04-13
Agent Wright of Mission Agency, California has been granted the authority to pay the traveling expenses of C. F. Lummis and Fathers Ubach and Hahn for their visit to Warner’s Ranch.
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1903-04-11
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock instructs Indian Inspector Jenkins to proceed to Mission Agency, California, to investigate the land needed to relocate the Mission Indians at Warner’s Ranch. Jenkins should also investigate the behavior of Indian Agent Lucius A. Wright, about whom there have been complaints.
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1903-04-10
Senator Kearns requests that Indian agent James McLaughlin contact him so that he can accompany McLaughlin to a reservation.
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1902-09-14
Andrew Sloan Draper would like to be appointed to the United States Board of Indian Commissioners and asks Nicholas Murray Butler for a recommendation.
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1902-08-06
Attorney General Knox believes that District Attorney Summers is honestly investigating the officials of the Indian Office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-17
According to Mary C. Collins, Agent Bingenheimer was limited in his speech and actions with the Native Americans due to instructions from his superiors. Bingenheimer related to her that Commissioner Jones had the leases drawn up and boundaries determined, long before the meeting at which the Native Americans signed the leases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-12
Charles F. Ashley, the United States Indian Agent at Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as a “young man of exemplary character and habits.”
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1893-08-16