51-1Indian Depredation ClaimsL-C of A. Dickerman. [2750] Osage depredations of 1864-65 in Kansas.1890-19

House of Representatives Executive Document No. 371, 51st Congress, 1st Session (1890)

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51ST CoNGRESS, } HOUSB OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. {Ex. Doc. No. 371. CLAIM OF A. T. DICKERMAN. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTEliiOR, TRANSMITTING A copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian A.ffa·irs ·in-closing certain affidavits relating to a depredation claim of A. T. Dick-e·rman, which 'Was transmitted to Congress January 5, 1887 . . MAY 9, 1890.-Referrecl to the Select Committee on Inclian Depredation Claims. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, lVashington, JJfay 8, 1890. SIR: I have the honor to tram;mit herewith a copy of the communica-tion of the 7th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, inclos-ing copy of affidavits of A. T. Dickerman and Jabez Zink, relative to a depredation claim of A. T. Dickerman, which was transmitted to Con-gress January 5 1887. In compliance with the req nest of the Commissioner, I have the honor to forward the said affidavits for filing with said claim. Very respectfu11y, J. W. NOBLE, Secretary. To the SPEAKER OF 1'HE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA'i'IVES. DEPARTMEN1' OF 'i'HE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, lVashington, D. 0., May 7, 1890. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith copies of affidavits of ,Jabez Zink and A. T. Tickm:man, forwarded to this office by Special Agent Piggott, April 19, 1890, and recommend that the same be transmit-ted to CongreHs for filing with the claim of A. T. Dickerman, No. 3401, which was sent to CongTess January 5, 1887 (Ex. Doc. 77, Forty-ninth Congress, second session). Very respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE IN1'ERIOR. II. Ex. 3:i-70 T. J. MORGAN, Commissioner. 2 CLAIM OF A. T. DICKERMAN. • In the matter of Depredation Claim No. 3398. Samuel Collins vs. The Osage Indians. STATli~ OF KANSAs, Labette County, ss: A. T. Dickerman, being duly sworn, deposes and says, tbat his ago is fifty-three years, and that he resides in tbe city of Oswego, in said county and State, and bas so resided or in its vicinit~· since t be fall of 1865, and that he is now engaged in the real estate and loan business in said city; that he is a brother-in-law of Samuel Collins, the claimant herein, and came with him from Leavenworth, Kans., to Conileld's trading post in Neosho County, Kans., in October, 1863, where tbe claimant had a store and traded with the Osage Indians, and remained there until the winter of 1863-4, at which time they moved to Erie, in tho same county, and remained there till the spring of 1865, when they moved to Osage Mission in same county, and in July, 1865, they moved to Labette County. When the affiant. came to Neosho County he was informed by the claimant that he bad suffered greatly from the depredations of said Indians, bn t the affiant bas no per-sonal knowledge of said depredations, as they occurred before he came to Neosho County. Tile said Collins is POW living in Calistoga, CaL The affiant was personally acquainted with Frank Revlett and Frances Trumbly; they were half-breed Osage Indians, and good reliable men and considered t.rutbful; they had been in the employ of said Collins; when last heard from they were Hving in Osage Conntry; Hevlett was a few miles south of Elgen, Kans., and Trumbly was at the agenc.v. Tile said Collins has a son now living in Labette County, a few miles from Oswego, who rnay know about said depredations, as he was there with his father, and affiant knows no other persons who knew the facts in this claim than tho said Rev lett and Trumbly, and the claimn,nt and his said son. After coming to La bette County, in the fall of 1865, the affiant was connected with the said Collins for several years trading with Indians, and as employes with the :firm of Car, Elsbree & Bridgeman, who conducted a trading store at the claimant's house on La bette Creek, about 4 miles southwest from Oswego, and afterwards on the Verdigris and Big Caney Rivers, in the Indian country, but they were not partners and only connected as employes of the said :firm but before coming to Labette County, affiant and said Collins were partner~; while in said Neosho County, and as partners they suffered from the depredations of the Oeage Indians, and dnring tllat time they lost by the said depredations a large number of both horses and cattle, but does not now remember the number ofborses or the umber of the cattle, but be-lieves the claim amounts to about $2,500, and a claim bas been filed aml still pends un-sett.led for that amount., in the name of Collins & Dickerman, as that was the style of the :firm. Affiant says that he remembers some of the horses; one was a large black mare, a :fine pacer, and fully worth $150. They took at the same time two ponies worth $50 each. A few nights afterwards they stole a bay mare pony worth $50; these were taken in th13 summer and fall of 1864, but were not the :first losses. Dnriug tho pre-vious spring they lost several ponies which he is now unable to describe, hnt was able when he :filed his bill. 'l'bey lost about twenty-five bead of caltle in tho winter of 1864-165; does not know how· said Indians disposed of said cattle, but supposes they eat them. Afterwards they lost some, but he is not able to state the number; said cattle were worth fully $25 per head, as they were then quite high. They never recovered any of said cattle or horses nor pay or compensation therefor, and never sought private satisfaction or reveng<1 for said losses. Said propert,v was properly guarded at the time of said depredations, and was on the sa.id Indians' lands by vir~.ue of a permit both from t;bo said Osage Indians and tl1o Government. Collins was at that time and place a regular licensed Indian trader, and affiant was taken into part-nership with him upon the knowledge and consent of the said Indians and their agent. The affiant says that said :firm lost horses by the depredations of said Indians after the summer and fall of H:l64. They lost a number during the spring of 1665, and all of their said losses are stated in their said claim and a . descriptiou of the horses given. A. T. DICKEI~M:AN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, A. D. 1890. MICHAEr., PIGGOTT, Bpecial Agent. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C., May 6, 1890. The foregoing is a true copy of the affidavit of A. T. Dickerman, as the same appears on file in this office, in the depredation claim, No. 339b, of Samnel Collins. T. J. MORGAN, Comrnissioner. CLAIM OF A. T. DICKERMAN. 3 In the matter of depredation claim, Collins & Dickerman ?'. the Osage Indians. STATE OF KANSAS, County of Labette, 88: .Jabez Zink, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 'fhat he was in Neosho Cour.ty, Kanflns, in the fall of 18GC), and was then and there personally acquainte<l with Sam-uel C.ollins and with A. T. Diclterman, who were then living at the Osage Indian mission in said Neosho County; that said Collins and Dickerman had been that sum-mer acting as sutlers of an Illinois cavalry regiment that was stationed at said mis-sion; that said regiment for ~:;ome reason became dissatisfied and were disbanded there, but just before the members of said regiment drove in off the range twenty-ftvc or thirty head of cattle and sold them to said Collins and Dickerman, aml after the soldiers left Father John Schonamaker, the head of said mission, took possession of said cattle and cbimed them as ltaving been stolen by said soldiers from the said mission. Affiant was not at the mission when saicl cattle were taken from said Col-lins and Dickerman, but carne there shortly afterwards and said cattle were pointed ont to him by said Collins aml Dickerman and told him the particulars of how said cattle had been purchased by thew from s.aid soldiers and then taken by the said John Schonamaker. The soldiers went west before affiant got to said mission; the diRsatisfied soldiers went home. Affiant went to Leavenworth with said Collins from said mission for the purpose of collecting the money clue them from the said soldiers as sutlers of said regiment. The affiant thinks it was the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, but is not certain; and the cattle herein mentioned are the only cattle he ever heard said Collins and Dicker-man speak of as having been taken or captured by Indi:tns from them in said county or in any other place. JABEZ ZINK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of April, A. D. 1890. . MICHAEL PIGGOTT, Special Agent. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRR, Washington, D. G.~ May 7, 1890. The foregoing is a true copy of the affidavit of Jabez Zink, as the same appears on file in this office, in the depredation claim, No. 3398, of Samuel Collins. 0 T. J. MORGAN, Commissioner. 

Claim of A. T. Dickerman. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs inclosing certain affidavits relating to a depredation claim of A. T. Dickerman, which was transmitted to Congress January 5, 1887

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Claim of A. T. Dickerman. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs inclosing certain affidavits relating to a depredation claim of A. T. Dickerman, which was transmitted to Congress January 5, 1887

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