Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — MORE LANDS FUR SEITLEMENT. [ARTICLE]

MORE LANDS FUR SEITLEMENT.

Gull Lake Chippewas Sign Away Their Reservation to the Commissioners. A Brainerd (Minn.) dispatch says: TheNorthwestern Indian commission intrusted with making treaties expected to open the remaining reservations in this State and. Wisconsin have met with unexpected and. unqualified success so far, and to-day added to the successes at Red lake and on White Earth reservation the consent of the Gull Lakers, a small band of Chippewas dwelling about ths original seat of the Chippewa government at Gull lake, a dozen miles north of this city. The Indians had been assembled by runners and interpreters awaiting Uncle Sam’s august representatives, and on their arrival today immediately signed in a body. The commission go on from there uorth toLeech lake and to all the remaining tribes on and about the head-waters of the Mississippi, and the successes so far indicate almost certain success with the rest. The Territory secured from these Indians amounts to over 4,009,000 acres of fine farming land and vast amounts of pine timber, while from the White Earthers were secured privileges of settlement sufficient to give homes there to all the Indians who consent? to leave the reservation.