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MAJOR-GENERAL W. B. HAZEN, U. S. A., said: The Great Father at Washington sent for me when I was away out in New Mexico, because I had been much with the Indians, and liked them, to come here and take care of all the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Apaches, Kiowas and Comanches, to look after them and their agents, to get them on to their Reservations, as provided in the Medicine Lodge Treaty. Before I could come from New Mexico, the Cheyennes and Arapahoes had gone to war, so that I could not see them; but I saw the others at Fort Larned, and I have come here as I promised them.

I was sent here as a peace-chief; all here is to be peace, and we will keep the faith; but north of the Arkansas is General Sheridan, the great war-chief. I cannot control him, and he has all the soldiers, who are fighting the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. I cannot deal with the tribes who are at war until after they have made peace with the

troops who are fighting them; therefore, you must go back to your country, and if the soldiers come to attack you, you must remember they are not from me, but from that great war-chief, and with him you must make Peace.

The people in Kansas and Texas, and in the east are all one people, and when peace comes, it must be with all these places alike.

Then I will go with you and your agent on to your Reservation, and look out for you there.

I am satisfied that you want peace; that is has not been you, but your bad men who have made war; and I will do all I can for you to have peace made.