thence up its main channel to Poplar Grove; thence in a direct line to the "Place of Stumps," otherwise called Lake Chicot; thence in a direct line to the head of the main branch of Salt River; thence in a direct line due north to the point where such line would intersect the international boundary; thence eastwardly to the place of beginning."
TREATY OF 1864.
A treaty was made with the Ojibways of the Mississippi on May 7, 1864, by which reservations were to be selected for the different bands, on the Upper Mississippi, and therein; $5000 was allowed Hole-in-the-Day for the burning of his house during the troubles of 1862.
TREATY OF 1866.
The Bois Forte Ojibways on April 7, 1866, concluded a treaty by which they ceded all their lands around Lake Vermilion.
DEATH OF THE YOUNGER HOLE-IN-THE-DAY.
In 1864 the younger Hole-in-the-Day succeeded in captivating a young white woman employed at the National Hotel, Washington, and she accompanied him to his log house, near Crow Wing, and became the companion of his Indian wives. During the morning of the 27th of June, 1868, he went in a buggy to the Indian agency two miles distant, and from thence to Crow Wing. While returning, and passing a thicket near the agency, some of his tribe who disliked him, appeared, and one shot him. The wound was fatal, and he fell from the buggy and died. After taking his blanket and the valuables on his person, they rode in the buggy to his house, and announced to his wives that the chief had been killed. One or two went
