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 KIDD KIDDER 825 ing the Prairie band, preferred to have lands in common. The sale of the remaining lands gave a fund of which the United States was to pay ^10,000 in 1873 and a similar amount yearly till the whole is accounted for. The tribe has also $5,000 a year for schools. The roving part has given much trouble to the more civilized and to government. They have gathered mainly at Santa Rosa and its vicinity, and, as they defend the Mexicans against the Apaches, and bring in considerable by their raids, are encouraged in their roving habits. In 1871 Miles, the agent of the Kickapoos, went to Mexico to endeavor to induce the whole body there to return to the United States and settle on a reservation. The Mexican govern- ment thwarted his plans, and at once spent $10,000, long previously appropriated, for agricultural implements and other valuable ar- ticles for the Kickapoos. The depredations of these Indians across the frontier led to a dash into Mexico by Gen. Mackenzie, in which the Indians were severely punished. These Mexi- can Kickapoos numbered fully 1,000; but in 1873 300 or 400 returned, and were placed in the Indian territory, west of Arkansas river. In 1873 the Kickapoos on the reservation in N. E. Kansas numbered 274. There were 46 children in their school, and a boarding school was in progress. These Indians have ceased to be or consider themselves warriors. Their annual produce was valued at $12,000, and their stock was worth about $18,000. KIDD, William, a pirate, born in Scotland (probably in Greenock), executed in London, May 24, 1701. He is said to have been the son of John Kidd, a nonconformist minister. He followed the sea from his youth, and to- ward the end of the 17th century was a bold and skilful shipmaster from New York. He distinguished himself as a privateersman against the French in the West Indies, and in 1691 re- ceived 150 from New York for protecting the colony against pirates. In 1695 a company for the suppression of piracy was organized in England, by the earl of Bellamont and others, who hoped to derive a profit from recaptures. The Adventure Galley, a new ship of 287 tons and 34 guns, was bought, and at the suggestion of Robert Livingston of New York, one of the shareholders, her command was given to Kidd, who received two commissions, one dated Dec. 10, 1695, from the commissioners of the ad- miralty, empowering him to act against the French, the other dated Jan. 26, 1696, under the great seal, authorizing him to cruise against pirates. One tenth part of all booty was to be set aside for the king, and the remainder was to be divided between the shareholders and Kidd in certain specified proportions. A share was also appropriated to the crew, who were to receive no regular pay. Kidd sailed from Plymouth on April 23, 1696, captured a French fishing vessel off Newfoundland, and arrived in New York with his prize about July 4. He remained there until Sept. 6, when he sailed with a crew of 154 men for Madagascar, then the chief rendezvous for pirates, and arrived there in January, 1697. In 1698 rumors be- came prevalent in England that Kidd himself had turned pirate, and on Nov. 23 of that year orders were sent to the governors of all the English colonies to apprehend him if he came within their jurisdiction. In April, 1699, he arrived in the West Indies, in a ship named the Quidah Merchant, secured her in a lagoon in the island of Saona, at the S. E. end of Hay- ti. and set sail northward with about 40 men, in the San Antonio, a sloop of 55 tons. He made a landing in Delaware bay, sailed up the coast to Long Island sound, and went into Oyster bay. Here he took on board James Emott, a New York lawyer, and run- ning across to the Rhode Island coast set him ashore and sent him to Boston to Bellamont, who had become governor of the colonies, to ascertain how the latter would receive him. During his absence Kidd buried some bales of i goods and some treasure on Gardiner's island. 1 Bellamont answered evasively, and after some correspondence persuaded Kidd to go to Bos- ton, where he landed on July 1, 1699. Ho was examined before the council, and, according to Bellamont, gave trifling answers to interroga- tories, and on July 6 the governor ordered his arrest. He was sent to England, and after a grossly unfair trial, in which he was allowed no counsel, and was not permitted to send for papers and witnesses, he was found guilty of piracy and of the murder of William Moore, one of his crew, whom he struck on the head with a bucket during an altercation, and was hanged at Execution dock, with nine of his associates. Kidd asserted his innocence to the last; averred that Moore was mutinous when he struck him; and claimed that his men forced him to take the Quidah Merchant against his will. Bellamont equipped a ship to go in search of that vessel, but heard before she sailed that the latter had been stripped and burned by the men left with it. He secured the treasure buried on Gardiner's island, which, together with that found in Kidd's possession and on the San Antonio, amounted to 1,111 oz. troy of gold, 2,353 oz. of silver, 17 oz. of jewels (69 stones), 57 bags of sugar, 41 bales of merchandise, and 67 pieces of canvas, of the total value of about 14,000. There are no grounds for the popular belief that he bu- ried other treasures, although frequent search has been made for them along the N. E. coast, in the lower part of the Hudson, and else- where, till a very recent period. KIDDER, a N. county of Dakota, recently formed, and not included in the census of 1870; area, about l,700sq. m. It is occupied by the " Plateau du Coteau du Missouri," and contains several alkaline lakes. The Northern Pacific railroad crosses it. KIDDER, Daniel Parish, an American clergy- , man, born at Darien, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1815. Ho
 * graduated at Wesleyan university, Middletown,