Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

five years are gradually beginning to show
themselves. 1t appears there are upwards OF
5000 Indians in New York State and more than
10, 600 in the State of Michigan. The follow
ing table shows the substantial results of In
dian labor during the year by Indians exclusive
of the five civilized tribes of the Indian terri.
tory, in 1880:
Number acres broken by Indians...... 27,2S3
Mum Der acres cultivated. ............ 17O,847
Number bushels wheat raised. ........ 4l5,777
Number bushels corn raised .......... 666 430
Number bushels oats and barley...... 22l, ,4S9
Number bushels vegetables raised. go. $40, l45
Numb Der tons hay cut ut................. 6 572
Num- Der cattle owned. ed................ 7S,Sl2
Number sheep owned.. ................ s64, 1877
BY the five civilized tribes:
Number acres cultivated .............. 3l4,S9S
Number bushels wheat raised. ....... 1886, ,424
Number bushels corn raised ..........2, SAG, ,042
Number bushels oats and barley raised l24, ,568
Number bushels vegetables raised.... 5S5, 600
Number bales cotton raised. ........... 1000
Mum Der tons hay cut................. $4,000
Number cattle owned. 297. GAO
Number swine owned. d................ AGO. .2SO
During the year 60 boarding and ITO day
schools have been in operation among the diff
ferent Indian tribes, exclusive of the five civil
lied tribes in Indian Territory, which have
been attended by over 1000 children and taught
by SIG teachers. The educational work of the
bureau could have been enlarged to much
greater extent but for the inadequate appro-
priations made by Congress for the support of
schools. Fifty thousand Indians at Seventeen
agencies have no treaty school funds whatever,
and educational facilities must depend entirely
on the general appropriation for education.
Among those tribes there are at least
1000 children of school age Reports from
schools on the various reservations are full
Of encouragement, showing increased and more
regular attendance of pupils, and growing in
terest in education on the part of the parents.
T., rs&h Eroro oJ
agencies the bureau has made arrangements
for erecting eleven boarding school buildings
during the coming season, and for the estab-
lishment of thirteen new boarding schools.
These will be the first schools of any kind pro-
vided for the 5000 San Carlos, Apaches and
Western Shoshones. aud the first boarding
schools opened for %, 600 Indians. At nine
other agencies where the small, irregularly at
attended day schools have hitherto
metywith Indifferent success and m ade little
impression on the tribes among whom they
were located. The condition of the Poncas in
the Indian Territory continues to be prosper
ous, ana they have now seventy-nine houses,
and since the first of January last over seventy
families have moved into the houses. Med
dlesome persons are still endeavoring to induce
the Poncas to abandon their present location
and return to Dakota, but tho leading men of
the tribe have frequently assured tho agent
that they are satisfied, and do not desire to
return.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
The annual report of the secretary of war
gives a general review of the various subordi-
nate reports, and calls attention to their sever
al recommendations, and details at length the
operations of the department during the year.
Upon the subject of expenditures, appropria-
tlons and estimates the secretary says: 'The
expenditures for all affairs under control of
this department for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1880, were s33.924773. Congress appro-
priated for the service of tho current fiscal
year, 1893, $50. The estimates for the service
of the fiscal year ending June 80 1882, are
$43 CT 055. The estimates in detail were
originally submitted to me for $50, 429.770, but
on revision of the same omissions or reduction
were made as follows: In the civil estimate,
$l3,5 military establishments, S25o,000;
miscellaneous class 900; making
n total of revisory reductions
SIS, S,S02,7l4. Some increase in the amounts
of interest for the year lSS2 over the amounts
appropriated for the year 1881, appears in the
civil establishment, the military establishment
and miscellaneous for public work. l have re-
duced the estimates to accord with what un-
derstood to be the amount required for the ab-
solute necessities Of the service in order to pre-
vent a waste of property and damage to the
commercial interests. Beyond SUI iccessities
it ia submitted to the wisdom or Congress,
provcmen.s surround the realty of the
government. and the commerce
Of the country advances in growth ana pros
perity, go should the appropriations TO cover
expenses be apportioned. The mississippi riv-
er com mission, operating in accordance with
an act approved June rs, 1879, submitted re-
port which was duly transmitted to Congress
last March, and was published by order of the
House of Representatives,. That report exhib-
tied for the first time estimates Of
the, appropriation required for
works of improvement therein de-
scribed, amounting to $5, liz, COO and it
awaited further consideration when the session
ceased. The commission has communicated
to me its desire to renew those estimates, and
this communication will be transmitted to
Congress q matter of special importance, not
included, however, in the annual estimates and
expenditures for the service of this depart
ment." In regard to tho South
pass, Mississippi river, the secretary says: 'The
permanence of this important work seems to be
assured from the fact that there has been no
failure whatever in the maintenance Of e
maximum channel during the six month,
ending August lst, last. This improvement
has opened through sanda and shoals brotd,
deep highway to the ocean; ard is ono upon
the permanent success of which congratulr
tions may BE- exchanged among people abroad
and at hone, and especially among the COM
m mauities of the Mississippi valley whose COM
channel safely to and from the sea-"
Secretary Ramsey concurs in the recommen.
datiou Of Gen. Sherman that Congress be asked
- give 5000 enlisted men specifically to
troops of the line of the army, and fayors tie
abandonment of many small posts and the
concentration of larger forces at strategic
points. The absence of large number of Off
GERS from regiments is alluded to, and action
recommended leading to the relief of the ser
vice in this respect.
Secretary Ramsey endorses the recommenda-
tion of the rdiutant-general in relation to
placing the uniformed State militia upon the
same footing, in respect to its rules and forms,
to the necessity of providing by
legislation for the organization, arming and
discipline of the militia. The affairs of the
Leavenworth military prison, the secretary
Said, have been capa5iy administered during
the year. He suggests, however, that in order
to be entirely successful and to carry out ~
far as possible the original design of making
the institution self-sus.aining. important
measures of legislation is necessary, which il
the authority of Congress to apply the earnings
of the prison to its maintenance.
The secretary says: From personal In
spection of many Notifications referred to by
the chief of engineers, am able to emphasize
their incompetent and defenseless condition is
discreditable to the country. Judging from
the history OF all nations, and the experience
OF our own, the United States will not, with its
standing. our traditional Pacific policy, find
itself sooner or later at war with
comes it will come suddenly. There will be no
time after its declaration to construct defenses,
either fixed or floating. Other nations have
been for some years and are now constructing
fast steamers of enormous size, encased in iron
armor mp to two feet in thickness. and armed
. Uft aA e. s,xlr rod