Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-24

Number of acres broken by Indians. ..... 27,283
Number Of acres Guilty. ted. 10 S47
Number of bushels OF wheat raised ...... 49,
Number of bushe of corn raised. ....... 666, 430
Number of bushels Of oats aid barley raised 90 439
Number Of bushes of vegetables raised.... 376.145
Number of tons of hay cut................. Sc SIC
Number Of cattle owned. 73 812
Number of sheep owned. 1864, 1877
BY the five civilized tribes
Number of acres cultivated. ........... 3143gs
Number of bushels of wheat raised . 1856 424
Number of bushes of raised. ....... SAG 042
Number of bushels IF oats and barley raised 124,
Number Of bushels Of vegetables raised. sos, GOO
Number Of bales of cotton raised. ....... LOCO
Number of tons of hay cut................ 14,000
Number Of cattle owned. 297,040
Number of swine owned. ................. 400 280
During the year sixty boarding and one
hundred and ten day schools have been i'll
operation among the differ ent Indian tribes,
exclusive of the five civilized tribes IN the
Indian territory, which have been attended by
over seven thousand children aud taught by
316 teachers. The educational work of the
bureau could have been enlarged to much
gre alter extent but for The inadequate aDpro-
prlations made by congress for the support of
schools Fifty thousand Indi rs at the seven
teen agencies have no treaty school funds what
ever, and educational facilities must depend
entirely on the general appropriation for educa-
ton. Among these tTiL es there are atleal seven
thou and children of school age. Reports
from the schools on the various Reservations are
full of encourag emelt, showing increased and
more regular attendance Of pupils, and grow
ing interest III education on pant Of the parents.
In compliance with appeals from neglected
agencies The bureau has made arrangements for
erecting eleven boarding school buildings dur
ing the coming season and for the establish
ment OF thirteen new boarding schools. These
will be the first schools of ally kind ever pro-
vided for the eight thousand San Carlos Apaches
and Western ShoshOnes, and the first boarding
Gch
d1ans, at nine other agencies where small,
nregularly attended day schools have hitherto
met with Indifferent success and made little i'm
preston on the tribes among whom they were
located. The condition OF the Poncas In the
Indian territory continues 10 be prosperous
They have now from seventy to ninety houses,
and since the 1st of January last over seventy
families have novel into those houses. Med
dlesoMe persons a1e sill endeavoT1Dg to induce
the Poncas to abandon their present location
and return to Dakota, Lut the leading men of
the tribe have frequently assured the agent that
they are satisfied and do not desire to return.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, November 21.-The annual re-
port OF the secretary Of war gives general re-
view of the various subordinate reports, calls
attention to their several recommendations, and
details at length the operations of the depart
ment during the year. Upon the subject OF ex-
penditures, appropriations and estimates the
secretary says: '1he expenditures for all af-
fairs under control of this department for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1890, were $39, 924,-
773. Congress appropriated for the ser ice for
the current fiscal year SAL 1913, $3.50. The esti-
mates for the service OF the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1892 are iS43, 81, 055. The estimates
in detail were ori glnaily submitted to me for
S62, 429, ITO; but one revision OF the same onis-
sions or reductions were made as follows: In
the civil establishment, $3.50 military
establishment, $25O,000; public works, S1s, 5l4,-
1923; and in the mlscel aneous class, S25, 900;
making q total of revisory reductions of
$1S, 9U2, TIA. Some increase IN the amount of
the estimates for the year 1882 over the year
1881, appears in the civil establishment, and
miscellaneous. For public works / have re-
duced the estimates 10 accord with what
understand to be the amount required for the
absolute necessities Of the service; III order to
prevent waste Of property and damage to conf
mercial interests. Beyond such necessities it
is submitted that the wisdom of congress may
perceive that as valuable improvements sur
round the realty OF the government, and as
the commerce Of the count a advances III growth
and property, SO sLou d p ii OPERATIONS to cover
expenses be apporloned. The 1llSslssl pl
River Commissioners, operating IN accordi nee
with an act approved June 2S 1879, submitted
q report which was duly transmitted to congress
last March. and was published by order OF the
house OF representatives. That report exhibit
ted for the first time estimates CT the appropria-
ton required for the works of improvement
therein described, amounting to SIS, 113, 600,
and it awaited further consideration when the
session ceased. The commission has commune
eated TO me its desire to renew those estimates,
and this communication will be transmitted to
congress as OF special impOrtauce-not included,
however, in the annual estimates OF eXpendl-
lures for the service OF this department"
In regard to the south pass, Mississippi river,
the secretary says: ''Ihe permanency OF this
,,to mt IN no tbA
fact that there has been failure Whatever Ill
the maintenance of q ma Ximum channel during
the SIX months ending August 8. last This n
provement has opened, through sands and
shoals, a broad, deep highway to the ocean. and
j. one upon the permanent success of which
congratula ions may be exchanged among peo-
pie abroad and at home, and especially among
the communities of the Mississippi valley,
whose commercial exchanges float Ill an unOL
structed channel, safely 10 and FROM the sea-"
Secretary Ramsey concurs IN the lecOmmen-
dation of Gen. Sherman that congress be asked
to give Is, 900 enlisted men specifically TO troops
of The line of the army. and >favors the aban-
dCnmeut of many small posts and the concen-
tration of large forces ut strategic points. The
absence of large number of o.ficers from the
re; iments is alluded to, and action recommended
looking to the relief OF the service i'll this re-
spect.
Secretl ry Ramsey endorses the recornuncnCla-
ton of the adjutallJ general Ill relaio 20 piac-
ing the uniform ed militia upon The same foot
ing in respect to Its rules and forming Us the
regular forces, and calls attention to the
necessity of providing 10y legi, laticn for the
organization, aiming and discipline of the Il il
itia.
The affairs of the Leavenwortn military pris-
ON, the secretary says, have been capaily man
aged dining the year. He suggests, however,
that in order to be entirely successful and 10
carry out as far as possible the original design
of making The institution self-sustaming an inn
portland measure OF legislation is necessary,
which is the authority or congress to apply The
earnings of the prison to its maintenance.
The secretary says: From personal inspec-
ton of many oil the Notifications referred by