Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-12

curing supplies for the schools. The
following facts of interest," to The gen.
eral public were elected in converts
ton. At Tulalip, where the agent and
clerk have headquarters doing business
for all the Indians ON the Sound, there
are but lew employees. Everywhere
the schools are the chief concern, and
at Tulalip the six Sisters conduct the
school under a contract arranged at the
East, on the basis Of 800 par scholar,
which is paid to the Bishop, and forms
no part of the agents fund. The boys
and girls are taught in separate rooms
by two of the Sisters, while another
serves as cook, q fourth a. seamstress,
the fifth being music teacher and assist,
ant matron, while the Mother SUPERB
or" has full charge of everything, from
the purchase of supplies and dispensing
the same to the control Of the boys whom
the bent-up Frenchman of an industrial
teacher can't secure obedience. This
matron has marked business qualities,
sxcels asnurse, presCribes from her own
apothecary, shows thrift in housekeep-
ing, and yet does not secure the eduoa-
tiOnal advancement desired. Four and Q
half sacks Of -four are used daily, and
at the time Of visitation 400 salmon
were being cleaned and sailed BY the
schoolboys. The enrolment of eighty
is nearly equally Of boys and girls.
From Lummi, ITO smilss further north,
thirty children were dispatched on Q
single steamer to Tulalip. The pay for
a school at Lummi has, however, BEEN
increased to $500 per year, ~ at Muck
leshOOt and Madison. at each of which
points schools arc to be established.
At Puyallup there are sixty school
children cared for by q teacher, assist
ant teacher, industrial teacher, matron,
assistant matrOn, seamstress, and cook,
with aggregate salaries OF $3.50. The
school building is large, with cracks in
the rustic and uncomfortable, but we'll
seated With patent desks, while In one
end of the 80x2O-ft. building II a recita-
ton room, and in the story above arc
everal large and small sleeping rooms,
the boys occupying one end and the as
sociate teacher Watching them from the
other. A feature at this school II tho
march to meals, when companies OF
ten, with officers, form tn line and D.
rade between the bells till at lenRth
they march through the long porch Of
school and boarding house TO the din.
ing-room, where tho captains land the
pile of tin plates at the head Of tho
seven tables. Here and at Ohehalis
school is held four hours in the fore
noon. In the afternoon the aasistaut
teacher gathers the primaries while the
older boys are instructed BY the indus
trial teacher-the girls BY the seaustroag,
leaving the teacher time for q QonoIol
oversight as 0sub-agent, and ocoasionally
court with the Indians.
The Chehalis school has pretty loca-
ton, twenty-five miles from Olympia
ont through the wood upon dry, gray
ely prairie. Here tbs industrial teach
or has charge of the boarding house,
with his wife and daughter - matron
and as cook. Under SUPERVISION. the
girls mako the boys beds, and aso 70
Enumerated by fund arising from dnas
imposed when the boys talk in Indian
to their teachers. H6re d tho best farm
of all. The pasttyear's raising vas 40
bushels Of oats and 100 bushsb ot tue-
nipe, though Skok0mish raises the moat
hay and fruit.
Here tho agent found the holiday W.
cation inst closed, the ohildrep bong
sent OF after . good treat ChfistmG0
day. A steamer load Of Afty baEgo1g Of
-four and Gases Of merchandise had
come the day before the agent and The
goods bad been merely uno1ood b TIE
teacher. These ware nov 10 b placed
ON the stock books and general reports
made out for the quarter. The e1uen.
ses Of this school Of thirty pupils for
December were - follows:
kr0v0100D. .......s.........s ~ 20
Books, including Christmas gifh g u
ClOS000b 06os sssssss.. % ~
Salaries Of school employees. .1S0 %
Entire cost. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 70
Here the school h il esa1iou dx Aoars
daily, and at Dunesnsn il - the same,
while other schools the older scholars
attend only in Tie foesno0a. Out oe
tho 100 Indian childrsn upon the Sound
PuyaIiup has tho belle whose beauty
brings her numerous gifts. Indeed al
dre1 he bet Of Puyallup. vhefo they
havn anld anYnlun pPodu0o "a INV HI.