The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-01

2 coo pairs OF shoes. $3.50 dozen articles o
tinware, % dozen brides and halters and
$50 sets of harness, and during the year
Carlisle has sent ten spring wagons to the
Indian agencies.
Want OF money and want OF room has
compelled the refusal to many applicants
for admission at Forest Grove school, and
agents hope that congress will appropriate
at least So, 600 to erect new building tor
maintaining this school. Within another
year three new training schools will be in
operation, stone buildings, in the Inaian
Territory near the Kansas border and con-
tiguous to Kansas settlement, will be
ready for pupils in December; at Law.
renee, Kansas, three large stone buildings,
in January, near Genoa, Nebraska, the old
prick Pawnee school building, standing on
what was formerly the Pawnee reservation,
is being thoroughly repaired and en-
larged, so as to furnish room tor $50
pupils, and will be finished
by next spring under the provision OF the
appropriation act of 1882. Indian pupils
were divided among the schools in six diff.
fereut states. with entirely satisfactory re.
suits, but the appropriation is wholly in
sufficient for the purpose, ard an appropri-
arion should be made that will enable the
officers to offer any suitable institution
that will furnish buildings, teachers and all
necessary machinery for the school. a COM
pensation OF not less than $3.50 per annum
Tor each Indian pupil supported and taught
therein. Religious societies have con-
tributed $3.50, 555 for educational work
among the Indians, butt they say
that by no means expresses The assistance
thus given the Indian for education and
civilization. The influence OF men and wo-
men whose influence are devoted to the up.
hitting oil the degraded and ignorant, can
he hNr
moreover the very fact is that he represents
great religious denomination and that the
christian community is his constituency
and that funds that come into his hands
has been secreted by prayer and seltde-
NAL, give to a man OF this work moral
force and momentum, which the govern
ment patronage does not impair, The
him into the closest possible re-
lations with the various religious
societies, whose sole business consists in
working tor the elevation of humanity, and
who from long experience, are presumably
the best informed as to the means to be
employed in such work. The commits
sioner again calls attention to the needs Of
schools for Indians in Alaska.
Building OF school houses has progressed
fairly, seven new boarding school buildings
were erected in the past year,
six more will receive pupils this fall ana
four more promises completion during the
current year, seven new day school
buildings have been completed and
another commenced. Much better use
could be made OF the appropriation Tor
educational purposes. ii it were not
for the restrictions Of the law, which often
defeat the ends sought by legislation. Com
parison with the preceding years shows an
increase in the number OF slukneSses.
treated by the agency's physician, but
small percentage of mortality The total
number of cases under treatment for the
wear was S2,02l; total deaths, 1906;
total births, 1,145. A peculiar Gus
tom is prevailing among the In
dams, in maintaining strict secrecy
in regard to births and deaths,
renders the collection of reliable
extremely difficult. The affairs
of the different agencies are reviewed
at great length with reference 10 the mis-
sions to the Indians of Colorado. The
commissioner says That he fully agrees
with the finding Ut the inspector sent out
| to examine their condition, and
will incorporate in q bill to be presented TO
congress concerning the Turtle Mountain
| Indians, Dakota. He recommends
that two townships IN the present Ieserva-
| ton be retained as permanent reservation
for those who do not desire to take
homestead. The report concludes with a
recital of the agreement signed on TINS
! JuIv last, between Chief Moses and the
secretary of the interior which will. the
commissioners say, II not rail-
| fed by congress, restore to
the public domain, 2,2i3, 300 acres, and in
Washington territory upon terms iaVore'
| BILE TO the government ana for the pest H.
tetests OF the Indians.