Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-27
The Wild Southern Utes allowed twenty


que boarding school, although not one of
the tribe had ever before attended any
school of any description. Organizing a
system or day schools is meeting with
favor among experienced agents, who have
large agencies and desire to place all their
Indians as speedily as possible under some
sort of educational influence. The good
results attendant upon the maintenance of
training schools at Carlisle, Hampton and
Forest Grove are very manifest,
aud congress is urged to increase
appropriations for these schools. as each
school has exceeded the number Of
scholars for which appropriation was
made. Training in industrial and me
chanical arts has been kept in the fore
ground. The success attained is fully at
tested by the number and value of articles
manufactured in the workshops for use of
the schools, and also by the fact that at
Carlisle and Hampton they propose to
furnish for various Indian agencies the
current fiscal year 1000 pairs of shoes,
1850 dozen articles of tinware, twenty-five
dozen brides and matters and $50 sets of
harness, During the year Carlisle has
sent ten spring wagons to the Indian
agencies. Want Of money and want of
room compelled the refusal of many APP
plications for admission to the Forest
Grove school, and it is hoped that con-
gress will appropriate at least $4,000 to
erect new building in the vicinity Of this
school. Within another year three new
training schools Will be in operation
Stone buildings TO accommodate $50
pupils at Chiiocro in Indian Territory,
near the Kansas b order, and continuous
to a Kansas settlement, will be ready for
pupils in Deoe1lbe'. At Lawrence, Ks,
three large stone buildings for $40 pupils
will be completed in January. Near
Genoa, Nebraska, the old brick Pawnee
school building, standing on what was
formerly the Pawnee reservation, is bein,
thoroughly repaired and enlarged, so as TO
furnish room or $50 pupils, and will be
finished next ring. Under provision OF
the appropriation act of 1882, Indian
pupils were divided among the schools in
six different states with entirely satisfac
tory results, but the appropriation is
wholly insufficient for the purpose, and an
appropriation should be made that will
enable the Office to offer any suitable in
stitution that will furnish buildings,
teachers and all necessary machinery of
the school, a compensation not less than
$3.50 per annum for each Indian pupil
supported and taught therein. Religious
societies contributed $23O,555 for educa-
tional work among the Indians, but this
the commissioner says, by no means ex-
presses the whole assistance thus given
Indian education and civilization. The
influence of men aud women, whose lives
are devoted to uplifting the degraded and
ignorant, cannot be measured by dollars
aud cents. Moreover, the very fact that
he represents great religious denomina-
ton, that christian community is his
constituency and that the funds which
| come into his hands have been consecrat
ed by prayer and self-denial, give
| 20 man aud his work
moral force and molten which
government patronage does not impar5.
The last hope for the Indian lies in bring
| ing him into closest possible relations
with the various religious societies whose
| sole business consists in working for tho
| elevation of humanity and who from long
| experience are presumably best Informed
| as to the methods and men and m5aEs to
| be mployed in such work. The COM
mission again calls attention to the need
OF a school for Indians in Alaska.
The building CT school houses has pro-
crossed fairly. Several new boarding
school buildings were occupied the past
year. ard six more will receive pupils this
fall, and four more promise completion in
the current year. Seven new day school
buildings have been completed and anoth-
er commenced. Much better use cooId be
shade of the appropriation for education
if 1t were not for the restrictions of the
law, which often defeat the ends sought by
legislation.
A comparison with preceding years
shows an increase in the number of cases
of sickness treated by agency physicians,
but a smaller percentage of mortality.
Total number of cases under treat
ment for the year S2,021; total
deaths 1906; total births 1,142. TIE
peculiar custom prevailing among the
Indians of maintaining strict secrecy in
regard to births and deaths, renders the
collection of reliable information On these
points an extremely difficult affair.
The different agencies are reviewed at
great length. With reference to tie mis-
sion Indians of California the commits
sioner says he fully agrees with tho
findings of the inspector sent out to
examine their condition and will
incorporate them in bill to be presented
to congress. Concerning Turtle mountain,
Dakota, he Fecommendsithat two townships
of the present reservation be retained as a
permanent reservation for those who do
not desire to take homesteads. The IN
dians of Indian territory having failed to
ADOPT the freedmen into their tribes as
contemplated by the appropriation act Of
'62, it is recommended that legislation be
asked authorizing their settlement in
Oklahama distric. under some we'll defined
jurisdiction and power of government
with power in the secretary of the interior
to determine what freedmen should
be allowed to settle thereon; or else
such laws be passed as Twill compel the re-
spsctive tribes to adopt the freedmen as
provided in their treaties. 1t is also RI c.
omended that Congress arrange for the
appointment of fur to provids for the
mem o: the expenses of a commissi on'
or whose duty it will be to
visit these nations consider
points with reference to the Indians and
alleged intruders on non-citizens, and
after determining upon rules of proceed
ure for final adjustment of the question, to
attend the councils of said
nations and submit said rules
for consideration and action, which,
when adopted By them and approved by
the department, shall be final and CON