The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-04
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Report of the Secretary of the Interior
The Indian Question Discussed-Th,
Public Lsnds-Raiiroad Grants, ETC., Il tic
WASHINGTON, d. c., November 27.-Tht
Secretary of the Interior has submitted LIS
annual report Appended is the principal
portion Of the report:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR |
WASHINGTON, November q, 1894.
1t affords me great satisfaction in my third
and last report TO 6e able to say that the past
year has been one of peace among the Indi.
ans, and that no outbreaks have occurred
All the tribes are at peace with each other
and with their white neighbors. During the
past year new buildings have been erected
at several Of the agencies for the accommo-
dation of the children in the boarding
schools. Five new boarding schools and
twelve new day schools have been added to
the list of schools in successful operation.
There are now eighty-One boarding schools,
seventy-six DAY schools, and six Industrial or
manual labor schools under Government
control. Fourteen boarding and four day
schools are supplied with teachers and other
employees. by some one of the various relig-
iOus denominations. the Government paying
a stipulated price for the care and education
OF the children therein. This course has
been neceSsitated by lack of sufficient ap-
propositions TO provide for all the children
willing to receive an education. The amount
paid is somewhat less than the average cost
per capita of children maintained in Govern
ment schools. There are also twcnty-three
schools maintained by churches and associa-
and to the support of which the Govern
ment contributes nothing. Three new in
dustrial schools have been completed and
put into successful operation during the last
year. One at ChilOcco, Indian Territory, with
& capacity for over l50 children; one at Law
renee, Kansas with capacity for 300 chill
dren; and one at Genoa, Nebraska with
capacity for $50. The Cholocco school was
opened January last. and although its capac-
ity was only rated at 80 children, its average
attendance has been I6S. The Genoa school
iS Sifnafad fhp old Pa rpSerVDfiOn in
Nebraska, was opened in February last with
an attendance of l40 Sioux. The boys have
cultivated six acres of potatoes, several
acres of garden truck, 40 acres of corn, and
sixty acres of oats, and assisted in making
brick and other work about the place. Tine
completion of the buildings at Lawrence,
Kan, was delayed by the cold weather as
well as delay in the payment of the contract
or; the First Comptroller holding that the
the mo-ey intended for that purpose was not
available, Congress authorized the use OF the
appropriation as first intended, and the work
was resumed. The buildings however, were
not completed until in July, too late TO com
mence school for the season. Seven boys,
transferred from ChilOccO to Lawrence, and
under direction of the Superintendent of
Farming, and ore white labOrer, cultivated
about one hundred and twenty acres of corn,
oats and millet several acres of potatoes,
etc, and have helped erect barn and other
buildings The school was open for the fall
term with an attendance OF one hundred,
which will be increased to three hundred.
a new school building has been erected at
Albuquerque, n. NJ, intended to accOmmo-
date about one hundred and fifty children.
Under the provisions for the placing of In
dian children i'm industrial schools in States, |
at an expense not to exceed Sl6T per capita,
five hundred and sixty-five children have
been placed in schools from the following
States: Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois. |
Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ten
neSsee, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Quite a
number of Indian children, who have had
some training in manual labor schools, have
been placed in private families, mainly from
Carlisle and Hampton. 1t is believed that
hereafter quite number may be placed in |
private families from Genoa and Lawrence.