The Red Cloud chief., 1884-12-05
Ihs INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Report ~ the Secretsry OF tho Interior
THE Isoisa Questton Di~scussed-The
l'sbssc Lsads-Rauroad Gsrsats, ETC., Etc.
WASHINGTON, u. C.. November 2L.-The
Secretary of The Interior has submitted his
zunuai report Appended Ii the principal
portion Of the report:
DgrasTyyssT or THE I~srsRfoa-
wssEnsGTos, November ., 1sst j..
II a6ords me great satisfaction In my third
and last report TO DC able ca say that the past
year haae been one OF peace among the fndi-
ans, ind that no outbreaks have occurred.
and with their white ~neiyhbors. During the
past year Dew buildings have been erected
at several OF the agencies for the
<satjon OF the children In the boarding
schools. Five new boarding schools and
twelve new day schools have been added TO
the list OF school. In successful operation.
4bere arr now e~iPhty-one boarding schools.
xeventy-sir day schools, ard s.x sndustrlai or
manual labor schools under Government
control. Fourteen boarding and four day
schools nre supplied with teachers and other
employees. by some one OF the various rci!R-
fous denominations. The Government paying
Al stipulated price for the care and education
of the children therein. THIS course has
been nece~sitatcd by lack OF sufficient alp
preparations To provide tor all the children
willing TO receive an education. The amount
paid - somewhat less than the aTerdgc cost
per capita Of children maintained ia Govern
meBt schools. There are also tgenty-fhrcc
schools maintained by churches and associA-
lions without expense TO the Government,
and TO the support Of which the Govern
INERT contributes nothing. Three new i'm
dusfriai schools have been completed and
put into successful! operation during the last
year. One at Ciiiiocco, Indian Territory, with
a. capacity for over $50 children; one at Law
renee, Kansas, with a capacity for 3D chill
Gren: and one At Genoa, Nebraska, with j
capacity for no. The Cholocco school was
opened January last, and although It's capac-
sly was only rated at $50 children, its average
attendance has been les. The Genoa school
r. situated on the old Pawnec reservation In
Nebraska. was opened in February last with
ssn attendance of 40 Sioux. The boys have
cultivated siy acres of potatoes, several
Bcres Of garden truck, $40 acres of corn. and
sixty acres of oats. and assisted in making
brick and other work about the place The
completion of the buildings at Lawrence.
kaD., was delayed by the cold weather as
well as delay IN the payment of the contract
OF; the First Comptroller holding that the
the moSey intended for that purpose was not
2yaiiabIe. Congress authorized the use OF the
appropriation IA first intended, and the work
WAS resumed. The buildings. however, were
NOT completed until In July, too late 10 com
sDence school for the season. Seven boys,
transferred from Ehilocco to Lawrence, and
under direction OF the Superintendent of
Farming, and one white labOrcr, cultivated
about one huHdred and twenty acres OF corn,
oats and rniiict, several acres OF potatoes,
etc, and have helped erect Il 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 ut
Albuquerque. n. NJ, intended to
date about one hundred and fifty children
Tnder the provisions for the placing of In
dian children i'm industrial schools in States.
af an expense not TO exceed $IGT per capita,
i've hundred and sixty-five children have
been placed in schools from the following
States: Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa. Illinois,
Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ten
rsessee. Wisconsin and Minnesota. Quite "A
number of Indian children. WHO have mad
Some training i'm manual labor schools. have
been placed la private families, mainly froIt
Carlisle and Hampton. IL is believed that
hereafter quite a number may he placed i'm
private families from Genoa and Lawrence.