The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-11
INDIAN REPORT.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sub
 mlts His Annual Statement.

| Ing, commissioner Of Indian aHalrS, has submitted his annual report for the year ended June 30, to the secretary of the interior. The commissioner says no attempt is made in the report to theorize on the Indian question.
 The year." he says has been un- marked by outbreak or disturbance of any kind. There has been steady pressure of earnest work all along the lines, with satisfactory results. Special advancement has been made in Indian education. The aggregate enrolment for the year has been %, 451, with an average attendance of 17,096, against 2f,117 enrolment and 16, ,303 attendap 70 the previous year. There has been all increase ir the enrolment of govern ment boarding schools on reservations, and falling off in government day schools
 l The commissioner notes an educa- tional awakening among the Navajos, which he attributed to visit of dele gation to the worlds fair. The defects in most Indian schools are bad water supply and sewage. Contracts for schooling of Indians have been de- clared off or reduced wherever it could be done without depriving the children of school privileges.
 Average attendance in the various classes of schools is given.as follows: Government schools, 11,S13; contract schools, 5,Os7; public day schools and mission schools, not assisted by the government, 17,096.
 The report states that no children have been forced to attend school away from their reservation homes. The opinion is expressed that the ultimate end of absorbing the Indian population into our school system, as well as our civil policy, must be kept constantly in iview, and every effort made by pres sure and persuasion to increase the at tendance of Indian pupils at public schools"
 This policy" the report states, twill be vigorously pushed, and the local au- thorities will be encouraged by money payments to cooperate with the gov ernment in getting the Indian children into the public schools"
 The commissioner reports progress in the work of the allotment of lands to Indians, and also in constructing systems of irrigation. The aggregate of appropriations available during the year was SlO, 750,O0O.
 The commissioner is of the opinion that the act of May 3, 1891, relating to Indian depreciation claims should either be repealed or amended, so as te place upon the United States the sole responsibility and ultimate liability for the payment of judgments, rather than to take the money from the Indian funds.
 During the past year lands have been set apart within the several Indian reservations for the temporary use and occupancy of missionary and religious societies as follows: Wichita, Okla homa, 16O acres, American Baptist Home Missionary society; Quapaw, h. dian territory, 40 acres, Roman Cath l .olic; Klamath, Oregon, 160 acres, Methodist Episcopal Yakima, Wash ington, 160 acres, Roman Catholic; Moquis, Arizona, 40 acres, Mennonite Mission society; Crow, Montana, 10 acres. Roman Catholic; Fort Peck, Montana, 40 acres, Presbyterian board of foreign missions; Lower Brule, South Dakota, acres, Presby- terian; San Carlos, Arizona, 10 acres, Evangelist Lutheran General Synod of Wisconsin; Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma, 2 acres, Plymouth Congre- gational; Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 40 acres, Protestant Episcopal; Rosebud, South Dakota, 120 acres, Protestant Episcopal; Warm Springs, Oregon, IA acres, United Presbyterian; White Earth, Minnesota, 54 acres, Protestant Episcopal; White Earth, Minnesota. 80 acres, Roman Catholic; Navajoe, New Mexico, Protestant Episcopal; Black feet, Montana, 160 acres, Methodist Episcopal church; Fort Berthold, North Dakota, 40 acres, Congregations al; Oneida, Wisconsin, acre, Protest ant Episcopal.
 Patents to the number of 5,2SS have been issued during the year to In- dians who have taken allotments, while 2,G91 allotments have been approved, and 3,792 have been submitted for ap- proval. The Indians realize that they must secure allotments, as the best land is being taken and they must lead different mode of life or perish.
 Commissioner Browning takes the same position as his predecessor, that all Indians are under agentsof the gov ernment, and that the sale of liquor to them is a violation of law. He says the character of the question makes it i'm possible to secure decision from the United States supreme court, which he deems unfortunate, and ''the govern ment is helpless to relieve the Indians of the dangers they are exposed to by reason of the attitude of the lower courts toward these questions"
 BURIED IN A WRECK.