The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-20
CIVILZING THE INDIAN.
What is Accomplished by Edu-
cation.
SCHOOLS ARE LARGELY ATTENDED.
Commissioner Jones Reports the Pro-
Gress Made In the Regeneration
OF the Nations wards.

Washington.-The annual report Of
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Will
liam A. Jones shows general advance
ment in the condition of the nations
wards" Education, the greatest fac
tor in solving the status of the Indians,
is being pushed forward in the service.
and now there are 147 well-equipped
boarding-schools and an equal number
OF day schools engaged in the education
of 23, 975 pupils. The average attend
ance and enrolment has steadily in
creased for the past twenty-one years.
Vigorous inquiries show that SO per
cent of these pupils who have gone
through the schools and returned to
their homes are reported to be in good
physical condition, contrary to the fire.
quent suggestions that the change
might break naturally strong and vigor-
Gus constitutions.
Oh the pupils attending school per
cent are reported as excellent or first
class; 70 per cent as good and medium,
while only "a per cent are considered
bad or worthless, showing in the COM
missioner's judgment the value of a
system which can in a generation de-
velop from savages rs per cent Of good
average men and women.
Under the present regime the large
net decrease in enrolment and attend
ance OF last year has been changed into
net increase OF 1O40 and 995, enroll.
ment and average attendance, respec-
lively, for the present year. The re-
servation schools show the largest gain.
Agents are now being urged to greater
exertions to ill the schools to the limit
of their capacity and future develop
ments, Mr.. Jones predicts, will I'M
doubtedly emphasize that regulation
enforcing compulsory attendance upon
the schools must be enacted. The
placing of Indian children in the public
schools of the country for the purpose
of co-education of the races does not APP
pear to meet with much success, but q
fuller test of its value and practicable
ity is to be made this year.
The school plants in the service are
valued at over 90, 1000, 900, and larger
funds for keeping them in repair are
urged. Out of the general school sup
port fund the Indian Office eontem-
plates the expenditure of a sufficient
sum to radically increase scholastic IA
cilities for the great tribes of the South
west, and to that end adequate addi-
tions will be made to the schools now
established for the Pimsa, Papamos,
Navajos, Moquis and Apaches; at Sac
ton, Fort Defiance, Keams Canyon, San
Carlos and Fort Apache.
, Discussing the work of the commits
, sion to make allotments on the Uneom-
paghre Reservation, Utah, the commits.
: sioner says it is believed many allot.
! ments were made to Indians not occu.
J plying the lands allotted and willing tc
4 remove to the Uintah Reservation, and
that authority for such allotments il
: questioned as well as whether even the
, Indians in possession of the lands can
. be allotted. Congress is asked to legal
: ize the allotments on the Uncompaghrt
Reservation made after April l, 1898
to remove all doubt
Referring to the torturing and burn
y ing of Seminoles in Oklahoma last Jan
0 uary, the report says it is thought in,
d demnity will soon be paid by the Gov
: eminent to all members of the Semi
Q mole nation injured by the mob of law
less whites in that occurrence, and the
whites guilty OF the outrages are nov
i being prosecuted.