The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-10-10
The True and Only Solution Of
the Indian Question
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER JONES
Supplemented by Letter From Chief Flat Mouth OF the Pill
layers, Showing the Docity Of the Redskins
Lately Rampant in Minnesota
Associated Press Special Wire.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.-The annual re-
port of Commissioner of Indian Affairs
William A. Jones shows a general ad-
vancement In the condition. Of the nations
words" Education, the greatest factor In
solving the status of the Indians, is being
pushed forward in the service, and now
there are 1i7 well-equipped boarding schools
and an equal number of day schools en-
gagged In the education Of 1896 pupils. The
average of attendance and enrolment has
steadily increased for the past 21 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 frequent suggestions that
the change might break a naturally strong
and vigorous constitution. OF the pupils
attending school per cent are reported to
be excellent or frst-class; 73 per cent as
good and medium, while only "a per cent
are considered bad or worthless, showing,
In the commissioners judgment, the value
of n system which can in a generation de-
velop from savages 76 per cent of good,
average men and women. Under the pres
ent regime the large net decrease In en-
rollment and attendance Of last year has
been changed to a net increase of 1910 and
995 in enrolment and average attendance
respectively for the present year. The res
ervation schools show the largest gain
Agents are pow being urged to greater ex-
ertions to fill the schools to the limit of
their capacity, and future Developments,
Mr.. Jones predicts. win undoubtedly en-
phasize that regulation enforcing compul-
sorry attendance upon the schools must Re
enacted. The placing of Indian children In
the public schools Of the country, for the
purpose OF co-education of the races, does
not appear to meet with much success, uut
fuller test of its value and practicability
is to be made this year.
The school plants in the service are val
ued at over $1,000. 900. and larger funds for
keeping them in repair are urged. Out Of
the general school support fund the Indian
office contemplates the expenditure of a
sufficient sum to radically increase schol-
astic facilities for the great tribes of the
southwest and to that end adequate addi-
taons will be made to the schools now es-
tabish for the Pimas. Papagos. Navajos.
Mcquis and Apaches at Sacton, Fort Def
ance, Keams canyon, San Carlos and Fort
Apache.
Discussing the work Of the commission
to make allotments on the Uncompahgre
reservation, Utah. the commissioner says
1t is believed that many allotments were
made to Indians not occupying the lands
allotted and willing to remove to the Uin-
tab reservation, and that authority for
such allotments is questioned, as we'll as
whether even the Indians in possession of
lands can be allotted. Congress Is asked
to legalize the allotments on the Uncom-
pahgre reservation made after April /, 1893,
to remove all doubt.
Referring to the torturing and burning Of
Seminoles in Oklahoma last January. the
report says 1t is thought indemnity will
be paid by the government to all members
of the Seminole nation injured by the mob
of lawless whites in that occurrence, and
the whites guilty Of the outrages are now
being prosecuted.