Warren sheaf., 1899-11-23


most, is rarely secured, and the ground
work, at least, of Indian education must
be laid under the government auspices and
control. -t-
Should Enforce Attendance. -.-
Stronger measures for forcing the at
tendance Indian schools are urged.
There are 1852 employees in the Indian serv-
ice, and the policy is to employ Indians in
every position to which they are adapted
by nature and education. thorough and
exhaustive investigation of the Seminoles
in Florida has resulted in the discontinue
ance of the offices of industrial teacher
and other employees, and no school will be
established for them at present their real
and fancied wrongs having embittered
them against governmental assistance,
The removal of the Perris school, in south
ern California, and rebuilding it in more
suitable locality will be recommended to
congress. 81. 57- y.r. ...E.
Concerning the Indian territory, the re-
port severely arraigns nepotism, lack of
management, demoralized conditions and
deplorable state of affairs generally in
administering the schools and orphan
asylums of the five Indian nations Out
of q boarding schools, not more than four
of the superintendent are reported COM
petent to teach the ordinary English
branches, and financial mismanagement is
especially complained of.
The Chippewa Outbreak.
Reporting on the Chippewa outbreak of
last autumn, Commissioner Jones says:
.'For many years Chippewas have been
arrested and taken from their homes to St.
Paul and other points as witnesses or as
offenders, chiefly in whisky cases. Often
wholesale arrests have been made solely
for the fees which would accrue to the of
ticials. Indians have been helped to obtain
whisky by the very ones who arrested them
for using it, In some cases Indians car
.ried off to court have been left to get back
home as best they could. The whole mat
ter of arrests by deputy marshals had come
to be farce, a fraud and hardship to the
Chippewas,3 and disgrace to the COM
munity.
The Real Complaint.
Z 'But neither does this by itself explain
the outbreak. When delega ton of Chip
pewas visited Washington LAST winter,
their most bitter complaint was about in
Justice in the use of their funds, and frauds
/ in the disposition of their timber. Without
going into details, it is sufficient to say that
d in 1889 the Chippewas were with difficulty
induced to cede to the United States large
tracts of valuable pine lands on the repre-
:sentation that the sale of the pine would
bring them in a fund of several million dol
lars. AS is always the case, many Indians
were utterly opposed to the negotiations.
s'.A commission was appointed to make
allotments on ceded and reservation lands
and to secure removals to White Earth
of those who were willing to go there Es-
. timators were appointed 5to appraise the
Chippewa pines The expense of both is
charged to the fund of the Indians. The ex=
pense of the commission up to date has not
been less than $500, ,O00, most of it in salaries.
The work Of the estimators proved worth
less, and a second set Of estimators was ap-
pointed, with no better results, and third
b set Of men was assigned to the work. Up
to date about $2S0.000 has. been charged to
the Indians for estimating. Meantime
large tracts of pine, which had been esti-
mated at from one-fourth to one-half their
value, were sold. and that loss also fell