Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-05

winch TINS year cost ISL, $50.
There is therefore a balance OF
S21l. 1854 still due to the non-pe-
%titioners, or $50. 20 each: while to
the petitioners is credited a bal
ancc of only SIS. 1886, or S22. ~
each. If there had been no diver
sion of money to the mission
school. there would have been
s25l.O52.Oi to be divided between
SOB Indians. emitting each to
S37.4o: so that. though the great
burden of the mission school di-
version falls upon the petitioners.
who give away $40 each. the
share of each non-petitioner suffers
to the extent Of 81 GO.
On the Rosebud Reservation i'm
South Dakota are 4.9sG Indians.
each of whom is entitled to $50. ID
from the tribal income of the wear.
or these, 500 are represented on Il
petition for a contract with St.
Francis Mission School. involving
S27. 900. The shares of the petit
TONERS would make a total of S33.-
5000, SO that they viii! have a
balance to their credit OF SG.55O.31
or $50 apiece. The non-peti-
TONERS number 4.3l7. controlling
an aggregate of S2lG,497.55, and
the government schools cost this
year $50. S36. which will leave
them a balance of Sl39, 6Gl.5 II, or
$3.50 apiece. Had there been no
diversion of money to the mission
school, there would have been
Sl73, 21 so to be divided between
1886 Indians, ut the rate of S:34.7
each; so that the petitioners will
he credited with S24.94 less. each.
than they would have been but for
their petition, while the shares of
the non-pctitioncrs suffer Il deduc-
tion of S2.3s.
Grow Creek Reservation con-
tains 1909 Indians, whose pro
rata shares amount to S5O.24.
The request made here was for a
contract with the immaculate Con-
ccption Mission School for the ed
ucation and care of Co pupils at
Sl0S a year, or 5000. The petit
ton, however, fell short of the
mark aimed at, the signatures rep
rcscnting only 81 shares, or a to-
tai of -. O69.44. The shares of
the 92S non-pctitioncrs aggregate
SAG. 1922 q. The Government
schools cost this year S21.41O,
leaving a balance of S25,212.7 y to
be credited to the non-petitioners,
or S27.l9 to each; whereas the pc
titioners have nothing left, all
their shares having been given by
them to the mission school. Their
total subscriptions, however, pro-
vide for only 81 pupils instead of
IS. Had there been no diversion
of money to the mission school,
there would have been 500, 1872. 16
to be credited to the whole 1909
Indians, or $4,000 to each: so that
the shares of the non-petitioners
suffer to the extent of 1856.
| have gone thus into detail for
two reasons: first, because, in any
matter in which the public evince
SO much interest, am always glad
to give a prompt account of my
stewardship as soon as the neces-
sary figures are at hand; in the
second place, l feel that this show
ing justifies my much-discussed de-
spatches to the agents at Pine
Ridge and Rosebud reservations,
at least in the light in which | had
a right to expect those dispatches
to be read.
The story would not be COM
plete, however, if l did not add
that, by the Presidents orders,
the use of the treaty funds, as de-
scribed above, is to cease June 80,
1906. Almost as | was writing
the last paragraph l was served
with the preliminary writ in a suit
to enjoin any money payment
under the contract for St. Fran
els School on the Rosebud Reser-
walton. The suit is brought by
three Indians as nominal complain
ants, but actually by the Indian
Rights Association, not in any Sec
IN rian Or hostile cOir;% hut n~,oro1v