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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 1, 1902.

Ruth Bear,

Niebrara, Nebraska.

Dear Ruth:

I have your letter and while I am glad to know that you
realize you did not use your chances right when here it does not
seem best to have you come back to Carlisle, besides from what
you say I judge your father and mother need you badly.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 1, 19 02.

Chas. R. Antell,
Kimberly, Minn.

Dear Charlie:

I send you some blank applications for entering
student. These must be filled out carefully and all who wish to
come be examined by a physician. We cannot take children that are
very largely white any more. A rule of the government provides
this. They ought to be at least one-quarter Indian blood, and I
trust as near full Indians as possible. Be careful to state the exact
truth about the proportion of Indian Blood.

When I have from you these applications and your
letter telling me particularly about each I will then know what to
do. The children must be under fourteen; preferably under 18;
certainly under 20, and of good health and good character.

If the young people who wish to come here fill these
requiremental will arrange for quite a little party, not more
than 10 in all. They must come for the full period of five years.
No rearrangement of the period will be considered.

Cordially your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa August 2, 1902

H. A. Riddle, G. P. A.
Chambersburg Pa.

Dear sir:

Noting that the Station building at Gettysburg Junction is re-oct-
pied, I have been concerned to have the same ticket and passenger accom-
modations placed there for our uses as formerly.

We have been using the town station ever since the Junction office
was burned, and find it objectionable for the following reasons:-
1st. The distance is about twice as great as to the Junction.

2nd. It is for almost all trains one of the most annoying places for
passengers to get on and off, within my experience. The hoodlums of
Carlisle, both male and female, seem to make it their rendezvous for ev-
ery prominent train: passengers having to elbow their way through this
crowd to either get on or off, and we find it necessary to have special
care over our children at every arrival or departure, through the pres-
ence of an employe, while the Junction has always been quiet and sat-
isfactory.

3rd. Because of this annoyance Carlisle is particularly unsatisfac-
tory when we have pupils coming in from the country, or being sent
home on account of health.

4th. We have our small office orderlies go for tickets and checks.
There is an ugly spirit among the boys of the town which sometimes in-
terrupts and causes us both annoyance and anxiety, and there has been
some stoning of each other.

I know there is perfect willingness on the part of your manage-

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ment to stop any train when there are a number of passengers to get
on or off when notified beforehand, but would it not be practicable
to arrange that it be a flag station for our purpose on taking some of
the principal trains, and when there are several of our children to get
off have it at the option of the Conductors to stop the trains.

Very truly yours

Lt. Col., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 4, 1902

Supt Eugene D. Mossman,

Cheyenne River Agency, S. D.

Dear Sir:

Replying to your favor of the 30th ult.

Richard Hendricks of the Pima agency would make you a capital
baker and I have written him today about it. I shall tell him to
wire you if he wishes the place. He is at present at his home
having left us the first of July.

For assistant seamstress I could recommend Miss Lillian
Waterman a recent graduate now a student at Lincoln Institute,
Philadelphia or Letha Seneca of Irving, New York, also a graduate
of last year's class. I shall write them at once and it might
be well for you to correspond directly with them. Either could
fill also the place of assistant laundress.

Mary Bruce of Hogansburg, N. Y., a graduate has had special
training as a cook and I believe is a girl of sufficient character
to fill the place of cook. She is twenty-two years old.

I think it would be well for you to write to all of these
people as you could get a better idea from a personal correspond-
ence.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 4, 1902.

Miss Mary Bruce,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Mary:

Supt. Eugene D. Mossman of the Cheyenne river Agency wishes a cook at $500 per year. I have written him recommending you for the place. Please let me know if you feel equal to the place and whether or not you want it. Write at once so that I may answer him soon. I hope that you will feel like taking it.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th., 1902.

F. Kim,

Lebret P. O.

Assa/Canada.

My dear Sir:

In what I said about Mr. Morgan's attitude on the Catholic question, I was pursuing exactly the same course as I have pursued for many years in regard to the Catholic Church. I was trying to preserve the integrity of the U. S. Government.

Mr. Morgan's manner of attack was the same as that the Catholics used in attacking me. When attacked before, I defended myself and the Government. Mr. Morgan would seek to undermine me by an attack upon the Government management.

I have no desire to fight anybody and am trying to act in an unsectarian manner, for the Government is unsectarian. If the Catholic Church should become more progressive than any other church, and will aid the poor Indian in getting out into civilized life, instead of trying to wail him off from that life, I can work with that church as cordially as with my own, the Presbyterian church, or with any other church or influence at work for their good.

I am sorry, of course, that I have disappointed you in this matter but must be true to my work as I see it.

Mactated.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 5th, 1902.

Miss F. W. Noble,
Chemawa, Ore.

Dear Miss Noble:

I think you may stay, so as to be back here by the twenty-fifth of August. This will be in good time for you to get affairs in shape for the return of the pupils at the end of vacation.

About the girls to be brought from Crow Agency, I will write you later. Mr. Dieffendurfer has gone up to that country after children, and is coming back by the same route.

Remember me to the Campbells, Mr. Potter and others of our friends and acquaintances. I wish I might be with you and go over to the institute at Newport, but I fear that is impossible.

Faithfully, your friend,

Dictated.
G.

Colonel and Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902.

Miss Anna Goyitney,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Anna:

I have your letter urging me to allow your brother to go home this Fall. I will place his name on the list to be sent home when the pupils have returned in September, unless, between that time and this, you and your brother think it best to remain.

I would be glad to have him continue here, but think as you do,
that if either has to go home, it would be best that he return.

I cannot send him before the students come in as his work in
the country must be finished, and the country boys must make up
their minds to remain and carry out their agreements.

Faithfully, your friend,

Diated.
G.

Colonel and Dept.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1932.

Miss Lulu Candace Lewis,
Harlan, Iowa.

Dear Miss Lewis:

Diated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902.

Jean L. Ankrom, Supervisor,
Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Dear Miss Ankrom:

Felicitas Medina is excessively queer about boys. I am bothered constantly by this fault in her, and should be glad to have her return home. She has had letters from her father, saying that he would ask me to send her home, and it has been indicated that he would send the money. No money has come, however.

This girl is the one girl of all the PortUGEANS whom I would
like to have go. She does not appear to be in bad health.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1908.

Mrs. A. E. Van Valkenburg,
203 S. Ingalls St.,
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Dear Madam;

All employees for the Indian Service have to pass the Civil Service Examinations, and must receive appointments therefrom, from what is termed the eligible list.

If I need an assistant in any situation here, I ask the Commission of Indian Affairs, and the request is passed to the Civil Service Commission for eligibles. The Commission sends the names of the three highest on the lists. From those three a selection is made.

I would suggest that if you wish to get into the Indian Service, that you write to the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C., stating your wishes and asking them for the necessary information.

Dietated.
D.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902.

Lieu. Col. G. L. Cooper,
Fort Logan, Col.

My dear Cooper:

Your letter of the 13th. of last month was duly
received. I was glad to hear from you.

My information is that Sweigert has arrived in San Francisco
in very bad shape; but, being so very near promotion, if he survives,
I suppose they will allow him to remain in the service. Otherwise, I
have no news whatever that might tickle your fancy. I think I told
you once that Kennedy was on the point of retiring. So, probably
like the rest of us, he will hold on for promotion, though his chances
seem to be on the wane as he goes out in January.

I now begin to think that it will not be practicable to reach
Colorado this year. I must stay by the stuff and there is so much of
it to stay by, that it is not easy to leave.

It is dreadfully trying to see the young fellows put in the way
they have been doing. I see no possible way of turning the tide now.
If we had an old man for President, I think old age among us would be
more respected. Don't you?

Dictated.
G.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902.

Paul Hyrock,
Geddes, S. Dakota.

My dear friend:

Your son who has been one of our stalwart boys
was reported ill in the country at the time I got your letter, and I
delayed answering it until I was sure of his condition. On examination, I found it best to send for him and bring him to the school.

My doctor was uncertain as to his condition at first, and thought
it best that we should not write you until he was sure as to his illness. Your son has now been here five days and my doctor says his
health is such that he thanks it would be better for him to go home.
I shall accordingly send Felix home, leaving here tomorrow, Wednesday,
reaching Geddes by Saturday. But I will telegraph to you the exact
time he will reach you.

Dictated.
G.

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Fred. F. Lane,

Buckmanville, Pa.

My dear Fred:

I have kept the answer to your letter waiting as I wanted to make some little inquiries. You understand, of course, that if your health is seriously threatened, we will have to take action. But, otherwise, there would be no necessity for that.

From your letter, I judge that you are only apprehensive. When you come in in the Fall, you had better come to me and we will have the Doctor make a very careful examination and report upon you.

It would be much better for you to remain here at the School, even if your health is not at its best. Never mind what the Trenton doctor said. Too often the doctors are very much mistaken.

One of the strongest and best women ever at this School was for many years a pupil here, and for quite a while was in the hospital with hemorrages; my very excellent school physician then, Dr. Given, reported that she was in a consumptive condition. She, herself, concluded that she would rather be a nurse than anything else, so I allowed her to remain in the hospital, where she got a good deal of training, then I sent her to Brooklyn where she received more advanced

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training. She became the wife, finally, of one of our former students,
and went west for that purpose.

She has been in the employ of the Indian Schools for twelve
years now, and is a strong, healthy woman.

So, you see, doctors may be mistaken as we find ourselves to be
mistaken some times. Notwithstanding this, when you return, come to
me and we will look your case over very carefully and do whatever
seems best.

Faithfully, your friend,

Dictated,
G.

Colonel and Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902,

William P. Preston,
Mackinac Island, Mich.

Dear Sir:

The three boys seem to have made a clean escape. I
have been unable to find out a single thing in regard to them. It
seems to me that they must have had some help from the outside, as us-
ually runaways from this school are picked up by the police or con-
stables in a short time.

The boys must have something to eat and in making their wants
known, or in endeavoring to get what they need, they betray themselves.
For a hundred miles around Carlisle, the police officers are instruct-
ed to notify me and to pick up all runaways from here.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 5th, 1902.

Edwin L. Chalcraft,
923 East Cherry St.,
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Chalcraft:

It is barely possible that I might be able to attend the Institute, but I very much doubt it. This is the time for reorganizing and getting ready for the Fall work, and I have agents out after children now. Besides, I have to attend to quite a number of changes in our arrangements here and usually my most important work comes about this time.

Bakeless has been offered the chair of pedagogy in the Bloom-
burg Normal at a salary of $500.00 a year more than I give.

In addition to the changes to be looked after here, we have late-
ly been badly knocked out by a cyclone unroofing the buildings, and
repairing must be done. These circumstances would seem to warrant me
in staying here and standing by the stuff for the present.

Please give my cordial remembrance to Mrs. Chalcraft.

Diated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 6th., 1902.

Miss Lizzie Aiken,
Waterbury Hospital,
Waterbury, Conn.

Dear Lizzie:

The best way will be to await the final issue in
your hospital experiences. Then, if you find it best not to stay, come
here and we will consider what to do.

In regard to your sick aunt, we had to make a rule very early in
the history of the school that sickness of parents or friends at
home should not serve as a reason for recalling children from the
school. We would not consider it a sufficient reason among our own
people. Often it is not best that children be recalled to their
homes when parents or relatives are sick, as the children are likely
to be in the way.

My judgment is that you have the opportunity of your life in the
excellent hospital where you are. Every day's experience will be of
the greatest value to you and something for which you will be thank-
ful as long as you live.

Considering the difficulties we have in getting our girls in
opportunities of this kind, when there is such a large number of white
girls seeking to find places in such places, I count you exceedingly
fortunate, especially, since you - yourself - were anxious for the work.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 6th, 1902.

R. G. Moyer,
Behrersburg, Pa.

Dear Sirs,

For twenty-five members of our band, at the end of September, we should want Fifty dollars ($50.00) and expenses. The expenses could be in the neighborhood of Two dollars ($2.00) for the round trip to the railway point for your place, by my special rate, and you would have to feed the boys while there. So, you can count that it would cost you $100.00 and transportation from the railroad to your place and back, besides the meals.

Allow me to urge again upon you the fact that our band will only get together the fifteenth of September, after a long summer's absence from each other, and from that time until the time you want them, will have but little time to practise, so their music will hardly be in good shape and will not be at all what we would like to put before an audience.

Dated,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 7th, 1908.

The Ram's Horn,
110 La Salle Ave.,
Chicago.

Gentlemen:

With the present expiration of my subscription to
your paper, I request that it be discontinued from this date, as I al-
ready have a large number of periodicals on my list and so, for the
present, will not need your paper.

Dioietated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 7th, 1902.

Miss Anne C. Egan,
Elmhurst Agency, Ore.

Dear Miss Egan:

On receipt of your letter concerning Mrs. Foster,
I felt in duty bound to know something about why she left Haskell.
Superintendent Fairs advised me that it was because she was incomp-
petent.

Though Superintendent Fairs does not regard my judgment about
employees and students, I feel that there ought to be throughout the
Service, particularly in the large schools, a jealous regard for the
best interests of the Service, so I am not willing to go against his
judgment in this matter.

I am filling all teachers' vacancies here with men, preposing to
have about half and half, if I can work it, so that there may be a better influence throughout the school for the boys. The only position I could have offered Mrs. Foster would be that of assistant matron in the girls' quarters. That position is not yet filled, and for this place, I prefer a married woman.

Dictated.

G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 7th, 1908.

To: Dr. A. Williams,
Dr. N. 26th. St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

From: Dear Friend:

I received the marked copy of the Times with the
article on the School. I certainly appreciated it very much, but did
not know the author of it.

I thank you very heartily, indeed, for standing by us - especially
as there seems to be a need of it. You will understand this if you
see a copy of the Philadelphia North American of a week ago, where
I am assured that one of our Carlisle boys has murdered at different
times three young white girls, the daughters of employees of the
School, and in which there is not one single statement of fact except
that there is such a boy and that he was at Carlisle. I have a
strong case against the North American and shall not easily drop it.

Gordally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 7th, 1902.

Rev. A. M. Diffenderfer,
Spokane, Wash.

My dear friend:

I had your letter from St. Paul, and have now received yours of the 2nd. from Vermilion Lake, which tells me that it would hardly be worth while to try to catch you any place this side of Spokane.

There is really nothing to tell you excepting that Father Ganss is on your track with authority to bring one hundred and fifty pupils to Carliole. Now I shall have an admirable chance to find out which is the better agent in securing pupils - a Catholic priest, or a Protestant minister.

Father Ganss began his operations in Chicago at the Catholic Federation of Societies, and sent me the following telegram:

"Catholic Federation of societies, representing million members, passed resolution of appreciation of your work in behalf of Catholic Carliole Indians. H. G. Ganss."

To which I replied as follows:

"Highly appreciate approval of the Federation and your efforts."

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 7th, 1909.

Miss Ora B. Bryant,
Venstia, Pa.

Dear Miss Bryant:

I received your letter this morning and immediately had a talk with Captain Dortch, Chief of the Education Division of the Indian Office, over the long distance phone. He assures me that it will be all right. In making the arrangements for Mrs. Cook, some action of the Secretary is required. But he thinks there will be no doubt about your case.

If you have nothing to do and will come here at once and help with our girls, you can fill the vacancy at $600.00. There are three ladies in charge of our older girls - the principal and her two assistants. It is the first assistant's place which you will fill.

It is likely that our principal's place will be vacant shortly. If you can and will come, wire me and come on at once. I will have the temporary appointment made sure by telegraph. It seems strange that I did not think of this before, but I did not know your limitations. This would have bridged you over until a teacher's place was vacant.

Sincerely yours,

Diated.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug., 1908.

William S. Vaux,

515 Stephen Girard Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Will:

In the North American of Sunday, July 27th, there appeared a most scurrilous account of the murder of three white girls by a turned student from Carlisle. The account is in the fifth, colored version of the paper.

I am arranging to prosecute the North American for this libel - through the U. S. Department of Justice, probably. But I want a number of copies of the paper. Without letting anyone know what they are for, can you please get me about half a dozen copies, and if that is not possible, at least two or three and send them by an early mail. It will be a great favor to me.

This is a prime case, I am sure, for libel. I am arranging to bring the young man who is so maligned here, and we will either have a joint suit, or else bring one suit for him and one for the school. Against the North American and see if we cannot stop this infamous habit of libelling the students of Carlisle.

In order to divert suspicion, at the same time you get these copies, you might secure copies of the papers of the past two or three Sundays. At any rate get these copies, if possible.

Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 8th., 1902.

Miss Mary E. Richardson,
353 Carlton Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Miss Richardson:

The enclosed will indicate to you that the door is now open for an examination in Domestic Science, and you can enter the lists. I would suggest that you write to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C. and tell him that you desire to take the examination.

Please advise me if you will do this.

The Civil Service Commission will send you all the necessary blanks and information.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 8th.1902.

To the Hon. John Weaver,

District Attorney,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir;

In the Philadelphia North American of Sunday, July 27th is a full-page, illustrated article, with colored borders, alleging that White Buffalo, a former pupil of this school, now of the Cheyenne agency in Oklahoma Territory, had murdered three young white women, daughters of three separate agency employees.

I wrote to the agent for facts and he wired me, as I had requested, that the article was a fabrication out of whole cloth. He also wrote me in regard to this matter, and a copy of his letter is here with enclosed.

I wish to protect the School and the former pupil, and believe that we have an ample case against the North American for criminal libel and for damages. I have consulted two of our best lawyers here, and they agree with this opinion of mine. These gentlemen are Judge Henderson and Mr. Wetzel, attorney for the Phila. & Reading R.R. at this point.

I proposed to the Indian agent that I would undertake to bring White Buffalo here in order to enter suit.

Both Judge Henderson and Mr. Wetzel state that the best person

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to bring the criminal libel suit is Mr. Weaver and the best place,
Philadelphia.

I have reported the matter to the honorable Commissioner of In-
dian affairs and he entirely agrees with me that we should move in
the premises and try, if possible, to stop this disposition on the part
of Sunday papers to libel the Indians and the School in this manner.
During the last three years, there have been no less than fifteen
such articles, either East or West, that have come to my notice; but
all were concerning fictitious persons, though the Carlisle School was
made to stand sponsor for the criminals.

I have but one copy of the North American referred to, but send
you herewith the article as reprinted in one of our Carlisle papers.
I am trying to get several copies of the North American of July 27th,
and hope to succeed.

I will get the Indian here at such time as may seem best, and I
will go down to Phila., and see you at any time you indicate, in order
to file such information as I am able to give and as the case demands.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 8th, 1902.

Major G. W. H. Stouch,
U. S. Indian Agt., Cheyenne Agency,
Darlington, Okla.

Dear Major:

The article against White Buffalo gives us a criminal libel case to probably land the editor of the North American in jail or we can bring suit for damages.

I have laid the matter before the District Attorney of Phila., and have also talked with the Commissioner over the long-distance phone, sending him a copy of the paper. He will ask the opinion of the law officers of the department.

If suit is brought by the United States, the case will have more notoriety; but either way will serve to stop these inflammatory, libellous misrepresentations.

Please let me know that I may use White Buffalo when necessary.

Dictated.
G.

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Lewis C. Sutphin
Wertsville, N.C.

Dear sir:

When you wrote, the middle of July and said Calistro was very much dissatisfied and troublesome, he was written to and I thought he had been doing better since, as we did not hear from you again.

It was an oversight and neglect not to have written you also at the time of writing him, and I owe you an apology for not having had it done.

Calistro is here; came in last evening and I shall have him punished. I am sorry you have been so annoyed with him, and regret that I have no one here to send you in his stead, if you should want. We have had to deny very many who wanted boys because we did not have more, suitable ones to place out.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th, 1902.

Wm. S. Vaux,

My dear Will:

I am greatly obliged to you for the copies of the
North American, just received.

It is evident that someone is making it his business to create
all the public sentiment possible against the Indians, and this North
American incident furnishes an occasion for stopping it.

I wish I might be with you on your short trip to the Northwest,
but feel it is impossible. I must run in a couple hundred students,
somehow, and it takes a deal of engineering and travelling - metaphorically speaking - all over the United States.

dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th., 1902.

Antonio Lube,
Brookside, Cal.

Dear Antonio:

I have arranged that tickets to Carlisle for your
self and Coleman's brother be delivered to you by the agent of the
Southern Pacific Railway, at Grafton, Cal.

Please have the enclosed blank filled out by Coleman's brother
and by his parents. If you know him to be in good health, the certi-
cicate of the physician may be omitted.

I am glad to know that you are so fully recovered as to be able
to return to us in time for the Fall work.

Should there be one or two other would-be students, write me and
I will have additional tickets placed there for them.

Dictated.
G.

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G. S. Warner,

The Stafford,

Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Warner:

I received a long letter from Lubo by the same mail as yours, and am ordering to-day that a ticket to Carlisle be delivered to him and to Charles Coleman's brother. Lubo is in Brookside, Cal., and claims that he is entirely recovered. He says that he is anxious to return and that his parents also desire it.

Nothing new has been received from Walletsie. Evidently, he has made a clean escape, but may appear when the frost begins to pinch. "And, further, the dependent saith not".

In regard to your other boys, I am sorry to say that they are not panning out well. Sheldon ran away from his home in the country but returned to it. I have started Jim Wheelock for a party from Oneida and told him to bring the Swamp boy here.

Enclosed herewith is your check for July, as per your letter to Miller.

Dictated.

G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th ,1902

Jemima M. Schenandore,
South Mission,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Jemima:

Enclosed find the five dollars, as you have requested.

I have no objections to your returning to your country home from where you are and not be under the Carlisle rules, but you will have to do this at your own expense. If you return and remain under the rules, I can pay your travelling expenses both in coming here and in returning to your home after you have been here. But I cannot do that if you are not an entered student of the school.

I am sorry that you feel that the rules of Carlisle are uncomfortable in any way, for I believe they are your best protection.

Should you choose to return at your own expense, I will let you use the Carlisle cheap rate for travelling, and will arrange that a ticket be provided you along with a party of children who may come with Mr. James Wheelock who has just gone to Oneida after them. He goes to Marinette first to start a party from there and who are now ready to come. Then he will go to Oneida.

If you choose to return as a student of the school, I will arrange that you have a ticket at our expense and you may return with the same party. You will probably see James Wheelock, after he

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reaches Oneida, and can make all your arrangements with him, then.

Dictated.
G.

Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th, 1902.

Miss Emma Cutter,
Amherst, Mass.

Dear Miss Cutter:

Professor Bakeless has resigned, to accept the chair of pedagogy at Bloomsburg where he is to receive a considerable increase over his present salary and a permanent position which he seems to fancy. His leaving puts me at a disadvantage, but I have no doubt we can work out of it in some satisfactory way.

It will take some time to get a man to fill Professor Bakeless' place, so I think it will be best to put Miss Powersox in charge temporarily until we can make better arrangements. What do you think of it, and have you anything to suggest? Please let me hear from you.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th, 1902.

F. A. Golder,
Seattle, Wash.

Dear Sirs

You will find that the agent of the Great Northern at
Seattle, Wash., has orders to deliver you transportation to Carlisle
and yourself
for as many pupils as you may want and also tourist, sleeping-car
accommodations to St. Paul.

Keep a careful memorandum of your expenditures for food en route
and I will refund when you arrive here. Take receipts for amount of
one dollar or over on the vouchers enclosed. Wire me the time you
start from Seattle and the number of pupils you are bringing.

Dictated.
G.

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O. A. Mitscher, U. S. Indian Agt.,
Pawhuska, Okla.

Dear Sirs

I have your letter of June 28th. and have kept its an-
swer waiting for a long time as I have been slow in getting the in-
formation about Mary Aiken that I wished.

When Mary Aiken has completed her term in the country, I think
it will be best for her to return home. She will be back September
fifteenth, and if you do not advise me before that she may re-
main, I will send her on. I do this only because of your urgency and
not because I think it best for the girl or for those who claim con-
trol over her.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 9th, 1902.

Miss Fanny G. Paull,

Ross Mt. Park,

New Florence, Pa.

My dear Miss Paull:

I fully sympathise with you in your matri-
monial ambitions and shall count it great luck to myself, should I
be bereft of your services, to have them take the direction you indi-
cate. I assure you that I shall take advantage of the fishing pro-
position you mention.

We are losing Professor Bakeless because he desires permanency,
better surroundings for his children and is offered an additional
five hundred dollars to his present salary. I am very sorry to part
with him and am somewhat in the air as to what ought to be done.

For the present, it seems to be best to give the reins into the
hand of Miss Bowersox, until I can find a suitable man, as I feel
I must have a man in that position.

At the same time, I shall be glad to have any suggestions that
my reliable assistants can give me, and among them I consider you
self.

We have had delightful weather, and are gradually getting our
cleaning, repairing, etc. done, ready for fall business.

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Carliole, Pa., Aug. 11th, 1902.

Miss Kate S. Bowersox,
Pottsville, Pa.

Dear Miss Bowersox:

Professor Bakeless is leaving us. You probably know all about it. You will temporarily take his place, and has not to return at least a week before the 1st, of September.

The Professor is leaving everything in excellent shape, but there will be questions in regard to the students and supplies, about which to consult with you.

I thank you for your beautiful letter. There was no intention of sending you to Dakota unless you, yourself, desired it, and nothing was said to you because the matter had not assumed a definite aspect.

Accept my congratulations on your brother's promotion. The stock is so good he surely will make us a first-class legislator.

Faithfully yours,

Dated.

a.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 11th. 1902.

Miss Jemima W. Webster,
South Oneida,
Brown Co., Wis.
My dear School-daughter!

I did recommend you, so far as I was able, on your former application. But my recommendation now, after your long absence from school, would have little weight as compared with those who have been intimately acquainted with you and your work since you left school. However, I have again invited the Commissioner's attention to you and trust he may give you full consideration.

It gives me pleasure to know that you are recovered and able to take up work again.

We are getting along nicely in the school. James Wheelock will be able to tell you fully about the work, as he will be at the agency sometime this week.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 11th, 1902.

Nicholas Rouleau,
Pine Ridge, S. Da.

Dear Nicholas:

I have your letter inquiring about James Lone
Star. James left here August 10th, 1892, and we had information from
some source afterwards, that he had enlisted in the army. Just how we
came by this information I cannot find out.

I have referred your letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army,
and have requested him to give you the information you ask, if it is
possible.

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Rev. G. M. Diffenderfer,
Spokane, Wash.

Dear brother Diffenderfer:

Your letter from Wolf Point received.

That is just the kind of testimony I want. It will be very useful in the campaign this fall and winter. It is evident that Carlisle is an irritation, and this sore will not be cured except by a great deal of such irritation, until these people who are manipulating the Indians for their own interests are irritated out of the business

I shall hope that you will make us up a little party at Fort Lapwai. Our excellent, long-time missionary, Miss MacBeth of the Presbyterian board and our many good students there will help you, I believe, in making up quite a considerable party. At least, I hope you will make a good effort.

You could start them under the care of one of their number, and come as far as the Yellowstone Park. I think it would then pay you, while you are so near, to make a trip through the park.

Diated.
G.

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E. R. Derrick,

Prin Dept. Dom. Sci.,
Normal, Ala.

Dear Friend:

Answering the questions in your letter of Aug. 6th,
1st. Who has charge of students' deportment during meals?

The dining-room matron.

2nd. What are the duties of your Matron?

We have five matrons - three in charge of our four hundred and fifty girls - whose duties are to take care of the girls outside of school hours, in disciplining, managing their quarters, caring for their buildings, clothing, their details to service, sending them to and from school and work, church, Sunday-school and to and from their quarters on special occasions, etc. The dining-room matron has exclusive charge of the dining-room with a detail of girls to assist her. She and the girls not only take care of the dining-room, wash dishes, set the tables, etc., but prepare the vegetables required for the whole school. Then we have two matrons in charge of the small boys whose duties are with reference to the small boys, exactly the same as those of the matrons of the girls. We have about one hundred and fifty small boys.
3rd. What are the duties of your housekeeper?

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of all the teachers' and employees' rooms and become responsible for
the property therein.

4th. Who has charge of students passing to meals?

The disciplinarian has charge of the large boys. The matrons in
charge of the girls and small boys respectively have charge of them.
But their duties are to start them from quarters and to be at quar-
ters to receive them on their return. Passing from quarters to the
dining-room, which is somewhat removed from the quarters of the large
and the small boys, they are under the care of officers in charge of
companies of the students. Throughout our school, both boys and girls
are organized in companies and have captains, lieutenants, sergeants
and corporals. In going to and returning from the dining-room and
quarters, these officers have entire control over their companies,
with reference to maintaining good order wherever they are in charge.

5th. Does your matron eat with the students?

No. No employee eats with the students, although the matron hav-
ing charge of the dining-room is present at meals. But she does not
eat with the students. There is a leader of good character for each
table of students who is expected to control his or her table.
6th. Who superintends the serving of food?

The dining-room matron. The food is all placed upon the tables,
and there is no service during meals.

7th. Are the sexes separated in the dining-room?

Yes. The boys have one end of the dining-room, and the girls, the
other.

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8th. Do your boys take care of their rooms entirely?

Yes, absolutely. Even the small boys take care of theirs.

9th. Do you have a regular cook?

Yes, we have a cook and an assistant cook. As the service for seven to eight hundred students is heavy, we have four boys to assist the cooks. Two of these boys attend school in the forenoon, and the other two in the afternoon, and they help outside of school time, as they are needed.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 17th, 1902.

Princess Chiquilla,
448 W. 27th. St.,
New York City.

Dear Friend:

I have no idea that your boy is dead. He has simply gone into employment somewhere, and in time you will no doubt hear from him.

The most distinguished member of my mother's family ran away from home when he was a boy of twelve years of age and was not heard from for more than ten years. When he was little more than a boy he was captain of a vessel on Lake Erie, and once to be captain of the largest steamer on the Lake. Finally, he becameactor of the Port in Toledo, Ohio, and was highly respected and well known.

It is a singular and, at present, an inexplicable situation, but I feel that time will reveal to you or us something of your son's whereabouts. A runaway Indian boy about seven years old, was not heard from for four years, when he was found to be employed on one of the great Atlantic steamship lines running between New York and Liverpool. He had become a trusted and respected employee and is there yet.

I have had absolutely no word about your son, and did not

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Carliole, Pa. Aug. 13th. 1962.

Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh,
Valley Forge, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

Mr. J. M. Giordani is a brother in law of the mother of one of our girls, as he and a letter from her will explain. He is authorized to show you her letter to me.

My difficulty in consenting to this is in the establishment of a president. These young people came to us under exactly the same conditions as our Indian children, for a fixed period of five years, unless we make exceptions in cases where wider opportunities are offered them.

The return of this young lady will, of course, start the ball rolling for others and will be an occasion for knocking down the obligations all along the line, as far as the Porte Ricans are concerned. You may know the facts and the conditions, and if it is your advice that I yield in this case, I shall do it very cheerfully without referring to Washington, inasmuch as the department has notified me not to take any more Porte Ricans, and the movement will be gradually evaporated.

I wish your judgment simply as a mainstay as you sent them here, and if you say return, they will be no further questions asked. Please advise me by wire after your conference with Mr. Giordani.

Diated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 13th. 1902.

Miss Isabelle Osborne,
Stony Creek, Conn.

Dear Miss Osborne:

The vacancy in our domestic department carries a salary of $600.00 a year and a furnished room with electric light and steam heat. Board at the teachers' club costs three dollars a week for the first fourteen weeks, thereafter, two and a half dollars a week. The lady employees have their washing done for two dollars a month.

The duties of our domestic teacher are to instruct girls in the art of plain and substantial cooking. There are about two hundred girls who fall under instruction in classes. As the department is somewhat new, there is wide opportunity.

As a part of her duties, the teacher gives some small help to the management of the dining-room, though there is a dining-room matron who has entire charge there.

I should be very glad to have you compete for the place and have no doubt from what you say of yourself, you would become very useful to us, and I trust that you could make a stay with us not without advantage to yourself.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 13th, 1902.

Frank Kyselka, Supt.,

U. S. Indian Agency, Hoopa Valley,
Hoopa, Cal.

Dear Sir:

The enclosed bill comes to me as the result of an order to the stage-coach company to take David Masten from Bureka, or wherever he would have to start, to Hoopa. It is unexpectedly large, and I feel the cost of the team for four days is all I ought to undertake to fight through.

I therefore send you a check for sixteen dollars ($26.00) and sub-voucher for the signature of the party, and would suggest that David pay the difference. I strained a good many points to favor him as much as I did in sending him.

If you will be kind enough to arrange the matter and return the sub-voucher to me, I shall be greatly obliged.

Dictated.
G.

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F. A. Thackeray,

Supt. and Special Dispersing Agt.,
Shawnee, Okla.

Dear Sirs

Replying to your letter of Aug. 9th, in regard to the
person from the Indian office who came to see Miss View, I gave you
all the information in my possession in the former letter. The par-
ty was here at the Dickinson College commencement and came out
and wanted to see Angeline. What they had to say to each other I
do not know. But it seemed best to let you know about it, so that
should anything have occurred that ought not to have occurred, you
might be somewhat forewarned.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 13th, 1908.

Miss Kesetta Roosevelt,
c/o Mrs. J. Bishop,
2110 St. Paul St.,
Baltimore, Maryland.

Dear Kesetta:

It is gratifying to me to receive such a nice letter as yours of Aug. 12th. You let me know so completely about your affairs that I feel myself greatly interested.

You have done remarkably well, and I feel you are entitled to all the consideration that I can give you. I am willing you should return to Carlisle and attend school this winter if that continues to be your wish and you could be here by the middle of September. But if it suits you better to find a place of your own, and you find a place that will be what it ought to be, notify me and I will aid you in getting there.

I certainly consent to your going to any place where you will feel you are safer and your advantages will be greater. I do not like to have my girls left alone in care of a home and property of people going away for uncertain periods. It is all right for a few hours, but to go away and be gone for days does not comport with the proprieties.

Mrs. Pratt, Richmond and I had a very pleasant trip along the Mediterranean, and saw many new things and learned much. If you are in Carlisle, we shall be pleased to tell you about the trip.

Dictated.
G.

Faithfully, your friend,

Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 13th, 1909.

G. W. Lenkard,

Principal Reynoldsville Public Schools,
Reynoldsville, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I am looking for a man to take the place of Profes-
sor Bakeless who has had charge of our academic work here for the
last nine years, and who has accepted the chair of pedagogy in the
Bloomsburg Normal.

The requirements are to take care of the purely education-
al work, covering about one thousand pupils and twenty teachers. I
shall want an exceptional man for the place and am ready to hear
from anyone who thinks himself equal to the work.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 13th, 1902.

Ella S. Brown,

Manchester, Cal.

Dear Miss Brown:

Your letter indicates that you expect to
bring two girls who are only seven and ten years of age. We do not
accept children, under any circumstance, under twelve years of age.
We prefer them to be over fourteen. This would have, as I take it,
a very serious effect on your plans. I supposed you knew this be-
fore, or I should have informed you.

You have plenty of time after you receive this letter to
wire me at my expense about the matter, and I will act accordingly.

I enclose you six consent blanks which it is necessary one
should be filled out by each one.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 14th. 1902.

Mr. Rose Guffin,
U.S. Indian Agt.,
Sac and Fox Agency, Okla.

Dear Sir:

Since sending my letter of the 13th, inst., about Joe
McConnee, I find that Lee Walker ran away from his country home and
joined Joe. The two then bought railroad tickets for Mauch Chunck,
Pa. If you should hear anything of them in our neighborhood,
please advise me by wire or mail as the case may seem to warrant.
Should the boys return to your place, it will be well to keep them
there, as neither is worth any further expense of education, by the
Government.

Respectfully,
D. C.

Dieted.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 14th., 1902.

Wm. M. Hazlett,

Fort Cobb, Okla.
My dear Will:

I was glad to hear from you again and to learn
of your prosperity. On the increase in your family, accept my con-
gratulations. Also, I am pleased to know that Carson and Penoi are
doing well.

With your baseball scheme, I cannot say that I agree very
strongly. From my experience, professional baseball and football
are about the most abominable manias that ever struck the United
States. I am sorry to say that their influence upon the players is
as a rule, disappointing. I should be glad to see the craze die out
as it has been the cause of less progress on the part of some
young men than anything else with which we have had to contend.

If I had my way, the public would become so stated and the
popularity of the games so decrease that it would be unprofitable
even for a proprietor of a town to use a team as an advertising
medium.

We have had regular, rainy weather all through the latter
part of the summer, and have grown some of the finest corn I ever
saw. There are stalks of corn in our field that have four beauti-

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Mr. Jos. Mitchell,
Old Orchard, Me.

Dear Mr. Mitchell:

It will be necessary for us to have the enclosed blanks filled out in the case of each of the boys before we furnish transportation. Please have them examined by a physician, and have the physician's part of the blank filled in by him, and the parents' part filled in by them.

We cannot accept any children under twelve years of age and prefer them to be over fourteen. So, if either of the boys is under twelve, it will not be worth while to fill out the blank for him.

As there might be one or two others to come along, I send you four blanks. On receipt of these blanks showing that the children are all right as to health and age, we will instruct the railroad agent at Old Orchard to deliver them transportation to Carlisle.

Dictated.
G.

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Dr. Alice M. Seabrook,
M. R. Hospital, S. Broad St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Doctor:

Thank you for the good news about Rose. I am sorry to learn that Kendall is also down with the disease. Kendall's mother is in this country and ought to be on hand to look after him, but at any rate he must not lack for attention. Please let us know if there is anything necessary to be done, that we can do.

We shall count on your coming immediately to our house when you reach Carlisle, and you must not think of going anywhere else.

Faithfully yours,

Dictated.
G.

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Mr. Ed. P. Bates,

228 W. Water St.,
Syracuse, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Bates:

I send you a copy of our school catalog. It
has been my belief that I sent you the catalog before, but as your
letter does not mention the receipt of it and I can find no record
of sending it, it must have been omitted.

I shall be greatly pleased to have you and Mrs. Bates visit us at the school if at any time you happen our way. If you come any time between the middle of September and the end of March, you would see from seven to eight hundred young Indians at work - a little beehive of industry and education, which I am sure you would find interesting.

Mrs. Pratt and our daughter join me in sending kindest re-
gards to you and Mrs. Bates.

Dictated.
G.

Sincerely yours,

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Miss Louise O. Rogers,
Libby, Aitkin Co.,
Minn.

Dear Louise:

You have your return ticket, and I have asked the
Northern Pacific R. R. to have their agent at Aitkin deliver a
ticket to you for your sister. I shall be very glad indeed to have
a continuation of the Rogers family at the school.

We want Frank Jude, and the two Libby boys may come also.
At the last they were doing well. I will make the order so that
tickets will be given to all four, Frank, the two Libby boys and
your sister.

It would be well when you are ready to come, to send us news
beforehand of the time of your starting.

Faithfully, your friend,

Dictated.
G.

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Mrs. Martha Sickles Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear school-daughter:

I thank you most heartily for your pleasant letter. Nothing does me more good than to receive such accounts of your success, your pleasant home life and your expressions of good wishes for the school. These are worth very much to us.

Your letter I have taken the liberty to print in the The Red Man, that it may go throughout the field and others may know of your welfare and be drawn to write to us also.

Faithfully, your friend,

Dictated.
G.

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Mr. Wm. Davies,

Mineral Point, Wis.

Dear Mr. Davies:

It would be impossible for us to give you the
particular grade in which you are to teach, but on your arrival
here we will adjust things to the best adaptability of all concerned.

We reserve the right, of course, to change from time to time
as the needs and interests of the work seem to demand. It would
be well if we knew the grade you feel yourself most adapted to
teach.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated.
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Miss Flora Howard,
Salt River, Arizona.

Dear Flora:

Gertrude is here at the school and is working for
Mrs. Pratt. She is in excellent health and her letters should not
have been sent home. Miss Ely had marked them "H", and the clerk
took it to mean home, when it meant here.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated.
G.

Miss Mary E. Bonifant,
Powhatan, Va.

Dear Miss Bonifant:

I shall take great pleasure in giving
you one of our special rate tickets to Oneida, Wis.

Dictated.
G.

Frank Keshena,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear Frank:

You know I am expecting you to return to Carlisle.
James Wheelock is visiting at Oneida and your agency for any pu-
pils who may want to come to Carlisle. Please join him and return
with his party.

Dictated.
G.

Martin D. Archiequette,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Martin:

We all do most heartily congratulate you on your
marriage, and trust that your future may be filled with all that
is bright, beautiful and prosperous.

Dictated.
G.

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G. C. D. Altemus,
1849 N. 8th. St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Friend:

In reply to your inquiry of Aug. 13th., the traders
term the basket in which the Indians babies are carried - "pap-
poose cradle". The Indians also give it this name, at least we have
been able to find no other expression for it.

G.

G.

Miss Matilda Seholder,
Arlington, Cal.

Dear Matilda:

I have concluded to let Harriet go with Mrs.
Cook to you. Mrs. Cook will leave here about the 25th. and will
go by way of the Southern Pacific.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated.

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Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
Teacher, Carlisle Indian School.
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Cook:

You are leaving Carlisle for Perria, at your own solicitation. I greatly deplore your decision, for you have so thoroughly and heartily entered into the life of the Carlisle school, and so closely and sympathetically lived for the good of your pupils and the interests for which Carlisle stands, that I feel we are leaving one of our largest and best branches.

You have been a helpful friend and counselor to your co-workers, to the young people of the school and to myself. For this I thank you.

The work you will undertake on the Pacific coast has been very poorly attended to, at any other school but Carlisle. I believe it to be the most important work in connection with the Indian Schools, and with your knowledge of our methods, I shall hope that you make it a great success.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 15, 1902.

To the Editor,

"The Literary Digest",
New York City.

Dear Sir:

Some time ago, I sent you a copy of our school paper, containing some ideas of mine on the Indian question. You replied that you would make use of them in the next week's issue, but they have not yet appeared. Perhaps you have had some good reason for changing your mind about it.

Notwithstanding this, I venture to send two more copies of the paper containing some further ideas about what I consider to be the only right side of the question.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 15th. 1902.

G. S. Warner,

Springfield, N. Y.

Dear Warner:

Your letter of the 11th. inst. received. I have arranged that Lube come by way of the Southern Pacific and have fixed it so he may bring with him as large a party as he wishes.

I will vary my judgment in order that you may have the best possible change this year, and will let Lynn Crouse come any time he wishes. In regard to a large party coming from up there, I am not ready to act yet.

Rev. Genesee has promised to furnish one hundred and fifty children and is now in the west for that purpose. He is instructed to look out for material for you. I can fall back on the New York Indians to fill up, and can send up there at any time for twenty-five to fifty children. We have an undue proportion of them now.

If you are convinced of the sincerity of the intentions of Parker, he may come too. Will send ticket at any time, to Buffalo or any point on P.R.R.

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Miss Nazie Crawford,
Lapwai, Idaho.

Dear Miss Crawford:

Your letter of July 31st. contained very pleasant news indeed. I am very glad to learn that Annie Parnell has married so well and that her husband is an industrious and upright young man. They have my best wishes in the new life upon which they have entered.

If I should visit your section this Fall, I shall hope to see Annie and also to persuade the Lemli boys to come to Carlisle.

With best wishes and kindest regards to Miss McBerth and yourself, I am

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 16th. 1902.

Dear Miss Osborne:

In my former letter, I failed to tell you to write at once to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Wash. State, and to tell him you wish to compete for the place of Domestic Science teacher in the Indian School service. The Chairman will furnish you all the necessary blanks and information. The examination will take place early in September.

I will give the most careful and favorable consideration to your case. I can, when your papers have gotten into the department. The Commissioner is always kind enough to favor my judgment and to ask me to help him in making a selection. This gives me an opportunity to know all that the Civil Service finds out with reference to candidates.

Disted.

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Chas. S. Hood,
Seneca, Mo.

My dear Charley:

Thank you for your letter and the information
that you had such a good time in old Bucks County, memorable to so
many of our students - past and present. I am glad you made such a
good stay and visited your old country home. If the old students
who return would do just that thing, it would help me a great deal,
both with reference to the young people who are going out into
country homes and to the people who have them in their keeping.
The fact that farmfathers and mothers are remembered by their farm
children and occasionally receive visits in that way, gives zest and
life to the whole situation.

It would almost pay me to defray the expense of having some
of them come back and make such visits, if I had the money, I should
do it. I must add that your visit here was an exceedingly pleasant
one for all, but more especially so.

Dioptated,
G.

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Prof. O. H. Bakeless,

Care of the Normal School,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear Bakeless:

On rereading your resignation, I find it without date and place, and also unsigned. It appears to be only a copy. I also find a clause which I did not consider as well as I should, when I approved the resignation, and so have made a copy giving the change as it appears to me would be best.

The facts are that where the Indian has been turned over to the states, as in the case of New York, Maine and several of the southern states, the states pursue exactly the same policy as that of the Government; that is, reservations and special schools. So that there is no hope, in transferring them to the states, that they will be brought into the public schools, until there should be a change of management. As, at present, they are under one management, I think we are sure of success in getting that change brought about while under one management than we would be if we turned the Indians over to the states, who would simply continue to appropriate to them, respectate them and educate them just as the Government has been doing. If you agree with me, please sign and return.

I am glad to know that you think of buying the house. It

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Mrs. Mary Sweetcorn,
Fort Totten, N. Da.

Dear Mrs. Sweetcorn:

Your daughter Annie is here and I have just
had her examined by our school physician. His report is enclosed.

Annie is doing very well, indeed, and as she came for a fixed
period, I cannot change that. It would not be best either for her or
for you. We all have to make sacrifices for our children, and to give
them proper education often requires, with us, not only absence from
home for a long period, but also a large expense. The expense you
do not have to meet, and all that you are asked to forfeit is the presence of your child. In the end, I am sure you will be gratified with
the result.

Faithfully, your friend,

Dioptated.
G.

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Strikes Enemy,
Elbowoods, N. Da.

My dear friend:

Your son, Clair Everett, entered this school for a fixed period. I cannot change that period because of an immediate or funded need at home. We are even barred from considering the health of parents and relatives as a reason for sending children home.

Your boy is in good health and is doing well, and there is every reason why he should be allowed to have his present chances for an education. We all have to make sacrifices for our children by doing without their services, and allowing them to be absent from us; but all three are necessary in securing proper education for them. You will be serving best, not only your boy, but also yourself, in doing this for him.

Dictated.
G.

Faithfully, your friend,

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Miss Ella L. Patterson,
2117 Bancroft Place,
Wash., D. C.

My dear Miss Patterson:

Without Miss Jackson leaves or the
Department forces her to leave, I cannot end her services here, and
as you have made some discoveries in regard to the other place, it
does not seem between the two there is much chance. I am not will-
ing to increase either salary as long as I can get satisfactory
people at those salaries, so the situation does not seem hopeful. Be
sides, there is the fact that if the Department does as it says, it
will make amends for its treatment of you, and in my judgment that
should be the entire issue for the present.

I did not go to Washington because the Commissioner was not there. Now, that he is back the urgency seems to have passed that indicated a necessity for my going.

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Miss Jemima W. Webster,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Jemima:

It is not practicable for me to send children
home on account of the illness of parents. This seems so well un-
derstood throughout the field, that I am constantly disappointed to
find parents insisting to have children sent home. If we recognized
that for a reason, our children would be on the go constantly. White
people do not regard this a reason for taking their children from
school, so why should the Indians?

I cannot send Mrs. Cornelius' boy Freddie home, and I shall be
glad if you will explain to her that it cannot be done. The great-
both parents and
est thing to Freddie now is his education. Here he has full oppor-
tunity for that, without it costing them a cent, and his parents ought
to insist upon his finishing his course, instead of trying to break
it up.

Dictated.
G.

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Rev. W. O. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear brother Kingsbury:

If you feel entirely satisfied that Michael Solomon is all right and is not more than three-fourths white I will take him, though he is nineteen years old, and will write the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to approve. We will also take three or four others, if of good material, not under twelve years of age - preferably, over fourteen - and not over eighteen. They must be in good health, of good character and not more than three-fourths white. The less white blood, the better.

I am sending you a half-dozen application blanks which must be made out very carefully in each case, and properly filled in by all parties thereto. Please have them thoroughly understand all the rules and regulations.

When notified by you of the time the party is ready to start and the number, I will have transportation to Carlisle placed to your order.

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G. E. Kranlich,
Milford, Del.

Dear Sir:

We are looking for a principal in our academic depart-
ment, and it will take a man of unusual power to fill our want.

We have one thousand children, and many teachers to be instructed as well as the children; all to be assigned their places, disciplined and constantly put on the highway to better things.

Our principal must come to us through the Civil Service. If you have any notion of undertaking the place, you had better write to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D.C. You must pass through Civil Service if you wish to become a teacher or principal teacher in the Indian School service. Do not mention Carlisle. That would only kill your chances. Write no more than to ask for the necessary blanks and information.

You will then be furnished with blanks and can go before the
examining board at Harrisburg, Philadelphia, or such other place as
you will be notified, and get upon the eligible list. Thereafter, the
matter of a selection will be through the Indian Commissioner,
largely governed by myself.

Dictated.
G.

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Miss Maud E. Murphy,
McGregor, Minn.

Dear School-daughter:

It does not seem to me that it is best that you return to Carlisle. You live in a town and can have the advantages of a public school, and there is no good reason relating to your advancement, why you should be identified with the Indians, or Indian schools. In fact, it is far better that you identify yourself with the white race, the larger share of whose billed runs in your veins.

Take up the work bravely and the things of this life will come to you in full proportion and of such excellence as they ought.

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L. O. C. Gammon.

Bridgewater, Mass.

Dear Sir:

The hand Fire Engine is entirely satisfactory to us, serves our purpose exactly and with our force of Indian boys we are better able to handle quickly any fire emergency, than to trust ourselves in the hands of the town, steam fire-companies.

If we sell our engine, we should want another equally as good. I am not familiar with the cost of hand Fire Engines, and cannot say what might be done. You may know better than I do. We gave five hundred dollars for the engine, and it is good to us now as it was when we bought it, fourteen years ago. Indeed, in the case of fire in the far side of the town, in Carlisle, more than a mile away, we have put our boys on the run and gotten the first stream of water on the fire, though there are three steam fire-companies in town, and we threw as strong a stream as our competitors. Having two hundred and fifty, or three hundred boys trained as soldiers and who move together promptly, our steam fire away up and we have no trouble in handling things quickly.

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L. C. Goumens. ---2.

I suggested that if you people were willing to provide us with a new
engine of equal capacity and strength, that would be all we wanted.
Whether such engine would cost more, or less, than the old one would
make no difference to us. We simply would want as good an engine, and
you to pay the expense of getting the engine here and taking this
one away.

If you desired a money value to be stated, I should have to
state it on this basis, and go to the trouble of looking the matter
up.

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Miss Mary A. Kelly,
Chico, Butte Co.,
Cal.

Dear Miss Kelly:

The enclosed application must be filled out completely and all the questions carefully answered. The parents' consent, the physician's certificate and the agent's or superintendents' indorsement must all be given. If everything then is in accordance with our rules, I will make necessary arrangements for your transportation to Carlisle. But you should not come if you are enrolled at some other school, unless that school consents.

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 18th, 1902.

Mrs. Louise John,
Versailles, Cattaraugus Co.,
N. Y.

Dear Mrs. John:

Your letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been forwarded to me. Your son, Georgie Jimieson, is here at the institution, in good health and doing well.

As I shall be sending some other children home shortly, if you wish it, I will send Georgie to you at the same time.

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Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear brother Kingsbury:

Yours of the 16th. received. John Chubb
has away May 29th. from his country home at Bellemead, N. J. and we
have not been able to learn of him since. I have had my outing ag-
ment after him, but he could get no information.

After convening the relative qualities of the boys out from
the school, and speaking of the relative merits of the boys from
the several tribes, my outing agent - himself an Indian - states
that unquestionably the most troublesome and worthless boys are the
St. Regis. This does seem a little discouraging.

in

However, we will work on faith until such time as the supply
runs out or the parents grow tired of sending the children when we
shall be glad to take a rest.

Dieted.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 18th. 1902.

Darwin W. Congdon,
Attorney-at-Law,
Randolph, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Under date of Aug. 15th, a letter from the Commission-
er of Indian Affairs comes to me, enclosing a letter of yours to him
with reference to Roger Jimieson, and directing me to "inform the
writer of the letter my conclusions relative to the matter of the
return of this boy".

My school nurse, Miss Barr, not Mrs. Pratt, brought this boy to
the school. I referred your letter to Miss Barr for her statement
in regard to the allegations coming within her knowledge. The fol-
lowing is her reply:

"Communication regarding Roger Jimieson received. The father of this boy brought him and his sister to me at Mrs. Tripp's house in Salamanca.

"I feel satisfied that the father and the boy knew thoroughly the contents of the consent blank. I did not misrepresent the same nor make any promises in addition to it. I did not see them at any other place. I was not at Steamberg at any time and did not see Mrs. Jimieson at all.

"I did not know the boy was coming until he came with his

15.10A

D. W. Congdon ---2.

father on the morning of my departure. I told the father it would
be necessary for the boy and his sister to stay five years. I had
the boy examined by the physician and he came with my party.

(Signed) M.S.Barr, Nurse."

On your and other urgency, I had Roger brought from his country
home and arranged for his ticket home. When he came to the office,
he told Miss Ely, my outing agent, that he had a letter from home
just before and his father was well; that there was no need and he
did not want to go home, but desired to stay under the school and
return to his country home. He repeated this statement to Mr. Allen
my assistant superintendent. They reported it to me and I had him
come to my office, where he reiterated his statement alleging that
he had received a letter from home that his father was not ill and
there was no need for his returning home; that he desired to remain
and return to the country.

On this statement I allowed him to go back to the country
where he is now. It is best for him to remain there until his time
is up, Sept. 15th, when he will come back to the school. Then I will
again take up the matter, but in a disciplinary way.

In order that the Commissioner may know these conditions, I am
sending him a copy of this letter.

Dictated.

G.

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Carlsbad, Pa. Aug. 19th. 1902.

George D. Carson, U.S. Indian Agt.,
San Carlos Indian Agency,
San Carlos, Ariz.

To Mr. Sir:

Annie Kittell of your agency and a pupil of this school is reported by my school physician to be sick, and he recommends sending her home, where he expects her to get well. She is able to travel.

One of my teachers has been transferred to Perris, Cal. and can take Annie as far as Bowie. She can put her aboard the train there without leaving any time. On receipt of this, please wire me - at my expense - if Annie's mother can run down to Bowie to meet her. I understand her mother is at the agency. If she can, I will wire you when Mrs. Cook and Annie reach Bowie. They will leave here on Monday next.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 19th. 1929.

Mr. D. M. Wynkoop,
Phoenix, Ariz.

Dear Sir:

I have your letter of the 9th. inpt. about Henry
Lives. This is the first time his case has come to my attention.
Mr. Allen's letter to you of February I have just read.

Henry's transfer to Carlisle showed that he was brought here
by Superintendent Meskimmone and was sent by Indian Agent Hadley.
We had nothing to do with selecting him. The transfer roll says he
is eighteen years of age, but my people here say he certainly must
be much older.

His confession to Mr. Allen and his evident age show that
fraud was practised upon us. The guilty party, et partes, ought to
be punished by paying at least the cost of his transfer to Carlisle.

Lives is in the country now, under our outing system, for the
purpose of earning money, to remain until the 15th. of September. He
must fulfill this obligation. He will have money to pay his way
home. On your urgent and presentation of the facts, I will send him
home, making him pay his way back, and forgive the cost of bringing
him here.

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Hon. Chas. Emory Smith,

Editor of the "Phila. Press",

Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir:

The enclosed is probably fiction out of whole cloth.
We never had a student here by any such name.

For several years past, stories of this sort - a dozen or more-
have been sent to me.

Enclosed is a page from a recent North American containing an
infamous fabrication against a former student here, named White Buf-
falo, the school and the Indians. The agent informs me that White
Buffalo is one of the best Indians on the reservation, and that
there is no shadow of truth in any of the statements made. I write
to you about the "Press" matter that the "Press" may not join in
hurting us by publishing these fabrications.

There has been such a volume and all without foundation, that I
am coming to believe they are the result of some active inspiration
There is, and has been, for years, controversy between reservation and
non-reservation, and eastern and western schools for Indians. I have
always believed in making the schools a great leverage to lift the
Indians into useful citizenship, but the western influences struggle
to hold the leverage and are using it to tribalize the Indians.

Mr. Chas. E. Smith ---2.

I know you are a very busy man and I dislike to write you such a long letter asking you to consider our affairs, but this is a public matter and involves the saving of vast sums of public money and the preserving or destruction of the remnants of the Indian race.

I venture to send you marked copies of our school paper in which I have attempted to meet some of our enemies.

So far as the North American article is concerned, it is only enclosed that you may see how wild the attacks upon us have become. I will say to you in confidence that when District Attorney Weaver returns to Phila., I have his assurance we shall be able to take care of that case.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 19th. 1902.

Sam. J. Brown, Jr.,
Brown's Valley, Minn.

My dear Samuel:

I have your letter of the 14th, and feel compelled to say that when you were seeking employment elsewhere, at a higher salary, my judgment did not coincide with yours. I felt you were getting as good a salary as your services were worth, and could not have recommended you to the Commissioner or anyone else for a higher salary.

As you resigned here before you had another place at hand, I could not properly endorse you. There was once a man who had a valuable goose which laid a golden egg every day. But the man wanted the eggs to come faster, and at last, in his impatience, killed the goose, and lost the golden egg that came daily. That is the trouble with you, my boy, and with a great many other people.

Do you remember about the man who sat in the back seat of the synagogue until someone should ask him to go up in front? St. Paul says, "I have learned in whatsoever condition I am, therewith to be content". And Paul's very contentment in his several conditions, such as imprisonment, being beaten with stripes, shipwreck, etc., made him a great leader of mankind for all time.

I am sorry, of course, that you did not succeed in securing employment. Your letter comes to me too late, or I should invite you

Samuel J. Brown...2.

back here. I have already arranged for five male teachers instead of four, and have changed the place of assistant disciplinator to teacher, so that I might be less bothered with Civil Service. This will not bar me from selecting any of my old pupils for these places, but as the sept already made the assignments, it bars me just now from helping you, for which I am sorry partly on my own account and partly on yours.

Dictated.
G.

Miss Hattie De Chon,
Sisseton, S. Da.

Dear Miss De Chon:

As you have only one-eighth Indian blood, you
are not eligible for entrance as a pupil at Carlisle.

Dictated.
G.

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Miss Nancy O. Cornelius,
426 State St.,
Madison, Wis.

My dear Nancy:

As I have previously written to several who have brought up your brother's case for returning home, I must say again that it is not practical for me to do that. If I open the health door, it must stand open for every like case, and the number of cases the Indians can originate along this line are simply overwhelming.

White people do not consider sickness at home as a reason for children quitting school, and why should the Indians? There are ways in which to arrange matters and so let the boys and girls have their chances.

I am sure that if you will only go about it in the right way, the difficulty can be worked out. You are there and with your capabilities you ought to be able to manage so that there would be no need of calling Freddie home.

Faithfully your friend,

Dictated.
G.

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D. S. Lindeay,
14 S. Broad St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear friend:

I wanted to make an inquiry of your son about a
young man named Kern who was, for two years, principal of the San
Juan High School. Dr. Brumbaugh gave him a pretty fair recommenda-
tion, and I was anxious to know anything your son might be able to
tell me about him. But my inquiries in regard to his antecedents,
tell me he is not the man I want. Therefore, there is no need of
further inquiries.

I am looking for a man to take a place as principal teacher
at a salary of fifteen hundred - a man under forty, thoroughly com-
potent to manage the teaching forces and arrange the education for
a thousand young Indians. He must be, of course, morally and phys-
ically sound and be well equipped. The educational factors of Pa.
seemed to think Kern would do.

Sincerely yours,

dictated.
G.

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Martin Emmet Cullen,
Williamsport, Md.

Dear Sir:

In going over all our underground and cellar pipes,
I find those on the ground have been so exposed from the decay of
the wood covering, with no other covering to protect them, that we
have been using an unnecessary and excessive amount of coal.

We are now protecting the underground pipes, covering them with
strong wrapping and heavy asbestos paper and the toughest building
paper outside of that, and they are lined with 4" tubular wood cov-
ering, water-tight. I am recovering the cellar pipes, so I am satisfied
we shall save not less than 25% of our coal consumption.

We have given ourselves a liberal margin in the twenty-two
hundred tons, and inasmuch as coal is greatly in demand and it may
be no disadvantage to you, I shall be glad to have you ship us eight
een hundred tons instead of the Twenty-two hundred tons,-- with
this provision, that if the winter should be exceedingly severe and
we cannot make our supply hold out, I might in the late spring call
on you for an additional supply. Please advise me if this will be
acceptable to you.

Dictated.
G.

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David R. Hill,
Onandaga Castle, N.Y.

Dear Sir:

Randolph Hill was entitled to go home this year, but he declared he did not want to go and went to the country instead. Unfortunately for himself as well as for us, he did not act as wisely as he should have done and on the 4th. of July was seen in a large assembly under the influence of liquor. I brought him back to the school and he has been under punishment. For a while he felt disconcerted with the school, but during the past few days, I had a talk with him and we have settled matters. I think he is in a better frame of mind now.

There is no need now of his returning home, at least, I cannot allow him to go when he required punishment. You, yourself, I am sure will see that this course is right.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated.
G.

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Carlisle, Pa. Aug. 19th, 1902.

Danielinos,
Sacaton, Ariz.

Dear Daniel:

I have arranged that the agent at Casagrande
will deliver two tickets to you to Carlisle for yourself and your
brother. You can go down to Casagrande and receipt for them your-
self.

Enclosed is an admission blank for your brother. It will be
necessary that the blank be filled out carefully by your brother,
the agency physician and your parents, so that we may know he comes
here with proper authority. You can see that it is all right. Then
come to Carlisle as soon as you get ready, so as to be here by the
1st. of September.

You may show this letter to your agent.

Dictated,
G.

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