Capt. W. H. Waterspoon, page 2.

on account of its being diseased, poor and under weight. I
should be entirely truickful to rewrite the same report in
regard to the issue I saw being made at Anadarko while there.
There is not a particle of change in the system of delivery
except that almost all of the Indians come after their beef
with wagons and on this particular occasion the cattle were
shot down in the pen and hauled outside to be cut up instead of
being taken outside and driven out on the prairie to be shot
down there. But this was only a temporary innovation by a
special agent temporarily in charge. Ordinarily the buffalo
killing method prevailed. The Kiowas and Comanches have had
four agents within a year. Major Brown's short tenure was great-
ly regretted by all the good people and the Indians I met. He
made a desperate effort to get good beef, turning out three
separate lots provided by the contractor for one issue and
finally buying in open market. I have wondered if his quitting
so soon was not due to his inability to be honest. Another
Army Officer, a Captain, who was Acting Agent to the northwest
attempted the same thing and had to quit. The contractor at
Fort. Still is many times a millionaire of Texas. I should say
the Indians were getting all his diseased and unsalable cattle
culings from his herds and purchases.

I found the Apaches in a bad mix. Lt. Scott, who has the
Indian company at Fort Still, is anything but a favorite among
the Indians generally and he has been detailed in charge. The
Indians generally seemed glad of the change and certainly the
prospect is good enough if they are properly managed. I believe

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Carlisle, Pa., November 21st 19

Miss Lucy Walker, Directress of Nurses,
Presbyterian Hospital, 51 N. 39th St.,
Philadelphia.

Dear Miss Walker:-

Flora arrived safely last evening and I have your
the 20th this morning. We will keep her here the two weeks
return her as you ask, provided the Doctor passes favorably
on her condition then.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 22nd 1894.

Mr. Phillip C. Garrett,
308 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Mr. Garrett:-

I was unable to write you a letter yesterday on
account of pressing need of attention to matters from Washington.

I reiterate my statement to you in regard to Dr. Hailmann's
son as follows:- While we were at Chats川a, Oregon, at the
Conference of School Superintendents and Teachers in the
Indian Service, Dr. Hailmann received a letter from the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs stating that he must discharge
his son who was his private secretary and only clerk. It seemed
plain to me that he were not the person to whom the letter was
intended, and II told him that he was not the person to whom the letter
was addressed. He said that he was the only person who had the
power to discharge his son, and that he would do so if necessary.
We both felt sure that if the situation were known to the friends
of Indian education they would not allow the Doctor to be
crippled in that way and we urged him to retain his son, who
was and is a most vitally important factor in the Doctor's
equipment for the great duties he has undertaken. You will
remember the Doctor mentioned this matter himself at Lake Mohonk.
I thought then that some steps would be taken to meet the case.
But it seems that nothing has been done. It has occurred to me

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that your Indian Rights Association, which so heartily endorses
the Doctor, might feel it both a privilege and a duty to take
care of this matter until the present Congress or the next
attends to it. I cannot believe that the United States Congress
when it fully understands the situation will be so small as to
withhold this pittance, and that we may with some confidence
feel that the session this winter may take care of it, but if
not, certainly the next Congress will. Dr. Hailmann now receives
$3,000.00 and no clerk. Out of this he has been paying his son
since August at the rate of $1,000.00 per year. Dr. Dorchester
had $4,000.00 and $1,000.00 allowed for Mrs. Dorchester and a
more liberal allowance for traveling expenses than Dr. Hailmann
has. Dr. Hailmann is an educator with far better insight into
educational matters than any of his predecessors and it is
essential that he be not distressed in his personal matters or
his help. Will not your Society take care of him? Please
notify me as early as you can for I am so placed by my advise
to the Doctor that it weighs upon me as somewhat of a personal
obligation.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 26th 1894.

Martin E. Andrews,
Marietta, Ohio.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 24th this morning. Samuel Townsend is practicing law at Pawnee, Oklahoma, in the form of Houston, White and Townsend, and a letter addressed to him at Pawnee will reach him.

Yours truly,

Capt. 10th Cav., U.S.A.

Supt.

N.

Nov. 26, 4

Chief of Police,
Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg & York

Two Indian boys, Matthew Brown and Archie Johnson ran away yesterday; heading for Oregon. They were probably dressed in our school uniform. Arrest and no further action.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 28th 1894.

Miss Nellie Robertson,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Nellie:--

I was glad to receive your letter and know that you
are so pleasantly and comfortably situated. I trust the winter's
work may be full of pleasure and profit for you.

I send you herewith the fifteen dollars you request and
have directed Miss Luckenbach to send you this amount every
month unless you write differently.

We have ten chiefs from Ft. Balknap, Montana, spending today with us and this evening the girls will give their entertainment for them.

Our winter weather has come upon us and I should not be
surprised if we should have snow before long.

With best wishes for you always,

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., November 30th 1894.

Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton,

Box 196, Merchantville, New Jersey.

Dear Mrs. Quinton:-

I thank you for your kindly and comforting note. My load
has borne upon me heavily this year and I feel the need of
sympathy and rest.

All the spirit of antagonism I have rises up against the
reservations and the tribes and every weak act on our part,
governmental or otherwise, which perpetuates them. Christ's
mission was to save individuals and our efforts must take the
same direction else they fall. The individual is the unit, not
the tribe or the race. If we can only get rid of some of the
perplexing, abnoxious schemes pushed upon the public as the
only emancipation of the Indians and go to work to bring them
into our own houses and utilize and keep them there, there is
hope. If we cannot do these things and these old destroying
plans continue to prevail we shall soon have no Indian to work
upon. Bettering the administration seems to me utterly
impracticable and impossible. If we can get individuals out and
keep them out we may in time render special Indian service
unnecessary.

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Mr. E. K. Master,
307 Earlham Terrace,
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 7th of November was duly received and I am very sorry to say it was buried under a lot of correspondence in my drawer and is only now after the receipt of your second letter resurrected. I have been away from home and my correspondence has accumulated.

Provided you want the band for one day only we shall be glad to let you have it for $100.00 and expenses, a second day at $50.00 extra. There are twenty-eight members of the band. I have special arrangements with the Pennsylvania Railroad so that I can send them to you at half the rates for the regular transportation, that is for $3.70 for each fare.

Trusting the delay has not greatly inconvenienced you, I am

(Dictated)

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,
Sept.

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you will not waver. As I go out among the Indians I find that
the Carlisle students are the ones who are clerking, teaching
and filling the positions in the Indian schools and as the
Agencies in preference to any others. This makes me still more
satisfied that I am right. By going away from home and out
among our people and industries they have gained the ability
to fill these positions.

With best wishes for you, I am,

Your friend,

(Dictated)

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,
Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st 1894,

Isabella R. Willis,
Charlevoix, Michigan,

Dear Isabella:

I am glad to hear from you and will be pleased to send you
my photograph.

All goes well with us here at Carlisle. Winter has come
and we have a light snow upon the ground.

The Susan Longstreth Literary Society gave a very delightful entertainment last Tuesday evening. The girls represented famous women and took their parts well.

Your friend,

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H. M. Hudelson,
Ogden, Indiana,

My dear Mr. Hudaion:-

Yours of the 17th of November should have been
answered long ago. We are most unfortunately placed by civil
service. It seems as though there was no possibility of our
getting suitable teachers, who would stick. You failed me. You
are about the only one outside of two ladies that I have had
sent me so far by civil service who have done well, and you
were unfortunate enough to lose your health. I am attempting
now to make a new arrangement by which I may have the right of
selecting my teachers. In that case I must not only have
quality but health. The school suffers because of the irregular-
ity of the employees. If your health future was as satisfactory
as your ability and other qualities I should turn to you at
once, but I must hesitate in view of my experience with you.

Faithfully your friend,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., December 3rd 1894.

Jemima W. Cornelius,
Oneida, Wisconsin.

My dear Friend:-

I will write to you and Peter at the same time.

I recommended you both to the Superintendent of Indian
Schools for places and so have done all I could to start you.
It is neither necessary nor best for me to make any further
recommendation. The fact that you have been called upon by
Dr. Hailman indicates that he needs my letter.

Cordially and faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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Alonzo Foster, Manager,
Tribune Building,
New York.

Dear Sirs:-

While we should be delighted to have the Philharmonic
Club, we are too poor to think of it.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., December 4th 1894.

Levi Levering,

Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Levi:--

Replying to yours of the 27th Albert McCauley asserts that he never wrote home that he did not get enough to eat here. He suspected that another boy named Frank Tindell had written, so I had them both write a letter about the matter and I enclose them herewith. I hope these letters and your and the other Omaha Carlisle pupils' testimony will set the misstatement at rest.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Mrs. Sara T. Kinney,
1162 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Mrs. Kinney:-

Mrs. Smith of Suspenston Bridge is an excellent woman and a strong character and I do hope she may have a place in the Indian service. I have myself recommended her to the Department.

The Department is right in ruling against the New York Indians. It is high time they were thrown upon their own resources, and that will do more for them, ten times over, than this continual tribalizing and communism of them on reservations without individual ownership and rights. There are of course exceptions and I suppose the little girl is one exception.

I have already agreed with Mrs. Abbott to accept of the girl on payment of the amount appropriated by Congress annually for each student here, that is $167.00. The car fare from Suspenston Bridge is about $9.00, better send $10.00, Mrs. Smith has two children at this school and she has visited us for a week. She is a sister of Rev. Frank Mt. Pleasant, a man distinguished for high character among the Indians of western New York, and she is also I understand related to Gen. Eli Parke, formerly of Gen. Grant's staff. Let the girl come here anytime.

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In reply to

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICER OF SUPERINTENDENT,

The Right Rev. Frederick D. Huntington,
Bishop of Central New York,
Syracuse, New York.

Dear Bishop:—

Allow me to recall myself to you as the army officer
who from 1875 to 1878 had charge of the Indian prisoners at
Ft. Marion, Florida, from which good Mrs. Burnham took four
under your auspices to Rev. Mr. Wicks near Utica, New York. You
may perhaps also know that I have continued in the Indian work
and as superintendent of this school for the last fifteen years
have been carrying forward and developing the seed planted in
St. Augustine.

I write you now, dear Bishop, in behalf of an especial
friend of mine, Capt. George LeRoy Brown of the 11th Infantry.
On account of his children, now grown beyond the frontier age
into years that demand the best of schooling, he is anxious for
an eastern detail. His station is at Whipple Barracks, Prescott,
Arizona. He wishes me to speak to you in his behalf for the
detail, when vacant next September, as military instructor at
St. John's Military Academy at Manlius, New York. I have known
Capt. Brown intimately for more than 20 years. We have always
been warm friends and have corresponded largely. He and I have
generally agreed in regard to what ought to be done for the

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Indians. When I began work here fifteen years ago he had a
six months' leave of absence and he voluntarily came here with
his family and used four months of that leave in helping me to
organize and start the machinery of this school. He was Acting
Indian Agent at Pine Ridge soon after the emeute there in 1880.
He is one of the cleanest and most energetic officers in the
United States Army and a most active member of your church. Mrs.
Brown is a charming lady and their presence at any institution
could not help but be most beneficial.

Capt. Brown served part of a detail at the State College
in Delaware and on the solicitation of the Secretary of War
sacrificed a portion of his detail to take the duties at Pine
Ridge.

I think I know what you want for your Manlius school and feel
assured that there is no officer in the army I could recommend
more highly than Capt. Brown.

Permit me to say that I read with greatest interest the
views you expressed on the Indian question at Lake Mohawk.
several years ago and was especially glad that you did not
varnish the truth. Oh, that all the people everywhere might
see the whole field as honestly!

With highest esteem,

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 4th 1994.

Dr. Wm. Verbeek,

Superintendent, St. John's Military Academy,
Manlius, New York.

My dear Sir:-

My especial friend, Capt. George LeRoy Brown of the 11th Infantry, now stationed at Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Arizona, writes me that he is seeking the detail as military instructor with you and asks me to write a word in his behalf.

I have known Capt. Brown intimately for twenty years and know well of his service in a variety of trying conditions and his qualities as a man, a soldier and a Christian gentleman. I think I know what you need in a military instructor and wish to assure you that if you asked me to name a suitable person from among my brother officers I should place Capt. Brown at the head of the list. He has a charming wife and their presence in your corps cannot help but prove to be most satisfactory to you.

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In reply to.

Carlisle, Pa., December 5th 1894.

Mr. John Collins,
702 N. 43rd Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Mr. Collins:-

I am very much obliged to you for your plan for a
commission for my officers. I find that we have a variety of
suitable type and that if I can have a heading made it will
serve all my purposes very well. I return you the heading and
if you will please have a neat plate made at the best rate you
can and let it be billed to me I will be obliged to you.

Yours truly,

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In reply to:

Albert K. Smiley,
Lake Mohonk, New York.

Dear Mr. Smiley:-

I have yours of the 3rd with its enclosed $200.00 for use in the expenses of higher education of our students, and I am very grateful for the same. Shall be glad if this sum can be further increased.

I send you my receipt for the amount and if you need some additional and more specific account please let me know.

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In reply to:

To the Adjutant-General U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:-

During the fall and winter of '74 and '75 I commanded
scouts at Ft. Sill. In the party enlisted on the first of
September for three months and discharged the first of December
1874 was a Wichita by the name of Us-sa-ke-ah-saits. On my
recent visit to Anadarko he informed me that he had lost his
discharge and feels very sorry that he is unable to show his
service. He begs me to get him another paper. I do not know
the regulations in such matters but as I judge no possible
claims against the Government could arise it has seemed as though
I might be allowed to make a duplicate of the former discharge
and mark "duplicate" across the face of it.

I beg to be informed if I may do this and be supplied with
the blank discharge for that purpose.

(Dictated)

Capt. 10th Cav'y.,
Supt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 6th 1894.

Gen. T. J. Morgan, Sec. etc.,
7 Beekman Street,
New York.

Dear General:--

Thanks for the clipping. I have a choice lot of them
and shall print a number in the next Red Man and make answer to
priest Cleary's among them.

Your article on the Inferiority of the Roman Catholic
Schools, has somehow failed to reach me.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Rev. G. W. Stevens,
Fifth Street Parsonage,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Brother Stevens:--

There will be 27 in the band and about 30 in the choir. I will arrange about the transportation. I am a little afraid I shall have to pay for it. Mr. Kennedy has indicated that we are asking most to many favors. We will leave here at 6.05 and reach Harrisburg at 6.50.

A copy of the program is herewith. I will have programs printed here for distribution in the audience and will send you before the concert.

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In reply to:

Hon. Thos. B. Kennedy,
President, C. V. R. R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

Brother Stevens of the Fifth Street Church, Harrisburg, is after us once again to give a concert and I have agreed to take 60 of our pupils, leaving here on the 6.10 train Gettysburg Junction on the 14th instant and returning from Harrisburg on the train leaving there at 10.55. He requests me to solicit a pass, I think on the grounds that his own cheek is somewhat worn. I acknowledge that mine is too, and feel that it is hardly fair to be asking you for these favors when there is an admission fee charged. We can get on very well with a car and I think if you would let us have a car and fix a small price, of say $15.00, for it it would be just as well. This however is only a suggestion. I should be glad of the pass but at the same time would be glad to meet any arrangement you think we ought to meet.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 7th 1894.

Capt. George LeRoy Brown,
Whipple Barracks, Arizona.

My dear Brown:—

I do not know just how to get at Col. Corbin. We had a little side issue some years ago and whether it would favor you or act to the contrary for me to speak to him I am at a loss to know. I almost fear that it would have a bad effect. I have not been in Washington for a long time and have not felt inclined to go until conditions in the Indian Department change. I have had every reason to believe that Armstrong was doing all he could to knock me out. He had a stoppage made against my pay but I removed that; he endeavored to break in upon my employes' salaries and to knock some of them out, I defeated him there; he got out the restrictions which now make it so difficult, almost impossible, for us to get children and he has been turning everything into Catholic direction that he could. He has resigned to take effect on the 31st of December. The Chief of the Educational Division is also a Catholic and my visits there are unpleasant. I have so far held my own and gained ground and I believe I shall continue to do so until we reach solid ground once more. While I cannot promise you much if I can see my way to push matters for you you can depend upon me to do so.

(Dictated)

Yours faithfully,

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in reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Mrs. D. H. Johnson,
734 Marshall Street,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dear Madam:-

On receipt of your letter I went into our oldest
newspaper, which reaches back eighty-one years, and found on
consulting the editor that one Dr. Murray who died some years
ago at an advanced age, and who was a very prominent minister
at the time, had written an article calling carefully all the
facts about Molly Pitcher and this was printed. The editor
could not spare the paper containing the article but permitted
me to copy the article. After quite a search the paper was
found and I enclose you a copy of Mr. Murray's article made by
one of my young Indians.

Trusting this may give you the data you desire, I am,

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Stacy Matlock,

Pawnee Agency, O. T.

Dear Stacy:-

As it was through my recommendation of you that Dr. Hailman has written you it would not help you nor would it be well for me to write him further recommendation of you. If the Agent and someone else in authority at Pawnee will speak a good word for you it will perhaps help you.

Sometime ago Dr. Hailman asked me for a list of students who had left Carlisle and whom I thought were capable of filling positions in the Indian service and among 159 others I spoke of you, so you see I have done what I could for you already.

Your friend,

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Dr. W. H. Hailman, page 2.

If you will indicate to me how I may forward your son's
interests in gaining employment I shall be glad to do that,
whether it may be to write to certain parties or to give him
a general letter.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 10th 1894.

Capt. John Archiquette,
Oneida, Wisconsin.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of December 7th just reaches me. I thank
you for the information therein contained.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 11th 1894.

Luzeno Choteau,
3903 Michigan Boulevard, Flat I,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Luzeno:-

Of course I have not the slightest objection to your
literary scheme. I am pleased that you think it worth your
while to attempt it.

I am glad too, my school daughter, that you have made a
favorable impression and that you can claim for yourself "the
life of a good, noble woman."

I shall be glad to see what you write and to offer any
suggestions that I can to make it more complete and if it can
bring you a return in money so much the better.

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In reply to:

Eugene Tahkapeur,
Conway, Mass.

My dear Eugene:-

Your letter to Miss Burgess is before me which is
evidence that you are back at Conway.

I received a letter from Mr. Garrett in which he said that
he had offered the farm to one party and to a second condition-
ally and that he expected to be out of the city on the day you
passed through and he therefore could not see you, which he
regretted. He says in case the second man failed he would want
to correspond about you. So you see the chances there are
quite remote. My advise to you would be to close with your
Springfield man unless something you esteemed better presents
itself.

In regard to the announcement which you think you would
like to make. It seems to me it might complicate Florence's
affairs at home if it were put out and I would not for that
reason do it.

Your friend,

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Mrs. Sarah Ann Chew,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Mrs. Chew:-

Matthew brings me the pincushion with your Christmas
greeting. You are very kind to remember me and I thank you
for your kindness.

We are glad to have Matthew back with us and we will do
what we can to forward his interests in school.

Your friend,

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In reply to:

Citizen Company,

7 Bromfield Street,
Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen:-

The clipping "Did Pope Pius the IX recognize the Confederacy?" is before me. I should be much obliged to you for the clipping in the enclosed envelope and anything additional you may have on this line. Based on this letter of Pope Pius IX, which appeared during the war I made a statement in an editorial recently that Jeff Davis's efforts to divide and destroy the country had had the Pope's blessing. I did it quite entirely on recollection being sure that the letter printed during the war could be found. A priest named McCarty of St. Paul or Minneapolis attacks me with the usual priestly vehemence and calls me a "liar." The Pope's letter and Mrs. Davis's statement as shown in your leaflet are sufficient answer but should there be additional facts in print you could furnish me without inconvenience I should be greatly obliged.

Capt. 10th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Superintendent.

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In reply to:

Chas. Daganett,
Indian School,
Crow Creek Agency, S. D.

Dear Chas.:-

I send you by express today a suit which I trust will
be "shust a fit." Please send me your check for $2.50 which
will pay for the shoulder straps, the balance is a Christmas
present from the school, but I cannot give all of my form
pupils such gifts, you will understand. The package went :
express addressed to you at Crow Creek Agency, South Dakota.

Your friend,

(Dictated)

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 12th 1904.

Us-sa-he-os-saits,

Chas. Cleveland & Bro.,

Fort Sill, Indian Territory.

My dear Friend:-

In order to issue a discharge to you I had to apply to the War Department for the blank discharge and to get authority. You will remember you came to me in Mr. Cleveland's store about this matter. I send this letter in his care so that he can explain to you fully about it and as he was at Fort Sill at the time he will be able to make it more clear to you than anyone else.

You will see by the endorsement of the Adjutant-General and the blank enclosed that the Adjutant-General would give you only a certificate of such service. It would be some bother and rather complicated to fill out the blank he sends in order to get the necessary voucher for him to issue the certificate and I have thought that my simple certificate, which I enclose herewith covering the facts in the case, would serve you because it shows your service as a scout and any time you wanted to establish any facts in connection with it the records in Washington would be opened to you promptly by having my certificate. If, however, you would prefer to have a certificate from the War Department you can fill out the enclosed blank and return

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in reply to

Carlisle, Pa., December 14th 1894.

Posy Metoxen,
Freedom, Wisconsin.

Dear Rasy:--

I am glad to hear from you and to know that your Mother is recovering. It is pleasant also to have the good news of the returned students.

We will be glad to have you return to Carlisle, and as your Mother is so much better it seems to me you had best return at once. Each day you lose from school will be a disadvantage to you. We will have a week's vacation for Christmas but will open school on Monday before New Year's day. It would be well if you could be here the first of January. If Calico does not wish to return it may be just as well for her to remain at home with your Mother.

Your friend,

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In reply to

Samuel C. Dion,
Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Dear Samuel:-

Miss Stokes expected you to return and take a place with her in Massachusetts and I had supposed that you would have a party of children ready for Mr. Standing and would come back with them as escort. Miss Stokes wrote me sometime ago that she was expecting your return. It may be that you can get up a small party of good pupils after school and bring them in.

I am sorry that Pine Ridge did not receive Mr. Standing with better results.

The Indian Helper is ordered to be sent to you at Pine Ridge.

Your friend,

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In reply to:

Mrs. Elisabeth Knapp,
833 West Third Street,
Williamsport, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Knapp:-

The only positions I have vacant at present are two
in my teaching force. These are at $500.00 and $540.00. They
have been filled by civil service appointees but the civil
service people have failed me so utterly that I have told the
Department I would take care of the vacancies and hunt up my
own teachers. If you have had successful experience in this
line please advise me. I judge from what you say that you are
rather advanced in years. I would like to know of your experience
and of your personal health, etc., if you think favorably of
these places.

Yours truly,

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

My dear Miss Fanny:-

Some days ago I received a copy of your Tennyson's
Elaine for Schools, for which I am probably indebted to you and
I wish to thank you for it. You have made a very useful little
volume, complete and modest like yourself, and I can realize
that the explanation and notes have cost you much careful
research. I congratulate you on the production.

With much love from Mrs. Pratt, Nana and myself which we
extend to you and your Father and Mother, I am,

Yours sincerely,

(Dictated)

Miss Fanny McCauley,
150 Wilson Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.

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In reply to:

Hon. W. L. Dawes,
Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Dear Senator:-

I have been, in my mind, counting on you to give our students their diplomas at Commencement, but I have not your full consent to do this and now write to ask if there is reasonable hope that we may have you with us and that you will perform this service for us. It will be our largest class and I would particularly like it distinguished by your presence in that capacity. Remember, too, that we want Mrs. Dawes and Miss Dawes and that I shall take care of the expense of you all in coming.

The air is full of Holmanism adversity for us but I have an idea that it will be a real advantage to us to have Holman oppose us. Secretary Smith in his report is quite reactionary and from all the information I can get from the various reservations the whole conditions are reactionary. The poor Indians must be housed upon the reservations and there make a success of reservation life or go to the wall. We have never had such a time getting children. Plenty of children want to come and plenty of parents want to send their children but somehow after parties are made up they are persuaded against us and very considerable parties lost. The constant evidence is that Rome does it. Wish I could see you.

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What a picture the Indian Territory presents! I was down at the Cheyenne and Kiowa Agencies with Mrs. Pratt. We went back to Ft. Still for the first time since leaving there twenty years ago with the prisoners for Florida. They have not substantially advanced in twenty years! Consumption, disease and death stalk through all their families. I wish I could tell you something I saw. It seems to me that about the only value the Indian has depends upon the quantity of money that can be carted into frontier settlements on his account. That is about all the school is used for. I looked in vain for results from the home schools. The tribes have decreased just about forty per cent in twenty years. Twenty years ago I made a report to the War Department against the beef issued to the Indians at the Kiowa Agency on account of its being diseased, poor and entirely unfit for food. I could rewrite the same report of an issue I saw on this trip which was being made to the same Indians. But the story is too long.

With kindest regards from all of us to yourself, Mrs. Dawes
and Miss Dawes,

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 15th 1894.

Miss Louise Cavalier.
Indian School.

Forest City Agency, S. D.

Dear Miss Cavalier:-

I have a place at present at $540.00 and if you are
willing to come here at that I would undoubtedly be able in
to
the near future, at least next year, increase the salary to at
least $600.00.

I return Miss Goodale's endorsement which I did not notice
before was the original.

I would be very glad to have you with us and am sorry I
can do no better at present.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

My dear Katie:-

The invitation to the graduating exercises of your
class is just received. I have planned to be in Washington the
fore part of the week and for a number of days to attend to
important school matters. I am sorry it will not be possible
for me to attend your exercises. I turn the matter over to
Mrs. Pratt who may be able to take a contemplated trip to
Philadelphia at that time and be present at your graduation.

I congratulate you, my dear Katie, on your success and
expecting for you continued and higher successes. I am,

(Dictated)

Miss Katie Grinrod,
1733 Huntington Street,
Philadelphia.

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In reply to:

J. R. Wood, G. P. A.,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sirs-

I have your letter of the 14th enclosing ticket Carlisle to Pleasanton, Kan., and return for Miss Quinn. I enclose herewith my check for $38.75 covering the same.

Thanking you for your kind attention to my request for this ticket, I am,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Mr. John Gansworth,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Mr. Gansworth:-

I have asked the General Passenger Agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad to instruct the agent at Canandaigua, New York,
to deliver to you one Indian rate ticket reading to Carlisle
and from where I can give you an Indian rate ticket back. I have
told him what you would want the ticket at Canandaigua on
December 19th.

(Dروسed)

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlietie, Pa., January 26th 1893.

Rev. S. S. Gilson, Editor of "The Presbyterian Reporter."

Bank of Commerce Bldg., 6th Ave. & Wool St.,
Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Doctor:-

Thanks for your great big questions. I am not sure, nor do I think I shall be through any pounding Rome can give me. I do not expect now for the rest of my life to be free from Popish calumny. Glad you like the Red Man, and I am warned and encouraged by the prayers of good people everywhere.

You can have the half-tone plate of my countenance if you want it, also the plate of the baseball team, though I would suggest that it is hardly suitable for your uses.

Wish I could go to see you but I am loaded with business and when I do get away I want to go to some quiet, wild nook where I can fish and perhaps hunt a little.

I shall send you an invitation to our commencement which occurs on the last two days of February. May we not hope that you and Mrs. Gilson will come to see us again?

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlsisle, Pa., January 30th 1905.

Mr. M. C. Kennedy,

Vice-President C. V. Railroad,

Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Sirs:-

I acknowledge with pleasure the courtesy of the Annual
Pass enclosed in yours of January the 28th and herewith return the
one for last year.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., January 20th 1895.

My dear Miss Abbott:-

I thought I made it plain in a former letter that when the arrangement for your Father's lecture on the evening of February 26th was consummated the College Y. M. C. A. Course, which had been held open for several days awaiting answer from your Father and receiving none, had been closed. So President Reed and I agreed between ourselves to undertake the lecture outside of the course. Later it appeared to me quite as well for us to have the lecture in our school chapel, which is quite one of the largest and best rooms in the town for such purposes, and so give all of our advanced students an opportunity of attending and also open it to the town people. I submitted this to Dr. Reed and he agreed. The lecture can be quite well appreciated by half of our students and if your Father went to Bosler Hall or the Opera House in the town very few of our students could attend.

The lecture, your Father will remember, was an after thought. My anxiety was to have your Father here at the graduating exercises which occur on the afternoon of the 28th. I wish also that he might be here through the exercises on the previous day, the 27th, in order to know about us by personal observation. Were it not for the

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lecture it would serve just as well for your father to leave
Brooklyn on the morning of the 27th and reach here at one o'clock
that afternoon and leave us, if he wanted to, at six o'clock on
the evening of the 28th or stay over as may suit his purposes best.
The really important time to the school, and consequently to me, is
the afternoon of the 28th. I know how valuable your father's time
is and it is not fair for me to expect so much, but I will say now
what I did not intend to say until later, that I
made the change of the lecture from town to the school intending to
increase the amount that your father should have all the proceeds,
believing I could make it $75.00 and perhaps $100.00, as I can very
properly ask all my intelligent and advanced pupils who have money
to pay an entrance fee and add that to what will come from the town.

I would say that the evening before the day of the graduating
exercises has been for several years given to a general meeting in
which our students gave some musical exercises and members of
Congress and others from Washington and elsewhere made short speech-
es then and also at the time the diplomas were given and I had
counted upon your father for a probable fifteen to twenty minute
at the graduating exercises,
address, but not on the evening of the 27th if he gave the address
on the evening of the 26th. At the graduating exercises the
addresses have taken wide range on the Indian question and we have
always had an immense audience. Last year there were at least
1500 strangers present besides about 700 pupils. This year I hope

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., January 31st 1895.

Mr. A. C. Logan,
Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

Your postal of the 17th came during my absence in Washington. I thank you for your commendation of my ideas.

Two of our debating societies, one composed of the girls,--"The Susan Longstreth Literary Society,"-- and one composed of the boys,--"The Invincibles,"-- will hold a public debate in our school chapel on Saturday evening, February 9th, on the subject:

"Resolved: That more work has been and is being done for the betterment of humanity by women than by men."

I note the wish you express in your postal to attend one of the debates, and if you and your "Union Philosophical Society" care to hear this debate we shall be pleased to have you present. The debate will begin at seven o'clock.

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Carlsbad, Pa., January 31st 1896.

Gen. E. Whittlesey,

Secretary Board of Indian Commissioners,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Generals:-

Thanks for the opportunity to revise my somewhat
meandering utterances. I enclose you what I did say and intended
to say and would have said had I been writing it out.

I have been sick in bed several days but am up today.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 1st 1895.

Frank S. Shively,

1725 Cherry Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Frank:-

I am so glad to get your nice letter of yesterday and to know from you yourself that you are really getting well. I have had this information from Mr. Edwards several times but it is so much better that you yourself realize and feel it.

There is no objection to your going to some good place, as you suggest, after you are dismissed from the Hospital, but you must not think of stirring from there until the Doctor sends you.

I hope you now have learned a great lesson, that is, how necessary it is to take the best of care of the houses we live in.

You and we all are very greatly indebted to the kind friends at the Hospital for the excellent treatment and nursing they have given you.

We are in unusually good health here at the school and are having splendid winter weather with plenty of snow and fine sleighing for weeks past.

Your friend,

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Geo. E. Little,

Dr. Sheaffer, State Superintendent,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Little:-

My funds for "extras" have lately become so low that I am
scarcely ever able to indulge in luxuries. We should, of course,
be glad to see you here and have an evening's entertainment from
you, or have a whole week's service in the school rooms as formerly,
but I do not see how we can meet anything but a very nominal
price for such. This evening or Saturday evening might be used
for an entertainment.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUBORDINATED

Julia M. Long,

M. E. Hospital, South Broad & Wolfe Sts.,
Philadelphia.

My dear Julia:-

I have been in bed for several days but was out yesterday.

I think, my dear Julia, that you have quite misapprehended the
situation. I stand in relation to you the same as a father. The
place you now have was secured for you by me and you are there as
yet only conditionally. You belong to Carlisle just as much as
ever and will until you graduate from the Hospital and have demon-
strated that you are entirely able to take care of yourself. It
would not be right for me to permit the formation of alliances among
the pupils under my care unless I fully understand them and can
realize that they are all right and consistent with and approved by
their obligations elsewhere. I like very much your loyal spirit to
what you think is right, but I mean to approve of the spirit of
loyalty only and not to approve of the act. There are a great many
things to be considered in connection with such matters. Charlie
himself is also under like obligations and he did right to speak to
me about the correspondence. The feeling you have for each other

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if right and proper in every respect, will only gain wisdom and
more healthful strength by delay, and even the silence that I feel
is best, should help you.

What you reveal to me now as to the relation between you and
Charlie would have had a great influence upon me in placing you in
the Hospital, if I had known, as I ought to have known it, before
you went there. The chances that you may not continue in and meet
our expectations by successfully passing through your course to
graduation, would have made a great difference in my efforts to give
you the place, or to let you go there at all.

I am sorry that you should have a feeling towards your school
Mother other than what is right. I know that she is perfectly
loyal to and thoroughly anxious for you and I believe that you have
no cause for other than the greatest trust in her. Indeed, I feel
assured that if you had been more willing to yield yourself to her
judgment, you yourself would have been much better fitted for the
work upon which you are entering now.

Affectionately your friend and school father,

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Is apply to:

Mr. John Baker,

Manager "Herald, "

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Baker:--

I was ill in bed from Sunday until yesterday. But I
want to thank you now for your pleasant notice of our entertainment.
It was profitable to our object. We cleared above $110.00,-- but
the best of it was that the efforts of our students were so highly
appreciated.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

My dear Mr. Campbell:-

I have been sick for sometime and received your letter
while in bed. Yesterday I was out but I am not in good condition
yet.

You have been on my mind constantly since your previous letter
and much more since the receipt of yours of the 26th. My feeling
about it is that you have no other course now but to fight it out.
You owe it to yourself and your long service to go to the Department,
even to the Secretary and demand an investigation by their oldest
and best inspector. Stand by yourself now. I do not see any way
in which I can help you.

(Dictated)

Mr. W. P. Campbell,
Supt. Sisseton School,
Sisseton Agency, South Dakota.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

G. H. Pray,

3734 Market Street,
West Philadelphia.

Dear Sir:-

I feel that your price for an entertainment is greater
than I can afford to realize to you. I can, of course, stand a
small expense but not quite so much.

(Eictated)

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In re: apply to:

Gen. E. Whittlesey, Sec. Board of Indian Commissioners,
Washington, D. C.

Dear General:-

In my corrected address sent you yesterday on page 20
the fourth line from the top imperious is the word I wanted to use
instead of "autocratic." Will you please make the correction.

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in comply with

Carlisle, Pa., February 2nd 1906.

Paul Cook,

Troy, New York.

My dear Friend:-

Thanks many for your encouragement in the fight. I have
never fought because I wanted to, always because I had to. I trust
after this Congress that we may have such legislation as will compel
the aggressive enemy to give us a rest.

Cannot you and Mrs. Cook be with us at our Commencement the two
last days of February? It is always a very enjoyable time and it
would add greatly to my own personal pleasure at that time if you
could be with us.

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In sepa r at e

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,

OFFICE OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL

Carlisle, Pa., February 2nd 1895.

Miss Mollie V. Gaither,

Pendleton, Oregon.

My dear Miss Gaither:-

Thanks for your good letter. How pleasant it was to
hear from you and to hear about your work. I should greatly enjoy
seeing your school. It seems to me well that you have the small
ones and it seems to me that I ought to have the large ones, a
share of them at least. We do not want any under twelve, we prefer
none under fourteen and I have held that decision for years. This
would give the Agency schools great swing. But the trouble has
been that when they pass into the fourteen and beyond period they
pass out of school and are simply re-absorbed into the tribe. The
tribe takes them up and does exactly for them what the United States
would do for them if they could get into the United States, that is
absorbs them. Anything they may have gained that is not in harmony
with the tribe, the tribe soon rubs out, just as is the case if they
drop into the United States, anything they may have practiced or
gotten into them before that that is inimical to the United States
the United States rubs out. It is so, it is philosophical, it is
natural.

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I am glad you look towards Carlisle for some of your pupils. If distance intimidates them or their parents, it does not intimidate me and in time I shall expect that they themselves will see that distance is desirable, which it surely is. I should be glad, of course, to get any children you may send to us. They should be Indian as much as possible. More and more, I think, the Government should press upon the mixed-bloods that they should escape from Indian lines and drop in with us, where their better blood, which is in larger quantity, demands they should be.

Please remember me most kindly to Miss McAdam. I trust her health is greatly improved.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana join with me in kindest regards to you.
Richenda is at School near Baltimore in Maryland.

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W. C. B. Girton,

Kyle, South Dakota.

My dear William:-

I have your letter about John Red Horse but I do not exactly understand it. I wish you would write and tell me who killed John Red Horse, and tell me all about the murders. An eastern newspaper stated that the murders were Carlisle students, but we never had any students here who bore the names of the men who are alleged to have been the murders.

Your friend,

(Dietated)

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In reply to:

Carliellc, Pa., February 4th 1896.

Dr. Samuel Moss,

Woodbury, New Jersey.

My dear Doctors:-

Our Commencement occurs on the 27th and 28th of February.
We are just now getting out the Invitations and you will receive one
sometime this week. Contrary to the usual order our Commencement
exercises occur in February and our graduating class passes out
and there is a general promotion throughout the school but otherwise
the school work goes on as usual and we carry it through to June.

I shall be happy to have you with us at our Commencement and
will be pleased to make special arrangements for your transportation
and entertainment while here.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 4th 1895.

Confidential.

Dr. W. N. Hailman,

Superintendent Indian Schools,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor:-

I enclose to you Mr. Campbell's last letter. I do this,
Doctor, of course confidentially and entirely for your information
and possible guidance in forming a course of action. I have written,
Judge Browning about the matter but I did not send him the letter
and did not know as it would be good policy for him to read it. If
you think it would, you may let him see it.

You know my estimate of Mr. Campbell, -at the same time I want
to say that the chances are ten to one that he would be replaced
by a less competent person, who in the near future will from some
like cause fall victim to the same discreditable conditions. I
have found it the best policy when two of my students or employes
wanted to fight to give them the fullest chance by compelling them
to live together. There is too much fielding and making changes to
settle quarrels. It will not do to be unjust to Mr. Campbell,
whatever his personal foibles. An Inspector who is not a Catholic

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and who is big enough to be fair-minded in his judgments, ought to
be sent there at once.

Yours sincerely,

(Dictated)

Sisseton Government School,
Sisseton Agency, S. D., Jan. 26th 1895.

Capt. R. H. Pratt,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Captain:

The inevitable has happened. The Agent has suspended me upon his returning from Washington and refuses to give his reason. The day before his arrival the cook called me a liar when I told him his bells were not rung on time and that the bell was not half cooked. He waited until I had gone into my breakfast and then commenced to rant before the girls in the kitchen. I sent for him to come to my office and asked him who it was that he was calling a liar and he said it was I. I gave him until the next day to send in his resignation. That evening he and the Agent's brother left the school and held a consultation with the Agent who had returned and the next day, the 24th, instead of his resignation, the Agent issues an order suspending me. We suggested that I resign quietly and ask for a transfer, but this I repudiated as my suspension is downright villiany.

I am in a network of villiany and hardly know what to expect, but if a fair minded inspector comes I will be vindicated. But come what may I want to get out of this condition and away from a system so corrupt.

I want to get back to Carlisle if you will have me. You need not bother about Mrs. C., and I am willing to do anything. I have made a great mistake and must for my children's sake as well as my own get back into civilization. If you have nothing for me, wouldn't you want a man to look after the outside farm boys or something of that kind. I am willing to do anything in order to get back and if you have nothing for me, have you anything to suggest. No one knows my circumstances better than you.

The Agent suggests to my teachers who are loyal to me that he is going to ask for a lady superintendent. This will give his brother absolute control and then they can accomplish their purposes. Things have been dreadful here the last two days, Agent running everything into the ground and if an inspector does not arrive promptly he will find everything demoralized. God knows what the result will be, but I have faithfully tried to do my duty. The pupils are all with me, that I know. The Agent has told the older Indians that I am going to take the children to Carlisle and thus stirred them up against me. If you want me or not I will bring a party to Carlisle, if hard work will get them.

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In reply to:

Personal.

Hon. D. M. Browning,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Judge Browning:--

I have had several letters from Mr. Campbell telling me
his side of all his difficulties at Sisseton. It is a common
Agency picture. I have seen it over and over again for more than
twenty-five years.

As Mr. Campbell tells it to me I should have done just as he
did. Oil and water do not mix. McLaughlin's long career at Stand-
ing Rock was due entirely to the fact that he was allowed entire
control of his employes and that he got around him priests and nuns
and only Catholics like himself. Keller, being a Catholic,
like all the rest of them, thoroughly aggressive and determined to
root out everything that is not Catholic. I have never known con-
tinued amicable relations in Agency or school work where Catholics
form a part of the force. It was a mistake to put Keller's brother
in the School under Mr. Campbell.

Mr. Campbell writes me he desires nothing more than a fair
investigation of all his acts by the most competent inspector in

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Hon. H. M. Teller,

U. S. Senate,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator:-

If our appropriation is not increased, as I propose, so that I can carry a larger number under the outing system, it ought not to be decreased and ought to be in the same wording as this year. We shall average above 700 pupils this year, and so will cost the Government less than $150.00 per pupil including transportation, improvements, repairs to buildings, and all expenses of every sort. If we take out for transportation and repairs and improvement as allowed by the Bill, we would have about $90,000.00 left of the $105,000.00 and would then be costing the Government less than $130.00 per capita.

My proposition to take 1500 children for $137,500.00 stands. Should that proposition be entertained and it be thought too great an addition to begin with, I will say that for the ensuing year we can carry 1000 children on $122,500.00, and this would cover transportation, building and repairs and every expense whatsoever; or we can carry 1200 children on $136,500.00, or 1500 children on

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$157,500.00. In any case there would be no objection to the number of children being stated in the Bill but the wording of the Bill ought to be the same as it is the present year that we may have full control of all the money. The fixing a specific amount for transportation and another amount for repairs, as now in the House Bill, only militates against success.

With great respect,

(Dictated)

P. S. Transportation is always brought up as a bugaboo against us. If you will take into account that the pupils come here for five years, and that during that time supplies would have to be sent to them at the home schools every year for five years at large transportation cost, and that the schools near the reservations have shorter terms and many of them let pupils go home every year or every other year and thus pay two or more fares to our one, you can easily figure that the advantage in the transportation cost is on our side.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 5th 1893.

Miss Frances C. Sparhawk,
Newton Centre, Mass.

My dear Miss Sparhawk:-

In reply to your request I send you herewith two lists
of pupils who have left us within the last few years and who are
doing well. I trust you will find in them what you wish. If they
do not meet you wish please let me know and I will supply the
defect if I can.

With cordial greetings to you from us all,

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In order to:

OFFICE OF MINISTER OF STATE.

Carlisle, Pa., February 6th 1898.

W. S. Bowle,

Scule Photographic Company,
338 Washington Street,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sirs-

Will you kindly send me a list of your North American
Indian Photographs. I have a number which I secured from you
several years ago of Indians in the Indian Territory, the names of
some of whom I have forgotten, and I wish to place the names with
the pictures.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., February 5th 1895.

Elizabeth Bryant Johnston,
1320 Florida Avenue,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:-

Your book came to me several days ago but as I did not know just where to make payment I delayed forwarding the amount of $2.00 named on the paper with the book. I now enclose my check for $2.00 with form of receipt which please sign and return.

Your book "George Washington Day by Day," is indeed most
complete and I am glad to have it for our library.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., February 5th 1896.

J. R. Cullerton, Jr.,
Chariotte, Pa.

Dear Sirs,

Your letter was received, for which I am sorry.

We have arranged to give you Saturday night and will meet you
party at the station in Carlisle or at Gettysburg Junction. If you
will advise at which place and the train on which you will be.

(Diluted)

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF DEPARTMENTARY

Carlisle, Pa., February 6th 1896.

C. P. Somersby,

28 Lafayette Place,
New York.

My dear friend:-

I have so much reading matter to take up my attention
that I am compelled in these hard times to cut down my expenses. I
will therefore be obliged to you if you will stop my subscription to
"The Commonwealth." I did not take it because I was in perfect
sympathy with its views but because I wanted to learn, but unfor-
tunately I have had little time to investigate.

(Dictated)

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Inuly 18

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Harry Kopay,

22 1/2 Noxon Street,

Poughkeepsie, New York.

Dear Harry;-

It seems to me that it will be better for you to hang on
until you complete your course, and as you will have money yourself
before long I will help you. Please let me know how much longer
you think you ought to stay until you will perfect your knowledge,
and what the expense will be.

(Dictated)

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To be sent to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 6th 1895.

Kish Hawkins,

Dartington, Oklahoma.

Dear Kish:-

I have written to Capt. Woodson direct endorsing you for the position of additional former. I trust you may secure the position and know that if you do, your industry, rectitude and ability will continue you in the work.

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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Is apply to.

Capt. A. E. Woodson,

Acting Indian Agent,

Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency,

Darlington, G. T.

Dear Sir:-

Kish Hawkins writes asking me to endorse him as an additional farmer at your Agency. I can say that while Kish was at this school he had some of the best farming experiences and that he gave entire satisfaction to the farmers with whom he worked and he grew to be one of those among our pupils most desired by the farmers because of his ability. His conduct throughout his service at this school was exemplary and from what I know of such matters I believe that if he retains the same qualities he would not be below the average in ability and usefulness of the farmers sent out to instruct the Indians.

Supt.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 6th 1925.

John A. Miles,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Friends:-

How I wish I could go with your party to California,
but it is not worth my while to entertain the thought of such a
pleasure. The taking away of $1,000.00 of my pay has been a sad
affliction and I have had to cut on all lines. I need to get away
but when I do go I must take some cheaper line and get into some
good fishing region.

(Dictated)

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In re: poly 10

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
CLERICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

CarliLea, Pa., February 9th 1895.

My dear Mr. Pickler:-

I thank you for supporting the cause of Carlisle to get the
phraseology of our appropriation changed.

I am greatly interested in all you say on the Indian question,
and have missed from the columns of the Congressional Record what
you may have said on the 19th of January, see Record page 1267.
Please advise me where it can be found.

With great respect,
(Dictated)

Hon. J. A. Pickler,

U. S. House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

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Sen. Teller, page 2.

ment moneys will be driven to close their accounts on the 16th of
the last month of the quarter and to misrepresent their responsibil-
ity by claiming to close on the first if they avoid the penalties
of the law.

The previous regulation was thirty days after the quarter, but
from what I know of the returns I am safe in saying that more than
four-fifths of the returns were not in within the thirty days. You
can see that by excusing Democrats circumstance, and holding
Republicans responsible it is a very simple operation to say the
Republicans into resignation or to remove them for failure to comply.
My past experience has been that accounts are not reviewed and
settled in Washington often for years.

The operation of this law is to give excessive work for twenty
days and excessive relaxation for seventy days in each quarter to
the clerical force making these returns.

It is probably too late to look into this matter now in this
Session of Congress, but it is undoubtedly a condition of things
that ought not to exist. If the making of returns is to be so
absolutely governed by a law of Congress with penalties so low
should undoubtedly be so framed as to make it possible of compliance
by most if not all the responsible officers, and the penalty should
not be the withholding of funds for payment of employee and purchase
because neither the employee nor the creditors of the Government are
or can be responsible in any sense for the acts of the officer in

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 11th 1990.

To the Honorable,

The President of the State Senate,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Sir:-

I learn that a number of the Members of the State Senate desire to visit this School.

In former years the Legislature has thought it worth while to visit us in a body. It occurs to me that the occasion of our Commencement exercises, on the afternoon of the 28th of February, might best suit the Legislature or its Members.

Permit me, therefore, to extend through you to the Senate or its interested Members and their families a general invitation to be present at our Commencement exercises on the 28th of February, and to say that if it is the pleasure of the Legislature collective or any considerable number of its Members, to visit us at that time a special train will leave Harrisburg at one o'clock on the 28th, and arrive on our siding on the School grounds at 1.45, which will be in ample time for the general exercises. These exercises will close by 4.30 and an hour could then be spent in looking over the grounds and buildings, the train leaving at 5.30 and reaching

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 11th 1895.

To

The Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Sirs-

I learn that a number of the Members of the House desire to visit this School.

Permit me, therefore, to extend through you to the House or its interested Members and their families a general invitation to be present at our Commencement exercises on the 28th of February, and to say that if it is the pleasure of the Legislature, collectively or any considerable number of its Members, to visit us at that time a special train will leave Harrisburg at one o'clock on the 28th and arrive here on our siding on the School grounds at 1.45, which will be in ample time for the general exercises. These exercises will close by 4.30 and an hour could then be spent in looking over the grounds and buildings, the train leaving at 5.30

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February 12th 1895.

Dear Senator Dawes:-

We are to be especially honored on our
Commencement afternoon by the Pennsylvania Legislature
which is coming over in a body, so it is all the more
fortunate that you will be with us to deliver the
diplomas. Please let me know where I shall send you
transportation, from Pittsfield or Washington. If
from Washington, the regular excursion will leave
there at 7.50 Wednesday morning, the 27th.

(Dictated)

Hon.H. L. Dawes,

Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 14th 1895.

Miss Adeline F. Pattee,
Northfield Seminary,
East Northfield, Mass.

Dear Madam:-

In reply to your letter of February 7th I send you by
this mail a lot of printed matter which will give you full inform-
ation about this school. In regard to samples of our work, we
have nothing which I think would be of interest for your meeting.
This school is very practical in its work and much of the industrial
work that is done is for the school consumption.

If there is any further information you wish, I shall
be glad to give it to you if you will let me know

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Carlisle, Pa., February 13th 1895.

Kate Minchen,

207 West 29th Street,
New York City.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 15th, 1906.

Rev. H. G. Genss,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sirs:-

Upon inquiry last evening I found that Mr. Standing had informed Mr. Thompson of your meeting that evening and that Mr. Thompson had spoken of it to Benjamin Thewell and several of the Catholic boys, but had made no special announcement of it before all the boys because your meeting has been held in the Right of a regular occurrence. After considering the matter further I found that the hour you already have is the best time for your meeting and I have directed Mr. Thompson and Miss Shaffer to hereafter meet in the supper roll call every Thursday evening, call the attention of your Catholic pupils to the fact that that is the evening for your meeting, unless we have word from you before then that you will not be out.

Supt.

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In reply to:

Carlsbad, Pa., February 18th 1904.

Capt. George LeRoy Brown,

Whipple Barracks, Arizona.

My dear Brown!-

You seem to have had a close call for the place and certainly there is great kindness and unusual friendliness for you. I wish I could see some way to get you what you want but nothing presents itself now. I see Mr. Thompson belongs to Iowa. I count among my special friends Seminary Allman and Representative Bull of the Des Moines district but do not see how they can help. These state appointments are usually given to officials from the state.

With love to you all,

(Signed)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 15th 1895.

Dear Miss Sparhawk:-

We are constantly importuned to furnish places for most excellent families within the scope of our own jurisdiction and so long as there are these places open to us where we can give supervision to those placed under our care it does not seem wise to me to go further away. Your source for supply for such places as you can find should be these schools which cannot thus secure places for their pupils as we can.

I have proposed to the Government that I should take 1,000 pupils here, more than one-half of whom I would place and in house where they would be sent to school during school terms. This is better for those who still need schooling than the places you propose.

I doubt very much if we shall succeed in giving material content along the lines of getting into families as servants young Indians, as you propose, so long as the Government continues the annuitants and rations on the reservations. These are observations which are the most destructive of all.

I was greatly interested in your article on the Mound Conference (Dieted) and your abscissa, Y.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., February 13th 1896.

Mrs. S. Elliott,

506 High Street,

Williamsport, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Elliott:-

I do not see that we could sell the Washington Will here
among our people. We have no end of material pressed upon us here
and our resources are quite limited.

Yours very truly,

(Dictated)

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 16th 1895.

Hon. Thomas B. Kennedy,
President C. V. R. R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Sirs:-

I send you herewith a roll showing services of our students in shoveling snow for your railroad.

The Reading Road paid 20¢ per hour and on a former occasion you paid the boys 30¢ per hour. Monday and Tuesday being mild days I satisfied them with 15¢ per hour. I place the limit of service at a less number of hours than they really were absent at the work; for instance, Sunday the 10th the boys left the school at seven in the morning and did not get back until six and they worked without food, but they were led into a blunder by the absence of Mr. Lawrence at Gettysburg Junction at the time of their reporting and spent quite a period in walking which ought to have been spent at work and I feel that the lesson is necessary. Seventeen of them went into the Hospital on account of frozen feet, ears or hands Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

I am sorry if you are disappointed in the rates but these rates are hardly what the boys expected when they undertook the job.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 18th 1905.

Mrs. Lucretia Blankenburg,
214 West Logan Square,
Philadelphia.

My dear Friend:-

Yours of the 16th enclosing check received and the amount
is satisfactory.

I have had a full account of your excellent meeting from
Mrs. Pratt and am glad to find you are marching on. Wish that your
success might come soon so as to drive out the whiskey hordes,
reduce crime and the revenues of the Catholic Church.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 18th 1895.

U. A. Ewan,

1210 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sirs:-

I find I can make quite satisfactory arrangements for
caterer and cook here at a cost for both, less than Mr. Lee's price.
I am much obliged to you for the suggestion and the offer of what
really is a very low price, but the railroad expenses are too
material.

I shall be very glad to hear from you about the woman cook and
then if I can hear of another good cook as assistant for the same
work I shall be pleased. What I want is two cooks who can undertake
our mess and at the same time manage the detail of girls and the
table service, one to be principal cook and the other assistant cook.
Both women must be of unexceptional character and ability. If we
can find two such they can have regular employment so long as they
give satisfaction. I had one cook in the place eight years. Heretofore I have had a matron and a cook but now feel that our work will
be better performed by having two cooks, as there is no material
difficulty in taking care of the matron's duties. Both must be
Protestants.

(Dictated)

Yours truly,

Cant. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A. Supt.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT;

Carlisle, Pa., February 18th 1896.

Miss G. V. McEwan,

P. O. Box 787,

New York.

Dear Madam:-

Owing to a pressure of work upon me I have not been able
to answer your letter before this.

We have fifty different Indian tribes here with as many
different Indian languages. I send you herewith, however, some
Indians words which I trust may suit your purpose.

Crow, Piegan, Kiowa,
Winner, --My-ni-sho, He-mat-sah, Kone,
Victor, --Gah-bone,
Conquerer, --Gah-bone,
Defender, --Kan-bone,

Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa. February 19th, 1894

Wm. C. B. Girton,

Kyle, S. D..

My Dear William:-

It is quite impossible for me to take up any
legal or Agency matters connected with our students after they
return home. So long as you were with me I looked out for you
and took care of your troubles. When you left to take care
of yourselves or went back to the Agency and said by that that
you wanted the Agent to take care of you, you relieved me of
my responsibilities and said you preferred the Agt. The Agt.
has control there. I have control here. I can only control the
conditions in and about Carlisle.

I am very, very sorry if things do not suit you.

Faithfully Your Friend.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 20th 1995.

T. B. Kennedy,

Prest. C. V. R. R.,

Chambersburg, Pa.

Letter will reach you by your train No. 5 today.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Sent via "Upper Warehouse," at 10.58 A. M.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 21st 1995.

Major H. B. Freeman,

Osage Agency,

Elocin, Chautauqua Co., Kansas.

Harry Kopay arrived here from Eastman College, Poughkeepsie. Anxious to finish course and graduate with class four weeks hence. Fears visit home would defeat purpose. Asks you wire further information. Will wait answer.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 19th 1895.

Captain John Bigelow, Jr.,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, Massachusetts.

My dear Captain:-

Our Indian population is decreasing. In 1873 the number
of Indians in the United States, exclusive of those in Alaska, was
295,084; in 1883, 265,565, and in 1893, 249,366.

Any Indian may become a citizen by quitting his tribe and
declaring his intention and assuming the conditions of citizenship.
Senator Edmunds, in answer to the same question from me, said that all
an Indian had to do to become a citizen was to pay taxes and be
ready to fight for the Government. The Lands in Sevralty law
makes Indians citizens and voters when they have accepted the
conditions of the Law. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes in the Indian
Territory are voters, though most of them are blanket Indians,
because they have taken lands in severalty. Two of my students have
been elected recorders of deeds in two separate counties, largely
because of the Indian vote. The Indians in Michigan are citizens,
most of those in Wisconsin, all in Nebraska and most of the tribes
on the Pacific coast. The exact number I do not know but should say

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Capt. John Bigelow, page 2.

there are approximately 50,000 voters among the Indians.

In regard to your question about the Indians' status in the courts: so far as I have been able to discover the courts are at the disposal of an Indian for the protection of his rights wherever he has the ability to use them. Of late years I do not know of his ever being deprived of his privileges as a man before any of our courts. Judge Dundy in the Standing Bear case declared that an Indian was a person and that has been strengthened by the Dawes' Land in Severalty law and other acts of Congress. He also testifies so far as I know in any court. He is peculiarly and especially under the protection of the United States courts. He is a great source of revenue to the United States Marshals. Mileage and fees and other revenues for marshals are made to accumulate rapidly in the United States courts in the vicinity of the tribes.

The enclosed printed slip will give you a fair idea of how Carlisle started.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 20th 1896.

Richard Davis,

Cheyenne and Arapaho Sub-Agency,
Arapahoe, O. T.

Dear Richard:-

I have wondered for sometime what I had been doing that
made you neglect to write to me. My wonder has subsided somewhat
and I am greatly pleased to receive your letter of January, a
portion of which I printed in the Helper. It is full of good
information. People ought to know that Indian boys and girls
educated at Carlisle are not only able to fight their own battles,
but able to take upon themselves responsible duties, as you have.
I have every confidence in your success. I know that you will not
fail to be thoroughly energetic and early and late in attention to
the work entrusted to you.

I am glad, indeed, to get the information you give and there
is nothing you say I have not felt was true. The western people
are holding onto the Indians to make money out of them. That is the
whole sum and substance of it. They are unwilling they should go
away as long as there is money to be carted into their locality by
having the Indians there. A very strong feeling has been built up

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Richard Davis, page 2.

against us by these influences. I am sorry to say that I have
found from many quarters that ecclesiasticism is having much to do
with advancing these conditions, but I shall trust that the influence
of our returned students will relieve this, and that the Indians
will be able to see through the thin shell and get at the truth,
and when they do these people will find that the Indians understand
a thing or two and are not going to be made tools of.

I saw nothing while at the Cheyenne and Kiowa Agencies that
did not but strengthen my views in regard to educating the young in
the midst of our civilization. There were no Agency schools that I
found that amounted to anything in either place. I inquired in
vain for creditable products of these schools and while the majority
of the young married people had been in the Agency schools, to all
appearances they were still the same old Indians in their traits
and aspirations. To get real, active, industrial life crowded
in, that at all amounts to anything, requires that the subject
shall be thoroughly immersed, and that, too, for a long time, in the
midst of industrial, energetic life. The schools off the reserva-
tion accomplish this.

Mr. Standing has made a long trip through the Dakotas, and as
far west as Idaho, taking in Arizona and New Mexico, and the Doctor
has been in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Montana, and everywhere
the testimony is the same. This being so time will fully develop
the truth, and we have nothing to fear, but have only to wait.

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Richard Davis, page 3.

There are some of our students, like yourself, who have the
courage of truth within them and will stand steadfast until our
enemies are overthrown.

We are having the best of winter weather and the best sleighing
we have had since we came to Carlisle. The health of the school
naver was better. There are scarcely any in the hospital and we
have 736 pupils. There were eleven days recently when we had but
one patient in the Hospital, and that poor Eli Hunlona, an Apache.
Where is a school that can show as good a record?

I was greatly disappointed, and I wish you would tell my
friends among the Cheyennes, that they did not rally round me and
give me a good big party of pupils. After all the battles I have
fought for them it seemed to me the least they could have done.

Give our love to Nannie and the children, and with best wishes
for your success, believe me,

Always faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 21st 1895.

Dr. Charles S. Albert, Editor,
Lutheran Publication Society,
No. 42 North Ninth Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Doctor:-

I send you by this mail a small package of printed matter
in which you will find information about the school.

Glad to hear from you and to know of your pleasant location.

Thank you for your kind words.

Come up to our Commencement with any members of your family. I
can send you ticket for round trip at cost of fare one way ($5.70).

With cordial regards, I am,

Yours very truly,

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In reply to:

Captain John Archiquette,
Oneida, Wisconsin.

My dear Captain:-

I pray you excuse the liberty I take in writing to you in
regard to Belinda.

It was impressed upon us all while Belinda was here at the
school that she was a most promising pupil for higher education. At
her recent visit in charge of the little party of pupils it so
happened that I had been recently placed in a position that enabled
me to offer higher education to one of our graduates. A friend had
given me a small sum of money for that purpose. I told Belinda of
it and urged that on her return she talk to you about it and if she
had your consent that she take advantage of it. Belinda has rare
qualities for a teacher and a two years' course at one of our best
normal schools would so complete her for such a position as to
make her constant employment thereafter certain. She has great
patience and rare qualities as a disciplinarian and already has the
foundation of her education well laid, but she needs something more
than all else and that is, to be under special training for, and
association with those who teach.

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Capt. John Archiquette, page 2.

Miss Nellie Robertson, one of our graduates and a companion of Belinda, has about completed her course at the West Chester State Normal School. This is one of the best institutions of the kind and Belinda could go there at once and I can see the way to the means for all her expenses. Allow me, my dear Captain, to urge upon you the importance of granting to Belinda this opportunity. There is no Indian School in the service, in my judgment, Carlisle not excepted, but would be glad to employ Belinda in one of the higher places after she had graduated from the West Chester Normal School. I have already offered to Nellie Robertson a position here at this school at $600.00 per year.

It has come to me incidently that a young man, a former student of this school, seeks Belinda's hand. I did have the greatest regard for this young man and helped him not a little. But I feel that it is due to you to know that he betrayed my confidence utterly as well as the confidence of a considerable number of others, his friends. On false pretences he borrowed money right and left and when he was involved to the extent of hundreds of dollars and the conditions became dangerous, he took refuge on the reservation and has not had the principle to even acknowledge the many letters of inquiry his creditors have sent. I have been annoyed not a little by the presentation of bills he unnecessarily contracted for clothing in the town of Carlisle. In my judgment it would be a

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great wrong to Belinda to be tied to such a man. If he honorably
came forward and liquidated his obligations and showed the proper
spirit about it the case might be different. I have not heretofore
allowed myself to give expression in regard to this matter, but
feel that where it involves the happiness of one of our most highly
esteemed graduates I would do wrong to be silent, at least to you.

I am, dear Captain,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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376

In reply to:

James J. Logan, Jr.,

800 South George Street,
York, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 17th.

Any Indian may become a citizen by quitting his tribe and declar-
ing his intention and assuming the conditions of citizenship. The
Lands in Severalty law makes Indians citizens and voters when they
have accepted the conditions of the Law. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes
in the Indian Territory are voters, though most of them are blanket
Indians, because they have taken lands in severalty. The Indians
in Michigan are citizens, most of those in Wisconsin, all in Nebraska
and most of the tribes on the Pacific coast. The exact number I
do not know but should say there are approximately 50,000 voters
among the Indians.

One of my graduates, who is now employed here at the school
votes. None of the pupils vote.

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Dr. Edwin W. Rice, Editor,
The American Sunday-School Union,
1122 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Sir:-

I enclose a picture of a Kiowa woman, a Kiowa papoose and a small Kiowa boy, the last a boy we had here at Carlisle for a short time, the parents being former Carlisle students. The first two pictures are copies of old photographs I had. These are the only pictures I have which I think would at all suit your purpose.

Twenty years ago Soule, the famous Boston photographer, took the pictures of many of the Indian Territory Indians, and among them the Comanches and Kiowas. I think he could supply you with what you wish better than any one else.

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Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith,

Chairman, Committee on Awards, Board of Lady Managers,
Room 701, Masonic Temple,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Madam:-

Your letter in regard to the Diploma of Honorable Mention
was mislaid, and I regret that it therefore has not received
attention before.

Our exhibit at the Columbian Exposition represented the work
of so many different pupils of this school, that any distinction
would be invidious. It does not, therefore, seem practicable
to endeavor to fill out the enclosed blank (498).

Thanking you for the courtesy of your letter, I am,

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In reply to:

General J. F. Boyd,
Superintendent C. V. R. R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

The State Senate accepted of my invitation as a body, and
the House accepted of the invitation, but desiring to be in session
authorized the absence of such members as would care to come over.
Our Senator, who has the matter in charge, thinks there may be as
many as 150. I do not see how it would be possible for us to
arrange to give you the names of those who will come as the
Legislature adjourned over this week and we are unable to get at
the Members.

Mr. John M. Rhey, of our town who is one of the Clarks of the
Senate, informed me that above 40 of the Senators had signified
to him their intention to come over and some of them would have
their wives. Perhaps your purpose would be carried out by letting
me have the tickets and let me place the matter in the care of
Mr. Rhey and our Senator and let them fill in the names.

I designated the time of leaving Harrisburg as 1 o'clock sharp,
Thursday the 26th, and stated that they could leave here at 6.30.

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Gen. J. F. Boyd, page 2.

This would give ample time for our exercises and opportunity to see the buildings and grounds after the exercises. The run over in 35 minutes gives us full 25 minutes to get them from the siding to the gymnasium, where the exercises occur, and seated there. I trust you will be able to run them directly to the siding in the garrison lane, and unless the snow melts I will put up a temporary walk along the railroad track for their accommodation.

I am obliged to you for the suggestion of tickets and the restraint you propose for the reason that we probably shall not have an excess of room in our building and your arrangement will make it easy to shut off the rabble.

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Baltimore to Washington. As a number of people coming are elderly, it would serve me very much better if they could be specialized from Harrisburg to Baltimore and thus save the annoyance of stopping at every station as they would on the local on which I had contemplated their going.

I am more than usually cramped this year for means and shall be glad to have the expense made as light as possible, and would consider it a very great contribution to my necessities if you could possibly "special" the car for me from Harrisburg to Baltimore free. But if you cannot do this please make the charge just as light as possible.

I will arrange to have the car run over from here so as to reach Bridgeport at 5.35, Thursday afternoon the 28th.

It now seems as though we would not have above 25, or at the most 30 persons from Washington. One of your good day coaches will serve us very well.

With your permission the car could remain on our siding until the following day and I would look out for its safety.

Please advise me as promptly as you can about these matters as I shall send a man to Washington to take care of the party and he should be informed.

Very truly yours,

(Dictated)

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Carlisle, Pa., February, 19th, 1995

My Dear Nellie:-

I was glad to receive your letter of a few weeks ago. I know too well that all you say about your Reservation is very true. The trouble is, people do not want to see the good Carlisle has done and is doing, they look only for the failures but are blind to all success. Remarks like those you mention in your letter do not discourage me very greatly, for they are based entirely upon prejudice and falsehood, which cannot endure the test of proof. It does not matter so much what people say about us so long as their evil reports are not true. I am glad to know about Martha. A letter recently received from Miss Reestde told us of her whereabouts. You may have heard through the columns of the Red Man of the report there is a float about her returning to the old life with all its degrading ways. At the time I felt sure this was a false report and further news received since then quite confirms what I said in the paper. We are getting on nicely here at Carlisle, the school is full the health of the students has been exceptionally good. You were likely startled at the news of Nannie Little Robes Death It was very sudden but an examination proved that nothing could have been done to save her.

Commencement is near at hand, we look forward to a good time.

With many good wishes, I am
Nellie Chandler, Ft. Sil, D.T.
Your friend.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa. Feb. 20th, 1895.

Miss Luzena Chouteau,
#3903 Mich. Ave.,
Chicago, Ill..

Dear Luzena!—

It was pleasant to get your letter and to be assured that things continue well with you. This has been an exceedingly hard winter with many and you are fortunate to have continual employment. I note what you say about city life but cannot agree with you that it is quite the best place for young people to take up their abode. I am glad you have found a way to get on safely as well as comfortably, but many others possessed with intentions as good as your own have been forced to depart from the path of rectitude or be driven to the wall by starvation. I shall always advise young girls to steer clear of the great cities.

Am sorry to hear of your being ill, you must be careful, or you may be worse toward spring as that rheumatism season.

We are getting on well here at Carlisle.

We have had a severe winter but the health has never been better. Very few of the students have been ill. You have likely learned of the death of Nannie Little Robe, which was very sudden, yet nothing could have been done to save her life.

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In complying for:

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 21st, 1890.

Capt. George G. Boyer,

Sec. & Treasurer Com.

Soldiers' Orphan School.

Dear Sir:

In addition to the salaries given you in mine of the
15th inst. We provide each employe with furnished room, light,
and heat. Our employes are organized into a club for subsistence.
I furnish dining room, kitchen, pantries, cellars, sleeping-
room for servants and also give a cook-stove, tables and chairs.
The club furnishes its own table-ware, linen, and other utensils
and its own cook and manages the club affairs through appointed
committees and elected officers.

In the beginning I was much annoyed in managing these
matters myself, and finally turned them over to the employes,
since which, the teachers' subsistence department has been very
satisfactory. It cost our employes $8.00 a week. I will gladly
furnish additional information, and trusting this may serve you,
I am

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF OFFICERS-GENERAL

Carlstine, Pa., February 26th 1895.

Major John Simpson, Q.M., U.S.A.,

Quartermaster's Department, U.S.A.,

1426 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

Sir—

In reply to your letter of the 21st I have to inform you
that through an oversight of my clerk my Forage Requisition for
the month of February was not made up and forwarded as usual on the
first of the month.

I now enclose my Forage Requisition in duplicate for each of the
two months of February and March, 1895.

Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 25th 1895.

U. A. Ewan,

1310 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sirs-

It will make no difference whether the person has been a
family cook before, just so she can fill the place. The second
cook will receive $25.00 per month; the first cook $30.00. I am
willing to leave the business of getting cooks to anyone who will
guarantee satisfaction. Under guarantee, if they did not give
satisfaction of course we should dismiss them.

(Dictated)

Supt.

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In reply to:

M. C. Academy,

Vice-President Cumberland Valley Railroad,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Sirs:-

I return herewith the receipts duly signed by the snow
shovellers of this school recently at work for your Road.

With thanks for your prompt attention,

(Dictated)

COPY TELEGRAM.

J. R. Wood, G. P. A.,

Philadelphia.

My letter to your of February 21st. Important I should
know at once about through day coach from Washington. Thirty-one
from Washington have signified their intention to be here. Others
will let me know to-morrow.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via Upper Warehouse,
at 10.05 A. M.

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Please place 10 additional round trip tickets with your Agent in Washington to be delivered to my Mr. Standing. Three more are just asked for by telegraph. Tickets should be in Washington to-morrow evening.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

via "Upper Warehouse, 10.25 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Dr. Sheldon Jackson,

"The Concord", New Hampshire Avenue,
Washington, D.C.

Mr. Standing will be in Washington and see you or have the three additional tickets for you at train Wednesday morning.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Via "Postal" 10.25 A. M.,
(Hovt. rate, chgd.)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., February 26th 1895.

General J. F. Boyd,

Superintendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Sirs—

A special car with about thirty will leave Washington to-
morrow, Wednesday, morning, reaching Harrisburg at 12.10. At about
the same time there will arrive in Harrisburg by the Niagara Express
from Philadelphia about seventy patrons and pupils. I have asked
Mr. Wood of the Pennsylvania R. R. to have special cars from
through Philadelphia to Carlisle. The condition of the walking between the
Junction and the School will be exceedingly bad if there is a thaw.
By coming in on our siding they can land at the walk in the
garrison lane. Please arrange that these three cars be met by
your shifter at the east end of the freight track and be brought
immediately to the garrison lane.

The Washington party will return on the train leaving the
Junction at 6.10 P. M. Thursday, and probably most of the Philadel-
phia party also. I would request that the same arrangements
from the garrison lane to the east end of the freight track be made
for connecting with that train, as it is impracticable in case of

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Please arrange that Washington car on return Thursday evening be specialed from Baltimore to Washington my expense, as per your telegram of yesterday.

Also 67 patrons and pupils have signified their intention to leave Broad Street Station at 9.50 tomorrow, Wednesday, morning.

Please arrange that they have through cars to Carlisle. I have asked General Boyd of the Cumberland Valley to combine with Washington party and bring on to our siding by local shifter.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Sent via Upper Warehouse,

at 9.50 A. M.

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Carlsle, Pa., February 26th 1895.

W. M. Nickerson,
Canton, Ohio.

Send for our hot water pump No. 4 one D 66 and one D 87
rod only, not head, by express immediately. Answe r.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via "W.U." 9.40 A. M.,
Govt. rate, chgd.

COPY TELEGRAM.

A.M.
Sent 9.40 via "W.U."
Govt. rate, chgd.

Ella Watts,
Eureka, California.

I asked your appointment as teacher and was refused
because of your resignation from Chemawa. Letter by mail.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPPLEMENTARY

Mr. John M. Rhey,

State Senate,

Harrisburg.

Dear Mr. Rhey:-

I send Mr. Reitzel to you with tickets and correspondence which explain themselves. I would go over myself but it seems better on account of the various correspondence by telegraph and otherwise, that I should remain here.

You will see what General Boyd desires by the letters enclosed. The disposition to encumber the train with rowdies on such occasions is very great and when General Boyd suggested that we place a check of this kind I entirely agreed with him.

I place the matter entirely in your and Senator Milleisen's hands and whatever you do in the premises will be entirely satisfactory to me.

As I read the tickets you can place the name of the Members and their wives and families, or wives and daughter, or wives and son, or wives and friend, on the tickets. The object is to have the tickets indicate just who are to come on each ticket. I would suggest that you deliver the tickets at once as you go about and I

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Carlisle, Pa., February 26th 1995.

Mr. James Clark, General Agent,
Cumberland Valley Railroad,
Harrisburg.

Dear Sirs,

Reference to the legislative excursion on Thursday the 28th and letter of Supt. Boyd dated the 28th, I have to respectfully inform you that I have placed the entire matter in the care of Mr. John H. Ehey, of our town and clerk of the Senate, and to request that you will turn over just as many of the additional one hundred tickets as Mr. Ehey may call for without additional orders from me. Mr. Ehey has kindly consented to act in the matter under the direction of and with the advice of Senator Milleisen.

(Disted)

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Carlisle, Pa., March 4th 1895.

Charles T. Hawk,

Kyle, Shannon Co., S. Dakota, via Pine Ridge Agency.

Dear Charles-

It is pleasant to have a few lines from you, but I am sorry to hear of the continued discouraging times the returned papils have. However, you know this is not unexpected, and that the Carlisle idea is that the Indians should go out and make their way among the white people, just as the Germans, French and all other nations do that come to this country. If they would do this there would be more hope for the Indians. As long as the Indians stay among the degrading influences of the reservation, they will make no material progress.

We have just had our Commencement and: it passed off very nicely. We had many distinguished visitors with us and our exercises were unusually interesting. Carlisle is growing.

Your friend,

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., March 4th 1925.

Alene Goncover,

Anadarko, O. T.

Dear Alene:--

Your letter of February 9th reached me several days ago.

You speak of having plenty of snow. You will see by the Helper
that we have had a severe snow storm lately also. For three days
the railroad tracks were so covered with snow that none of the
trains were able to get into Carlisle. Our boys went out and
shoveled the snow off the tracks and earned a nice sum of money in
that way. In the lane near the guard house the snow was drifted
very high.

We have just had our Commencement exercises and have had many
visitors here. But of this and the other school news you can read
in the Helper.

Remember me to all the returned Carlisle students, and with
best wishes for you, I am,

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., March 4th, 1895.

Miss Julia Long,

W. E. Hospital, S. Broad & Wolfe Sts.,
Philadelphia.

Dear Julia:-

I have just learned within the past few days of the
sad news you have received from home and I want to tell you of my
sympathy for you in your sorrow. I am so sorry that this grief has
had to come to you, but it is something that must come into the
lives of us all and our greatest comfort at such times is that the
good Father loves us and will help us to bear our burdens if we
will let him. Look to Him, dear Julia, and find your Comforter.

I am glad to hear that you are getting on so well at the
Hospital. I follow your work with the greatest possible interest
and have much pleasure in your successes.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., March 4th 1898.

W. C. B. Girton,

Kyle, Shannon Co., S. Dakota.

Dear William:-

I am much obliged to you for the information about the
murder of John Red Horse. I am glad to have the facts, but I do
not see that I can help any in the matter. It is not in my place
to do anything in regard to the case, that is for your Agent if he
thinks necessary.

We had our Commencement this past week and as usual had a "big
time." We had hundreds of visitors from a distance and many
prominent people among them. Our class was the largest we have
yet graduated, - twenty, six girls and fourteen boys. We had our
Commencement exercises in the gymnasium and both the gallery and
main floor were crowded.

If you could return to Carlisle, which I hope you will do
sometime, you would find many improvements. We are steadily going
forward.

With good wishes for you always, I am,

Your friend,

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Gen. J. F. Boyd,

Supt. C. V. R. R.,

Chambersburg, Pa.

Your message. My request Mr. Wood was to special car from
Baltimore to Washington Thursday evening. His telegram advises
arrangement made does not indicate date. Have wired him to correct
error.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, February 26th 1895.

J. R. Wood, G. P. A.,

Philadelphia.

Your message today. My letter of February 21st and
telegram today both indicate that party will return to Washington
Thursday evening. Your message today does not say Thursday. Gen.
Boyd advises you direct return tomorrow, Wednesday. Please correct.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 26th 1893.

Mr. A. J. Standing,

Comdr. of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Call upon C. Scudds, District Passenger Agent, P. R. R.,
Baltimore & Potomac Station.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via "Postal," 2.45 P. M.,
Govt. rate, chgd.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 26th 1893.

C. Scudds,

District Passenger Agent,
Baltimore & Potomac Station,
Washington.

Mr. A. J. Standing, my Asst. Supt., will accompany party
Washington to Carlisle to-morrow, Wednesday morning, at 7.50.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

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Dear Sirs:-

Your several bills for tickets to and from our Commence-
ment account to $442.06. I return herewith tickets amounting to
$46.90, leaving a balance of $394.16 for which enclosed find my
check. I will thank you to sign enclosed statement for $188.98,
covering that part of this transportation for which I must pay from
my charity fund.

There is still one ticket due from Commissioner of Education
Harris, who on account of sickness was compelled at the last moment
to decline, but failed to return me his ticket. When that is returned I will forward to you for redemption.

Thirty-three passengers came from and returned to Washington.
The half return ticket I send herewith was dropped by some member of
the party and found on the grounds soon after they left. So in
computing the cost of coach from Baltimore back to Washington I
will claim passage for this number. When your bill for that service
arrives I will send check.

Permit me to again thank you for your great courtesy in this

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Carlisle, Pa., March 5th 1895.

Miss Regina Rote,

Westtown Friends' Boarding School,
via Phone 65, Westchester, Pa.

Your message. Can no one at Westtown give me the information
desired about Mrs. Lewis.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via "Postal," 11.06 A. M.,
Govt. rate, chgd.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Miss Regina Rote,

Was Mira Lewis, Cook, satisfactory in all respects? How would
she and her husband go for Club? Wire answer.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via "Postal," 10.05 A.M.,
Govt. rate, chgd.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL

Carlisle, Pa., March 5th, 1895.

Benjamin Marshall/

Clarksville, I. T..

My Dear Benjamin:-

It was a very great pleasure this morning to receive in the mail your own countenance and that of your charming wife and precious baby. I thank you most heartily for remembering me and I shall be glad to get the promised pictures of your house and farm scenes. I have now and then heard from you during all the years and it has encouraged me greatly that the news was always to your credit.

The baby's picture at his age indicates a vigorous, business boy of whom you may well be proud.

I should be greatly pleased if it were possible for me to see you and yours at your home. May it will be sometime. I was invited by the Administration to be one of the Commission to treat with the Five Civilized Tribes and was greatly tempted to accept because of the opportunity it would give to meet my old pupils.

I hope you can come East some day and see us again at Carlisle. Our Commencement was by far the best and most largely attended of any we ever had.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUBSECRETARY.

Benj. Marshall, page 2.

With cordial regards for you and your family.

Faithfully your friend.

Carlisle, Pa. March 5th, 1895.

J. Henry Davis Peck,
#34 Chapel Ave.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I particularly desire to have a lady cook.

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Warren F. Kellogg,
#5 Park Square,
Boston, Mass..

My Dear Sir:-

Our Commencement coming on the 27th& 28th ult.
has interfered with a more prompt reply to your letter of the
28th. Please let me know what I can have the Magazines for
by the hundred. I could use probably five or six hundred but
have not the free control of funds as Hampton has. I do not secu
money for the school in the way they do, hence am compelled
to cut close.

On the receipt of the information I will promptly
advise ypu. I could of course easily distribute among our
friends several thousand copies but cannot stand the expense.

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Miss Anna L. Ralston,
#600 DeKalb St.,
Norristown, Pa.

Dear Madam:-

In reply to your of the 27th ult. I have to say
that I do not know that the history of our Government Schools
and Agencies exist in any form except in the annual Reports
issued by the Supt. of Indian Schools. These may be had by
addressing the Indian Office at Washington. Possibly if you
were to get the reports for five or more years back you would
be able to gather the information needed. The Minutes of the
annual Indian Mettings held at Mohawk contain much information
of value. I do not now know of any papers or pamphlets contain-
ing the matter you wish.

Herewith I enclose under another
cover some few papers, etc. of our work here at Carlisle.
Trusting they may be acceptable,

I am,

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Cullisie, Pa., March 7th 1901.

Miss Eva Johnson,

Baxter Springs, Kansas.

My dear Eva:-

When your letter of the 21st came I was in the midst of
working up our Commencement matters, and since Commencement I have
been trying to get rested up. Today Nana and I will write you a
joint letter; Nana doing the muscular part and I the intellectual.
You will see by the result that hers is the best part of it for I am
yet feeling the results of the strain.

I wish you could have been here for our Commencement. It was
by far the grandest occasion of the kind in our history. Senator
Dawes delivered the diplomas and in one of the most helpful addresses
of the kind I have ever listened to impressed not only the students
themselves, but everybody else, of the grandeur and importance of
the occasion. Dr. Lyman Abbott, whom you will remember as successor
to Henry Ward Beecher as paster of Plymouth Church and Editor of
"The Outlook," gave us an address about "How to Succeed," which is
just what you and I and everybody else wants to know, and he also
gave us a short address at the graduating exercises. Time and
space will not permit me to give you a detailed account of the

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Eva Johnson, page 2,

 exercises; Miss Burgess is writing quite a full account for the
 Red Man, and you must wait and read it there,

While Carlisle is proud of the success of her pupils who have
gone out in the past, she is struggling hard to further ennoble them
and herself by holding still higher the banner of her principles.
Your success and that of your sister has been a joy to us all,

I was glad to hear that you still correspond with your school
Mother, Mother Irvine Fairlie. I think you girls were particularly
blessed in having such a good mother, and that she remembers you still
only confirms this opinion the more.

What sort of a party of children could you make up for us in
your section at the close of the school year? Why would it not
do for you to make up a party and bring them in yourself? This
would give us a chance to see you again.

With cordial and continued remembrances,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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Carliole, Pa., March 7th 1895.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,

San Carlos, Arizona.

Dear Miss Hunt:-

Your letter of February 14th reached me in due season, and
the cares and correspondence of Commencement were upon me and I have
deferred answer.

Mr. Standing has given me much information outside of what you
have written from time to time and I feel as though I knew pretty
well the conditions at San Carlos. I can congratulate you heartily
upon the success you have met with in your administration there.
Mr. Standing is not disposed to be emotional; his judgments are
exceedingly judicial in school matters and he gives you wide promise.

I hardly know what to write you now that I have begun. We have
had the most successful commencement in our history but for the
details of it I must let you wait a few days longer until you
receive the Red Man.

Mr. Standing advises that the principle men at San Carlos visit
us and thinks that that would go a great ways towards breaking down
prejudice. He tells me of the stories in regard to forcing children
away, even the party coming here. I am not entirely willing to

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Miss Myron L. Hutt, page 2.

to accept all they may be said there about that. I sent Dr. Given
there and he brought the children away in connection with Lt. West.
Captain Crawford was a very strong man, but at the same time he
was kind and humane and I do not believe that he was as severe in
his action as he is represented to be.

We received the other day from the Pimas nineteen very nice
children, all in excellent health excepting two. They were brought
here by the Agent, who told me I might make a sight draft on him
for all the children I wanted. He said he could fill this school
so eager were his people to send their children to school.

I should be glad if, notwithstanding the prejudice, you could
work it, so that we might receive a nice little party from San Carlos
at the close of your school year and you, or the Agent, or someone
there could bring them in. I will arrange and cover the necessary
expenses. Of course I should want everything to be in entire
accord with the law and regulations, and I should want them good
size and thoroughly examined as to health, etc., etc., you under-
stand these matters.

Mr. Campbell has had a terrific fight with his Agent. His trial
lasted twelve days. He is very hopeful of the results, and if what
he tells is true, I think perhaps he has come out on top. He is
suspended and has been for a month or more. He anticipates that the
decision will be reached in a couple of weeks.

Things go fairly well with us here. We are out of money.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., March 7th 1895.

Miss Annie Thomas,

Fort Lewis, Colorado.

My dear Annie:-

Do you know that I had begun to feel just a little hurt because I had not heard from you for so long a time. I think of you frequently and we often speak of you and have rejoiced in the success that has attended your western venture.

It is too bad that you are so far north and in such a high latitude. I would suggest that you write to Dr. Hailman and speak of your fears. Suggest to him that New Mexico, or even San Carlos or Phoenix, Arizona, would be better for you.

We have just had the grandest Commencement in our history. An immense audience filled all available space in the gymnasium, nearly seven hundred of our pupils were here and many friends from a distance. Senator Dawes gave the diplomas to the graduates and Dr. Lyman Abbott and other distinguished men addressed us. So you see that Carlisle is marching on.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana send their love and all your friends in the School would also send their love if they knew I was writing. Do not forget us, do not forget me.

 faithfully your friend,
(Dictated)

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INDOOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER,

Henry Phillips,

Sitka, Alaska.

My dear Henry:-

I have arranged with Dr. Jackson to bring your oldest
sister when he comes east next fall. Your other sisters are too
young and Dr. Jackson tells me that he will get them into the Sitka
School. Later, when they are old enough and if they incline to
Carlisle and I am here I will take them.

Glad to hear from you after so long a time. I have often
wondered why you did not write. I wish you would write me a good
letter about things in general.

We had our Commencement recently. I enclose an account of the
exercises from one of the Carlisle papers and will get you the Red
Man in the course of a few days which will contain a full account.

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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In cello v.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, General Agent Education for Alaska,

Bureau of Education,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor:-

I have yours of the 8th with its enclosed $10.00 for Mr. Thurston and yourself and am obliged for the help.

If you can see any way to get Henry's sister here I should be glad to take her, but I do not see how I can undertake her transport ation. I might cover a portion from some point in the west. Suppose you handle it and we adjust it afterwards. I write Henry that you have agreed to bring his sister with you next fall.

I am delighted that you came up to our Commencement and that Minister Thurston came, and all the other good friends. It was now life to us.

Holman gave us a parting slap by cutting out $3000.00 from our appropriation and what the senate was willing to grant. It was his last chance. Peace to his ashes.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana join me in cordial remembrances to you all

Yours faithfully,

(Dictated)

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF AUPERSTUDENTS

Miss Tamar T. Johnson,

Pekin, New York.

Dear Miss Johnson:-

I should have answered yours of February 19th long ago but
our Commencement was on hand and absorbed all my energies.

In regard to the young man you speak of: I can only say that
I am forbidden by the orders of the Department to take any more
students from New York, but if the young man should present himself
here and ask for admission I would not reject him. We could then
fall into line regularly. But he must do this at his own cost.

I am sorry I have deferred answer so long.

With kindest regards,

Yours sincerely,

(Dictated)

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Eugene Tukapeur,

Conway, Massachusetts.

My dear Eugene:-

Your letter of the 24th found me in the midst of preparation for our Commencement and I have had to postpone answer until now.

I am truly glad that you have a prospect of farming with such good wages. It is far better for you than the city and the hotel.

(Dictated)

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In re: 10-

Carlisle, Pa., March 7th 1905.

Pres. L. D. Harvey,
State Normal School,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

My dear Sir:-

Miss Jennie Ericson of Helsinfords, Finland, who was
formerly a teacher of Sloyd in your institution wishes to return
to this country and teach Sloyd. I have been urged by the
Superintendent of Indian Schools, Dr. W. H. Hailman, to introduce
Sloyd here and feel favorably toward it, and now write you to ask
about Miss Ericson. Will you please give me confidentially her
qualifications and character. I should be glad to learn about her
in every way. Does she handle the English language well, is her
health firm, what are her moral and religious tendencies, and
especially her qualities as a teacher? An early reply will greatly
oblige,

(Dictated)

Supt.

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In reply to

Rev. Dr. J. A. Lippincott,
110 North 17th Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Doctor:-

Our Commencement was by far the most successful in our history. I was so sorry that you were not with us to enjoy it and to take part in it. Please remember when you get next year's invitation that it is more than a formal one and that I very much desire that you and Mrs. Lippincott be with us. The next Red Man will give you a full account of the exercises.

Write to Amzi Smith, Superintendent Senate Document Room,
Washington, D. C., and he will send you a copy of the report of
the Dawes Commission.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana join me in kindest regards to you all.

Faithfully yours,

(Dictated)