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Carville, Pa., Nov. 22, 1901.

Mrs. Griswold's Webster,
School of Medicine,
Jus. de Thibeault, Wpa.

Dear Friends :

My better of Nov. 4th to Col. Pratt in regard to your
brother Olive comes to me for reply. Col. Pratt has for some weeks
been in aatorium undergoing treatment, and may be absent some
months longer. I am sure he will be pleased to know of your advance-
ment.

All are returned to the school Oct. 6th. She looks very well and
I understand is going forward nicely. Solomon and Edith are also
doing well.

With best wishes for continued success,

Yours truly,

Aating Sept.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 22, 1901.

Marguerite Scholter,
Oraibi Day School,
Kean's Canon, Ariz.

Dear Marguerite :-

I had expected to answer your letter of some weeks ago and congratulate you on your success at Oraibi, but have been ill for some time, and allowed things to accumulate. At present I am in a sanitarium under rigid treatment. Your second letter has been sent me, and I have added my endorsement and forwarded it to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. It is very gratifying that you and Pasquala are doing so well.

I had hoped to get down into your neighborhood sometime this winter for a rest and change, but it is not to be thought of unless recovery is more speedy than now promises.

With kind regards to yourself and Pasquala,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carliole, Pa., Nov. 22, 1941.

Mrs. Julia Wabelock,
Wind River School,
Chowanone Agency, Wyo.

Dear Julia :

Your letter of Nov. 12th has been sent to me from the
school. I am at present in a penitentiary under treatment. My health
has been very poor this fall, and I kept growing worse until I was
forced to drop everything and do something for myself. I have sent
your letter to the Department, saying you were a Carlisle graduate,
but further than that I do not feel warranted in speaking. Your Pap-
ard is with the Department and that will be consulted when action is
taken. Knowing nothing of the conditions and needs at your school,
and transfers outside of Carlisle being out of my province, you will
of course see that while I wish you every shot at success I cannot interpose
with the plans and workings of other schools.

We should of course be glad to have you make us a visit and
Commencement would be a good time.

With kind regards to Charlie as well as yourself, I am

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 23, 1901.

Dear Colonel :-

I had intended to write you today but since talking by phone this morning there seems no special necessity for it. We enclose some letters and clippings that may interest you. The boys have quite a wet day for their game at Pittsburgh, but I trust they will be able to slide across the goal.

I have been asked a number of times whether or not school will be in session the day following Thanksgiving. Will you please indicate your desire in the matter. Miss Schweier asks to be allowed to go home to spend Thanksgiving if there is no school Friday. I take it for granted that the industrial departments should go on as usual except on Thanksgiving Day.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

George P. Wilson,
Furlong, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose a letter from Leander Green's grandmother giving information for the filling of the blanks herewith. Leander is to sign both copies, swear to one copy before a notary public or clerk of the courts, who will affix his seal at two places. We will of course need two witnesses. After the one copy has been executed please have him fill in the third page on the other paper just as the notary or clerk has done. These papers must be in the hands of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs before Dec. 1st. It is necessary therefore that they be attended to without delay. I enclose envelope addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and when the papers are ready, you can forward them to Washington and notify me. To stamp is necessary.

I would thank you to give this your immediate attention.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

John Schiele,
Carversville,
Bucks Co., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Papers of Louis Tarbell were received this morning. I asked
that Louis be taken before a notary to swear to his signature, and
stated that it was necessary to have notary's seal affixed. Please
have this done at once, otherwise it is of no use to make applica-
tion at all. It will cost 25¢ to have this attended to. Louis prob-
ably has that much money or if not it can be drawn from here after-
ward. As stated before the date when all papers must be in Washing-
ton is Dec. 1st. They ought to be here now ready for transmittal.

I would thank you to attend to this immediately.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

Sec. W. Hamilton,
Box 261,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Referring to your postal inquiry relative to visit of Dr. Brumbaugh to this school, we have not been in communication with him since he arrived in the States, and do not know his present address. However, we rather expect him here sometime before he returns to Porto Rico, as there are quite a number of Porto Rican students whom he sent here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

Mrs. Elizabeth S. George,
Onondaga Castle, N. Y.

Dear Madam :-

Yours of the 22nd inst. comes to hand in the absence of Col. Pratt, who is at present under treatment in a sanitarium, and unable to look after school matters. When he returns the matter will be brought to his attention. Until then no action can be taken.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

Gustavus Whitewing,
Box 695,
Waupaca, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your application for admission to this school
as a student, I send you herewith an application blank. Fill out
the part which is meant for you, have your parents or guardian fill
out their part, and some reliable doctor to certify in the proper
place as to your health. Until I know your age and something about
your advancement and understanding I cannot promise that you will be
accepted. If you are living off the reservation you ought to have
school opportunities among the white people, and I would advise you
to make use of them. Your case will be decided upon when the blank
is returned.

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Carligle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1901.

Morris J. Mitchell,
26 S. Calvert St.,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 22nd inst., I have to advise you
that inquiry among the students here fails to discover any recollection
for sale. Occasionally students bring in such things with them from
their homes, but there seems nothing for sale now. They range from
$1.25 to $3.00 in price.

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Carligle, Pa.' Nov. 25, 1901.

Mrs. Henry Hatswell,
413 N. 3rd St.,
Saginaw, N. S.,
Mich.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of the 20th inst., I enclose copy of "The
Red Man and Helper"; also reports, historical sketch, etc. In re-
gard to the school. We do not have work for general exhibition, and
are therefore unable to obligate you in the other particulars of your
letter. Trusting the papers and material sent may be what you need,
I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 26, 1901.

Miss Bernice Pierce,
Box 29,
Rancocas, N. J.

Dear Bernice =

Your blanks are received, but you will have to finish them
up yourself. Take two witnesses with you and go before a notary pub-
lic or clerk of the courts, and swear to your signature on one of the
papers. Then have your witnesses make affidavit on the same blank
before the notary. He will affix his seal at two places and will
charge you a quarter. Then copy what he has written on the other
paper at the proper place, and forward the two papers immediately to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the envelope I send. You will
hardly have time to return them here to be forwarded.

Mark the copy that you swear to "Original" as I have indicated
and the other "Duplicate". If you attend to this at once you may be
in time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1901.

Edwin Schanandore,
Indian School,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Mr. Schanandore :-

I have just had a talk with Col. Pratt about some changes
in the employee force here and he asked me to write inquiring if you
would be willing to come to Carlisle at any slightly increased sal-
ary. I think not less than $900. From what I can understand your
chief duties would be in the way of instructing the band. Whether
or not he intended to add anything to that I do not know. In any
I would be very glad to have you come to Carlisle, for I have very
pleasant recollections of our relations at Albuquerque and feel what
your experience and ability could be used to very good advantage
here. Please consider the matter carefully, and let me know as soon
as you can decide whether or not you are willing to consider a
proposition for transfer. I shall hope to hear from you within ten
days.

With the best regards and best wishes to Mrs. Schanandore and your
self, and all the friends at your school, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1901.

A. M. Virgo,
Tencoula,
Riverside Co., Cal.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your communication of the 23rd ult., Colonel Pratt is absent from the school at present, and pending his return it would be impossible for me to make any arrangement for the return of Della Magee. I think it is not the custom to send children home before the expiration of their term, unless the circumstances are very extraordinary. Should we make a beginning in such a line it would be impossible to end it, for circumstances that seem extraordinary to pupils and patrons would occur in the term of almost every student here. I trust that Mrs. Magee will see how much it is to the interest of her daughter to remain and finish her education.

Col. Pratt will probably return in the course of a few weeks and the matter can then be taken up with him personally, but I suggest that it will be best to advise the mother to arrange to leave Della here until the close of the term for which she was entered here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1901.

Mrs. M. Segetons,
White Earth, Minn.

Dear Madam :-

Annie Carl sends me a letter signed by you asking that she be sent home to help you. Annie is in a country home for the winter and it is not practicable to send her home until the close of the term. In June all who are due to return to their homes are sent if they have made it plain that they wish to go. Annie will have an opportunity to go home if she so decides when the time comes.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1991,

Rev. C. L. Hall,
Elbowwoods, N. Dak.

Dear Mr. Hall :-

Replying to your two communications dated Nov. 28th, Rhoda Edison during her stay in the country last summer made the acquaintance of a man of very bad repute and from correspondence between them it is evident that their relations were not what they should be. The man in the case has been arrested and is under indictment for sending obscene matter through the mails. This obscene matter is the letters he wrote Rhoda and which is in the hands of the U. S. Attorney. The case comes up for trial at the February term of court. In the meantime Rhoda is held here in order that she may be on hand to give testimony at the proper time. I do not know Colopoulos intentions regarding her after the trial is ended. At present he is away undergoing treatment in a sanitarium. When he returns he will probably take up the matter and advise you further.

The last party of children from Fort Berthold seem to be doing very well. Charles Ross came to me a few days ago and expressed a desire to go home, stating that he came merely as an escort to the party. In view of the communications received from Miss Dampen I am inclined to doubt his statement, but have written to her for confirmation or denial. I note what you say concerning their church affiliations and will take pleasure in seeing that they are brought to the

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1901.

Miss Grace Spaulding,
Mossup, Conn.
Dear Miss Spaulding :-

Yours of the 23rd is received, also the package of silks
for the girls, which I have acknowledged to Miss Noyes, as you desire
Miss Jackson, the lady in charge of the girls, says the pieces will
be very useful at this season, and expresses her thanks for your in-
terest.

We have at this school from the Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island,
Kodiak, Alaska two girls and three boys, who were brought last July.
All are getting on nicely, but are not very far advanced, so that I
doubt whether correspondence would be very satisfactory. However,
I give their addresses below. In accordance with the custom of the
school a proportion of the students are placed in country homes each
winter to attend the public schools. They take great interest in all
that is going on, and are getting on nicely.

Yours very truly,

Acting Subt.

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Anastasia Achwack (girl) C/o W.W. Davidson, Moorestown, N. J.
Kate Shepard. " C/o R. C. Pyett, Toughkenamon, Pa.
John Leichenskoff (boy) C/o Thomas D. Brokaw, Dutch Neck, New Jersey.
Enya (Theodore) Shellikoff. C/o Charles C. Bond, Ringoes, N. J.
Shashka Alexandrov. At the school. In beginning class.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1901.

Mr. N. E. Reimer,

Ballard, Wash.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of the 21st ult. concerning the loss of
a lens from your telescope. I have been investigating the matter
and find that the boys remember about the telescope and that you al-
lowed the little boy Peter to look through it. They say they saw
you working with it, but know nothing about the missing glass. They
were of course quite ignorant of the value of the telescope or any
part of it, and after satisfying their curiosity, would probably
not care to keep any of the parts, and attaching no particular value
therein, would let the matter pass out of mind. At least, we find
no trace of their having had the lens. It is unfortunate that you did
not question them at the time when you saw them handling the instru-
ment. The boys seem very straightforward, and I am inclined to be-
lieve that they know nothing of the lost piece.

Regretting that I cannot give you any more satisfactory infor-
mation, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1901.

Fnope Reid,

Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Sir :-

Col. Pratt has been away from home for several weeks, be-
ing under medical treatment in a sanitarium. He read your letter be-
fore going, however, and directed that I write you in regard to your
daughter. Col. Pratt's rule is that students cannot go home before
the expiration of their school term unless their own health makes
a change imperative. This rule was made because of the many demands
parents made for their children when they had been here only a short
time; and if he were to break away from it, the calls for children
to be returned on account of pressing reasons would become so numer-
ous to practically break up the school and render their education
quite impossible

I trust you may be able in some way to supply Carrie's place in
your family until she has finished the term for which she entered
Carlisle and is better fitted for usefulness to herself and you.

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Carllala, Pa., Dec. 3, 1901.

Edwin H. Low, Mgr.,
Low's Exchange,
1123 Broadway, New York.

Dear Sirs :-

There is some prospect that the Indian Band of this school
will accept a proposition to play at the London Exposition next sum-
mer. Before we go into the matter at all, I would like some informa-
tion in regard to steamer passage, etc. Please let me know the best
rates you could make for a party of 50, New York to Liverpool and
return, sailing some time in May and returning about twelve weeks
later, passage of course to be on one of your fast and good steamers.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1901.

Col. John V. Burey,
Ass't. G.M. General, U.S.A.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of forage order No. 70, forage for my horses for month of December, 1901.

Lt. Col. 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1901.

Albert Jonas,
Fallsington, Pa.

Dear Albert :-

It is now too late to send in the papers to the Indian officer, the date when all were to be in being Dec. 1st. It is therefore not necessary to do anything with them. Sorry they were not ready in time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1901.

To the Honorable,

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

I have the honor to transmit herewith explanation of ex-
ceptions to my Cash Account as Supt. of the Seneca School, Indian
Territory, for the First Quarter, 1902.

In regard to Voucher #1, I desire to state additional reason
why it should be approved. At the time the expenditure was made it
was very near the day for the closing of school and certain clothing
had to be completed for use at our closing exercises. As you are
aware, the great majority of the children at a reservation boarding
school are small and the help is limited. The seamstress informed
me that she was unable to finish all this work even by working at
nights as she did for a considerable time. I know of my own know-
ledge that her statement was correct and that the employment of help
was necessary. The work was done for the Government and the pupils
of its school received the benefit. The amount of the voucher is
exceedingly small, only $4.00, but since the indebtedness was incurred
solely for the benefit of the school when in my judgment as superin-
tendent of the school it was absolutely necessary that it be made, it
seems to me that the superintendent of the school should not be called
upon to settle it from his own funds.

I therefore respectfully request that action in regard to this

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Carlisle, pa., Dec. 3, 1901.

Supt. B. B. Peairs,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Peairs :-

I shall be at home all this week and next; in fact, I have not planned to be away at all in the near future. Will be very glad indeed to have you stop and see us at Carlisle on your way back from Washington. More than that, I should feel that you had not treated me right if you failed to come this way. Col. Pratt has been away for nearly four weeks and we do not know when he will return. He is not at all well; is hardly able to give attention to those things which he feels he must look after himself. An sorry he has not been able to work with you on the Committee for I think he is interested in the matter and intended to give all the assistance in his power.

I trust you will accomplish successfully all business which called you to Washington. Shall be looking for you on your return. Please wire me when you leave Washington, so that we may meet you in town.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1901.

To the Honorable,

Washington, D. C.

Sir :—

I have the honor to request that Cash Voucher #1, 1st Quarter, 1902, of my accounts as Supt. of the Seneca School, Indian By., receive the approval of your Office. It is an indebtedness of $1.00 incurred in having assistance rendered in the sewing room just before the close of school the previous spring. As reported to your Office heretofore, the work was absolutely necessary. It was utterly impossible for the seamstress to finish the work to be done before the close of school, and was so reported to me. Our force was almost entirely of small girls, as you know there are very few large ones in a school of that character. Upon examination I found that the request was reasonable, and so employed additional help. The work was all for the government, the charge was reasonable, and it was by no means the first time that irregular labor was employed in that and other schools under like circumstances. I believe the account was disallowed under misapprehension of the nature of the emergency, and I therefore respectfully request that the matter again receive your attention and be acted upon favorably.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1901.

S. E. Penrose L. Valentine,
104 Fifth Ave.,
Coatesville, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

No one can regret more than the superintendent of this
school the disingenuous complications that have arisen in the matter
of your husband and two of our school-girls. You may rest assured
the girls have been and are being punished for their part. Your hus-
band is of age and responsible for what he has done, and the case is
now in the hands of the court. We owe it to the girls of this insti-
tution who are out to afford them protection from such persons, and
that debt will be consistently paid. I am very sorry that through
the act of your husband innocent ones in his family must suffer, but
not one of us can escape a share in the consequences brought about
by the ongoing doing of those connected with us. If there were any-
thing could be done here to spare you, it would be done cheerfully
but it is impossible to prevent the prosecution of your husband under
the statute already found against him.

Your letter will be treated as confidential.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1901.

Mrs. Barney Traversie,
Evarts, S. Dak.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of Nov. 23rd I regret to state that Dominic has been in trouble. He had permission to go to Carlisle and while there purchased whiskey and got drunk himself, and succeeded in getting whiskey for several other boys and they got drunk also. For this he was confined in the guard house for several days. I am very sorry indeed that he broke the rules, but you will see that his punishment was the natural result of his wrong doing. He has promised to do better in the future, and we hope the promise will be fulfilled. Nothing else on the records stands against him, and there is no reason why he should not recover from this temporary disgrace and occupy a position of confidence in the school.

Felicia received the ten dollars you sent her and it is to her credit on the books of the school. As to her needing it for clothing, she must have told you that merely to work upon your sympathy. Neither she nor any other girl attending Carlisle needs other clothing than what is provided by the school, for all are abundantly and comfortably clad. Ribbons and extras of that nature they can purchase when they have earned money and all have that chance when summer comes.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1901.

James M. Hamilton,
70 Neshaminy Ave.,
Newcastle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I am this morning in receipt of a note from Dr. Diven, the school physician, stating that Jose Ayarro has weak lungs, the left lung being almost entirely destroyed. I notify you of this not that we anticipate you will wish to assume the burden of caring for him, but that you may know his condition and may inform any other persons who are interested in him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1901.

Joseph Broeck & Sons,
51 & 52 N. Market St.,
Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen :-

Your delay in answering Col. Pratt's letter caused him to accept the services as chief of a man from Portland, Ore. If the Scotch cook you speak of is willing to come to Carlisle as second at $30.00 a month and can give good testimonials we will give her the place. I enclose application blanks which can be used if she cares to fill them out. The one should be filled out in her own hand, the other two by her vouchers. Each question should be answered and all returned in accompanying envelope. Furnished room with electric light and steam heat are in addition to the salary; also same rations as are allowed pupils. Please have the papers returned as early as possible if the applicant desires to follow up the matter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1901.

Asa Skye,

Akron, New York.

Dear Sir :-

I regret to state that your son Grover is reported by the school physician as suffering from an inflammatory condition of the lungs. The doctor recommends that he be allowed to go home if it is your desire to have him with you. It is not meant by this letter that you should feel it incumbent on yourself to remove him from the school unless you feel so disposed. He is not in any immediate danger, but the doctor thinks a change might benefit him.

I would be glad for a reply, indicating your wishes in the matter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1901.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :-

Col. Pratt is still away from home, and improves but slowly. Your letter therefore comes to me, and I have to state concerning Louis Herring that he was in the guard house several days because of attempting to desert. Aside from that he has not been under punishment, and there is nothing in the report concerning a three years' cruise. A number of the boys have been anxious to enlist in the Navy, but it has not been considered best to allow any to do so at this time. Louis probably heard them talking about it, and understanding English so poorly, conceived the notion he was to be sent. He was up at the office a day or two ago inquiring about his brother Moses who ran away from his country home in the summer, and seemed very well disposed then.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 7, 1901.

Mrs. Jane Cochran Snyder,
Lewistown, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Some time ago you wrote to the conductor of the Band, Lt. Ettinger, asking for terms for a concert. As we heard nothing from you after his reply, we presume that the expense was higher than you anticipated. We are now in receipt of a communication from Rev. Geo. Murray Klepfer, pastor of the First M. E. Church at Huntingdon, inquiring as to terms. If we could arrange an entertainment in your city the night previous to or immediately following an engagement at Huntingdon, we could come at a cost of about $240 for each entertainment. Should you desire to consider the matter, I suggest that you write to Dr. Klepfer. The band made a very enviable record at the Pan-American Exposition this summer, and I am certain you would be pleased with the concert it would give.

Yours very truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 7, 1901.

Rev. George Murray Klepfer,
425 Mifflin St.,
Huntingdon, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

A band concert is the only form of entertainment we are prepared to give at present. The band is under a very fine leader, Lt. J. B. Ettinger, who has brought it to a high state of proficiency. It gives excellent programs and was highly appreciated during its month at the Exposition. For a night at Huntingdon the expense would be about $350. The regular charge is $100 plus expenses, which as nearly as we can estimate them would be $250. However, Mrs. Jane Cochran Snyder, of Lewistown, Pa., has written asking terms for an evening performance. If an evening could be arranged there immediately following or preceding one at Huntingdon, the expense at each place would be considerably lessened, amounting to about $240 apiece.

If you care to take the matter up I suggest that you write Mrs. Snyder and see if she is willing to undertake using the band for one evening at the terms named. I will write her also today, laying the matter before her.

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Dec, 10, 1991.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
General Agent of Education for Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor :-

I am just home from the sanitarium where I have been for
the past four weeks under treatment.

In regard to Mrs. Paul, our work in the sewing room is constantly increasing, so that I would be warranted in asking for another seamstress, which position I could give to her, but the salary would be only $25.00 a month and board would be $3.00 a week for the first fourteen weeks, after that $3.50 a week. All the higher positions are acceptably filled; I therefore have nothing better to offer at this time. If Mrs. Paul is willing to come here for the position and salary I have named, she can come at any time and we shall be very glad to have her with us.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 10, 1901.

Mrs. J. H. Babbitt,
Warner's Ranch, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Babbitt :-

Am just back from a four week's siege in a sanitarium near Reading, having been compelled to get away from all duties and seek medical relief. A letter from the Asst. Adjutant General, U.S.A., Washington, states as follows in regard to Juan Ortego :-

"The latest roll of that troop (Troop F., 3rd Cavalry) received in this Office, which was dated in the Philippine Islands on the 31st of August last, reports John Ortego, a private, present with that troop in the Philippine Islands on that date.

His name is not borne on the reports of soldiers who have died in the Philippine Islands on the 22nd of October last, date of latest report received.

He should be addressed at Manila, P. I., giving his rank, troop, and regiment."

Please convey the facts to Juan's mother.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 10, 1901.

Capt. W. A. Mercer,
U.S. Indian Agent,
Leech Lake Agency,
Onigum, Minn.

Dear Captain :-

It is getting along toward the time when you and Brother
Eden should be on the way to Washington and when I may hope for that
promised visit. I write to remind you of it, so you will have no ex-
cause of forgetfulness to urge. Be assured, my dear Captain, we shall
be greatly pleased to have you at Carlisle and will make your visit
as pleasant as possible, hoping thus to repay in a measure your kind-
ness of last fall.

I am sorry to tell you I have not been at all well since my re-
turn. Have just spent a month in a sanitarium; have gotten rid of
the difficulty but now must recuperate. Have lost something in flesh
which I could well afford, but am not strong.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Mercer and your daughter,

Very faithfully yours,

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Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Gen. Act. Education in Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

In writing Col. Pratt's letter to you yesterday concerning
Mrs. Paul I wrote inadvertently that "board would be $3.00 a week
for the first 14 weeks, after that $3.50'. Allow me to correct the
error. After the fourteen weeks expire, board at the teachers' club
is $2.50 per week. The extra 80 ' per week charged at first is to
cover membership dues or entrance fees to the club.

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Dec. 11, 1901.

Gen. Horatio C. King,
378 Fulton St.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear General King :

I came back to the school Monday last, but shall be away
from time to time. I expect, however, to be here the fore part of
January and shall arrange for you to come Saturday, the 11th. Shall
hope to give you in addition to our school force which will be an
audience of about 600, a goodly number from the town. Will adver-
tise you and am sure your many friends in Carlinet will want to join
us in the opportunity of hearing your lecture.

Sincerely yours,

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Mish Mary the Mary,
Elizabeth, ltr.

Dear Miss Lillie :—

I have heard some say that you have made a mistake in your letter, and would like to know if you can answer your letter to Miss Lillie on some account of mine.

In regard to your plan for an expedition in connection with the Indian Congress at the close of the convention, I have to say that Indian Congresses, Buffalo Bill Show, Indian Medical College, etc., are on degrading as degrading terms to the Indian population and to their cause. There is no end of friction in the Indian Congress. Indeed, as far as I am informed, no one is living in their own way and they are not to the Indian number of good salaried men in the Congress, etc., are connected with such affairs, to dress up an event following and misrepresent the cause and their people. I have no objection with such publications and there are never any thing to do with them, including my children to accept and example to be shown such things and how they are done. However, the Indian Congress at Buffalo did have quite a number of my boys and girls, some of whom had been doing very well on their reservations, but were induced to change in that sort of business by the offers and promises made them. They were pulled down with the rest, for there is a deal of durability in connection with those parties. You can see therefore that I am not taking sides with your idea.

Very truly yours,

Lt. Col. 13th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carliella, Pa., Dec. 11, 1901.

Rev. R. G. Slifer,
1217 Boyle St.,
Allegheny, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

It will be very pleasant for our Wood Island children to have a visit from you Saturday morning, Dec. 21st, as you propose. A number of them are in the country under our tutelage, living in good homes and attending public schools. All are getting on nicely, and those remaining at the school will no doubt give you a hearty greeting.

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Dec. 11,

Hon. Thad, H. Halvorsen,
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

My dear friend:

I was able at Harvardville when your letter of the 18th came and have to beg your pardon for not responding earlier. Have just written Mr. Schaefer in regard to his daughter's case. The Civil Service people were showing in their probationary, no notice of the result of her examination having been sent to although we months have passed. When she has passed we will know what to expect, and if she is within range I will take the matter up at once and secure her assignment to Carlisle, unless the new branch they have in the Civil Service office originates some way that will prevent.

Miss Schaefer has good style and is able to learn, but as far as I have not observed the office qualities in everything that I have seen her work; but she is young and it is a very kind of work to her and we must give her a chance to learn. She would be very bright and if then to have years of experience and if we in little ones put satisfaction. I do not think the Civil Service will suffer from this arrangement until it becomes apparent in regard to her examination have been reviewed.

Cordially yours,

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Comerst 9, 7, Hudson, N.Y.
18 21 day one of three days
Hartford, Conn.
New York

Dec. 11,

My dear General: it

Nearly one year since June 10th you were mentioned ?
have been to wish an officer that at my request would
have been able to send him some of his men to the
army in order to take the field. As soon as we can
get more than one ship in a boat, an evaluation and
an accounting will be made to a contractua
the article you want before any time.

Yours faithfully, J. Stockton,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1901.

Quannah Parker,

Fort Sill, Okla.

Dear Friend :-

I have yours of Dec. 3rd in regard to your daughters and Emily Perdesophy. As I have repeatedly explained, Laura was home in '99 and in returning to Carlisle entered for another five years. Emily and Esther, having come in '97, have not yet completed their term of five years. The question of Esther's term has been well established with you in previous correspondence. She is progressing especially well, and if allowed to continue after term does expire, could graduate in a few years. Emily and Laura are also doing well.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 11 1.

Rev. Dr. Chas. L. Thompson, Secy.,
Board of Home Missions,
256 Fifth Ave.,
New York.

My dear Doctor :-

I have just returned from an absence of more than four weeks
in a hospital, having been so out of condition all fall that I was
unable to meet the issues of the work here, much less take on addi-
tional obligations. Have been relieved and an hopeful my future may
now clear up and I may do something, but the advice is to get away
from Carlisle and spend a considerable time in absolute rest and
change.

Suppose you make use of the enclosed. It goes as near my view
as anything can. I could not well berate the Government without be-
facing the Presbyterian Church, because Presbyterians are a pretty
contemporary part of the Government; and I could not well praise the
Government, because I would also be praising the Presbyterian Church,
and I don't think either more does the fair thing. The whole tendency
of Church and Government has been to consolidate and specialize, to
separate and treat as minerals and infants, all of which is wrong. A
man should never reach his place except he is accorded the opportunities
and privileges of right example. If we want the Indian to be a cit-
izen, he should have a civilized man's opportunities; if we want
him to be a citizen, he should have a citizen's opportunities. A
changing control and changing system of treatment, holding him away
from experience and the opportunities to observe and to gain know-

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ledge and ability, if at the bottom of all the infirmities of the In-
dian, and in helping to keep him helpless our Presbyterian Church has
contributed her full share. The translating of the Bible and a few
books and the printing of a paper in the Indian language was consid-
ered the only way for the Church to act. An Indian can be taught to
read just as quickly and intelligently in the English language and
his heart be reached just as truly as in his own language; but by the
other system the Presbyterian Church has helped him to remain an In-
dian. That there has been brotherhood in it or Christlikeness, is to
me a position entirely untenable. But I cannot take up the question
and argue it. As I stated I hope sometime to be able to do more.

Sincerely yours,

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Dec. 12, 1.

The Evening Bulletin,

Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

Some days ago a paragraph appeared in your columns stating
that Annie, a daughter of Quannah Parker and a graduate of this
school who had married a man named Cox, had left her husband and
gone back to the blanket.

Mr. Cox's wife name was Naumaker, not Annie. She is a daughter
of Quannah Parker, but she never attended Carlisle or any other
school. Wanada, a daughter of Quannah Parker, was a pupil here for
a number of years, but went home a few months ago, was not a gradu-
ate and has not married.

While on this subject of trying to start a truth to overtake a
lie, allow me to add that not many days ago "The St. Paul Pioneer
Press" printed a story that "Blue Wing, one of the finest girls in
the Winnebago tribe, as well as the best educated one" had some par-
ticular views about work in contradiction to what the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs has stated in his report. The article says she is
a graduate of Carlisle and speaks four languages fluently, is well
informed, etc. We never had in our school a Winnebago girl from Wis-
consin. The statement is pure fiction, originating in the mind of
the special correspondent to "The Pioneer Press". The story was re-
published in several eastern papers.

Within the last five years not less than twenty stories about

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support either Indians or whites under such circumstances. The
schools, therefore, seek persistently to teach them to earn wages
for themselves independently, to seek outside opportunities for work,
and not wait for gifts of life to be handed to them unsought or not
labored for. Hundreds have left the reservations and are mingling
with the white people in the eager struggle for existence. It is
difficult to obtain more than meager data concerning the results of
education upon these brave students, who are putting in active prac-
tice the inevitable laws of existence. Abolish rations and annui-
ties, throw the educated Indian on his own resources, and the settle-
ment of the Indian question is the natural sequence."

These facts have been unnoticed by the newspapers I have seen
taking extracts from the Commissioner's Report, and they are what is
most important to the public.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Dec. 12,

1.

Rev. W. J. Cleveland,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear Sir :-

Urgency has come from the agency authorities and other
sources for the return of Pearl Gleason on account of her mother's
illness, who is alleged to be so low as to make her recovery extrema-
ly improbable. Will you kindly give me your opinion as to the moth-
er's condition and the need for Pearl's presence there.

E.A.A.(P)

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Supt., Williamson Trade School,
Williamson School,
Del. Co., Pa.

Dec. 12,

1.

Sir :-

Please send me catalog of your school and Course of Study,
particularly that part relating to the Trades Departments.

Thanking you for the favor, I am

Yours truly,

Asst. Supt.

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Frank C. Clark,
111 Broadway,
New York,

Dec. 12,

1.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose herewith my check for $100 covering the engage-
ment of room #105 for your cruise of The Celtic.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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J. I. Carpenter,
Yuma, Arizona.

Dec. 12,

103

Dear Sir :-

Yours of the 7th inst in regard to Nellie Orme to hand.
In reply I have to say that Nellie left here for her home at Sacaton,
Arizona Nov. 13th.

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Dec. 12,

1.

Dr. H. R. Frissell, Prin.,
Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va.

Dear Sir :-

Preston Pohoxicut and Sherman Chadlesone Osage and Kiowa
students of this school desire to visit friends at Hampton Institute
during the holidays. Both are worthy boys, and if it meets with your
approval I will let them come down.

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Dec. 13,

1.

To The Honorable,

Sir :-

I have the honor to transmit herewith answers to Exceptions
on my Property Account for the first quarter, 1902

Very respectfully,

Late Supt. Seneca School

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Dec. 14, 1901.

Mr. Wm. O. McIntire,
1009 Wright St.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Dear Sir :-

I regret to inform you that your daughter became ill yes-
terday with remittent fever. She was taken to Todd Hospital in this
city in order that she might have the care of a trained nurse. Her
physician stated this morning that her temperature was quite high and
that she was very restless during the night. He considers her condi-
tion rather serious, but not at present alarming. However, it seems
altogether proper that you should be advised. You will be kept in-
formed from time to time of any change in her condition. We all join
you in the hope that her illness will be of short duration and that
she will very soon be able to take her place again in the school.

She has the best of medical attention that Carlisle affords and
is under the care of an excellent nurse, so you need have no fears
but that she will receive every benefit that can be given her here by
interested and intelligent caretakers.

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Dr. Ostrin,
C/o Johns-Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.

Dec. 14,

1.

Dear Sir :-

Several days ago I addressed you concerning the matter of
bringing to you for treatment one of our students who is suffering
from a diseased wrist and hand, the result of an injury in a foot
ball game. No reply has been received. I think it extremely impor-
tant that he receive the attention of a specialist without delay. It
is thought there may be some tubercular affection of the parts in-
volved. If you can attend to the case, will you kindly advise me
when the young man should be brought to you and where you can treat
him ?

Col. Pratt, the superintendent of this school, desires that the
case receive your attention.

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Dec. 14, 1901.

W. D. Embree,
416 Berkley Hall,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 13th inst., we have not published
a catalog. I send you instead copy of the last annual report of
this school; also such other printed matter as we have in reference
to its workings.

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Dec. 16, 1.

Manager,
The Midway Indian Band,
Charleston Exposition,
Charleston, S. Car.

Sir :-

It has been called to my attention that you publish your
band as the Carlisle Indian Band. If you do not wish me to do some-
thing about it that may be unpleasant to you, I suggest that you drop
that imposition at once.

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Dec. 16, 1.

J. C. Hemphill, Mng.,
Dept. of Promotion & Publicity,
Charleston Exposition,
Charleston, S. Car.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of Dec. 10th addressed to Lt. Joel B. Ettinger, manager of our Carlisle Indian Band, has just come before me.

The Midway Band at your exposition purporting to be the Carlisle Indian Band is an outrageous fraud, and I feel it will be necessary for me to do something in order to make known the deception. There are some boys in it who played in our band here, but who have not done well since leaving the school and because they were once connected with Carlisle they are probably parading as a part of Carlisle. None of them that I know were regretted when they left the school, and that they at all represent the talent or quality of our Indian Band is preposterous.

Mr. Ettinger will communicate with you in reference to the other subjects of your letter.

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Dec. 16, 1.

Simon N. Palmer,
Maple Grove, Wis.

Dear Simon :-

The government has been kind to you. Carlisle has done fairly well by you. You are not much Indian. You are well equipped and could fill a place in ordinary civil life. It would be much more to your credit to do that than to claim that you are part Indian and on that ground insist that the government give you a position at a good salary. To take up work outside the Indian service may not give you so good a salary at first, but in the end it will give you a bigger one because it will bring out your manhood, and you have a lot of that; you will develop your worth, and from what I know about it, there is a lot to develop. I am sure this is the healthiest and best course for you to pursue. Think along this line quite a long time before you appeal to the government to give you a position in the Indian Service.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 16,

1.

Albert Nash,
2621 Nandain St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Albert :-

I asked Mr. Thompson to look you up and see how you are
getting on and he reports that he did not find you at your working
place nor at your boarding house, and from what he says I begin to
be a little afraid that the letter you wrote me about yourself does
not give exactly the right idea about your affairs that truth calls
for.

If you hold your place you will have to fill the bill to the
satisfaction of your employers; if you go on to higher and better
things you will have to make them pleased with your service and con-
duct; if you keep the respect of the people who know you you will
need to be right in every way. If you save anything you must avoid
useless and unworthy expenditure; but I need not have said any of
these things to you, for surely you cannot be ignorant of them.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 16, 1901.

Miss Annie R. Dawson,

Elbowood via Bismarck, N. Dak.

Dear Annie :--

When Byron Wilde left Carlisle it was with the fullest un-
derstanding that he would return and complete the course. I have in-
formation that he is not doing much and it seems to me that even the
he is some older and has probably lost quite a little by the delay it
would be better for him to come back yet. I feel satisfied you have
considerable influence over him. What do you think about it your-
self? I have a special interest in his coming in the fact that he
was one of our most promising football players, and our team this
year while it has made as good a record as it was possible to do, was
lacking in just that element of strength that Byron can supply.

If you know of any way to get at him and induce him to return to
Carlisle now or soon, I shall be glad to make the necessary arrange-
ments for transportation. Please let me hear from you soon on this
subject.

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Dec. 16,

1.

Hon. Charles Emory Smith,
Postmaster General,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

I understand there may be a change in the office of Post-
master in Carlisle on the expiration of the present incumbent's term,
and venture to urge you in behalf of Mr. John Rhey, who is now and
always has been a citizen of Carlisle, and with whom I have been well
acquainted during my more than twenty-two years' service here. Mr.
Rhey is a most courteous and energetic gentleman, thoroughly effici-
ient and exceptionally qualified for the position. I feel sure no
one could be selected whose appointment would give more general sat-
isfaction.

The Indian School is the largest single patron of the office.

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Dec. 16,

1.

My dear Col. Byrne :-

I send you the enclosed letter. After thinking it over
more deliberately, it seems best at this time for me to write this
only, and when your case is in the hands of the committee of either
the House or the Senate, and you know just where it is, if you will
notify me I will then put my shoulder to the wheel in either the Sen-
ate or the House, and I am sure can help push it along.

Cordially and fraternally yours,

Col. Edward Byrne,
310 C. St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

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Dec. 16, 1.

Mr. Geo. E. Little,
1326 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 14th inst., our entertainment schedule was arranged some time ago, and it does not seem practicable to undertake anything in addition. In fact, the students' time is so occupied on account of the early commencement this year that we could hardly spare an evening for your talk, at least not at a time that would suit you.

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1.

Mrs. Mary M. Dodge,
and an School,
Harlem, Mont.

Dear School-daughter :-

I have yours of the 8th and cannot help saying to you that I am always sorry when my former students are found engaging in a school quarrel. I cannot of course in any way, shape, or manner, underrstand to counterbalance the idea that I could be an arbitrator in such cases. A good principle and one you will find helpful all through life is, "It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong". Nobody can impose upon you for a very long time without being found out by those who are in control; and if one can have patience the thing will right itself, and the wrongdoer will be caught and dealt with and then all the more severely because of the patience shown by the one enduring.

Mr. Kieselka is now beyond any control over you or interference with your correspondence, and the better way is to let the matter take its course and drop any further pushing of action.

Faithfully your friend and School-father,

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George A. Sweet,
White Earth, Minn.

Dear Sir :

On receiving your letter I had my school physician examine Raymond, and the following is his report :

Dec. 16, 1901.

Have examined Raymond Sweet this day. He is well and doing his regular work. No occasion at present to think of his going home on account of health.

This is a season when many people all over the country are suffering with colds. Many of the students here through their own carelessness in properly guarding against such chances, have had colds more or less severe. As you see from the doctor's report, however, there is no reason for alarm in regard to your son.

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i.

To The Adjutant General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

The Department of Indian Affairs under whose service I
have been for so many years, has consented for me to take an excur-
sion trip to the Mediterranean leaving New York on the 8th of Febru-
ary and returning about the end of April on The Celtic, visiting Ma-
diera, Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem and
parts of Palestine, Constantinople, Greece, Rome, Naples, Villa
Franca, and England.

As required by Paragraph 65, A. R. 1901, I respectfully request
permission from the War Department to avail myself of this opportuni-
ty for increasing my knowledge and benefitting myself in preparation
for further duties. I also respectfully request that I may have the
special passports provided for by Paragraph 67.

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Myron Moses,
Indian School,
Perris, Cal.

Dear Myron :-

We are all very glad to hear of your improvement and hope
it will continue. Tent life is conducive to health if one takes
proper precautions, and as your business now is to get well I take
it you will not neglect any means toward that end.

I returned from the sanitarium last week and am as busy as ever
again. Am contemplating a Mediterranean trip with Mrs. Pratt, sail-
ing from New York February eighth. We are therefore preparing to
have commencement a little earlier, in order that it may be over be-
fore we start. You know how busy that keeps everyone.

Remember me kindly to those who are so kind to you. We shall
hope to hear from you from time to time.

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I.

My dear Old Comrade :-

On Saturday last it first came to my attention that for a number of years you have been before Congress with a bill for reinstatement and retirement, as some restitution for the great wrong done you in putting you out of the army in '71. Had I known before that you were making this attempt I should have volunteered to advocate your cause in any way I could, because as you know I was in the 10th Cavalry and serving with you at Fort Sill when a tricky abuse of the law was resorted to in your case.

I have read the Senate Circular #1542, 56th Congress, First Session, Report # 1662 carefully, and can confirm all stated therein in your behalf that came within my knowledge, more particularly that part covering the abuse of the law by neither placing you on the supernumerary list nor giving you a chance to accept a Second Lieutenant. I am surprised that another and equally vital feature in connection with this does not appear in the committee report. It did not occur to me at the time we were talking Saturday but came to me soon after, that you were sent away from the then remote Fort Sill by the command of a scattering party by the officer who was instrumental in putting you out of the service, at about the time he had recommended you for muster out; and you were kept absent and more remote until some time after information of your muster out had reached Fort Sill.

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This at the time was talked about freely by most of us in the reg-
iment and at the post, who were amazed at your having been at all
thought of in connection with a muster out. I remember well the gen-
eral indignation expressed by the officers with whom I talked on the
subject. Although subordinate to you then, I have no hesitation in
saying you were the peer of any officer in the Sixth Cavalry in all
the qualities that went to make a thoroughly efficient and credit-
able army officer; and it is entirely within range for me to say that
had three fourths of the officers serving at Fort Sill at the time,
not only in our own regiment but also in the Sixth Infantry, been
called upon to give the names of those who would not be mustered out
your name would have been among the very first. That your muster out
was arranged because of discreditable personnel feeling was beyond all
question; and the fact that you were not allowed to go on the super-
numerary list nor given the choice of electing to remain as Second
Lieutenant, and that you were sent beyond the reach of mail and oth-
er sources of information and held away until all conclusions were
made, is proof positive of this.

It is my deliberate judgment that reinstatement and retirement
as Captain is not at all the justice your case is entitled to, for
you would have been a colonel long ago and would have been retired
with that grade at least. And if real equities prevailed, you would
now have retirement at the grade you would have reached by contin-
uous service, with all the emoluments that would have accrued between
and you thus letter unsolicited, and you are at liberty to
it if you like, but it would be a see fit.

 faithfully yours,

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Dec. 17, 1.

Mr. J. M. Hamilton,
Y. M. C. A. Bldg.,
New Castle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 14th inst., the following is the
statement of my school physician in regard to Jose Ayarro :-

"Jose Ayarro is convalescent. Is up around the hospital all day but I fear to dismiss him.

He has weak lungs and would be better physically in a mild warm climate. I suggest that his own home is the best place for him on account of his health. "

This is a plain statement of the case. However, we are willing
to keep him here and do what we can for him. The matter of returning
him to Porto Rico rests on the decision of his friends who sent him
here. We have notified you in order that you might take action if
that is thought best.

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Dec. 18, 1901.

Dear Sir :-

Of the eleven pupils from Wood's Island, seven are in country homes, as follows :-

Katie Sheppard. With R. C. Pyott, Toughkenagon, Pa.
Anastasia Achweck. " Mrs. W. W. Davidson, Moorestown, N. J.
Fadya (Theodore) Shelikoff. With Chas. C. Bond, Ringoes, N. J.
George Bean (Galaktinoff). With M. T. Vanartsdalen, Richboro, Pa.
John Lolchesnikoff. With Thos. D. Brokan, Dutch Neck, New Jersey.
Michael Chabitney. With C. H. Hess, Cabin Run, Columbia Co., Pa.
Pariscovia Achacee. With James Field, Hathoro, Pa.

The remaining four, Nikefer Shoushick, Peter Debrevolsky, Shash-ka Alexandroff, and Oleana Sperbeck are at the school.

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Dec. 18, 1901.

Mr. Gus H. Beaulieu,
St. Cloud, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 14th inst. in regard to Peter Coedker, I have been absent from home for some weeks on account of health, and on my return Mr. Allen, the Asst. Supt. brought your letter to me and has since given you my judgment in the matter. It is of not desirable to add to the number white Indians now enrolled. It seems from all I can gather that the Coedkers are living in civilization and should use the opportunities in their own neighborhood, which while perhaps not so good as they ought to be, are still worth a great deal to those who are really in earnest and desire an education.

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I. S. - In the spring or during the coming summer we can take the time to talk with you, speak of if they are satisfactory in health, character, etc., but they should have the consent of the agent under whose charge they are. Just now our school is very full.

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Dec. 18, 1901.

Malcolm W. Odell,
Indian School,
Toledo, Ia.

My dear Mr. Odell :-

A few days after your letter reached me I was compelled to
drop everything and go to a sanitarium, where I remained a little
over four weeks. The treatment there was pretty severe, but it put
me into shape again, and now I am as busy as ever. My personal cor-
respondence has been somewhat neglected in consequence of absence,
and I find your letter among others.

In regard to the small boys, of whom we had such a large number
last year, a number were sent home on account of health, but the ma-
jority are still here, and are getting on nicely.

Sorry to learn that smallpox has interfered so badly with your
school. We have been very free from any diseases this fall, except
colds and some pneumonia. Preparations for Xmas are occupying a big
place in the pupils' minds just now, and commencement following so
early this year makes us unusually busy. Mrs. Pratt and I are con-
templating an ocean voyage, leaving New York February eighth and
returning toward the end of April; shall take a Mediterranean trip,
stopping at Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem
and the Holy Land, Constantinople, Greece, Rome, Naples, Madders,
and London. I anticipate much benefit from the trip, and in order to
have things off my mind have arranged that commencement come on the
fifth of March next February.

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Dec. 18, 1.

Mrs. Laura A. Dandridge,
Indian School,
Kean's Canon, Ariz.

Dear Friend :-

Your letter of Nov. 24th came while I was away in a sanitarium. Returned about two weeks ago much benefited, but find it necessary to be very careful in order to keep up the improvement.

It is very encouraging to hear what you say in regard to Pasquala and Margaret. I have had nothing but good reports about them from the superintendent and others at the school. Ella Sturn wrote me a short time ago that she expected to start for Kean's Canon in a few days, and by this time has no doubt begun work.

Mrs. Pratt and I contemplate an ocean voyage, leaving New York the eighth of February and returning about the end of April. For this reason we have decided to have commencement the fifth and sixth of February, and there is much to be done in the interval.

With kind regards to Mr. Dandridge,

Faithfully yours,

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Dec. 18, 1901.

Bessie Gotholda,
709 W. Gold Ave.,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Bessie :-

Your letter came when I was nearly sick, and in a few days
after I had to go to a sanitarium; so it has had to wait. I came
home about two weeks ago, and am able to take up work again, but the
doctor says I must be very careful if I don't want to go through the
same treatment again.

glad you are becoming such a good housekeeper, and that you have
such a pleasant home. I hope you will be so satisfactory in every
way that the lady will not want to give you up.

I send you my picture today and you may call it my Xmas greeting
to you.

Mrs. Pratt and I are planning to take an ocean voyage, leaving
New York February eighth, to be gone about eleven weeks. We shall
stop at the principal ports on the Mediterranean, visit Jerusalem
and parts of the Holy Land, Rome, Constantinople, Naples and other
places of interest. As we want to have commencement out of the way
we have set the date for that February fifth and sixth. There is a
great deal to be done before then, and everyone is very busy.

Your brother is getting on nicely, if you mean John Smith. I did
not know he was your brother before.

I then kind regards to yourself and Dora, and any others who have gone from here, I am

 faithfully your friend and school-father,

Dec. 18,

1.

Lucy George,
Olney, Phila.,
Pa.

Dear Lucy :-

I have read your letter and the one you enclose, but I can
not send you home because your uncle is sick. You could not help
him, and it would keep you out of school many weeks. We do not send
pupils home when members of their family are sick, because the Gov-
ernment cannot afford to pay such heavy traveling expenses and be-
cause it would be a direct injury to the pupils themselves. Even
if you could afford to pay for your ticket yourself I could not let
you go. Write your mother just how it is, and tell her you must
put your mind on your duties and studies, although you would like
to see your uncle.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 18, 1901.

Mrs. Martha Simpson,
Hupa, Cal.

Dear School-daughter :-

I have not meant to ignore your letter of two months ago.
It came while I was away for a few days, and soon after I had to go
off for several weeks on account of my health. I returned from the
sanitarium at Wernersville about two weeks ago, much improved but not
very strong. Am again at my desk, however, and am taking up things
that have been accumulating.

First of all, I want to express my best wishes to you and your
husband. I had not heard of your marriage before. You speak of it
only casually and near the close of your letter, as if you thought
I knew of it. With all my heart I wish you both a happy future. Am
glad to know you have married a man of so high a character, and that
his circumstances and abilities make it unnecessary for you to con-
tinue work outside your home in order to add to your income. It
gives you a chance to be a homemaker, and don't you think that is now
your highest interest? If you are so situated that you can keep
house comfortably, why not do that? Your desire to be employed is
very commendable, and above all things I would not have you be idle;
but you need not be idle because not filling a position in the school

As I read your letter I see you have fallen into one of your
pessimistic moods. The questions you ask me to answer you can ans-
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answers? I would like to know on what you base your deductions. You can present an argument very well. You have profited greatly through the kindness of the government and your own use of the opportunities given, but you misunderstand the purpose of the Government. It is not really the purpose of the Government to make things easy for the Indians after they are educated, or it ought not to be. It is to make them able to meet the difficulties of competition with others for whom it does not provide. We all want good things and it is right we should have them, but that does not mean we are to fret because we do not reach the high places. If we fail to achieve them when working fairly and honestly we need not be discouraged. Perseverance will finally be rewarded, though ignored for a time. All the trials in the world do not come to Indians. White boys and girls who have fitted themselves for efficient work are often set aside and outranked by others who are not more efficient but have more influential friends; but worth will be recognized finally. Competition is often cruel and unfair, but it is the principle of independence. Without it there would be no growth. If things came to us easily we would not strive for them; then what would be the object of living? Education does not set aside difficulties or prevent hardships and discouragements, but if it does what it ought to do it teaches one to bear up under trials and cast away discouragements and meet disappointments without throwing the blame on those who are successful.

As you know, I cannot in any way interfere with the conduct of
our schools than Carlisle. Each student who goes out from her
will meet the situation he finds himself in the best way he can.
There is no reason why all should not advance as they progress
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because of real or fancied slight differences.

When you have considered the subject in all its bearings, I
shall hope to have your answer to your own query, and feel sure
it will be more in line with what I have always expected of you.

The weather has turned quite cold. Skating is in order, and
holiday restlessness is coming on. Commencement this year is to be
early, the fifth and sixth of February, so that Mrs. Pratt and I can
leave for an ocean voyage on the eighth. The change and rest is
recommended for me, and I hope to be permanently benefited.

With best wishes for a happy Christmas season, and kind regards to
yourself and husband, and other Carlsillers, I am

As ever, Faithfully your friend and School-father,

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Hon. Wm. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

I have just been over to New York and engaged state rooms for the Celtic trip. As this trip is educational to me and indirectly in the interests of the school, it does not seem best that I go without authority. In view of the fact that it is without expense to the Government and unquestionably if I keep my health and return it will be of material benefit to the school, it seems very proper that I have an order from the Department, or if not that, a commission to go to the various countries bordering the Mediterranean and the British Isles, to make investigations in the interests of this school. I shall have seventeen days in England, Scotland and Wales, and shall in every place I go pay some attention to schools and education. I therefore write, asking that I be ordered to do this, contingent upon there being no expense to the Government.

I rode from Carlisle to Philadelphia with Rev. H. G. Ganss, the Catholic priest here. He told me that the organization known as the Catholic Bureau in Washington was to be rearranged and would probably be under his care; that his appointment to its management has been recommended to the Vatican. He gave me the conditions under which he was willing to undertake the work. He said he declined to accept of it and be governed by the same rules and regulations that had governed it under Stephan; that he had recommended to the Managing Board of Bishops that their Catholic schools do not undertake to give high

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or education to Indians, but to begin on them very young and carry
them forward to a limited point, and after they are thoroughly ground
ed in their church duties, then to get the Government to accept of
them in the larger training schools. This was contingent of course
upon the arrangement that the principles prevailing at Carlisle
should prevail throughout the other schools. He said he was not in
sympathy with the entire exclusiveness of the Catholic school system
for any of the races, and believed that their Catholic children should
come in contact with the other children of the country; that he was
not against the public school system to the extent of keeping their
children entirely out of them; that his views had been accepted by
the Board of Bishops, and it was on this basis he had been placed in
charge of the Bureau. He said further that he was entirely in sym-
pathy with the policy of breaking up the reservations and that the
bishops were also in favor of doing away with reservations and tri-
bal conditions.

I asked him if he were willing that I write this to you and he
said he was, with the possibility that there might be a slip in his
appointment; and he wanted me to assure you that his course in
charge of the Catholic Indian school work would be on exactly the
same lines as his work here; that he should in the most careful man-
ner abstain from antagonisms and endeavor to cooperate with the De-
partment in lifting the Indians out of their difficulties.

This seems progress in the right direction, and for the present
ought to be satisfactory.

I have had a copy of the last trial balance, Students' Funds,

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Dec. 19, 1901.

Chas. Wilkins, U.S. Indian Agent,
Umatilla Agency,
Pendleton, Ore.

Sir :-

On the 15th of November, 1900, August Alexander entered this school as a pupil from your agency. On the 4th of June he ran away and I heard he was connected with some circus traveling in the west. On the 10th of September he was brought back from Chemawa, Ore. When he got back he was plainly under the influence of tuberculosis. My school physician this morning makes the following report :-

"Have examined August Alexander this day. He has tuberculosis. Open sores on his neck. His condition requires an outdoor life. I suggest the most beneficial thing for him would be that he should return home, as he is not in condition to benefit by confinement in school. "

Under these circumstances I will start him for Pendleton on
Monday next.

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1.

Miss L. S. Stent,
324 S. 11th St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Miss Stent :-

Replying to yours of yesterday, Lillian Waterman and Mary Bruce have no money, Lillian St. Cyr has barely enough, Lizette Rouboideau has enough and Pearl Hartley has plenty to make you a visit. Pearl was down last year. Under all the circumstances it does not seem best to let the girls go down unless possibly Pearl, and it would be just as well for her to remain here.

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Dec. 19,

1.

Mr. J. S. Martin,
Red Springs,
Shawano, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

Your daughter Lizzie has been ill, but is now comparatively well, attends school, and is in quarters. There is no cause for anxiety on her account for the present.

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Mr. Frank C. Clark,
111 Broadway,
New York,

Dear Sirs

Miss Agnew finds it impossible to make arrangements to go on the Celtic trip. You may therefore leave my daughter in Room 188 with Mrs. Henry C. Wise of 8 Lewis St., Auburn, New York, and if there should come an opportunity to place her nearer my room #125, let me have the chance of changing.

I enclose my check for $50 additional covering reservation for my daughter. Please return accompanying receipts.

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Dec. 19, 1901.

Capt. Joe. H. Dunn,
Commanding Co. M., 3rd Battalion,
Corps of Engineers,
West Point, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Nov. 23rd which is only now be-
fore us because of a long absence from home, I have to respectfully
inform you that all our instruction in trades here from the beginning
has been carried on in the old apprentice methods. When we began we
had not a pupil who could speak English, and of course imitation was
the only method. While the intelligence of the school has grown so
that text books might be used in that line now, we have not made use
of them but have rather continued the work under trained mechanics
giving practical and individual instruction. We do absolutely nothing
on theoretical lines. Every move that an apprentice makes is con-
structive. If he uses the saw, it is to saw out material for a pur-
pose; he uses the plane, hammer, etc. in the same way. In our car-
pentry department we do all our own repairing, building, etc.; in the
blacksmith shop we make all sort of light wagons, telegraph cars of the
agricultural implements for two farms, shoe our horses and mules, and
do such work as is actually necessary to accomplish the training of
the boys. Learning to do by doing is the idea.

I very much fear our system of instruction will not be along the
line of your needs, but if you think so, why not run down and see us?

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1.

Princess Chinquilla,
443 W. 27th St.,
New York City.

Dear Princess :-

I have yours of the 16th in reference to Harry. Immediately on receipt of information I sent my outing agent, Mr. Thompson, to the gypsy camp to find out whether he was there. He found no trace of him but learned that there had been a larger Indian boy with them some time before. Fearing capture, he had skipped.

Harry left the school with Samuel Ortley, a boy of about his own age, whose home is in South Dakota. Ortley committed a theft in Penn Van, N. Y., was tried and sentenced to the reform school. Mr. Thompson went up to see him. Samuel told Mr. Thompson that he and Harry had kept together as far as Elmira. There they separated and he did not know where Harry had gone. This information is pretty good evidence that Harry was not with the gypsies in New Jersey at all, as he would hardly return to a section where the chances of being recognized were so strong, on account of our students who are among farmers there.

If I learn anything of his whereabouts I will promptly let you know.

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Dec. 20,

1.

Henry S. Pennfield,
Jamestown, New York.

Dear Henry :-

Thank you for your little note and the intimation that
Laura and I may expect something from Levent, and also that something
will come later from Caddie.

I have been quite under the weather and am only now back from a
sanitarium where I was a month; not in good shape yet by any means,
but still surely mending. Please tell all the folks that I was in
New York the other day and secured passage for Laura, Richenda and
myself on the Celtic for the excursion to the Mediterranean. We sail
from New York on the eighth of February, going to Madeira, Gibraltar,
Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem and parts of Palestine, Constan-
tinople, Greece, Rome, Naples, The Reviera, and England. We spend
seventeen days in England, and get back to New York about the second
of May. In order to enable us to go on this excursion we are having
commencement on the fifth and sixth of February.

With love and the season's best wishes to you all,

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Dec. 20,

1.

Miss Jennie Demeau,
Wetumka,
Creek Nation, Ind. Ky.

Dear Miss Demeau :-

I filled the position in the small boys' quarters by transferring one of my teachers who has been with us many years. There are no vacancies in sight just now, but I will keep your application in mind and if there is opportunity to consider you later will let you know.

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Dear Edwin :-

Mr. Allen places in my hands your letter to him. At the
time I told him to write to you it appeared quite plain we would have
to make a change pretty soon on account of James Wheelock, and I
thought of pushing it a little myself. Since then I have been ad-
vised that the change will probably make itself if I let it alone.
This is a condition I prefer.

I have had you in mind for quite a while, and had hoped to be in
Albuquerque and see you. With your disposition in the matter I shall
feel safe to go ahead and ask your transfer when the way opens.

Trusting Mrs. Schanandore is well and that you are both doing
as nicely as the most excellent reports say, and with Xmas greetings
to you both, I am as ever

Faithfully your friend,

Dec. 20,

1.

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Dec. 20,

1.

Dr. A. A. Lawrence,
Exeter, N. H.

Dear Doctor :-

I was in Washington a few days ago in reference to a number
of employes and some changes I propose to make, and find that the
President has recently appointed to the Civil Service Commission two
new men who are prominent in Civil Service reform. These new members
( the Commission is composed of three) propose to enforce civil ser-
vice rules and make them more stringent, and also to extend their op-
erations everywhere. Doctors in the Indian Service are under civil
service and must take examinations therefor, so that it will be im-
possible for me to arrange what I had in mind. The only way will be
for you to take the examination and tell the civil service people
that you will accept an appointment anywhere in the Indian service.
If you pass well, and from your training and education I think you
will , you will be selected for one of the first positions vacant,
and then if you notify me I can have you transferred immediately to
Carlisle. As things stand now I am barred from doing what I have for
some years been permitted to do even under civil service.

Should you choose to take the course I suggest I shall be glad
to hear from you. As examinations are held only twice a year, in
the spring and fall, it would be better to take it this spring.

Your credentials are herewith returned.

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Miss Emma L. Grice,
704 Washington Square,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Miss Grice :-

I owe you an apology for not having written before, but I have been ill and in a sanitarium near Wernersville for more than a month. Miss Ely returned in due time, but being myself away I had no chance to talk with her. Since our correspondence the Civil Service Commission has taken hold of all these appointments and is going to require that only Civil Service selections shall be allowed. This makes it impossible for me to do otherwise than ask the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for assignment of a short-hand typewriter from the Civil Service lists.

Am very sorry that the matter has lain so long, but it was not possible to accomplish a conclusion earlier.

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Dec. 20,

Dr. H. G. Brumbaugh,
Commissioner of Education for Puerto Rico,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear doctor :—

On my return from quite an absence I find you have written
to my assistant, Mr. Allen, that you will pay us a visit. I hope
you will and very soon. In the meantime what would you suggest doing
in the case of Felicita Medina? Felicita has been a perpetual bother
on account of her lavish tendencies and I was glad when she was se-
lected by Mrs. Etnier as one of her four girls; but Mrs. Etnier has
sent her back to us and she is now in a worse condition than before
she went ; so that it has become necessary to keep her in the hos-
pital and under observation. The following is my doctor's report :—

"The mind of Felicita Medina - Puerto Rico - is so disturbed
that it were better she were away from the school. She is insane."

What can you recommend in this matter ?

Belongs in Official. Received.

To The Honorable,

Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

Dec. 20,

1.

With the new farm closer to the school and added conven-
lences for the care of cows, we ought to increase our herd so that
we might have our 57 stalls for milk cows full all the time. The dry
cows we keep at the new farm. Our herd at present numbers 48 milk
cows, and with 57 we could carry 68. To secure the best quality,
cows must be hunted for and generally purchased separately. No
scheme of advertising for bids and accepting of cows in numbers
would be likely to give us as good results. By taking time and let-
ting it be generally known throughout the surrounding country that
we want first class young milkers and hunting for them, we shall find
here and there what we need, and be able to satisfactorily make the
proposed increase. Fifty dollars will buy an excellent cow, and we
shall get some good ones for forty or less, but I would like to be
able to buy an exceptionally good cow when I find one and will pay
only as much as is necessary in order to get the best for the pro-
posed increase.

I therefore respectfully request that I be permitted to buy in
open market 20 cows at not to exceed $60.00 each.........$1000.00

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Dec. 20,

1.

To The Honorable,

Sir :-

D. E. Miller, one of the temporarily confirmed employees
at this school, assistant clerk and also a short-hand typewriter, has
sent in his resignation to take effect the 31st of December. I shall
therefore need a short-hand typewriter at $420 per annum, and re-
spectfully request that a civil service assignment be made. In addi-
tion to short-hand and typewriting ability the person should be a
neat and accurate typist.

I should inform you that I would have no difficulty in getting
an efficient stenographer for this salary from one of the business
schools. I find there are very competent young women in the cities
who are receiving six, seven, eight and nine dollars a week for such
service.

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Dec. 21, 1.

Hon. E. B. Vreeland,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Dec. 19th in reference to Walter L. Kennedy, son of Walter S. Kennedy who lives near Gowanda, N. Y., I have to respectfully advise you that Walter has been here nine years, a very large part of which time he has been in the country. His staying beyond the five years for which he came has been entirely his own fault, partly because he desired to remain, partly because he offended against the rules of the school and his staying was part of his punishment.

At the close of a five years' term it is optional with students to go home. Without looking up the matter, it is my recollection that when he was first entitled to go home he desired to stay and it was the wish of his sister, then a pupil here, since graduated, that he do that. The next year he was to go home, but just before the students were sent he ran away. It was not far to his home and he could easily have gone there if he had wanted to, but he remained in the district of our out pupils and gave us trouble and under the rules we had to take care of and doctor him. The third year he did not wait until the proper time, but ran away again and instead of going home located among our out boys to earn money, and I had to take him out and care for him again. Last summer he ran away again, when it was found that a short time he would have been sent home. He

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was caught and brought back. His father was here in the spring of
1900, and as I understood was satisfied to have his son keep on in
school and let us do what we could for him. Walter has been very
backward in books and but for the fact that he was in the country
a large part of the time and earned his own way and preferred to do
that, I should have sent him home on account of his school standing;
but so long as an Indian can earn his way I am willing to give him
a chance, boy or man. My principal teacher reports that he has waked
up this year and is doing better in studiesthan ever before, and re-
ally seems to have gotten to work to some purpose.

There is no objection to sending home now or keeping him until
summer and letting him go with the other students. You or his father
or anyone else who has authority may determine the matter. In many
respects he is a pretty good sort of a boy; is hardy and an excep-
tionally good worker when he chooses to apply himself, and is much
in demand among our farm patrons because of these qualities.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Dec. 21,

1.

John D. Miles,

Lawrence, Kans.

My dear Miles :-

Thanks for another sight at your chirography. I think the
one great difficulty in the way of doing for the Indians is the fact
that those who administer on his estate are simply loaded to death
with the details of office. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is
worn out with trying to keep the affairs of his office running and
to protect the Indians and the service from speculation. He looks
at every bit of the mail every day and tries to keep a hand on every
thing. In spite of that there are things creeping in every now and
then that ought not to.

I entirely agree with you about going across lots to citizenship
Am going to put a good part of your letter in the next Red Man, of
course not exposing you. The Commissioner's report is on our lines
in a great measure, and I feel sure if left to him things would move;
but he is only the clerk of the Secretary and the Secretary is a
good deal of a clerk for the President. Can't you get up some sort
of a document and have some of the best citizens of Kansas sign it
and send it to the President. Curtis would be a good man to present
it. He has the entree to the White House.

I have not been very well for a long time. Have had a rheumatic
condition in my chest which worries me. Was in a sanitarium for a
month recently. I now plan to take Mrs. Pratt and our youngest daughter
to Sicily and make a trip to the Mediterranean, stopping at Madeira

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Mr. Loran Thompson,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Thompson :-

I have your letter about your two children. They began at the bottom and are just beginning to have sufficient understanding to show what they can do. They are only now in the second term. Fellower has shown any special ability yet. From the conduct of your boy boy in constantly using tobacco and violating the rules of the school it will be necessary for him to make a great change in his habits if he wants to amount to anything. Indeed he is taking just the right course to compel up to discipline him and possibly end his school career. If your children have the energy and ability to get on in school they could not have a better chance than here; but while you can lead a horse to water you can't make him drink. That part he has to do himself; and both John and Ida must learn to exert themselves in every respect if they would become even ordinary teachers. Ida is doing much better than her brother and is more promising.

Perhaps you can stimulate them by writing to them, and I should be glad to have you help me in this way.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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1.

Mr. E. D. Moyer, Gen. Secy.,
V. M. C. A.,
Association Bldg.,
Easton, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to you of the 20th in regard to the moving pictures of this school which were shown at the Buffalo Exposition, I have to advise you that those have all gone to Charleston. They were paid for by an appropriation of Congress, and were not made or arranged for under our suggestion or inspiration in any way. Congress passed an act permitting the whole government exhibit to be transferred to Charleston and that was done; so you see it is impossible for me to help you.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
The Journal Printing Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dec. 21,

1.

Dear Fred :-

Is it within range to have at least some of the souvenir
books here by commencement, Feb. 8th? I have the balance of mater-
ial about in shape for you. My idea was to let you have it and you
could make the book on large us the material would compel. The cover
we thought of having a dark red and the printing on it embossed in
old gold "The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa. Twenty third
year, 1902." I would prefer that the book be bound so that the back
will run the long way of the book. This of course would compel one
to turn it sideways in order to see the pictures, but it would en-
able us to get the printed material in in better shape, and would last
better.

Please wire me on receipt of this if there is any possibility
of accomplishing such early delivery. How would it do to send Miss
Burgess up with the other material and to help plan, for we want it
bunkers.

Yours,

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To the Adjutant General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D. C.

Dec. 23,

1.

Sir :—

Referring to my letter of the 16th inst. and your reply of the 21st marked " 411881, A. G. O. ", I enclose herewith the one dollar, required fee for special passport, which was inadvertently omitted from my original letter.

Mrs. Pratt and daughter Richenda will go with me.

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Dec. 23,

1.

Wanamaker & Brown,
Sixth & Market Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen :-

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Wm. M. Nichols,
1009 1/2 Harrison St.,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dec. 23,

1.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of Dec. 21st, Olive Choteau will be at
Liberty to go to Kansas City and take up such course as she chooses
after commencement here, which occurs the fifth and sixth of Febru-
ary. Will notify you in time to meet her at the station.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Superintendent,
Johns-Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Md.

Dec. 23,

1.

Dear Sir :-

Will you please let me know what has been done in the case
of Antonio Lobo who was placed in your care last Tuesday. We are
very anxious to have your diagnosis. What treatment is being given
and what is the prospect for complete recovery ?

A prompt reply will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,

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Dec. 24, 1.

Henry T. Coates & Co., Publishers,
Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

I have just laid down the December number of "The Era",
having read it from cover to cover with the greatest interest. I read
also the November number with equal interest.

Please send to Mrs. L. L. Mason, Jamestown, N. Y. "The Era" for
one year, and if you can, let it begin with the November number; al-
so one copy to me, beginning with the January number; also the fol-
lowing books :-

1 copy "The Lonesomest Doll". Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

2 copies "Dear Days". - A Story of Washington School Life. Your own publication.

2 " " "Four on a Farm". Little, Brown & Co.

1 copy "Heart." - A School-boy's Journal. Lothrop Pub. Co.

2 copies R. H. Russell's "Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for Any Children".

1 copy Plantation Songs by Eli Shepherd.

Send me bill for the whole and I will remit at once.

Yours truly,

P. S. - Please add to the list

1 copy "The Master Key and Electrical Fairy Story". Bowen, Merrill & Co.

1 " "Jack Morgan. - A Boy of 1812 ". Lothrop Pub. Co.

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Dec. 24,

1.

Mr. D. L. Lindsay,
14 S. Broad St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Friend :-

Yours of the 23rd enclosing check for $26.25 as a Xmas present to the school from Dr. Trumbull's Bible Class of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Sunday School, is received, and I thank you and the class most cordially for your continued remembrance.

I have been ill for quite a number of weeks and it has become necessary for me to go away from the cares of the school and try to unload and rest. Accordingly, I have arranged to go on the Celtic trip to the Mediterranean, leaving New York on the eighth of February and returning about the first of May, visiting the points of greatest interest along the Mediterranean and having seventeen days in England, Scotland and Ireland. I dictate this to you from my bed. Should I recover my health as I hope, and be in Philadelphia on a Sunday I shall certainly come to the Walnut Street Church and participate in the class lesson; but I fear not as a leader, for I should not feel equal to that.

Please present the best wishes of the season from the Carlisle school and its superintendent especially to the members of the class.

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Dec. 24,

1.

Edgar C. West,
Penn College,
Oskaloosa, Ia.

Dear Sir :-

The name of the trained nurse whose picture appears in Mr. Tatum's book is Zippa Metoxen. She did not graduate from this school but did graduate from the School for Nurses in New Haven, Conn. and remained to do excellent work there for a time. The last we knew of her she was at her home at Oneida, Wis. If you address her in care of the Indian Agent, J. C. Hart, Oneida, Wis., you will be placed in communication with her.

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gold. I would like you to suggest a design for the cover to add to
the attractiveness, the the judgment here was that the simple words
embossed in old gold on the red cover with a few touches of black
curved lines were all that would be necessary. I enclose a sample,
"Iowa College, 1901" being the style of embossing proposed. If you
could print the words in your own office to look as well as "Ames,
Ia.", it would satisfy. Give us a little darker red and a strong
good quality of paper. If you can just as well as not, send us a
sample of paper and design.

Yours truly,

F. B. - Since writing the above the first installment of proofs are
here and the critics think well of them.

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Dec. 27, 1901.

Wli. Skye,

Peoria, Ind. Ky.

Dear Will :-

Stella showed me your letter to her today and gave me a
note that was enclosed for my reading. I send you herewith a blank
application which please have Amos fill out and send in. When it is
received here, transportation will be placed.

With best wishes,

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Dec. 27, 1901.

The King Canvas Boat Co.,

Kalamazoo, Mich.

Gentlemen :-

You may send your 12 ft. special, as per your letter of the
23rd. I am counting on your giving me the very best you have. You
may also send me one double blade jointed paddle and combing detach-
able and invisible color. These would better be sent before January
20th, as I am going away. I enclose check for $29.00, price of boat
and will remit for the additional when I know the amount.

Please send receipted bill.

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Dec. 27, 1901.

Mr. Jesse K. Cope,
Dept. of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir :-

Through Miss Ely I have a note from Mrs. Diament in which
she makes the following statements :-

"Mr. Cope told me Col. Pratt would pay for the girl out of the girl's money. If he don't show up very soon we will ship the girl back to Carlisle; so you may look for her. We will not take a bit of trouble with her. This is certain, I would not have taken her at all if it had not been for Col. Pratt. The Colonel will have to see that Mr. Cope pays this. Mr. Cope told me she said it was some man in the road. He said she blamed it on his son, a little boy in his fourteenth year, but he don't believe one word of it. I want to know at once what we are to do."

Now, Mr. Cope, I have this to say to you; That in several particulars you falsified the situation to Mrs. Diament. The girl told her first story as she did in order to protect your wife under whose care she had been for five years. For this you should have given her some credit. Communications both from yourself and your wife establish the fact that your son admitted criminal conduct. Your statement of the age of your son is not true, and I am now unwilling to believe that the gravamen of criminality you attempt to place upon the girl belongs to her alone. I have been very liberal with you about it. Mrs. Diament states that she will not undertake the girl at all short of $200 down. I think this moderate. You can either at once make this right with Mrs. Diament or I will take the course the law provides, and you and yours can suffer publicity and whatever results therefrom. It is plain to me that the kindly disposition

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I have shown is not appreciated by you or your wife. There will be
expenses after the girl is through at Mrs. Diament's and I will re-
serve her own money to meet those.

My confidence is gone and I have given orders that the girl now
with you be withdrawn and our relations on this line be closed.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

Dec. 27, 1901.

Wm. H. Respess,
Gwynn, Va.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 26th inst., I have to advise
you that we have no vacancy at this school in the line of your abili-
ties, and do not anticipate any change.

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Dec. 27, 1901.

Col. Chas. McClure, Dsbg. P.M. General, U.S.A.,
C/o Paymaster General's Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Colonel :-

I have been in bed taking the Wernersville treatment at
home and am improved sufficiently to be able to be in the office this
morning.

Dr. Lawrence sent me some very acceptable testimonials. In the
meantime I talked with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and it ap-
pears that the situation has changed very greatly. The President,
as you know, is a great civil service reformer, and has recently ap-
pointed two new members to the Civil Service Commission, both of whom
are of the stringent kind. The meager liberty we had in the past is
to be taken from us. The Civil Service Commission is to do abso-
lutely everything. I wrote Dr. Lawrence to take the civil service
examination, which I feel confident he can readily do, and when he
is informed of his passing to let me know. This will take several
months, but it can be brought about if he is willing to go through
it. Any other arrangement we might make seems at present to be en-
tirely blocked. I want a resident physician and one of exactly the
kind you and others advise me Dr. Lawrence is. It would be well
if you would write the Doctor and encourage him to take the examina-
tion. Advise him by no means to indicate to the Commission that he
is aiming at Carlisle or any particular place; just that he wants to
take the examination to enter the Indian Service as a physician.

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Sorry to hear, my dear Colonel, that your health is not so good. What a long fight you have had! I do hope you may soon be relieved. Since seeing you I have determined to take the trip on The Celtic thru the Mediterranean and the British Isles. We leave New York on the 8th of February, and return about the first of May. Mrs. Pratt and our youngest daughter will accompany me. I do this in the hope that complete absence from the cares of the school and the rest and change will relieve me of my trouble. I believe it will.

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Dec. 26, 1901.

Rev. Robert MacFadden,
Chelsea, Mass.

Dear Robert :-

I am indeed very greatly obliged to you for your thoughtfulness in paving the way for our better reception at Jerusalem. A brother of Mr. Clark's is the vice consul at Jerusalem and we are promised special attention on that account, but that pertains to the whole party. To be singled out and meet the consul himself personally on such friendly introduction will be a very great privilege.

You will laugh when I tell you that the Catholic bishop in Harrisburg, who has taken this trip twice and was for a long time in Palestine and also in Rome, advises me that friends of his in Palestine would be happy to entertain me in their convents or other institutions, which I will find he says far more comfortable than the hotels. However, all our expenses are taken care of by the director of the excursion and I suspect we shall rely entirely on his selections. The bishop will give us introductions which we will use.

I am dictating this from my bed where I have been brought by a return of my trouble.

I am sending you a ticket, New York to Carlisle and return, good to the middle of February. If you will cover your expenses Boston to New York I will refund the amount to you, and it will give us great pleasure to have you come down and give us the sermon you propose.
If practicable for you we should be delighted to have Mrs. MacFadden

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Dec. 28, 1901.

Miss E. Luzena Choteau,
419 Van Ness Ave.,
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Luzena :-

I have your letter of the 23rd enclosing one from Ellis.
Primarily, the fault is all yours and nobody else's. Therefore you
have no grounds for fault funding except with yourself. It is very
questionable propriety for anybody to maintain silence and cover up
such faults as you yourself admit. Our true policy is to find a
great deal of fault with ourselves and as little with our friends as
possible; but when people do those things that are an offence both
against themselves and society, making themselves a care on society
and dangerous to society, it is right that the facts be known, and
it is no sort of friendship to conceal it, because concealment in-
vites increased danger. You have not been wise. The best thing for
you to do is to constantly admit to yourself and others that you have
not been wise, lend your faults by a long showing of better conduct.
I cannot help saying to you, as I am acting in the capacity of father
and instructor to your sister that your conduct has had an unfortu-
nate influence upon her and to a very considerable extent has nulli-
fied what we have been trying to do for her. In saying these things
to you from my large experience, I feel that I am speaking from the
standpoint of your best friend, and that Miss Burgess has been
very by as much friendship for you as anyone could be. You know
we not served me in the past and I anticipate you will not serve me
the same. But that does not deter me from saying what I feel

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to say.

I still have faith in you as I have in everyone who lives.
There is sunshine and happiness and success in front always for those
who will take the right means to get into them, and if you will quit
thinking that everybody and everything is against you, no matter if
you really do think so, which I very much doubt when you get down to
the bottom of your thoughts, you yourself can see I am right.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 30,

1.

Hon. John V. Quarles,
U. S. Senate,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator :-

Ever since I suggested that you speak in my behalf for pro-
motion I have felt that I broke my record and possibly lowered myself
in your estimation. It has always been a principle of mine to let my
preferment rest upon the judgment of those whom I serve, though ex-
perience proves that this is not the plan which generally secures
quickest advancement under the Government. To place myself right I
feel like giving you some of the reasons which actuated me, and when
you have read them, if you had any feeling that I was indelicate in
speaking you will, I hope, think there was some cause.

I entered the volunteer service on the 20th of April, 1861.
Only three of the general officers of the army from General Miles
down began service as early, Major Generals Brooke and Wheaton, and
Brigadier General Randall, who all were mustered in the same day with
me, Apr. 20th, '61. Every other general, including all the heads of
staff departments, entered the service subsequent to that time, some
of them years afterward. In my own corps, the cavalry, of the nine-
teen senior to the Colonels Whiteside and Hayes began service before
I did, both having served as enlisted men in the regular army before
the War of the Rebellion. One other, Colonel Rucker, entered on the
10th day of April, the day before I did.

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things more, though I have felt the injustice of them all along.
Whether my service to the Government has been as distinguished and as
worthy of special recognition as that of others is of course for my
superiors to determine. It may be alleged I have kept away from
strictly military duty, but I have said to you and I wish to say here
in writing that there cannot be found anywhere any evidence of so-
liation on my part, nor have I induced others to solicit that I
be either given this special duty or that I be kept here. On the
contrary, I can call from the archives of the War Department docu-
mentary proof that I tried several times to keep from and quit this
special service for the reason that it seemed to militate against my
preferment. I always have held myself ready and have repeatedly in-
fluenced my readiness to the War Department to quit service here and
join my command at any time or in special emergencies. I am sorry to
burden you with such a long letter, but wish to make my point entire-
ly clear and plain, and in order to do so ask your attention to the
added fact that on March 8th, 1898, when our trouble with Spain was
culminating, I wrote to Adj. General Corbin as follows :-

"I have here under my care from 200 to 250 athletic young Indi-
ans representing 40 to 50 different tribes, suitable and capable in
all respects, who are well drilled in the school of the soldier and
company, and in whose hands guns can be placed and they perform most
effective military duty immediately. Should the occasion call for it,
I can within a fortnight gather a full thousand of just such able
bodied young men, formerly under my care here, who would gladly re-
spond and fill as large a place as any equal number of the best of
our militia. I make this statement to you without any desire to dis-
turb the equanimity of anybody or intention to take any steps in the
matter unless an emergency demands. It is simply a force ready, 200
to 250 on a day's notice, and a thousand of the same sort within a
fortnight."

On the 12th of April following I wrote my immediate chief, Commission
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"If it comes in your way I wish you would say to the Secretary that I have just about 200 young men under my care here who are trained to make excellent soldiers, and should the emergency demand and I not be needed elsewhere I would like to enlist and lead them. I can guarantee that they would be equal to any of our militias."

On the 20th of April I wrote to General Alger, Secretary of War as follows :—

"I wrote General Corbin early in March that we have 200 to 250 young Indian men, well trained in the school of the soldier and company who could move immediately after being armed and equipped, and if it was thought advisable I can assemble a thousand or more like them who have passed under my care and returned to their homes. I can understand, of course, that there might be an cutery by Spain, alleging the use of savages, but these would all be civilized, English speaking Indians and would average as intelligent as the volunteers now called out."

I was informed I would have to stay here.

For years I commanded Indian scouts serving against their own tribes and always with success. In the late winter of 1875 with only one white man, my interpreter and my Indian scouts, I caught up with in the Wichita Mountains, Indian Territory, demanded and received the unconditional surrender with their hundreds of followers, of Big Bow, Lone Wolf and Mah-mante, Kiowas, all of them the peers of Geronimo in ability, savagery and acts of raiding rascality along the frontier. No newspapers told this story, nor do I know how the incident was presented at the War Department. Many of these men I took to Florida as prisoners in chains in April, '75.

Have Generals Blank or Blank, not to mention others, rendered more conspicuous or valuable service than mine ? Who has done as much as I have to bring peace with the Indians and to promote their usefulness ? Is it best that the history of our dealings with Indians shall record that many who engaged solely in killing them were exalted while those who saved them to usefulness and good citizenship

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Dec. 30, 1901.

Mrs. J. H. Coe,
7159 Normal Ave.,
Englewood,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Friend :-

The children who came from Wood Island last summer are all
doing well. Only one of the girls is at the school, Orleana Sper-
beck, is at the school, the others being in families for the winter,
attending public school. Three of the boys, Nikefer Shouchick,
Shashka Alexandroff, and Peter Debrovolsky are here. The addresses
of the others are as follows :-

Kate Shepard. C/o R. C. Pyott, Toughkennamon, Pa.
Anastasia Achwack, C/o W. W. Davidson, Moorestown, New Jersey.
Pariscovia Achacee, C/o James Field, Hatboro, Pa.

John Lolchesnikoff, C/o J. D. Brokau, Dutch Neck, New Jersey.
Fadya (Theodore) Shellikoff, C/o C. C. Bond, Ringoes, New Jersey.
George Galaktinoff (Bean), C/o M. T. Vanartsdalen, Richboro, Pa.
Michael Chipednoy, C/o C. H. Hess, Cabin Run, Pa.

Sincerely yours,

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Dec. 30, 1901.

Jason Betzinez,

Fort Sill, Okla.

Dear Jason :-

Your letter and the picture came duly, and we have marked
the names of those whom we can recognize, above the picture. Glad
so many of you have associated yourselves with an effort of this kind
The faces of most of you are very distinct, and I have placed the
photo with others I am collecting.

It is greatly to be regretted that progress and civilization
carry with them those things that are so detrimental to the Indians,
but it is inevitable, and when they know the danger, and the destruc-
tion whiskey causes, they ought to let it alone. If the Indians
could only have foreseen what was coming they might have had a part
in the movement .

Our school is constantly growing and improving. Commencement
is almost upon us. Mrs. Pratt, daughter Richenda and I are planning
a trip to the Mediterranean on the steamer "Celtic" leaving New York
February 8th. My health has been such as to make a rest and change
imperative, and a sea voyage has been recommended. I think it will
help me. The class that goes out is a large one, and as I was absent
last year during the commencement season, I have arranged to have
the exercises before I leave.

All are busy in preparation and the regular duties. The hol-

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days are just over, and school begins this morning.

With best wishes to yourself and our other boys and girls,

Faithfully your friend,

Dec. 30, 1901.

Mrs. Adela de Uretia,

Corneric, Porto Rico.

Dear Friend :-

Your letter of the 8th of December has been translated for
me. It is very gratifying to know that you appreciate so highly the
advantages your son Enrique has here, and that he enjoys life at
Carlisle and is making good use of his opportunities. We are doing
the best we can for all our Porto Rican pupils, and as rule find them
very responsive to our efforts. Enrique is in good health.

Sincerely yours,

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Dec. 30,

1.

Mrs. H. Warren Staples,
21 Hanover St.,
Stoneham, Mass.

Dear Madam :-

I send you today my last annual report, also copies of ad-
dresses relating to the school and Indian education generally, and
other leaflets. I add also a late number of "The Red Man and Helper"
published at the school, and several annual reports of former years.

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Mr. Carlos Montezuma,
100 State St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor :-

Dec. 30,

1.

On the new Committee on Indian Affairs in the House is
James MacAndrews, who I understand is from Chicago. He is about six
feet four in height, a handsome fellow, and when put on the Indian
Committee was very much chagrined that he had not been chosen on some
other committee, and expressed himself quite freely against being
on that committee. Mr. Sherman, the Chairman, told me a number of
his friends gathered about him and got him into a somewhat more con-
genial mood; then led him to understand that he was on one of the
most important committees in the House. I told Mr. Sherman I would
write to some friends of mine in Chicago and see if it could not be
brought about that a few of his more prominent constituents in Chica-
go would congratulate him on being placed on the Indian Committee and
urge him to do all he could for the Indians. When I spoke to Mr.
Sherman I had it in my mind to write to Dr. Dudley, but have lost his
address. Won't you see the Doctor, and if you will, show him this
letter, and then between you arrange something of this sort. Mr. Sher-
man, the Chairman, says Mr. MacAndrews will make one of the best mem-
bers on the committee, that he wants him to be happy in his service
on the Committee, and a little home influence of this kind will ac-
complish it. You and the Doctor will understand how to work it, I
am sure.

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Dec. 31, 1901.

Miss Margaret E. Johnson
Chatham,
Chester Co., Pa.

Dear Miss Johnson :-

Replying to your letter asking for a position here I am
compelled to advise you that people must enter the Indian service
through examination and assignment by the Civil Service Commission.
When we need an employee here we must inform the Commissioner of In-
dian Affairs and he asks the Civil Service Commission, and from the
names highest on the list of eligibles a person is selected.

Just now we are not needing any new employes, nor do I antici-
pate a need very soon. If you care to take up the matter, write
to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.
for manual of examinations, instructions and dates. After passing
the examination you will then have to await your turn for assignment
anywhere in the Indian service.

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Dec. 31, 1901.

Sam. T. Ferrier,
Clifton, Arizona.

My dear Ferrier :-

Clad to hear from you at all, and so welcome yours of the
25rd. Am mighty sorry to hear the mines do not respond well to your
efforts. I have found that investing in mines is fickle business, and
from what I hear I believe that most of those who give their personal
attention to mining find it the same.

About your getting into the Indian service, - I fear the outlook
is almost hopeless. Civil Service laws and rules cover about every
position. The exceptions are 63 Indian agents, 8 inspectors and 6
special agents. These are all utilized as political appointments.
Civil Service is demanding that even these be turned over to the con
trol of the Commission, and it seems probable that will be done. I
have never undertaken to influence the appointment of anyone in these
three capacities for the reason that to do so would be considered
cheeky in one occupying only the superintendency of a school. I
have eighty odd employes here, but the only choice I have in the mat-
ter is in the selection of Indians. If any I have educated or any
others are suitable for the position to be filled and are willing to
come my nomination of them covers; but when positions cannot be
filled by Indians they are filled by selection from the civil service
lists, which is managed entirely by the Commission. I wish I could
help you, but I can't.

With ever cordial regard and best wishes for the new year,

Faithfully yours,

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Dec. 31,

1.

Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th
per S. O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Inte-
rior, dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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15th Cavalry, U.S.A.,

Dec. 31,

1.

Sir --

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th
per S. O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the In-
terior, dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Dec. 31, 1901.

Rev. Wm. H. Miller,
Presbyterian Parsonage,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.

My dear Friend :-

It does me good to see your signature. I only wish I could
see you and often. After a bit I hope to get around more than I have
for some time and see my many old friends.

In regard to a girl for your sister-in-law; I would do anything
possible to oblige you and to serve such good people as you recom-
mend, but we have repeatedly denied our girls to those connected with
Lincoln University because to place them where there are so many
young men has not proven satisfactory. In your sister-in-law's case
the question decides itself on the grounds of her not being able to
send the girl to school. We require that all our girls and boys
when placed out shall attend school one hundred consecutive days.

You will be glad, I am sure, to know that Mrs. Pratt and I with
our youngest daughter Richenda will take the "Celtic" trip to the Med-
iterranean, starting from New York on the eighth of February and re-
turning about the first of May. I hope to unload a great deal of
care and anxiety on the trip and get keyed up to greater accomplish-
ments. It seems the finest thing that could be organized.

With kind regards and best wishes for the New Year, I am as
ever,

Cordially and faithfully yours,

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Dec. 31, 1901.

Mrs. E. C. Diament,
663 N. 12th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Diament :-

I have a letter from Mr. Cope in which he states he will pay you one hundred dollars now and the other hundred on the 20th of January. If these payments are not made promptly please advise me.

Mr. Cope misrepresented the case to you. The boy will be sixteen in April. From information I have about him I am satisfied that Mabel's story is entirely correct. I do not believe she was bad before. I do believe what she told afterward in regard to her first story that she was met in the road by a man, i. e., that she invented it in order to save Mrs. Cope who is a very nice lady indeed, and who had been her friend and mother for the five years she had lived in the family. If this was a trait of Mabel's character and I knew it I should not of course come to you with her, nor would she be entitled to such consideration from me as I am giving her. Taking all and all, we have had comparatively few cases of this kind, so that I feel where a girl has gone on for a considerable number of years without fault she deserves all the consideration it is possible for us to show.

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Col. Pratt, of the U.S.Cavalry, originator and superintendent of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pa. where are gathered over a thousand youth from more than seventy different Indian tribes, occasionally has experiences with his students which he tells his friends.

In the early days of the school he had a young Indian from the Territory by the name of Sam Sixkiller. Sam was an exceptionally bright youth and after some years at the school showed progress enough to be placed in the printing office where he became a special favorite because of his wit and ability to write doggerel verse. One day Sam stepped over the traces in his conduct and it became necessary to punish him, which punishment took him from work in the printing office. When his punishment was completed he returned to the office and the boys gave him a hearty reception. He acknowledged it and when quiet was restored said, "Fellows, come here", and gathering the whole force around him he said, "I had a dream last night. I dreamed the world had come to an end. Everybody was rushing outdoors and looking up into the sky. I asked what they were looking for and was told that all who were to be saved would find their names written in the sky. I looked all over, but while I saw a multitude of names I could not find 'Sam Sixkiller' anywhere though I looked long and anxiously; but I saw 'R. H. Pratt' written clear across the whole sky in the Captain's own hand".

Sam returned to his western home in '95 and about the end of the year wrote to one of his teachers here as follows :-

"Well, well, Miss Paull forgotten you ? I don't believe it's right for when I think of old Carlisle come memories fresh and bright of the many familiar faces, of the many ups and downs of everything and every place that is upon the grounds. I was sitting here this afternoon with paper in my hand and all at once I thought of friends

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back in that eastern land. I knew that you had written me about two
months ago and why I never answered it I'm sure I do not know. I sup-
pose you wonder what I'm doing and then would like to know For every
one that leaves Carlisle of course the mark must too. But I'll tell
you just the straight of things if you'll promise not to gucky for
it's very little I have done since spring when I came back. You know
when a fellow wants to work and tries to find a place if he can't get
just what he wants he'll get down in the face. Well, I'm in that po-
sition with nothing much to do, but still with friends and kinfolks
I can most always chew. I'm getting mighty tired though with nothing
tall to do. If a fellow can't get a job I don't blame him do you ?
This is my first winter out of school for quite a while you know,
And all this thing about finding work with me goes pretty slow. I've
found out that a fellow if he makes a start at all must have a great
amount of cheek What most of us call gall. You know that is my weak-
est point, But still I'm in the ring and I guess before very long
this bird will learn to sing. I have not heard from old Carlisle for
two or three months I guess. Surely things about the place haven't
got in such a mess that you can't write to a fellow or tell him
what's the news. I haven't got a Helper since the gray mule lost his
shoes. Tell the printer that a brother away out in the west is
thirsty for some knowledge of the big and cozy nest. Some day their
wings will stronger grow, then they will have to fly to some far din-
tant western home and for the nest they'll sigh. How about the old
bird ? I hope he's well and strong and able still for many a year
to help the cause along. I've thanked him many and many a time for
all that he has done. The Indians had never a better friend beneath
the shining sun. You know now who I'm talking about. You surely can
see that. Who in the wide world could it be but good old Captain
Pratt.

Well, seems to me it's getting late. I guess I'll have to close
for if I don't I'm pretty sure that I'll begin to do so. The boys I
guess are all right and up to all their tricks. But now Goodbye. I
said I'd close. I remain,
as ever, -

"Six"

In the earliest days of the school there came a large boy from
the Cheyennes of what is now Oklahoma, named Summer Riggs. He grad-
ually improved in his English, but once or twice had to be disad-
plined for stubbornness. A serious case led to his being detailed
specially to feed the pigs. A swill barrel had been arranged with
iron supports on each side of an old set of carriage wheels with a
circular axle and handles so that by means of these and hooks on the
axles the barrel could be lifted up from the ground, hauled

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The pens about 500 yards away and removed from the wheels and the contents distributed. This was done three times a day. Summer did his work patiently and without protest for more than two months, when one day the superintendent received a note from him as follows :—

"Captain Pratt—

I want another trade. I have learned the pig trade.

Summer Riggs.

Afterward Summer was placed in the home of a good farmer in Columbia County, Pa. where he made most excellent progress; but one day he was told by the farmer to put a new harness on a lively young horse and hitch him up to a new buggy. After some time the farmer went out and found the horse hitched up. Summer had put on the new harness but used an old bridle. He called his attention to it and told him he should have been thoughtful enough to use the new bridle. Summer reached up, unbuckled the bridle, and leaving the horse standing without any started for the barn to get the new bridle. The farmer looked around just in time to see the horse starting off and by running after, caught him by the forelock and held him by the nose until the boy came with the bridle. For his careless news Summer was this time reprimanded more severely, and that night he concluded to run away. He went to Williamsport and put up at a hotel. Not having had any experience in such matters he blew out the gas. Soon the hotel people discovered there was a waste and the clerked nosed the odor to Summer's room, forced the door open and found him pretty nearly gone. He was brought around and his narrow escape and the danger to the hotel explained to him with a good deal of emphasis, whereupon he immediately returned to the farm and wrote a very long and apologetic letter to his superintendent, stating that

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Jan. 2, 1902.

Rev. Jason A. Kappanadze,
Osceola Mills, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 30th ult., without knowing
exactly the number of children in this school belonging to your Ortho
dox Church, I am led to believe there are as many as eight or ten.
They will be ready to see you at any time that is convenient for you
to come and I shall be glad to have you visit them and give them such
attention as your other interests permit.

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Jan. 2, 1902.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Commissioner of Education for Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor :-

I enclose a letter from Rev. Jason A. Kappanadze, of Osceola Mills, Pa. On submitting the matter to the children, the following claim to be members of the Russian Orthodox Church :-

Nikefer Shouchuk. Wood Island.
Michael Chabitney. " "
Peter Dobrovolsky. " "
Pariscovia Achachee. " "
Sosipatra Suvaroff. Unalaska.
Maggie Madrigan. "
Helen Fraties. "
Polly Tutikoff. "
Catharine Dyaknoff. "
Vera Wagner. "
Sophia Tetoff. "
Anna Reinken. "
Dora " "
Olga " "

Please advise me if you can whether this is correct. Some of them I think are from the Jessie Lee Home and are Methodists. I have informed the priest that we have possibly eight or ten, without giving names. So far as we are concerned we shall of course give him every opportunity to minister to their spiritual needs. Please return the letter.

Faithfully yours,

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John Allen,
Chemawa, Ore.

Jan. 2, 1902.

223

Dear John :-

I have forwarded your letter to the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, giving your record while at Carlisle, which I am very glad to say was high. Of course I am unable to say anything further than that, because after students leave Carlisle they have to stand on the record they make for themselves.

With best wishes, I am as ever

Jan. 2, 1901.

Mr. Fred P. Hall,

Janestown, New York.

Dear Fred :-

I am sending you today a photo of the football team, which I would like you to include, making a full page illustration. This makes 91 in all. The list enclosed gives the order in which they should appear in the book with the naming underneath. I would like to have a proof of each with naming below before you begin printing.

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Jan. 3, 1902.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
1334 Vermont Ave., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

Referring to our verbal and phone conversations in reference thereto, I have to respectfully advise you that I wish to leave Carlisle on the 7th of February and take passage on the steamer "Celtic" which leaves New York on the morning of the 8th for an excursion to the Mediterranean and the British Isles, going first to Madeira, thence to Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Greece, Rome, Naples, The Reviera, and England, returning to New York about the first of May. This trip will be without expense to the United States, and while away, in addition to other matters I expect to pay some attention to systems of education particularly in the British Isles, where we shall have seventeen days. In view of the opportunities of equipping myself better for my duties here afforded by visiting schools, and having the advantage of personal observation and study of the peoples of other lands, and the fact that it is without expense to the Government, I respectfully request that I may have such order or permission from the Department as may be proper and I be considered on duty.

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Jan. 3, 1902.

William Patterson,
Red House, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 7th addressed to Mr. Andrew John, Washington, intended for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and your letter of the 26th ult. to the same party, together with the November report of your daughter Cora, have all been sent me by the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, directing me to reply to your letter.

Your daughter was in my office yesterday, apparently in the best of health, and asked a private conference with me, and with tears told me she was informed that you had appealed to Washington to have her returned to her home; that she did not want to go home but wished to remain here and complete her education; that your habits in regard to drink are such as to make her home very unpleasant.

I was not at the school recently when you went to Flora Dale and forcibly took her away from her country home with the intention of removing her to New York. An examination of the report made about the matter shows you were drunk at the time you arrived at Flora Dale and were still drunk when you reached Carlisle Junction with Cora; and this report is confirmed by Cora's statement. In addition to this I think it right to inform you that I understand your real purpose in regard to your daughter, which is anything but creditable to you and not at all what you present to the Honorable Commissioner.

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Jan. 3, 1902.

Miss Katharine Hughes,
255 Concession St.,
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.

Dear Miss Hughes :-

Yours of the 28th ult. suggesting a foot ball game between
our team and the University of Ottawa meets with my cordial coopera-
tion, and I have no doubt if it is the wish of the Ottawa team such
a game can be arranged. Mr. Warner, our foot ball coach and manager,
is absent just now but will be back in a few days when I will bring
the matter to his attention. In the meantime it occurs to me that
it would be better for Ottawa to initiate negotiations. I quite en-
tirely agree with you as to the probable benefits to be expected.
No one feature of our efforts here has attracted so much attention
as our foot ball conflicts, nor made our people respect the pluck and
skill of our Indian young men more.

I should perhaps tell you that we have some obligations which
are very valuable to us and which we wish to continue; so that what-
ever time may be fixed for a game with Ottawa will have to be ad-
justed with reference to these obligations. Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Columbia, Cornell and Bucknell are all important games to us, and
there is some pressure to add either Yale or Princeton for the ensu-
ing year. On account of your northern location, a game in the ear-
lier part of the season would perhaps serve quite well. Our large
obligations come after the middle of October.

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Jan. 3, 1902.

Depot Quartermaster, U.S.A.,
Phila., Pa.

Sir :-

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of forage order
No. 39, forage for my horses for January, 1902.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

A. K. (P)

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Jan. 3, 1902.

I, Liza A. M. H. Meyer,
45 W. 59th St.,
New York City.

Dear Miss Meyer :-

Our education of the Indian does not reach the high school grade even, and he has not yet been placed under Civil Service rules. Where we can find capable Indians, whether educated here or elsewhere, to fill positions in this school, the Civil Service rules allow us to utilize them without interference or examination. It does not therefore appear necessary to add to our already overloaded curriculum any special instruction in civil service. This in answer to your letter of Dec. 28th.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1902.

Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
The Journal Printing Co.,
Jamestown, New York.

Dear Fred :-

I send you today the manuscript to go with our book. My idea is to put the part attached to the page marked "Cover" ahead of the pictures; then let the pictures follow, and I think it would be better if they were put in so that the base of each picture with the naming underneath were at the right of the page, so that in looking at them one would not need to reverse the book. Don't you think that would be the best way? Then let that portion of the manuscript which begins with "Industrial Departments" all come after. It would be well if we could have a chance to make corrections after you get it in cold type. I do hope you will have a goodly number of the books ready for our commencement which is on the fifth and sixth of February.

One proof print of each *picture* will be all that you will need to send me.

Yours truly,

P. S. - When I wrote the other day about leaving off picture # 91 I thought it was an entirely different one from what I understand now. If you have the original photograph of the enclosed, you may use it letting it follow mine, and then go on with the pictures in the same order as given.

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THE CARLISLE IDEA.

The young men in this party (the Indian prisoners) while undergoing this banishment should be educated in English, trained in our industries, and brought in contact with our civilization as much as possible, for sooner or later they will be returned to their tribes and after all they are not so culpable as their old leaders, being more like soldiers acting under orders.

-Captain Pratt from Fort Sill to General Sheridan, Chicago, Mar. 1875, in reference to Indian prisoners to be sent to Florida.

The Indian can only meet civilization successfully with civilization as on the great prairies he fights fire with fire. If he conquers the issues of the new life we now force upon him, it can only be by thoroughly civilizing himself and becoming a very part of that new life. - Editorial, March, 1881.

Our Indian children must be educated into the capacity and the courage to go out from all the Indian schools into our schools and into our life. Then will they learn that the world is theirs and that all the good of it their trained capacity enables them to grasp is theirs as well as ours.

All our Indians need is broad and enlarged liberty of opportunity and training to make them, within the short space of a few years, a perfectly acceptable part of our population, and to remove them from a condition of dependence, pauperism and crime to a truly civilized condition.

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Creek and becoming an American citizen, he is sensible enough to do it, and that is the end. - Address before the National Educational Association, Ocean Grove. August 11, 1883.

The slavery of separate systems and espionage must be removed
and somehow the Indian be merged into our life and made to carry his
load of responsibility like the rest of us. That sharp spur that
drives other men : "If a man will not work he shall not eat," must
be applied.
--Editorial, January, 1884.

The day of real progress for the Indian will begin when each In-
dian becomes an individual and an organized unit in himself to make
the most of himself that he can. . . . . . . . . One of the greatest hin-
drances to the Indian in his transit from barbarism to civilization
is his entire exclusion from the experiences of practical civilized
life..... Unless we can make our Indian school system build Indian
children out of and away from the experiences of savagery into the
association and experiences of civilization in all its varied forms,
competitions, etc., we shall not succeed in making capable citizens.

-Editorial, March, '85.

All the Indians need in order to become English-speaking, use-
ful, intelligent American citizens is the same opportunities and re-
sponsibilities accorded to our own people and all foreigners who em-
igrate to and locate among us.

It is impossible to give Indians these opportunities with any
force in their tribal aggregations on their reservations.

The element of necessity, of contact, the learning by seeing,

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association with, and doing, is entirely absent at their homes.

Educating them together in tribes is only added hire to remain
tribes.

Tribal disintegration, individual freedom and the taking upon
their individual selves the useful qualities of our American life,
can never come to them in any fullness through any educational train-
ing that may be given to them in their tribal masses on their reser-
vations, no difference how excellent the quality of instruction.

The Sioux, educated in schools made up entirely of Sioux on the
Sioux reservation, naturally accept that they are to remain Sioux in-
definitely.
- Annual Report, 1901.

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HISTORY AND AIM.

In April, 1875, seventy-four Indian prisoners of war from the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, in the Indian Territory, under charge of Capt. R. H. Pratt were brought to Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida.

They had been leaders in murderous raids upon the white settlers on the borders of the Territory and had been taken by the United States forces and sent in chains to Florida.

Not long after their arrival at Ft. Marion their chains were removed and they were put to work in the fort, and proved so trustworthy that they were gradually given work in St. Augustine and vicinity. This susceptibility to good influences aroused the interest of a number of large-hearted women there, and a little school was opened in the prison and the Indians were taught by these women to read, write and speak English. A cheerful interest in the surroundings seemed to take the place of their sullen, revengeful spirit. They showed themselves eager to learn, working intelligently and willingly. This was a revelation to many, and demonstrated that the secret of civilizing the Indian was to give him work and to bring him into direct association with civilized people. Experience has shown that this principle underlies all successful Indian education.

The term of confinement of the Indian prisoners came to an end in April, 1878, and they were to return to their homes; but twenty-two asked to remain in the east to attend school. Of these, four went to Paris Hill, New York, under the care of Rev. W. J. Wick; one to Tarrytown, New York, into the family of Dr. Carruthers; and seven-teen were placed in the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, Virginia.

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Captain and Mrs. Pratt under orders of the Government went west and brought fifty Sioux, Arickaree, Mandan, and Gros Ventre boys and girls from their Dakota reservations to enter Hampton, and Captain Pratt was detailed to remain in charge of them at the school "Until they become accustomed to their new mode of life and interested in educational pursuits."

Thoughtful observation soon showed that it was not enough that these pupils should remain at the school even with the advantages of learning a trade. "If freedom and citizenship are to be their lot then the surroundings of freedom and good citizenship during education would seem the best to equip them for that lot."

It was believed impossible to introduce Indians into the heart of civilization, but Mr. Hyde, of Lee, and Captain Pratt found in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, a few benevolent families brave enough to take these children of an alien race into their homes and teach them the work of the house and farm, and more than all make them a part of the family life.

After a year's experience Captain Pratt urged that if the authorities expected him to remain in Indian educational work he be given a separate school, as he was not satisfied with the attempt to unite the problem of the Indian with that of the negro. The problems were not at all similar. One related to eight millions of negroes already prepared by a peculiar system and living in and as a part of the body politic, while the other under a radically different system related to two hundred and fifty thousand Indians living in separate communities and entirely alienated by this fact and by language from the body politic. The native heath of one was Africa, a country on the opposite side of the globe and mostly in the torrid zone, the

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native heath of the other was the very land upon which the body pol-
itic had become so enriched and mightily developed, and from which
the Indian had been driven.

The army post at Carlisle, Pa. had been abandoned several years
before. It lay in a fertile valley, skilfully developed by an in-
dustrious and thrifty race, and where excellent railroad facili-
ties would bring them in touch with the kindly people of Pennsylvania
especially the Quakers, always noted for their just and practical
dealings with Indians, and toward whose homes the Indians and their
care-takers, seeking for sympathetic, thrifty, and economic influences,
naturally gravitated. The War Department readily sanctioned the use
of this post and in September, 1879, it was set apart for an Indus-
trial School with Captain Pratt as superintendent.

CARLISLE AN HISTORICAL SPOT.

The name Carlisle is interwoven with colonial, revolutionary,
and civil war history.

Benjamin Franklin made a treaty with the Indians at this place
in 1753, about two years after it had been separated from Penn's vast
acres and called Carlisle.

Hessians captured at Trenton in the Revolution were brought here
and held as prisoners. An evidence of their labor remains in the
stone building erected by them at the south entrance to the grounds.

In July, 1863, when the Southern army made its great venture
north of the Mason-and-Dixon line, which culminated in defeat at Get-
tysburg, Fitzhugh Lee stopped to shell Carlisle, and burned the build-
ings at the post; but in 1865 these were rebuilt.

The place had long been a school for the training of cavalry to
fight Indians, and poetic justice ruled when the children of these

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here
Indians were brought to learn the arts of peace.

THE COMING OF THE FIRST PUPILS.

At midnight, October 5th, 1879, the first party consisting of eighty-two untaught Sioux boys and girls from the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies of Dakota arrived in charge of Captain Pratt. The Indians were in native dress and the traditional blanket, with hair long and faces painted, and their persons adorned with beads and other ornaments.

Hundreds of citizens of the town awaited them, and they stepped
from the train into a crowd of curious people who more than half
feared treachery, outlawry, and scalp-lifting, while others prophe-
cied utter failure of the school. However, friends were soon found
among the townspeople, who assisted in getting the machinery of the
school in running order.

The purpose of Carlisle has always been to educate the future citizens among those who are already citizens, insisting that the par- amount duty of all Indian schools is to get the Indian into the mass- es on an equality, so that they may go individually and independently without special and separate supervision. Carlisle therefore has po- liar pride in those of her students who have gone out to compete among the world's workers, not as Indians but as citizens.

Indians from more than seventy different tribes have been brought
together and come to live in the utmost harmony, although many of
them were hereditary enemies. Just as they have become one with each
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them they have become one with the white race, and thus ended differences and solved their individual problems.

No thought was further from the mind of its founder than that the Carlisle school should live to have a history. Its plan for making American citizens out of the Indians appeared so clear, so practical, and so easy to carry out, that only the demonstration seemed necessary in order to commend it to the public and so lead the way for all Indian youth to be developed to a point where we could do away with special Indian schools by admitting the Indians to the established schools and industries of the country.

There has been an unswerving adherence to the plans first laid, the years having only strengthened and enlarged them. It is in no sense the fault of Carlisle that the powerful influence of Indian School effort has been so largely swung into line and utilized to perpetuate the reservation and the tribe.

Carlisle holds that the demand to be made on all Indian schools should not be that which is so universal; "What becomes of the students when they go back? What do they do on the reservation? ", but should be, "What are Indian schools doing to render Indian youth capable of citizenship and independent of the tribe, reservation and Government support?"

Giving Indian youth the courage to live in and the ability to compete in civilized industries has always been the major principle. To this end a system of placing its pupils out in families, the boys to work in the field and in the shop and the girls in the house, was adopted in the very beginning, and has been the greatest feature in the accomplishment of the purposes of the school. An Indian boy or girl living in a civilized home, meeting only the home people daily,

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learns English and the customs of civilized life in the only natural
way, doing away with the practice of special teaching. Reality is
many times more forceful than theory. This system has grown so that
every summer about 800 of its pupils are sent out to thus live and
labor, and the influence is emphasized by arranging that from 350 to
400 shall so remain out every winter and attend the public schools
with Anglo-Saxon children. Differences and prejudices are thus re-
moved from both sides and respect for each other grown. In many most
excellent families and neighborhoods for more than twenty years our
pupils from many tribes have found warmest welcome and demonstrated
superior usefulness.

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STATISTICS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, July 1, 1900 to June 30, 1901

| | Boys. | Girls. | Total. |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| Enrollment from the beginning, Sept., 1879 to June 30, 1901. | 2703. | 1657. | 4360. |
| Discharged during that period including deaths. | 2147. | 1206. | 3353. |
| Admitted during the year. | 133. | 99. | 232. |
| Discharged " " " | 114. | 49. | 163. |
| Deaths " " " | 1. | 3. | 4. |
| Total enrolled during fiscal year. | 671. | 503. | 1174. |
| Remaining at school, June 30, 1901. | 556. | 451. | 1007. |
| Tribes represented during the year. | | 77. | |
| Outings during fiscal year. | 394. | 458. | 852. |
| Students' earnings during fiscal year. | $18444.78 | $10269.91 | $28714.60 |

At the close of the fiscal year the students had to their credit
at interest
a total of $19594.83, $15500 of which is their earned savings; the
balance coming to them as annuities.

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INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS.

These departments teach the Indian youth to work. One half of each school day is devoted to some branch of productive industry or effective labor.

Students sixteen years of age are allowed to choose their trade which they thereafter follow under a trained instructor or competent mechanic.

Pupils are advanced through the grades of helper, apprentice, and efficient apprentice to that of journeyman.

CARPENTRY.

Instruction is entirely in the use of hand tools, as machinery does not fit the pupil to do independent work.

The course in wood sloyd is an admirable foundation for the in-
struction in this department, which embraces names, use, and care of
tools, dressing lumber, joinery, framing, flooring, finishing, etc.

Desks, bookcases, cabinets and the like are made as the pupil
advances in knowledge and skill. In the construction of new buildings
from time to time and the general repairs under the direction of the
head of the department, much practice is afforded the pupil apprenti-
ces. Under this department are also classes in lathing, plastering,
brick-laying, and masonry.

BLACKSMITHING AND WAGONMAKING.

The pupils in these two departments are taught the care and use
of tools; the relation of fuel to proper heating, etc.; heating and
welding, and the various processes relating to the handling of metal,
and to do their own drafting. The apprentices are taught to shoe the

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horses and mules belonging to the school with shoes made by themselves, and to repair the machinery, agricultural implements, wagons, etc.

spring

WAGONMAKING. Surreys, buckboards, Concord, spring, and half platform wagons are manufactured for the Indian Department, and farm wagons and carts for home use.

PAINTING.

The student is taught the care of brushes, mixing of paints, making colors, glazing; house, sign, and carriage painting, varnishing and striping. Carriage trimming is also included.

HARNESSMAKING.

Practice in waxing threads; the use of awl and needle, and stitching are first given, until the pupil is prepared for actual work. He then learns blacking and creasing; staining; fitting with lengths and measurements; putting on buckles; cutting; stitching by hand; and to build all his own work.

Harness for school purposes is made and repaired, and for Department service heavy harness for ordinary work and fine harness for special orders, including coach harness with full silver plated mountings. Many of the government schools and agencies are furnished with Carlisle made harness.

TINSMITHING.

Instruction covers the names of machines and tools, with their care and use; the quality of tin; laying and making of patterns; cut-

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ting straight and curved lines. All the tinware used at the school is manufactured here; also many cases each year for western schools and agencies.

The roofing and spouting of school buildings, painting of roofs, and repair of water and sewer pipes come under this department.

## SHOEMAKING.

In this craft much depends upon the accuracy of the eye. Attention is therefore given first to train the eye to shape the parts. Afterwards come repairing and the various steps in the manufacture of a shoe progressing from the simpler to the more complex operations, including cutting and fitting.

## TAILORING.

The beginner is first taught to use the needle and sewing machine; then to do general repairing; then under an efficient apprentice he works until he has mastered trousers making. Coat making is then taken up. After passing these grades he takes drafting and cutting. Beginning with drafts for trousers he takes the other garments using his own measures.

## PRINTING.

THE RED MAN AND HELPER, a four page weekly of standard quarto size, with a circulation of over 5000, is printed and mailed wholly by Indian apprentices under a competent manager. A variety of plain job work is done consisting of circulars, blank reports, letter heads envelopes, posters, dodgers, hand bills, booklets, pamphlets, official documents, invitations, visiting cards, programs, etc.

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Each apprentice is instructed in typesetting, stone and press work, and when accurate is trained in the mailing department, recording and crediting subscriptions on cards and galleys and placing them in their respective routes. The training in this department in accuracy and speed in the handling of business papers is especially valuable.

STEAM-HEATING PLANT.

Students who come under instruction here are taught firing and care of boilers; steam fitting; the first steps in plumbing; and the repair of machinery.

The boiler house has recently been enlarged to accommodate a battery of four new Geary water tube boilers of 150 H. P. each, the setting and connections being done by the engineer with the help of Indian boys only.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

The school kitchen is in charge of an experienced cook who has as assistants a detail of six boys. Girls are instructed in the preparation of vegetables, arranging tables, washing dishes, etc.

A special teacher in Domestic Science teaches the girls to prepare wholesome, nutritious meals at a minimum outlay. Instruction is in the primary methods of cooking; broiling, baking, boiling and frying, with their various modifications including mixing and seasoning, and the cooking of food in a way most appetizing and digestible. The group method is used, the girls working at small tables in parties of four.

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The course includes the making of soups; cooking of meats, cereals and vegetables; the preparing of plain desserts; canning and preserving of fruit; methods of making doughs light; menus for meals and cooking for invalids.

The classes are so arranged that every girl except those in the
primary grades receives regular lessons.

BREAD MAKING.

One of the original buildings of the barracks is used as a ba-
kery. It is fitted with brick ovens, kneading tables, etc.

The instructor with his Indian assistants makes the bread and
pastry required for the school. Six boys are in regular training,
and from their number some have at times had charge of the department
here, and have then gone out to employment as regular bakers.

SEWING.

The girls' clothing, the boys' white and colored shirts, and all
the bed and table linen are cut and made in this department.
Progressive classes accomplish all the work required and at the same
time receive training.

The small girls and beginners do the darning and mending. Plain
sewing and dressmaking in elementary forms are taught. A course in
finished dressmaking follows for those pupils who show special apti-
tude in this line; also in artistic needle-work, hemstitching, em-
broidery, drawn work, etc.

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LAUNDRY WORK.

The Laundry handles about ten thousand pieces weekly. This work
is done largely by the pupils under the supervision of a general man-
ager. Small boys assist at the washing and do all the mangling.

The machinery is run by electricity and is in charge of one of
the large boys. The shirt and collar ironers are worked by the girls
who get thorough training in all kinds of ironing by hand.

HOSPITAL.

An equipped building and a trained nurse gives practical expe-
rience in nursing to a class of from four to six girls who look to
nursing as an occupation. This training includes bed-making, bathing
the sick, taking temperatures, and the use of simple medicines. Dur-
ing the history of the school many young women have gone from here to
take further training in city hospitals. Some of these are now gain-
ing for themselves enviable reputations as nurses in the cities which
they have selected for their field of work.

FARMING.

Two good farms near the school employ varying numbers of
boys who do not go to country homes.

Wheat, corn, oats, hay and potatoes form the principal crops,
and beets, cabbage, onions, sweet corn, etc. and small fruits are
raised for the school kitchen. There are two apple orchards. Be-
tween seventy and eighty hogs supply all the pork and lard needed for
the school. Success attends the raising of fowls; thousands of
dozens of eggs were furnished the school the past year.

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DAIRYING.

Useful training is given in the handling of cows and in the
care of milk and butter. The school owns seventy-five head of cat-
tle of Jersey and Guernsey stock. A large and unfailing spring with
a commodious spring house is a valuable adjunct.

ATHLETICS.

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". The success which
the Carlisle foot ball team has met in past years and a conservative
management have enabled the school to build a fine athletic field and
quarter mile track.

A director of athletics is employed and training and coaching
systematically attended to. During the past year a " cage " 60
x 100 feet was built on the athletic field, which enables practice
indoors during bad weather.

The foot ball team for several years has proven a worthy opponent for the strongest college teams. In addition to the regular athletics, games are played by the many "scrub" teams made up from the forces of the various shops, etc. The extensive campus affords a place for many tennis courts and croquet grounds.

Contrary to the general rule the department of Athletics here
is self-supporting, this without contribution or charging the students
and employes admission to games on the home field.

PHYSICAL CULTURE.

The department of physical training preserves the health of the
individual, builds up the body by means of selected exercises, pro-
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tures and abnormalities; and while furnishing a relaxation from the
more arduous duties, improves the coordination of mind and body.

No one system is adhered to, but whatever is thought best in the
Swedish, German and other systems is used. The daily drills are in
free exercises, light gymnastics, heavy gymnastics, and gymnastic
games. The free gymnastics instructs in the fundamental positions of
the feet, legs, arms, trunk, and head, used singly and in combina-
tion; Light gymnastics in primary and advanced movements with wands,
clubs, and dumb bells; heavy gymnastics, in graded movements and com-
binations on the climbing pole and rope, climbing ladder, horizontal
ladder, traveling rings, flying rings, trapeze, vaulting bar, horse,
horizontal bar, and parallel bars.

Gymnastic games of pass ball, hand ball, and basket ball vary
the exercises. All the work is arranged in grades for both boys and
girls.

OUTING.

All pupils are expected to spend at least one year in a country
the
home. During the winter they attend public school in their neigh-
borhood, and while in school receive no wages, their work out of
school hours being given in return for a home.

Patrons and pupils agree to certain rules governing their re-
lations to each other and to the school. Pupils remain under the
jurisdiction of the school and are visited at intervals by the cutting
agent who makes a written report concerning health, condition, and
progress. When not in school pupils receive regular wages, a fixed
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posited for them in the school bank. As sufficient amounts accumu-
late, interest bearing certificates of deposit are issued, and so
held until the holders leave school for their homes or go to higher
institutions of learning.

No branch of the educational work is of so much benefit as the
"Outing". The school itself is too large to allow of home training
on a small scale, as the Indian should learn it in order to be come
Americanized. In a majority of country homes to which pupils go,
they are made members of the family and are carefully trained as sons
and daughters of the family are trained. Many a "country mother" has
kept a hold upon an Indian girl for years after her return to the
reservation, and through correspondence fastened the influence of
civilized life on the rude home-making in those isolated spots.

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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.

SUMMARY OF COURSE OF STUDY.

The aim is to give Indian youth an elementary English education.
The work is loosely grouped about the subjects of Language, History,
and Literature, Science, Form and Number, and Music and Drawing.

FIRST GRADE.

LANGUAGE. Oral. - English speaking, articulation; phonics; reading
begun.
" Written. - Penmanship; sentence writing; exercises; spell-
ing.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Stories of primitive people; industrial life
Home, school-room and play-ground ethics. Memory gems;
holidays.

SCIENCE. - Observation work on plant and animal life. Care of the
body. The earth and stars.

FORM and NUMBER. - Form study by paper folding; drawing and modeling.
Four elementary operations, using numbers to 10 and beyond.
Problems dealing with value, weight, and measure.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Tone exercises; rote songs; use of chart.
Type solids; clay modeling; borders; color work in Nature
Study; measure, etc.

SECOND GRADE.

Oral.

LANGUAGE. - English speaking; phonics; articulation. Reading, first
and second readers, many series.
" Written. - Pennmanship exercises; spelling; dictation; sen-
tence work.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - SCIENCE. First grade work extended.

FORM and NUMBER. - Paper folding for lines, angles and areas; draw-
ing and study of objects.
Four elementary processes with practical problems. Numbers
to 100 or beyond; tables; partition.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - First Grade work extended.

THIRD GRADE.

LANGUAGE, Oral. - Conversation; reproduction of stories; phonics.
Reading, second and easy third readers, and supplementary
work; memory gems.

" Written. - Pennmanship; exercises; spelling; dictation.

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HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Inventions and inventors; stories of men and peoples in connection with geography; national holidays; current events; conduct (leading to Civics). Stories, selections and adaptations from literature.

SCIENCE. - Observation of plant and animal life; care of body. Oral geography.

FORM and NUMBER. Folding, drawing and making; sloyd and shop work. Notation to 10,000. Four elementary processes, with practical work; simple fractional work; statements.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Tone and breathing exercises. Staff notation. introduced. Rote songs; use of chart. Type solids; clay modeling; borders in curved lines; tints and shades; illustrations ; natural objects.

FOURTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. Conversation; recitation; memory gems; language lessons, drill on verb and pronoun forms. Third reader, supplementary.
" Written. - Penmanship; composition; spelling; dictation.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. Third Grade work extended. Stories of men in connection with geography; use book; current events; local government, "Civics for Young Americans" as a guide. Adaptations from masterpieces.

SCIENCE. - Third Grade work continued and extended; hygiene; elementary geography.

FORM and NUMBER. - Drawing and making; simple geometric exercises. Notation and numeration; long division; elementary work in common and decimal fractions; statements, analysis, and proofs.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Third Grade work continued and extended.

FIFTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. -Topical recitation; third and fourth readers and supplementary work; memory gems; phonics; language lessons; verb work continued.
Pennmanship, composition, sentence writing; dictation; spelling.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Stories of discovery and colonization; local government, "Civics for Young Americans" as a guide. Reading of children's classics.

SCIENCE. - Observational study of plant and animal life; minerals; elementary geography; hygiene.

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FORM and NUMBER. - Drawing and making. Simple geometric problems. Common and decimal fractions; measurements. Oral work.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Tone and breathing exercises; simple notation; two part songs in keys of C, G, F, etc. Designs of borders and surface patterns; light and shade; objects in natural science; illustrations; space divisions.

SIXTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. - Topical recitation. Reading, fourth readers and supplementary reading; memory gems; language lessons. Written recitations and reviews; composition and dictation.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Colonial growth and Independence. Doles' "American Citizen" for teacher's use. Study of simple English classics.

SCIENCE. - Rocks and minerals; natural phenomena. Physiology. Geography.

FORM and NUMBER. - Drawing and making; geometric problems in connection with numbers. Review; measurements; percentage.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Fifth Grade work continued and extended.

SEVENTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. - Topical recitation. Reading, fourth and fifth readers; grammar; declaration; memory gems. Composition, dictation, spelling, written recitation, etc.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Formation of the Government; beginning of the National Period; stories of other countries; reading of the Constitution; state and county organizations. Doles' "American Citizen" Parts I and IV. English classics. Books from Library.

SCIENCE. - Observation of plants, animals and minerals. Physiology. Geography.

FORM and NUMBER. - Geometric problems in connection with drawing and arithmetic. Applications of percentage; simple business papers. Review work.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Breath control; analysis of scale; tones and half tones; exercises in new keys, etc. Choral work in four parts. Historic ornament; designs for special purposes; space divisions applied.

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EIGHTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. - Reading and study; Classics; use of books; word study; grammar.
Written recitations; compositions; reviews.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - U. S. History completed; current events. Classics; use of Library.

SCIENCE. - Organic life; physical and chemical forces.
Political geography completed. Physiology completed.

FORM and NUMBER. - Geometric problems with drawing and mensuration.
Applications of percentage, and reviews. Square and cube root.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Breath control; analysis of scale; tones and half tones; choral work in four parts.
Historic ornament; pose drawing; simple working drawings; space divisions applied to landscape, etc.

NINTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. - Reading and study. Final grammar review. Composition.
Declamation and original oration.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - Current events. Civil Government. English classics. Use of Library.

SCIENCE. - Nature. Final review of Physical Geography.

FORM and NUMBER. - Geometric problems with mechanical drawing.
Mensuration. Applications of square and cube root. Bookkeeping and business forms.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Choral work in four part songs. Review work.
Design in water color; historic ornament; charcoal drawing
from cast and still life; landscape composition and sketches from nature; pose drawings; mechanical drawing, etc.

TENTH GRADE.

LANGUAGE. - Rhetoric. Reading and study; use of dictionary; reference work; essays.

HISTORY and LITERATURE. - General History; current history; English classics; use of Library.

SCIENCE. - Elementary work in Physics and Chemistry. Plant study.

FORM and NUMBER. - Geometric problems in connection with drawing.
Algebra to quadratics.

MUSIC and DRAWING. - Same as Ninth Grade.

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RECORD OF GRADUATES. (Living.)

Class. 1889.

Campbell, Wm. F. Chippewa. Grad., Law School, Minneapolis, Minn.

Faber, Clara. Wyandotte. (Mrs. Ballard), Galena, Kans.
Grindrod, Katie. " Grad. nurse, Woman's Med. College, Phila.
Practicing in that city.

Harris, Joseph. Gros Ventre. Farming, Penna.

Hawkins, Kish. Cheyenne. Clerk in Agency store, Darlington, Okla.

Johnson, Eva. Wyandotte. (Mrs. Preston) Pawhuska, Okla.

Londrosh, Cecilia. Winnebago. (Mrs. Herman), Homer, Neb.

Miller, Esther. Miami. (Mrs. Chas. Dagenette) Ft. Apache, Ariz.

Powlas, Julia. Oneida. (Mrs. Chas. Wheelock), Asst. Matron, Ind.
School, Wind River, Wyo. (Shoshone Agency)

Schanandore, Edwin. Oneida. Disciplinarian & Band leader, Indian
School, Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Tyndall, Joel. Omaha. Employe in Indian School, Yuma, Ariz.

Wistar, Thomas. Ottawa. Farming, Wyandotte, Ind. Ty.

Class. 1890.

Bent, Julia. Cheyenne. (Mrs. Noble Prentiss), Darlington, Okla.

Bourassa, Rosa. Chippewa. (Mrs. Brown). Completed course, Banks' Bus. Coll.
Phila. Asst. Matron, Ind. School, Carl-
lisle, Pa.

Holliday, Veronica. Chippewa. (Mrs. Reishe), Fort Reno, Okla.

Leider, Carl. Crow. Govt. employe, Crow Agency, Mont.

Levering, Levi. Omaha. Teacher, Indian School, Fort Hall, Idaho.

Lowry, Benjamin. Winnebago. Govt. employe, Winnebago Agency, Neb.

Matlack, Stacy. Pawnee. Pawnee City, Okla.

Means, George. Sioux. Clerk, Agency store, Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Robertson, Nellie. Sioux. Grad. Normal School, West Chester, Pa.
Clerk, Ind. School, Carlisle, Pa.

Smith, Lawrence. Winnebago. Farming, Winnebago Agency, Neb.

Thomas, Benjamin. Pueblo. Railroad employe, A. T. & S.F. R.R.
Laguna, N. Mex.

Tivis, Wm. Comanche. Farming & stockraising, Anadarko, Okla.

Vallier, George. Quapaw. Living on wife's land, Quapaw Agency, Okla.

Wheelock, Dennison. Oneida. Disciplinarian & Band-master, Ind. School
Flandreau, S. Dak.

Wheelock, Jemina. Oneida. (Mrs. Simon Webster), Oneida, Wis.

Zadoka, Percy. Keshi.

Class. 1891.

Archiquette, Martin. Oneida. Teacher, Green Bay Ind. School, Keshena, Wis.

Dagenette. Chas. E. Peoria. Took course, Eastmann Business Coll.,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. -Issue Clerk, Ft.
Apache, Ariz.

Froman, William. Miami.

Kohpay, Harry. Osage. Grad., Eastmann Business Coll. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Asst. Clerk, Osage Agency, Okla.

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Leeda, Yanie. Pueblo. Farming & stockraising, Cubero, N. Mex.

Powlas, Josiah. Oneida. Attending Medical University, Milwaukee, Wis.

St. Cyr, Levi. Winnebago. With surveying party, Omaha Agency, Neb.

Standingbear, Henry. Sioux. Interpreter, Ind. Congress.

Class. 1892.

Baird, Willian. Oneida. Blacksmith, Oneida, Wis.

Caswell, Benjamin. Chippewa. Supt., Ind. Boarding School, Cass Lake, Minn.

Choteau, Luzena. Wyandotte. Clerk & Stenographer, San Francisco, Cal.

Everett, Frank. Wichita. Farming. Anadarko, Okla.

Flint, Lydia. Shawnee. (Mrs. Spencer). Asst. Matron, Ind. School, Wyandotte, Ind. Ty.

Longwolf, Hattie. Sioux. (Mrs. Pretty Weasel). Cheyenne River, S. Dak.

Metoxen, Thomas. Oneida. Farming, Oneida, Wis.

Miles, Benajah. Arapaho. Farming, Darlington, Okla.

Peake, Fred. Chippewa.

CLASS 1893.

Baptiste, John. Winnebago.

Bighorse, Fred. Sioux. Asst. Farmer, Rosebud Agency, S. D.

Clark, Malcolm. Piegan. Grad., Normal School, Valparaiso, Ind.
Farming, Browning, Mont.

Johnson, Arthur. Wyandotte. Farmer, Oto Agency, Okla.

Morrison, John G. Chippewa. Teacher, Boarding School, Crow Agency, Mont.

Peake, Emily. Chippewa. (Mrs. Robitaille). White Earth, Minn.

CLASS. 1894.

Archiquette, Belinda. Oneida. (Mrs. Hill), Oneida, Wis.

Beard, Andrew. Sioux. Farming and stock raising. Porcupine, S.D.

Blackbear, Thomas. Sioux. " " " " " "

Campbell, Flora. Alaskan. (Mrs. Fitzgerald). Sitka, Alaska.

Denomie, Willian. Chippewa. Teacher of Day School, Reserve, Wis.

Flannery, James. Alaskan. Dubuque, Ia.

Gansworth, Howard E. Tuscarora. Grad. of Princeton, 1901. Employe, Ind.
Sch., Carlisle, Pa.

Miller, Florence. Stockbridge. (Mrs. Jenifer Gardner). Gresham, Wis.

Napawat, Martha. Kiowa. (Mrs. Ahopthoi) Anadarko, Okla.

Nori, Siceni J. Pueblo. Grad., Stuart's Business College, Trenton, N. J. Clerk, Indian School, Carlisle. (Mrs. Benj. Wheelock). Oneida, Wis.

Powlas, Ida. Oneida. Disciplinarian, Ind. School, Santa Fe, N.M.

Souisa, Hugh. Pueblo. Clerk in store, Vinita, Ind. Ty.

Tygar, Thomas. Shawnee. Supt., Ind. School, Bena, Minn.

Warren, Henry. Chippewa. (Mrs. Tobin), Clarinda, Ia.

Volz, Florence. Alaskan. (Mrs. Saml. Davis.) Prin. Teacher, Ind.
School, Rapid City, S. Dak.

Vandall, Minnie. Bannock. (Mrs. Lecier) Ross Fork, Idaho.

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CLASS. 1897.

Buck, Mabel. Sioux. (Mrs. Robt. Block). Watonga, O. T.
Cornelius, Brigman. Oneida. Farming. Oneida, Wis.
DePoe, Robert. Siletz. Teacher, Ind. School, Chemawa, Ore.
Gruett, Samuel. Chippewa. Employe, Ind. School, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Hill, Lizzie. Sioux. (Mrs. Joel Tyndall). Omaha Agency, Neb.
Jones, Frank. Sauk & Fox. Keokuk Falls, Okla.
Kowuni, Annie. Pueblo. Employe, Ind. School, Santa Fe, N. M.
Miller, Mary. Chippewa. (Mrs. Dodge). Teacher, Ind. School, Harlem, Mont.
Miller, Olive. Stockbridge. (Mrs. Jacobs) Keshena, Wis.
Mishler, Charles. Chippewa. Hayward, Wis.
Mishler, Louis. Chippewa. Hayward, Wis.
Nash, Albert. Winnebago. Grad., Drexel Inst. Business Course, Phila., Pa.
In employ of Wm. Wharton, Jr. & Co., Phila., Pa.
Owl. Martha. Cherokee. (Mrs. Simpson). Employe, Ind. School, Hupa, Cal.
Redeagle, Grace. Osage. (Mrs. Coldspring). Baxter Springs, Kans.
Rogers, Edward. Chippewa. Student, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minn.
Redkettle, Henry. Sioux. Stockraising. Kyle, S. Dak.
Seneca, Nancy. Seneca. Grad. Nurse, Medico-Chi Hospital, Phila.
Practicing in Phila.
Sherrill. William. Cherokee.
Shively, Frank. Crow. Grad. Comin. College, Carlisle. Clerk in Agency office, Cheyenne River, S. Dak.
Smith, Edith. Tuscarora. Teacher, Oglala Boarding Sch., Pine Ridge, S.D
Smith, Sara. Oneida. Seamstress, Ind. School, Oneida, Wis.
Upshaw, Alex. Crow. Crow Agency, Mont.
White Thunder, Clarence. Sioux.
Wirth, Christine. Assinaboine. (Mrs. West.) Poplar, Mont.

CLASS. 1898.

Armstrong, Ralph. Nez Perce.
Barada, Mitchell. Omaha. Bancroft, Neb.
Blackbear, Joseph. Cheyenne. Darlington, Okla.
Butler, Clarence. Cour d' Alene. Electrician, Warm Springs Agency, Ore.
Complainville, Lillian. Nez Perce. (Mrs. Keller). Teacher, Ind. Sch., Grand Junction, Colo.
Cornelius, Cora. Oneida. Employe, Ind. School, Morris, Minn.
Flynn, Sara. Assinaboine. Employe, Fort Peck Ind. School, Poplar, Mont.
George, Annie. Cherokee. Also Course, Dressmaking, Drexel Inst.
Phila. Seamstress, Ind. School, Cherokee, N. Car.
Henni, Susie. Pueblo. Employe, Ind. School, Phoenix, Ariz.
Horne, Lottie. Klamath. (Mrs. Coohran). Hupa, Cal.
James, Frank. Kaw. Kaw Agency, Okla.
Janison, Jacob. Seneca. Farming. Gowanda, N. Y.
McFarland, David. Nez Perce. Farming and stockraising. Ft. Lapwai, Idaho.
Moore, Rienzi. Sauk & Fox. In Real Estate Office, Kans. City, Mo.
Morton, Annie. Pueblo. Laguna, N. Mex.

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CLASS. 1898. - Continued.

Odell, Nellie. Puyallup. Port Gamble, Wash.
Owl, Kanie. Cherokee. (Mrs. Wahaneta). Cherokee, N. Car.
Peterson, Edward. Elnek. 53 Grafton St., Brockton, Mass.
Pierce, Edythe. Seneca. (Mrs. Ladue). Employe, Ind. School,
Morris, Minn.
Sickles, Caleb. Oneida. Student, Ohio Medical Coll., Columbus, O.
Sickles, Martha. Oneida. (Mrs. Cornelius). Oneida, Wis.
Thomas, Ellen. Chippewa. (Mrs. Prophet). Netawaka, Kans.
Webster, John. Oneida. Hack Driver, Walker, Minn.
Welch, Wilson. Cherokee.

CLASS. 1899.

Archiquette, Chauncey. Oneida. Playing foot ball, Haskell Inst.,
Lawrence, Kans.
Atsye, Seichu. Pueblo. Grad. nurse, Woman's Hospital, Phila. Pa.
Practicing, Phila.
Brown, Jennie. Sioux. Student, Comm. Course, Haskell Inst.,
Lawrence, Kans.
Buckles, Jeannette. Assiniboine. Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.
Catolst, Ettie. Cherokee. (Mrs. Mane). Cherokee, N. Car.
Denonie, Thomas. Chippewa. Reserve, Wis.
Duverney, Rose. Ottawa. Employe, Ind. Service, Pawhuska, Okla.
Dye, Bertha. Seneca. (Mrs. Jacob Janison). Gowanda, N. Y.
Eastman, Christian. Sioux. Flandreau, S. Dak.
Finley, Minnie. Caddo. Employe, Ind. School, Chilocco, Okla.
Gardner, Lydia. Arapaho. (Mrs. Gile) Grad. High School, Lans-
downe, Pa. Darlington, Okla.
George, Dahney. Cherokee. Student, Normal School, West Chester, Pa.
Gosis, Annie. Chippewa. (Mrs. Bemus Pierce.) Irving, N. Y.
Gouge, Joseph. Chippewa. Co. H., 21st U. S. Infantry, Manila, P.I.
Haalett, Stuart. Piegan. Browning, Mont.
Horne, Nettie. Klanath. In Ind. Service, Talklai, Ariz.
Larch, Olive. Cherokee. Cherokee, N. Car.
Lawyer, Corbett. Nez Perce. Farming, Kaniah, Idaho.
Lameaux, John. Chippewa. Employe, Omaha Agency, Neb.
McDonald, Louis. Ponca. Ponca City, Okla.
Mitchell, Jonas. Chippewa.
Moon, Mary. Alaskan. (Mrs. Oelson) Juneau, Alaska.
Nahtailsh, Vincent. Apache. Civil Engineer in employ Evalvated R.R.
Co., New York City.
Paul, Kendall. Alaskan. Student, Mt. Hermon, Mass.
Peters, Edward W. Chippewa. Caldwell, Mich.
Price, Clara. Sioux. (Mrs. Henry Fielder). Housekeeper, Day
School, Milk's Camp. Naper, Neb.
Scott, Lettie. Seneca. Teacher, Reservation School. Gowanda, N.Y.
Whee lock, Dolly. Oneida. (Mrs. Doxtator), Oneida, Wis.
Williams, Sara. Chippewa. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Tolfe. George. Cherokee. Employe, Ind. School, Cherokee, N. Car.

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CLASS. - 1900.

Abraham, David. Chippewa. Employed. Phila., Pa.
Allen, John. Clallam. In Indian Service, Chenawa, Ore.
Anderson, Pasquala. Mission, Cal. Teacher, Oraiba Day School, Kean's Canon, Ariz.

Barada, Mary. Omaha. Bancroft, Neb.
Beale, Frank. Clallam. Student, Willamette University, Salem, Ore.

Clark, Amelia. Cheyenne. Employe, Ind. School, Cantonment, Okla.

Cornelius, Isabella. Oneida. Asst. Teacher, Oneida, Wis.

Cornelius, Nancy O. Oneida. Madison, Wis.

Doctor, Daisy. Seneca. Akron, New York.

Ferris, Lillian. Klamath. Orleans Bar, Cal.

Harris, Fannie. Sauk & Fox. Teacher, Ind. School, Whiteagle, Okla.

Horne, Jacob. Klamath. Mining. Happy Camp, Cal.

Isaac, Abram. Chippewa.

Jones, Guy. Sioux. Santee, Neb.

Kennedy, Sara. Seneca. Gowanda, N. Y.

Lane, Constance. Summie. (Mrs. Burnstead). Beach, Wash.

Lufkins, John. Chippewa. White Earth, Minn.

McCarthy, Alice. Chippewa. Employe, Indian School, Morris, Minn.

Miller, Artie. Stockbridge. Gresham, Wis.

Murdock, Wesson. Assinaboine. Wolf Point, Mont.

Muscoe, George. Chippewa. Employed. Parkersburg, W. Va.

Pierce, Bertha. Seneca. (Mrs. Edwin Smith) Versailles, N. Y.

Pierce, Nettie. Seneca. Irving, New York.

Poodry, Rose. Seneca. Irving, New York.

Roberts, Charles. Chippewa. Cumberland, Wis.

Ryan, Mamie. Assinaboine. Employe, Indian School, Poplar, Mont.

Scholder, Joseph. Mission, Cal. In Indian Service, Perris, Cal.

Seneca, Isaac. Seneca. Blacksmith, Darlington, Okla.

Silverheels, Kittie. Seneca. Employe, Indian Service, Odanah, Wis.

Teeple, Frank. Chippewa. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Teeple, John. " Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Turkey, Jennie. Seneca. Versailles, New York.

Wolf, Mary. Cherokee. (Mrs. Farwell). Crow Agency, Mont.

Welch, George. Stockbridge. Green Bay, Wis.

Warren, John B. Chippewa. Student, Normal School, Indiana, Pa.

Yupe, Susie. Shoshone. Teacher, Ind. School, Fort Hall, Idaho.

Corson, Charles. Piegan. Asst. Leasing Clerk, Anadarko, Okla.

CLASS. 1901.

Baine, John. Sioux. Fort Yates, N. Dak.

Beaver, Frank. Omaha. Attending Bus. College, Carlisle, Pa.

Brown, Samuel G. Sioux. Asst. Disciplinarian, Ind. School, Carlisle, Pa.

Coates, Henrietta. Oneida. Versailles, N. Y.

Denny, Elnora. Seneca. Teacher, District School, Southwest City, Mo.

Farris, George. Klamath. Hupa, Cal.

Gangworth, Alberta. Tuscarora. Attending Normal School, Buffalo, N.Y.

Gangworth, Willard. " Attending Dickinson Prep. Sch., Carlisle, Pa.

Goytay, Annie. Pueblo. Student, Normal School, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Johnson, Mark. Sioux. Santee, Neb.

TELEGRAMS.

Hon. Post. A. MacFadden,
Chelsea, Mass.

Jan. 8.

Wash. you could defer and be here commencement 5th and 6th of February, and give brief talk. Answer.

About 9:00 A.M.

Pratt, Col.

Miss Mary Vaux,
1715 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. Pratt and I reach Phila. tomorrow noon. If convenient will come to you. Answer.

About 9:00 A.M.

R. H. Pratt.

TELEGRAMS.

Mrs. R. A. Hammer,
Shawano, Wis.

Jan. 8.

Evelyn arrives Shawano 8:00 P.M. Thursday.

W. U. 10:45 A.M.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Mrs. Annie Reyes,
Blythe, Challam Co., Wash.
via Fort Williams.

Cynthia left here Tuesday evening for Tacoma. Should reach there early Sunday morning.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

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Mr. Fred M. Hall, Pres.,
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Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Fred :-

We accept your plan of binding the book at the ends; also of using one quality of paper throughout. While we think our manuscript is all right, I want you to send us a proof, so that we may have a chance to make corrections, for if I found mistakes in it afterward that might have been rectified I should blame myself, particularly when we are taking such pains and going to so much expense. No further proofs of pictures have reached us, and you know I expect them. In my last letter I said one proof of each would be sufficient.

The cover is a disappointment. We could do as well ourselves. It is nothing but plain printing bronzed. We want it more artistic. The sample sent you of the Ames, Ia. College catalog cover was simply to show the embossing of the letters, not as a sample of the style we wished. The design on the other catalog cover enclosed was something like what we had thought we would be able to give in the way of display. If the sample of cover paper marked "Ceranium Santiago" is what you propose in the way of color it is not what we desire. We want a brilliant red, about like the sample sent you. The catalog page can be mended a little in the corners, making the rules come together in better shape; otherwise that does very well.

It will be a great disappointment if we cannot have some of the books for use during commencement. I wanted to know that all was

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right and be able to make you a payment before leaving home.

Tenderly yours,

Jan. 11, 1902.

Mr. J. Churchill,
The Phila. Entertainment Bureau,
1101 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Yours of the 8th inst. with enclosure received. Col. Pratt returned from his western trip about the first of October, and was at once so occupied with matters of importance that the selection of entertainments for the school was turned over to a committee appointed from members of the faculty. As a variety of entertainments are afforded by the Brooklyn Course and Y. M. C. A. course in Carlisle, the committee limited our courses to two, and a series of sterscopic lecture was decided upon, the lantern and pictures being purchased for the school. I presume your letter of Sept. 24th was not answered because the committee took up a different line.

regretting the failure to respond to your call Sept. 24th, I am

Yours truly,

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Mr. James M. Hazzard,
Managing Editor,
45 & 47 Park Place, New York.

Jan. 11, 1902.

Dear Sir :-

We are getting out a catalog well illustrated, which will be ready about the middle of February, and a copy will be sent you. This covers just the ground you want. We have nothing in print that gives the information you ask. I enclose copy of my last annual report.

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Jan. 11, 1902.

Pres. G. Stanley Hall,
Clark University,
Worcester, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

Enclosed find copy of our Literary Course. We have nothing printed concerning the industries taught at the school. A catalog is in the hands of the printer, and when ready I will forward you a copy. Copies of several of my annual reports and addresses on education for Indians are herewith.

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Jan. 11, 1902.

Miss Jennie Ordway,
Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

Dear Miss Ordway :-

Yours of Dec. 27th is before me. In explanation of Marie's case I send the enclosed copies of letters. Marie was placed with a doctor's family in New Jersey for the winter to attend the public school and earn her board out of school hours, as do all our pupils for whom we can secure such advantages.

Mrs. Muttall has lately found a place for Marie where she can be by herself, and I am entirely in accord with the arrangement. Marie can go in the spring, and I have no doubt will make good use of her opportunities.

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Jan. 11, 1902.

Mr. Loren Jackson,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

Relying to yours of Dec. 5th about your daughter, I can not see that you have any cause to be disappointed in what is being done for her. Mary is in a country home, going to school 100 days. She works for her board out of school hours, and if called upon occasionally to harness or hitch up a horse, it is what any woman on a farm or elsewhere finds a great advantage in being able to do. Indeed, in some parts of the country it is looked upon as quite an accomplishment, and from what I can gather Mary does not feel indignant on this account. We have good reports of her, and my visiting agent will be around to see her in the course of a few weeks. If she were here at the school she would be required to work half a day and go to school the other half; so that her school advantages are quite as good where she is. We do not consider books the one essential thing, housekeeping and home industries being of more importance.

Mary entered Carlisle June 29th, 1900 for the regular term, five years.

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Jan. 13, 1902.

Major Edward B. Cassatt,
Military Attache, American Embassy,
London, England.

My dear Major :-

There has been some negotiation for our band to play at the American Exposition in the Crystal Palace next summer. It was stated to me that the managers wanted an all round American band. There is no American band filling these requirements except the Indian bands, all our large good bands like Sousa's and Inness' being made up mostly of foreigners. Of the Indian bands none have the desired qualities except the Carlisle school band. I wrote Mr. Schenk, Pres. of the Exposition, and asked him to wire me his reply for the reason that we are holding in abeyance several park applications for engagements at Willow Grove and other places, which must be closed shortly. Since writing him it comes to me that there are necessarily a great many applications and special influence must be exerted in order to get the attention of the management.

Our band is entirely made up of Indians from twenty-odd tribes, the best talent in the Indian service. We had an engagement of four weeks at Buffalo last summer which came to us without solicitation, and during which our band invariably attracted more listeners than a any of the three bands playing there at that time. I have a very exceptional leader, one of the best in the country. The band plays a great variety of the best music, their repertoire including between three hundred and four hundred pieces. I send you one of the music

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books of the Buffalo Exposition and a clipping from a Buffalo paper.
It was part of the program not to specially criticise where there
were so many, but we got as good notices as Sousa, tho we do not
claim to quite rank with him. The exposition authorities provided
us with a place to stay and gave us $3500 for the four weeks' con-
certs. I proposed to Mr. Schenk that we would undertake all expenses
of the trip, keep, etc. which would mean an absence from here of
twelve weeks in order to fill a ten weeks' engagement, and give them
the band of fifty players for ten weeks at the Crystal Palace for
$15,000.

It occurred to me that possibly you could speak a good word for
us and so give us the benefit of your influence. If you can do that
I am sure it will help our cause greatly. I am the more anxious for
this engagement for the reason that when I first organized the band
on its present scale I planned to let it go to Paris for the Exposi-
tion there; but in spite of the fact that I got the best material in
the service I was led not to send it because the music had not reached
that grade of excellence that I felt it best to submit it to a Euro-
pean audience. My leader at the time was an Indian brought up in
this school and had had no musical training other than what he re-
ceived at Carlisle, and therefore proved unequal to the accomplish-
ment of the purpose. The situation is entirely different now and I
feel that we can present our band in competition with any of the best
bands and have it stand on its musical merits alone without reference
to the fact that it is composed of Indians.

Whether you can do anything for us or not, I should be glad if
on receipt of this you would cable me, my expense, what the prospect
is.

Fraternally yours,
R. H. Thomas
4-00-15 Comm'ry

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Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

Dear Brother Trippe :-

Jan. 13, 1902.

I enclose a letter from Henry B. Nevins, Attorney. Please
let me know at once what you think in regard to it.

Mr. Patterson himself appeared at Flora Dale where his daughter
was located and demanded the girl. He was under the influence of
liquor at the time and she did not want to go with him. As we were
notified of the father's action an agent of the school met them at a
junction, and brought the daughter to Carlisle. Cora has been in my
office within two or three days stating that she did not want to go
home and cannot be happy there on account of her father's habits, and
thanking me for taking her away from her father when he attempted to
take her away.

Please return the letter with your judgment as to what I ought
to do.

Faithfully yours,

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Jan. 13, 1902.

John Wanamaker,

Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Jan. 6th marked "E.R." solicit-
ing my attention to my October account as per enclosed statement, I
have to advise you that no statement was enclosed in said letter, and
that under date of Dec. 7th I have your receipt for $54.93 signed
"per Bowman" covering my October and November accounts. This is the
second time you have called upon me for remittance since payment was
made.

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Jan. 13, 1902.

Miss Ednorah Nahar,
366 W. 25th St.,
New York City.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

We have put our commencement forward this year to the fifth and sixth of February because on the eighth Mrs. Pratt and I sail on the Celtic for the Mediterranean, and we want commencement out of the way before we start. Everyone is just as busy as possible with the affairs of commencement and it is not a good time to take on anything outside our school work.

January 13, 1902.

Rev. Robert MacFadden,
280 Washington Ave.,
Chelsea, Mass.

My dear Robert :-

If by any possibility you could come to us on Sunday, the second of February and give us a sermon on that day with special reference to the graduating class, we would all be delighted, especially your friends. We would of course want you to remain through the commencement exercises, but if you cannot spend so much time, by all means be here on Wednesday and Thursday, the fifth and sixth.

Fraternally yours,

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Jan. 13, 1902.

J. S. T. Jones,
*The Herald*,
Tyrone, Pa.

My dear Sir :—

Louis Sanches from the time he entered Carlisle showed that he had been under bad influences. He seemed to have saloon ideas and tendencies that he must have acquired after coming to this country. He was not a desirable pupil nor entitled to the consideration we gave him, and as he is so unresponsive it seems just as well that he is away from our care. I am sorry for the boy, but do not think we ought to be further burdened with him. Those who are responsible for his being brought to this country or their successors should look after him.

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To the Honorable,

The Postmaster General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :—

The writer of the enclosed letter, Dr. J. J. Sturm, was of greatest use to the military authorities at Fort Arbuckle and Fort Sill during my service there from '67 to '75. He had an Indian wife and so was an intermediary between us and the Indians. A good part of that period I was Adjutant at Fort Arbuckle and had charge of Indian matters both there and at Fort Sill and was in a position to know particularly of his valuable service. I always regarded him as thoroughly reliable. His daughter, a half Indian girl, is now a pupil of this school. If proper to establish a post office at the point he indicates I doubt if the Department could find a better person to fill the position of postmaster.

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Jan. 13, 1902.

Mrs. M. S. Wetherill,
213 W. Logan Square,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear friend :-

Thank you most cordially for your kind invitation to Mrs. Pratt and myself to make your house a convenience when we are in the city. I shall hope to see you, but just now we are getting ready for a trip to the Mediterranean on the steamer "Celtic", and may not be in Philadelphia except to pass through. My physician demands an entire abandonment for a time of duty here and recommends an ocean voyage. Mrs. Pratt and my youngest daughter have agreed to go with me on this very pleasant trip to different points along the Mediterranean. We shall have beside seventeen days in England, returning about the first of May.

Your appreciation of the work we are doing for the Indians is highly valued.

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Jan. 13,

Dr. J. J. Sturm,
Portage, Okla.

My dear Doctor -

I have written the Postmaster General in your behalf and
trust if the post office is to be established you may receive the
appointment as postmaster.

With kind regards,

Faithfully yours,

JAN. 13, 1902.

Mrs. W. P. Melcher,
45 Garden St.,
Mt. Holly, New Jersey.

Dear Mrs. Melcher :-

I have instructed Prof. Bakeless to get the present stand-
ing of Celinda King and if she has reached our graduating grade we
shall of course take great pleasure in including her with the class
of graduates this year.

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Jan. 13, 1902.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
Saxman, Alaska.

To dear Edward :-

I had part of your letter published in The Helper, thinking
it might turn something your way, and would let our people know where
you are and that you are still hammering away.

We shall take great pleasure in forwarding your nephew's inter-
ests all we can and trust you will keep in correspondence with him,
giving him such incentive from time to time as you can. When the
time comes, we will turn his course into the direction you indicate
if that seems practicable. He can no doubt hold on and attend Dick-
inson after finishing here, but that is some time off yet.

I enclose a letter from a young man at your place who desires
to enter Carlisle. If you can recommend him and he can pay his own
expenses to Seattle I shall cheerfully place transportation to Can-
lisle for him; and if there are other worthy applicants, the door is
open to them also.

Fraternally yours,

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Mr. W. H. Parker,
Normal & Agricultural Institute,
Hampton, Va.

Jan. 14, 1902.

Dear Sir :-

We have concluded that for the remainder of the fiscal year we will not undertake any change in our present arrangement, but will take up the matter after the beginning of the new year, July 1st next.

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Jan. 14, 1902.

Miss Luzena Choteau,
419 Van Ness Ave.,
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Luzena :-

It is utterly impossible for me to give the attention to your affairs which you seem to demand. I have no actual knowledge. You have only to go forward, fill your place and bury the past. It will not be recalled by me unless you keep on in the same line. You think too much about yourself. Give more thought to others and less to yourself and things will grow brighter for you, I am sure.

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Jan. 14, 1902.

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

Dear Brother Kingsbury :-

Glad to get a word from you again. We are of course full
of commencement and getting ready for our long absence. I under-
stand the dangers of the trip, but those are only inducements. I
need to fill up with new experiences and get out of ruts. This trip
will be the best thing possible for that.

I differ radically from your presiding elder. Looking at things
from the Indian's standpoint has been the great evil of all our man-
agement. If people had given up looking at the matter from his
standpoint, the Indian would be many miles further on the way to
self-support and citizenship. He is just as equal in grasping the
conditions of our civilization and all that goes with it as any other
peoples who have become a very part of us. Look at the negro I Liv-
ing among us, he has forgotten his own language and life and become
a citizen. Look at the Indian! Keeping his own language and cus-
toms and always looking at things from his own standpoint has kept
him an Indian. Contact in every way, right contact of course, is
the thing.

Wish you could be with us at commencement, the fifth and sixth
proximo.

Faithfully yours,

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Jan. 24, 1908,

Dear Brother Trippe :-

Mr. Warner has shown me your letter to him covering Allen
Blackchief's case. He has misrepresented things to you I am sure.
He student at this school is forced into athletics either by the mor-
al sentiment of the school or by any of its regulations. If any
student feels that athletics is in his way all he has to do is to
speak out about it here and that would end it.

It occurs to me that it would be an excellent thing for you to
come down to our commencement. Mr. Sherman, Chairman of the Indian
Committee of the House, is to deliver the diplomas and make an ad-
dress. He is from the Utica district, and is especially anxious that
something be done to break up the reservation system in New York.
Mr. Vreeland from your district is also likely to be here. He in-
forms me that he is working on the same line. If you come you will
have a chance to make a short speech, say of five minutes; in that
time I think you could concentrate enough ideas from your standpoint
as a missionary of long service and acquaintance with the situation
to help materially. If you could bring with you a couple of your
most influential Indians who would be good backers for you, it would
be a good thing, and they could also have a chance to say a few words

I will secure a half rate from Clean or any place on the North-
ern Central for any who may come. Please let me hear from you
promptly.

Faithfully yours

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Major Edward B. Cassatt,
Noverford, Pa.

My dear Major :-

Referring to our phone conversation I forget to tell you
that I leave the country on the eighth of February with Mrs. Pratt
and my daughter for a trip around the Mediterranean, and shall be in
England from the 8th or 9th of April until the 25th. I have been out
of health for some years because of too close confinement here and
am taking the "Celtic" trip for the purpose of recuperating and get-
ting experience and observation to help me in my work. If it is at
all practicable for you to accomplish anything for us I would be
greatly obliged if you would cable me at once, so that I may know
what to expect before I sail, and possibly do something towards ap-
ranging for the band's transportation over there should they get the
job.

Fraternally yours,

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 16.

Medicine Horse,
Chamberlain, S. Dak.

Your message. Can't send Medicine Horse home. Against regulations
to return pupils on account of illness of relatives.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

U. C. Collect.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Mrs. Christine Laurent,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter about your daughter, and have been in-
quiring into her case. She remained in the country this winter to go
to public school and reports indicate that she is all right. She is
living in one of the best country homes we know of; has had school
clothing sent her, and is being well looked after. There is no rea-
son why she should write to you for money, and I trust you will not
send her any. In the spring and summer, when she has attended the
prescribed number of days, she will earn money, but until that time
all her needs will be attended to. My visiting agent will see her
before long and will then give me a careful report.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Mrs. Mary B. Reuben,
Akron, New York.

Dear Mrs. Reuben :-

I have your letter about Alice Doctor. We have been keeping a close watch on her reports, and know that for some time she has had a cold and cough; but many at the school are also afflicted, as are people in all parts of the country during this changeable weather. The lady with whom Alice is living is kind and attentive to her needs, and I think she is just as well off where she is as she would be at the school or with you. Miss Jackson, the lady who has charge of the girls, is in the country now visiting those who are out for the winter, and I will have a report from her as soon as she has seen Alice. In the meantime there is no cause for alarm.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Miss Louise Rogers,
C/o Mrs. H. G. Eshleman,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Louise :-

As you will not be here in time to have your picture taken
with the class, please send me one of yourself taken alone. The face
should be about the size of those on the enclosed print. If you have
a good one already you need not have another taken, but we ought to
have it here just as soon as you can send it. There are several oth-
ers of the class absent, and I plan to have the faces of ali absen-
tees appear on the same cut with the members who are here. We always
have a plate made and pictures printed for use on commencement day,
and this takes some time; so I hope you will not delay, but attend to
this at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Miss Jennie DeRosier,
C/o Mrs. C. A. Haas,
Palmyra, N. J.

Dear Jennie :-

As you will not be here in time to have your picture taken
with the class, please send me one of yourself taken alone. The face
should be about the size of those on the enclosed print. If you have
a good one already you need not have another taken, but we ought to
have it here just as soon as you can send it. There are several oth-
ers of the class absent, and I plan to have the faces of all absen-
tees appear on the same cut with the members who are here. We always
have a plate made and pictures printed for use on commencement day,
and this takes some time; so I hope you will not delay, but attend to
this at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Albert K. Smiley,
Mohonk Lake, New York.

My dear Mr. Smiley :-

Replying to yours of Jan. 11th about a bugler, bath house and tennis court keeper, etc., I have looked the ground over and the best young man we have for the place is James Arnold, one eighth Indian. He is a graduate of Chilocco but not of Carlisle, and is here for higher education; has passed through the Commercial School in Carlisle and is now attending Dickinson Preparatory. James has been our bugler at the school about eighteen months, ever since he came. He sounds our calls very nicely, and I think will be able to perform the service to your entire satisfaction. He is also one of the most reliable young men we have ever had; is president of the Y.M.C.A. here, and has impressed himself on the school in every way. His ambition is to get a college education and going to you would help in that. It would be somewhat difficult for him to keep up with his classes, as he would have to be at Mohonk by the 24th of May and remain till the 28th of October; but after a full conference with his professors he and they think he can manage it by studying at night. I have told him about the place and duties and feel sure if he comes to you he will serve you well. He is a worker, not afraid to take hold of anything he can do and is faithful as can be. I send his photograph, as you desire.

In regard to the pay; I should hope you could pay him not less than $30 a month and his board. Transportation to and from will be

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Jan. 16, 1902.

Lt. Col. Chas. L. Cooper,
Fort Logan, Colo.

My dear Cooper :-

The enclosed is good. I return it with
thanks for the opportunity of looking at it. I
have not been in Washington since my last to you,
and have been waiting daily to see the nominations
sent in, but nothing has shown up yet. I judge
the President's determination to appoint on merit
has bothered him a good deal; for when he deviates
as he has in two or three cases he hurts a whole
lot of fellows who have friends. You will notice
the confirmations of heads of the Staff Department
have not yet been made. Protests and allegations
are in the air.

I may be in Washington before long, but don't
know just when.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

W. B. Hall, Pres.,
Journal Printing Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Fred:-

It just occurs to me that it would be well to have a pic-
ture showing the beginnings, and I send you today two pictures #1
and #2, which represent the first party of eighty-two Sioux from
Rosebud and Pine Ridge, S. Dakota, as they arrived here on the sixth
of October, 1979. I believe you could make a fair reproduction of
them, putting both in the same photoengravure, the boys below the
girls. If you can, you may please do that, and let it follow imme-
diately after my picture.

I send also another which is representative of the first par-
ties. This is marked #3, and as it is a smaller group you can en-
jarge it a little, and let it appear as the third picture, marking
it, "A Representative First Party". The other you may designate as
"First Party of Eighty-two Sioux, Arriving at Carlisle, Oct. 6, 1979".

As I shall need to get envelopes for mailing the catalogs and
can begin addressing them as soon as I get them, please let me know
the exact size the book will be when complete.

I send a paragraph which I find I omitted, acknowledging char-
ity. Please add it to the history and let it come where the Statis-
tics now appear, moving that part on to the next page.

Yours truly,

At the beginning there was lack of confidence, and the supply of
government funds was not ample. Mr Schurz, the then Secretary, paid
the first expenses out of what was called the "Civilization Fund",
being moneys accumulated from the sale of Osage lands in Kansas which
it had been provided could be used for any general civilizing pur-
poses. It was not until the third year that the first Congressional
appropriation was made. Neither the allowance made from the Civili-
zation Fund nor the appropriation of Congress was sufficient to meet
all the many needs of the school. In this crisis many friends came
forward and contributed, in some cases largely, to cover the erection
and alteration of buildings, putting in a system of heating, the
purchase of a farm, and a multitude of other imperative needs, so
that about $125,000 in all has been donated. This large help from
the friends of the Indians served to stimulate the growth of confi-
dence in both the legislative and executive departments of the gov-
ernment, which, coupled with the acknowledged success of the school,
finally led to the government's assuming the entire support.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1902.

Mr. A. C. Simpson,
Hupa, Cal.

My dear Mr. Simpson :-

I have your letter of the 5th inst. which I have read with
very great interest, and shall in a general way make use of it in
The Red Man, not as locating anyone anywhere, but as showing the con-
ditions that exist in the service and the causes for complaint which
some of our students thing they have. I have read my original letter
to Martha, to which yours is a reply, and think if you will read that
more carefully you will come to the conclusion that you have somewhat
misinterpreted me; but there is this much to be said in your favor,
that the reaction which has set in against the great demand by Indi-
ans for positions in the Indian service will inevitably bear hard in
some cases, and possibly produce a condition that may seem unjust, as
in your case. It often happens that conditions can go on for a long
time, because the facts are not known. Martha will tell you that In-
dian employes who are not fed at government cost here dine at the
same table with our other employes. There is no distinction, never
has been, never will be. Where the government provides the food, as
in the case of some of the smaller salaries, the employes dine with
the students.

I am informed that the disposition against Indian employes has
led to stringency at many places throughout the service and that con-
ditions such as you describe are not infrequent. This of course will
come and Indian employes must be patient and at the same time stand

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For their rights, and the more patient and judicious they are in
their contact and representations the greater will be the respect
for them and the sooner will come a revulsion. It often happens that
conditions at a school cannot be changed without changing those in
change. For a time those in charge at remote places can perhaps do
pretty much as they please, but the more continuously inconsistent
they are the sooner the change will come.

I appreciate the situation in your case quite fully, knowing and
respecting Martha as I do for her excellent qualities and great pa-
tience. For this reason I have all the more interest in the matter
and shall take occasion to present it so far as I can to the Commis-
sioner, who will visit me shortly.

With kindest regards and best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1902.

Mr. C. Comade,
673 E. 64th St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir : -

We have no pamphlet giving full regulations in regard to
this school. The enclosed Annual Report may give you some informa-
tion along that line.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1902.

Mr. Jerome Snow,
Times-Press,
Gutt. Co., New York.

Dear Sirs :

Replying to yours of Jan. 5th, I find on inquiry from le-
vi's teacher that he has written you regularly each month. It is
strange that you have not received his letters. He is getting along
very well. Sorry to hear of the death of Clarence, but glad to know
he had good care during his sickness.

Levi seems to be in good health. Should he break, which is not
likely, I shall of course let you know.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1902.

Mrs. Addie Jackson,
Irving, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jackson :-

I have yours of the 14th inst., asking that your boys be
sent to you this spring to help with your work. They are both small,
and while able to do quite a little in the way of chores, would be
of no material help in running a farm. Beside, it is a rule not to
return children until their five year term is completed. Both of
your boys are good and bright, and are making fine progress, and will
be much more able to help with your support when grown if allowed to
continue their schooling .

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1962

Mr. Henry P. Nevins,
Atty. at Law,
Salamanca, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

If Cora Patterson's father will send me money to pay rail-
road fare from Carlisle to her home and to cover her fare in, which
together will be in the neighborhood of ten dollars, I will send
her home; not because you demand it, for I should be inclined to hold
on and keep her to the end of contract, but because Cora has within
a few days developed a moral turpitude of such character as to con-
vince me that she is entirely unworthy of any educational expense or
efforts in her behalf. She now tells me she has been lying to me
right along in regard to what she had written home and her desire to
remain here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.

Chas. E. Dagenette,
Whiteriver,
via Holbrook, Arizona.

Dear Charlie :-

I have yours of the 13th saying you will leave there by the
25th of January. I have a half rate arrangement to Chicago and rate
of $11.03 Chicago to Carlisle, which is a little more than half rate.
Have asked Mr. Black, G.P.A. of the A. T. & S. F. R.R. to provide
four tickets to Carlisle for your party to be delivered by the rail-
road agent at Holbrook, Ariz. My finances for this purpose are at
the bottom, else I would undertake the whole four. Having indicated
to Vincent that I would undertake three, I do that, but am compelled
to cancel other propositions of that kind at other agencies because
of the inadequacy of my available funds.

Will be delighted to see you here and will give you the benefit
of all I can, but you will I am sure understand the situation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1902.

Miss Lorraine Swartz,
14 N. Bedford St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Miss Swartz :-

I cannot give permits to outsiders to skate on our skating
pond, which was made exclusively for our Indian pupils and those em-
ployees who care to use it. If your father is employed here I could
allow you the privilege for yourself only during the day time, if
you make personal application. If we were to make the permission gen-
eral we would be at once overrun and our own people crowded entirely
out of their rights.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 18.

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Wm. J. Pollock,
Whitengle, Okla.

Your message to John Kemble. Regulations do not permit home visits
of pupils because of sickness of relatives.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

W. U. 2:45 P.M.

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Jan. 18, 1902.

My dear Dr. Seabrook :-

Thanks for your kindly letter. Sorry not
to find you when in Philadelphia, but glad of course
that you could have such a nice trip. Mrs. Pratt,
Richenda and I are building largely on our proposed
expedition, and Chenda comes home today to get ready
for it. Wish I could see my way to take a doctor
along. If I could, I should certainly propose to
you.

With kind regards to yourself and the hospital
friends in which Mrs. Pratt joins,

Dr. Alice L. Seabrook,

c/o M. E. Hospital,

Phila., Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa January 30, 1903

Mrs L. P. Sharpless
Elk Mills, Pa.

Dear friend:

I have a personal letter from Miss Jackson in which she refers
to a number of questions you wished answered. She has answered most
of them as I should.

In regard to the girl in question writing letters I think she should
not be denied, especially those to her home, and I want regular monthly
reports and letters from you, as formerly. There is to be no change
in this. She is a member of this school as much as she ever was.
I must know where she is and how she is getting on, the same as former-
ly. Send me the address, when she leaves you, for Baltimore. Oth-
er questions can be answered better, later.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Mr. R. Bottomley,
20 S. Hanover St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Yours of the 18th to hand. I just phoned Mr. Wetzel that I should count on your services again this year, at the price paid you before.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Benj. F. Caswell, Supt.,
Cass Lake, Minn.

Dear Ben :-

Glad to hear about your school and family. Have sent your letter to the Commissioner, so that he may have full explanation of your requests.

Commencement is only a few weeks ahead, and we are of course very busy in preparation. We expect a goodly number from Washington, senators and representatives, Department people, and others from various places. Wish you could look in on us.

With kind regards to Leila,

 faithfully your friend.

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Miss Mary H. Brown,
322 S. 21st St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Friend :-

Many thanks for your kind wishes. We all wish very much
that you could be with us. I enclose copies of my nineteenth, twen-
tieth, and twenty-second annual reports. The twenty-first was not
published. We are getting out a little booklet giving something of
the aim, history and growth of Carlisle, which is fully illustrated.
I hope to have a few copies by commencement or soon after, and will
mail you one immediately they are received.

With kind regards,

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Levi Levering,
Fort Hall,
via Blackfoot, Idaho.

Dear Levi :-

I have your letter of the 15th and thank you for it.

Everyone here is as busy as possible with work which must be finished before commencement. Coming earlier than usual, it makes the work in schoolroom classes and some other departments unusually pressing, but we shall have things in good shape I think. The prospects are for a large crowd. A number of distinguished people have already signified their intention to be with us.

We are having delightful weather; no snow but fine skating.

With kind regards,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Edward Little,
St. Francis Mission,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Edward :-

I have your letter about the objections of the boys over
eighteen to denial of rations and the proposed change in the treat-
ment of the Sioux. You say it seems to you just like the Government
had cut off all the people's heads. So far as we can see, the Gov-
ernment has been the head for you Indians for a great many years, and
the proposition as it appears to us is to take its own head away and
let the Indians use their heads instead. After you have had a
trial of the new order of things and can catch on to what the Govern-
ment really intends by it, you will be glad of it. What the Govern-
ment has been doing for you all through all the years has taken away
your manhood. Now it proposes to give you an opportunity to build up
your manhood, to become individual men and take care of yourselves
as your fathers did before the Government assumed to become your head

It often happens that things which seem the greatest misfortune
to us at the time prove the greatest blessings. I am sure what is
proposed for you now is on this line.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

My dear Doctor :-

The future of Healy Wolfe is pending. He graduates with
the class this year. Healy is a bright little fellow and is ready
for anything that his friends think best. He can stay here and go
to Dickinson College if you wish and the expense will be very small.
Do you know anyone from whom we can anticipate funds to cover that ?
Eighty dollars a year I should think sufficient, as we could continue
him as a pupil and board and clothe him at the school, and Dickinson
gives us a very low rate.

In regard to the Greek priest who is likely to come here and at-
tempt to claim his own, if I may know from you just where the young
people belong, whether to the Methodist, Presbyterian, or other
churches, I shall take care that the priest has nothing to do with
them unless there is personal urgency on the part of the children
themselves, which I do not anticipate.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

Dictated(P)

I. S. - I enclose a list of all our Alaskan pupils, giving church
they have been attending here. Please note what you can as to
the correctness of church connection, and return to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Mrs. S. L. Beiler,
498 W. Ferry St.,
Buffalo, New York.

My dear Mrs. Beiler :-

It is not my intention to let the Greek priest have control
of any of the young people here from Alaska who have passed over to
the control of any other church, and if I may know from any authori-
tative source just where the children belong, I will see that he does
not. A number of them have been here for some time, and so far as I
know have not received any attention from their churches, so that it
got into my mind there was no special claim on many of them. I cheer-
fully welcome interest in them from any Christian source.

Have sent Dr. Jackson a full list, asking him to designate where
they belong. I suggest that you aid him identifying those under the
care of your church.

Dictated(P)

Please indicate the pupils who belong to your church on the enclosed
which is a full list of Alaskans now enrolled, and return to me at
once.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 20, 1902.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Commissioner :-

I send the enclosed letter from Benjamin Caswell which contains an item or two you might care to learn of in this way. He wants his wife's sister, Jerusha Cornelius, as seamstress. She has never been a pupil here, and I know nothing about her, neither do I know anything of the rights Ben's school may have to another teacher. I note with great satisfaction that instead of seven pupils as the white man had who preceded him, Ben has forty-two, more than his complement.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1902.

Mrs. Ruth Shaffner Etnier,
4512 Osage Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Etnier :-

I send you a letter which came for Felicita. I have opened
and read it, fearing she might have relations with indecent people.
A passage in the letter leads me to think that the writer is a wicked
woman. Please advise me if you can.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1902.

Miss Louise Rogers,
C/o H. G. Eshleman,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Louise :-

While it is not at all necessary for you to be here in or-
der to graduate, still I should be very glad to have you come down,
stand with your class and receive your diploma with the others. If
you come on Saturday the 1st of February, that will be in time, or
Feb. 4th would not be too late if that suits your school duties better.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1902.

Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
Journal Printing Co.,
Janestown, N. Y.

Dear Fred :-

I think we would better have the additional thousand as I intend to make a very wide use of the book. Already I see I shall dispose of 3,000 and two thousand on hand will not be too many. In regard to the extra cost on account of the increased price of paper, that will be all right. I think you will be entirely safe in using your Buffalo paper.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1902.

Dan W. Milk,

Ponca Creek, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :-

I have yours of the 18th making inquiry about Uriah Good
Cane, and will address the Adjutant General, U.S.A., Washington, D.C.
in regard to him. Co. L, 15th Infantry has been in Manila, but is
ordered home. I cannot tell how long it will be before it gets back.
I do not fear, however, that Uriah Good Cane has been killed, for
the lists of the dead are published from time to time, and his name
has not been among those we have seen. The Adjutant General will
have the records examined, the it may take some time to do it. When
I hear I will let you know.

You would better address him at Manila, P. I., and if his reg-
iment leaves before he gets the letter it will be forwarded to him.

Naper, Boyd Co., Neb.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1902.

Mrs. Emma L. Harvey,
253 W. 83th St.,
New York City.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your recent inquiry, I have to advise you that
this school is for Indians only, and they must enter in the way pro-
vided by the Government, that is, through the Indian agents under
whose control they have been.

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. is a school principally for na-
groes, and it is possible you could get the girl in there. I cannot
give the address of any other colored schools, tho there are doubt-
less some nearer New York.

(n)

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1902.

Mr. N. B. Stalnaker, Supt.,
Indian School,
Apache, Okla.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your inquiry of Jan. 10th, our records do not
show that Marry Tairnmerala, Comanche, guardian Sidney Mussert, is
or has been a student here. If she has ever been here it was under
another name.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1902.

Daisy E. Stuart,
Dows,
Wright Co., Ia.

Dear Miss Stuart :-

I enclose such material as we have on the Indian question
and trust you may get from it something that will help you in your
debate, if it is not already too late. I am under the impression
that pamphlets, reports, etc. were mailed you, but being in doubt for
ward others.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1902.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Frequois,
Erie Co., New York.

Dear Sir :-

Yours of the 11th inst. was sent to our hospital for report
of the nurse on Glennie Waterman's case, and on its return to the of-
fice was accidently covered with other papers, so that answer has
been delayed longer than it should have been. Glennie has been in
the hospital about two weeks altogether this winter, and goes regu-
larly for medicine. There seems to be nothing special the matter
more than a cold which all are more or less afflicted with during the
winter in almost any locality. She is not a strong girl, but there
is no cause for uneasiness in regard to her, and I could not send her
home now because of ill health. Should she become sick we will of
course give her the best of care and notify you or her parents if
the case became at all serious.

I telegraphed you this morning to know whether any of the Indi-
ans in your section wanted to come to commencement because if they
do and want special rate tickets I should know immediately in order
to make arrangements. I have a half rate on the Penna. & the
Northern Central between Carlisle and points on these lines.

To. J. - Your telegram
It is no certainty
that any will come, just
received.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1902.

Miss Marion Lambert,
New York Infirmary,
New York City.

Dear Marion :-

I have yours of yesterday and write you at your new place.
I think you have done wisely to accept the suggestion of Miss An-
drews, and hope you may be successful in your work.

We regret as much as anyone the behavior which led to Cynthia's
dismissal. You know her faults and our long patience with her. You
can understand also that it would not be right to the class nor to
the school to send out with diplomas those who are so careless of
their own and the school's reputation as Cynthia and Evelyn proved
themselves to be. I trust they will both profit by the experience, and
feel that the course we took was the only just one under the cir-
cumstances.

With best wishes for yourself, I am

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1902.

Owalther Mohawk,
Room 17, Bank San Jose Bldg.,
San Jose, Cal.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of Jan. 2nd in regard to admission to
this school as a pupil, I have to advise you that suitable pupils
are accepted on the application and endorsement of the Indian agent
or superintendent under whose care they have been. The Indian De-
partment has placed the age limit at 18 years. Your letter indicates
that you are not connected with any Indian reservation, but are out
in the world on your own responsibility. If this is so you are on
the road to educate yourself without the aid of the government, and
this is much better than to seek association with Indians. Indian
schools are for those Indians who have not the advantages of the
public schools or of intercourse with white people. I would advise
you to make the best of your opportunities where you are, attend the
public school and work your way.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1902.

Mr. J. Cameron,
31 E. 38th St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

I return your inquiries in regard to Paul Segui with my answers. I think the only advantage to Paul in going elsewhere would be that it would place him in constant association with bright, active, young American minds, which would unconsciously advance him faster and enable him to become more thoroughly Americanized. In some respects Carlisle offers him greater advantages than almost any school he could attend, especially in its industries; but in order that he may carry back with him to his Porto Rican home the true American spirit and become the best factor possible in the Americanizing of conditions on that island, he ought not to remain in an Indian school, where the large majority of his associates are far below him in intelligence and must therefore take on much more than he does. The prime policy of the school has been to constantly push all its students out into as much association as possible with our American life. Consequently, we are staunch friends to the public school system.

Under these conditions Paul is a candidate for wider opportunities, as well as every other Carlisle student.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1902.

Peter Rouillard,
Santee, Neb.

Dear peter :-

Boys who run away from Carlisle forfeit all they leave behind, and we use their money to pay the expense of catching other runaways.

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 24.

Rev. W. T. Triggs,
Junction, N. Y.

If you and Indians coming to commencement want special rate transportation, I must know immediately. Wire answer.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

Sam to Rev. L. M. Lawrence, Iroquois, via Gowanda, N. Y.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 24.

Fred Hull, Pres.
Journal Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Was proof returned you today.

Pratt. Col.

Postal. 9:30 A.M.

395

Jan. 24, 1902.

Dr. W. J. Tucker, Pres.,
Dartmouth College,
Hanover, N. H.

My dear Doctor :-

I enclose an invitation to our coming commencement. The almost prehistoric connection of Dartmouth College with Indian education leads me to emphasize this invitation and express the hope that you can find it convenient to be with us.

We graduate forty-five young Indians from many tribes. The graduating point is only a little above the grammar grade of the public schools, but the occasion calls together a large company of friends of the Indians from many distant localities, and attracts the attention of Congress and the Executive Departments to an unusual extent this year, and this leads me to believe your presence and consideration of our work would be valuable.

I shall be glad to undertake your entertainment if you will accept our humble conditions. I have a half rate arrangement from New York to Columbia and return to New York good for the week, and could send you a ticket. Please advise.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1902.

Wu. S. Vaux,
515 Stephen Girard Bldg.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Will :-

Thanks for your very neat plan. It is just the thing, but now I am sorry to tell you that on looking up our finances I find that my funds available between this and the first of July will not cover the erection of the building and I shall have to reserve it until the beginning of the new fiscal year. In the meantime we have opportunity to work out the details of the plan without any haste.

Glad to know you will be with us at commencement. We shall have a goodly company and I especially want you and George to get acquainted with some of our Congressional folks and help me to make them happy and think right. We are not yet informed how many round trip tickets you will need.

With kind regards to all,

We will leave the payment for your plan until all is settled.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

Hon. James S. Sherman,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Sherman :—

The bearer, William Hazlett, is a graduate of this school, class of '95. Although he does not look it, he is half Indian. He has a case before Congress which is simply nothing more nor less than a request that he and his wife be released from all Government supervision and allowed to take their places as full fledged citizens.

Mr. Hazlett's appearance, as you will see, is decidedly in his favor. His course since graduation more than sustaining his appearance, he is as equal to the emergencies of our life as are three fourths of our citizens. I trust you may be able to help him in the way he will explain, and so end his and his wife's Indian problem. Mrs. Hazlett was educated at Harvard, and in a bright and capable little woe-

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

Hon. John F. Lacey,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

This will introduce to you William Hazlett, a graduate of
this school, class of '95. He is half Indian, although he does not
look it. He has a case before Congress which is simply nothing more
nor less than a request that he and his wife be released from all Gov-
ernment supervision and allowed to take their places as full fledged
citizens. Since graduation Mr. Hazlett's course has been creditable
and progressive. He is as equal to the emergencies of our life as
are three fourths of our citizens.

I trust you may be able to help him in the way he will explain
and so end his and his wife's Indian problem. Mrs. Hazlett was edu-
cated at Haskell and is a bright, capable little woman.

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-2 - Mrs. Marte.

We had always esteemed him as one of our best boys. Stephen Owling-
wick was also regarded as a good boy.

Had I known there was likely to be a girl of such character at
Mr. Ely's I should not have placed my boys there. It has always been
necessary for us to observe the strictest regulations in such mat-
ters for our own girls.

I go away from home on the 8th of February and will not be back
before the first of May, but Mr. Allen, my assistant superintendent,
understands the situation and if you will write here and let us know
later facts we will do whatever we can to alleviate the conditions.
To the extent of their ability the boys shall be made to pay, and of
course must be punished even though there may have been the induce-
ment alleged.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
Journal Printing Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Fred :-

The plan for the cover which you promised days ago has not
reached me, and so little of the proof has come that I fear that be-
tween this and commencement I shall not see all of it, which I very
much wanted to do before I left the country.

I take it that in printing the first pages there will be nothing
on the page opposite the title, "Catalog of the Indian Industrial
School, Carlisle, Pa." etc. If this is so, and you have not begun
printing and can just as well as not, I wish you would put on that
blank page what is on the enclosed slip, that is, the school motto
adopted at the organization in 1879, "God helps them that help them-
selves". If you are already printing the first pages, then I would
have this motto at the beginning of the matter which appears immedi-
ately after the pictures. If the last picture should take a right
hand page, the motto could appear on the back of that picture. If
the last picture comes on the left hand page, then the motto can come
on the page following, but the best place for it is on the back of
the catalog page, as I said first.

I shall hope to hear fully and have such proof as possible dur-
ing the next few days. Will arrange for prompt payment by check when
the books are delivered.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

J. E. Cameron,
31 E. 38th St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

Your telegram and special delivery letter received. On
talking with my principal teacher and the industrial teacher who has
charge of Paul Segui more carefully, I find that Paul is not so prom-
ising for entering your course now as I had thought. He is espec-
tially lacking in arithmetic, but this is the case with all pupils
who come from Catholic schools. They universally pay more attention
to literary development than to mathematics. It would take Paul
three or four years to finish at Carlisle, and additional informa-
tion I get on more careful inquiry convinces me that the discipline
of Carlisle is something he needs at this time. One of our Porto-
rican boys whom we sent out for special schooling and dropped from
our rolls, I find has recently gone home.

While I am sorry to give you this somewhat changed report of
Paul, it seems necessary and best for the interests of the boy. My
former letter was based more upon my own casual observation and ac-
quaintance with him than the thorough knowledge that the principal
teaches and industrial instructor have of him. Having this addition-
al information I am led now to say that for the present at least,
Paul would better remain with us. This being my conclusion, it does
not seem necessary to answer your later questions, and they are here-
with returned.

Dated (P)

416

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

Mr. Jos. C. Hooe,
1400 New Hampshire Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

Referring to the subject of conference between you and Miss Fletcher and myself today, I enclose copies of part of the original correspondence in regard to the four Porto Rican girls placed under the care of Mrs. Etnier in Philadelphia.

As expressed in my letter to Mrs. Etnier today, my judgment is that the girls would better return to Carlisle for the present, and if we can make arrangements that will be satisfactory all around and Mrs. Hearst is willing to continue her benefactions, the girls can at any time go to such suitable places as we may find. After the experience we have had, my judgment is that the matter of arranging for them elsewhere should be left in my hands. I can assure you it will be more practical than it has been heretofore, and also more economical. The principle I have always pursued at Carlisle which was somewhat interfered with in this case, has been to make all students maintain themselves so far as they were able. Hundreds of our girls are in families now, going to school, almost all of them in lower schools, but earning their keep by work out of school hours, and during the summer months earning sufficient to clothe themselves. This course is healthy, bringing more contentment to the children themselves and giving them that training for after life that every girl needs. She is a better teacher, if teacher she becomes, she is a

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better mother if mother she becomes, for just this sort of training.
It is proven over and over again. The interference of sentimentalism
is often a very great disaster. Excusing young people from helping
to make their own clothes or take care of their own rooms and lead-
ing them into the ethereal is not help, but harm to them.

417

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1902.

Dear Mrs. Etnier :--

Sometime ago I heard, just where and how I do not now re-
member, that you were going to move to Pittsburg, and have been ex-
pecting something from you in regard to the Porto Rican girls belong-
ing to this school under your care. As I heard nothing from you I
had about concluded that you intended to take them with you. It now
comes to me that you are planning to place them under other auspices.
I do not understand the principle that guides you in doing this. Then
they entered Carlisle I assumed the responsibility for them, but let
them go to you for training. I have had nothing from either the pa-
rents of these girls or the Bureau of Education in Porto Rico per-
mitting me to relinquish my responsibility to you or anybody else.
Therefore I feel that I am still responsible. If, as I am informed,
you are planning to place them under other auspices, you are assuming
a course I cannot justify. My information comes from such a source
as to warrant me in advising you that the only thing you can do is to
notify me that you cannot further undertake their care and training,
and I will send transportation and let them return to Carlisle for
the present.

If later we can make other arrangements that will be satisfac-
tory all around, you know me well enough to understand I will gladly
do that.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1902.

Rev. Chas. L. Thompson, D.D.,
156 Fifth Ave.,
New York.

Dear Dr. Thompson :-

I enclose ($1.00) one dollar. Please send me as many copies of the February "Assembly Herald" as this will pay for.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1902.

Mr. J. Horace MacFarland, Treas.,
116 Market St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

The filtration plant belongs to the town of Carlisle. It gives clear water and I hear no complaints in town as to the rapidity of its work. It might be well for you to come over and look at it. I have nothing whatever to do with it except to drink my share as necessity requires.

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Wish you could be here with us on our great occasion. We graduate a class of forty-two, the largest in our history. There will be present some very distinguished people; altogether we shall have a memorable commencement.

Write me whenever you can. I shall be most pleased to hear
from you.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1902.

Dear Brother Trippe :-

Simon Skye came August 31st, '97 and is therefore entitled
to go home this summer, but I don't see how I can send him before
July 1st, as it would open too big a door. Every other father would
make the same plea and if I say "Yes" to one, I must say "Yes" to all
Libbie Skye came Nov. 2nd, 1901, and consequently has no right to
ask to go home this year.

Sorry you cannot come down and tell our friends who will be
gathered here at commencement just what a glorious success the New
York reservations are.

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Mrs. J. L. Fryburg,
123 N. 63rd St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Madal :-

Your acceptance of the 20th received. If you wish half rate tickets, Phila. to Carlisle and return for yourself and Miss Bond, please notify at once.

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1902.

Mrs. L. C. Lewis,
Harlan, Ja.

Dear Mrs. Lewis :-

I have asked your daughter to remain with us until her successor arrives and she has consented. These movements take time and it may be some months before the Indian Office sends some one to relieve her. As Miss Lewis told me she did not intend to remain in the Indian service longer than this year, it seemed quite unnecessary for her to take an examination from which she would not be likely to hear before the year closed and which when she did hear would not materially avail for the short time she intended to remain.

I understand your position and hers and shall take steps to see that something is done in the way you suggest.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 26, 1902.

W. T. Anderson, Nueva York,
Ponceo, Porto Rico.

Y. Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of the 20th in regard to your daughter,
Juliana. Juliana's ailment is one of affection. She has an un-
fortunate habit of falling in love with different boys. She becomes
so intense and absorbed by it that it unbalances her mind. She has
had several affairs of this kind since she came to Carlisle. "Where
has been no criminality, just an unfortunate intenseness which she
seems unable to control. Just now she is better, but from past ex-
perience we anticipate a repetition at any time.

If there was a good safe way to send her home and you would
take care of her from New York I would be glad to send her that far,
and let you have her under parental care until she overcame the dif-
iculty. If you choose to leave her here we will do the best we can,
and we are not without hope that the trouble can be overcome.
These attacks produce a slight disorder of the brain during which she
is not herself.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1902.

Dr. E. T. Devendorf, Clerk,
Indian Committee,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Devendorf :-

A physician in Chicago, a friend of mine, advises me to send an invitation to Hon. James R. Mann, a Representative. I enclose one for him. Won't you please advise him you are making up the party and will see that he gets here all right if he finds he can come.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1902.

Mr. Jno. Washer, Supervisor,
West Bay City, Mich.

My dear Sir :-

I have your letter advising that the mother of Henry Samp-
son is dying of consumption, and asking that Henry be sent home.

I am very very sorry not to be able to do as you desire, but it
became imperative in the early days of the school to make a rule against allowing children to go home on account of sickness or death in the family. Among such a large number of pupils as we have here there are always a good many whose parents or families are afflicted. To return pupils in such cases would be the greatest detriment to the school.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1902.

Prof. Albert S. Bickmore,
In charge, American Museum of Nat. History,
Central Park,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose my check for $138.25, covering the two lectures completing our order. We have not yet had time to give the lectures. When we have had an opportunity to use them you will hear from us in regard to our appreciation of them. The two were given during my absence, so that I cannot speak of my own knowledge, but all who saw the pictures and heard the lectures declare them very fine and exceptionally instructive. I have no doubt the remainder will also prove very fine.

I am about to leave on the steamer "Celtic" for a trip to the Mediterranean, to be back about the first of May, but my assistant will write you when the lectures have been given.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1902.

Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
The Journal Printing Co.,
New York, New York.

Dear Fred :—

I send you a picture of our graduating class this year. Inasmuch as the last year's class picture comes toward the last and you probably have not got that far in the work, I would be glad to have this substituted for the other. If you have made the other, just reserve the plate and send it to me when you return all, charging me with it. Underneath this say "Graduating Class, 1902".

Your idea of setting the record of students in brevier type is all right. I do not think it important that you submit the balance of our to me with titles underneath if you are sure to get them away in our list. It would be mortifying in a book of this kind to have the wrong name under any of the pictures.

With kind regards to all,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1902.

Mrs. Ruth Chaffner Etnier,
4512 Chicago Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Etnier :-

Your letter of the 28th. You say that you were made to un-
derstand distinctly from Mrs. Nuttall that she and she alone was the
power next to yourself to whom the girls now with you could appeal.
How Mrs. Nuttall could take such a position I cannot understand, and
how you could agree that such a position is correct is also beyond
my understanding. The children were sent here by their parents thru
the Educational Bureau of Porto Rico, and the parents on the Educa-
tional Bureau only can release me from responsibility for them. You
certainly understand that.

At no time have I understood it was your desire that the
I
girls should not be borne on the Carlisle outing, and thought I had
direct intimation from you to that effect, though I cannot find it
now. You say you were twice told in very unmistakable terms that the
girls no longer had any claims upon Carlisle. I cannot understand
what you mean by this. You asked for clothing and clothing was sent
you. It may have been intimated to you, if it was not it should have
been, that students out from the school are expected to maintain
themselves, and so far as possible we make them do that. You had
funds given you for that purpose in lieu of earnings by the girls,
and it was my judgment that they fell under this system. I probably
did say you ought to provide the clothing, though I cannot remember
that I did so, nor can I find any writing to that effect. There has

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been no change in my decision about it. The exactions of our out-
ing have not been closely enforced in your case for the reason that
as you were for a long time our agent in these matters, you were sup-
posed to know all about it and it did not seem necessary. If part of
what you say is complaint about my action in regard to Felicita and
Marie Castro, it is remarkable that it could get into your mind that
I would be willing to have you take a student away from this school
under any pretense or end a student back who was not satisfactory
without my knowing something about it. The very fact that you wanted
to make this arrangement to send Felicita here and take Marie would
indicate that you yourself felt that the girls had not been dropped
but were still under Carlisle control. Miss Jackson informs me that
she told you distinctly and you accepted of it the right of the foot-
ball game, when you were talking it over in the Broad Street station
that the girls had not been dropped and would not be dropped, and as
she remembers you seemed pleased with that view of it, so that you
certainly were well informed. Yet it seems you have got on and out-
lined a plan of disposition of the girls without consulting Carlisle.

I have only tried to say, you can explain the matter to Dr. Brus-
bough, and if Dr. Brusbaugh advises me that it will be all right for
me to drop all responsibility for the girls and you can arrange for
then elsewhere or continue keeping them yourself, I will have no ob-
jection; but I must have a release either from Dr. Brusbaugh or the
parents of the girls.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1902.

W. H. Shepler, Agent.

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :—

Enclosed find my check for $10.00 covering policy just received.

Yours truly,

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 31.

Mrs. Mary L. Bower,
4324 Market St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Under no circumstances will I stand any expense incurred on account of these girls. Party who has heretofore paid for their support advises me that support is withdrawn.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Postal. A.M.

TELEGRAM. Jan. 31.

Mrs. Bessie Gordon Davis,
316 N. 30th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Postal. 8:20 A.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1902.

Mr. C. Devendorf, Clerk,
Indian Comdrts,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Devendorf:-

I send you round trip tickets as follows :-

1. Mr. Curtis and wife
2. Mr. Flynn and wife
3. Mr. Thomas F. Marshall, wife & friends
4. Mr. McAndrews
5. Mr. John H. Stephens, wife & guest
6. Mr. W. H. Brown & wife
7. Mr. C. R. Shelden, wife & daughter
8. Gen. Chas. H. Hooker and wife
9. Mr. Thomas H. Tongue, wife & friend
10. Yourself, wife and son
11. Mrs. T. O. Medhurst & wife
12. Mr. Hooker and Mr. Tongue have accepted direct to me.
2. Mr. Hooker and Mr. Tongue have accepted direct to me. I have

planned the tickets in envelopes addressed to these gentlemen, and
trust you will see each one personally and present them. Should you
need any more, write, wire, or phone. Are there not some newspaper
men to come up?

There will be a Pullman chair car for the Congressional party.

You say nothing about Mr. Sherman's coming, nor your own and
Mr. Devendorf's. I understood that Mrs. Devendorf and your son would
give him some, and was counting on that. I speak of Mr. Sherman he-
came to you semidem to think he was reconsidering, and the Commissioner
expressed the same idea.

F.C. Jan. 30.
Mr. Medhurst's acceptance comes this morning, and I
have added
Johns Hopkins University.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Miss Hattie Patterson,
713 West Ave.,

Buffalo, New York.

Dear Miss Patterson :-

I have asked the G.P.A. of the Penna. R.R. to arrange that a round trip, half rate ticket to Carlisle be delivered you by the station agent in Buffalo, payment for which you will make when ticket is delivered.

I enclose admission card.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Miss Elizabeth M. Brophy,
1317 Whitney Ave.,
Niagara Falls, New York.

Dear Miss Brophy :-

I have asked the G.P.A. of the Penna. R.R. to arrange that three round trip half rate tickets to Carlisle be delivered you, good Monday, the 3rd to Sunday, the 9th, to be paid for on delivery.

I enclose three admission tickets.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Mr. J. Baker, Editor,
"The Herald",
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Please give the enclosed space in your Saturday and Mon-
day issues, and oblige,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Mr. A. M. Cher, Editor,
"The Volunteer",
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Please give the enclosed space in your Saturday paper ;
also in Monday's issue, and oblige,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Thomas J. Morgan,
Indian Industrial School,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Thomas :-

My information about you is that for your own sake you ought to put in another year at Carlisle and graduate. You have contended against great difficulty in language, else your capabilities would have sent you forward with your class in good standing. You can overcome this difficulty better here than elsewhere; and yet after receiving your letter I am willing that you should go out from Carlisle after commencement if you still insist upon doing that, but you must not undertake to go into Carlisle neighborhoods. You must go beyond our students' districts. That is a condition I must insist upon always. But if you will take a word of fatherly advice from me you will not quit Carlisle until you have conquered graduation.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Rev. L. C. Summer,
Dayton, O.

Dear Sir :-

Our employes are found for us by the United States Civil Service Commission. When I want a teacher or stenographer I ask the Indian Office and they ask the Civil Service Commission for eligibles and the examination papers of the three standing highest on the list are sent over to the Indian Office. From these selection is made. It is something over which I have no control. I am therefore unable to give consideration to your application. Just now they are trying to find me a stenographer at $420 per annum. One eligible was selected, whose home is in North Carolina, but on notification of her selection she declined, so that the Office has had to call for another list of eligibles.

If you wish to get into the Indian service, you would better correspond with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. and they will inform you how to proceed.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Rev. J. A. Krahbiel,
Cheyenne, Okla.

My dear Mr. Krahbiel :

I enclose to you copy of my letter to Romero about his
daughter Ella.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Raphael Romero,
Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency,
Darlington, Okla.

My dear Romero :-

I fear Ella is trending downward. She is still in good
flesh and has only this week been kept out of school; but my doctor
feels concerned for her future. We can give her the excellent care
of a trained nurse, a good hospital, and a competent physician here
and shall be glad to do that; but if you have other wishes, please
let me know at once.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Mr. H. R. Cayton, Editor,
"The Seattle Republican",
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Sir :-

I think it entirely practicable to arrange to receive the
young Indian girls you speak of. The one of nine is pretty young;
our rule is to take none under twelve, and if we could observe the
rule I would much rather, though we do sometimes deviate in emergen-
cies. We have just about exhausted our transportation funds for the
year which does not close until June 30th, so that I am at a disad-
vantage for expenses of that kind. I could receive them if they got
here without cost to us, or if they hold off until after the first
of July I could arrange and pay transportation for them then.

I leave home next week to be absent three months, but my assis-
tant superintendent will be governed by this letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

To The Adjutant,
15th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Manila, P. I.

Sir --

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th per S.O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.C.O., August 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

Very respectfully,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 31, 1902.

Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th
per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.S.O., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Inter-
tor dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1902.

Mrs. Mary L. Bowes,
4324 Market St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Under no circumstances will I stand for any expense incurred for Adella Horrelli or Zoraida Valdezate. The party who has heretofore paid for their support advises me that that support is withdrawn. This does not cancel their being cared for at Carlisle.

Dietrich (D)

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1902.

Mrs. Bessie Gorden Davis,
316 N. 39th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Under no circumstances will I stand for any expense incurred on account of Matilda Garnier. The party who has heretofore paid for her support advises me that that support is withdrawn. This does not cancel her being cared for at Carlisle.

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1902.

Dear Eva :-

On your own statement we shall omit your name from the class of graduates this year.

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February 4, 1908.

Dr. Henry M. Murd,
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Sir:

Your communication to Mr. Allen concerning the advisability of Antonio Lube's coming to Carlisle this to our commencement has been referred to me. The recovery of the use of his wrist is the matter of prime importance and I am of the opinion that he should remain with you where conditions are most favorable.

Please have him informed that while it would be a very great pleasure for us to have him with us it seems unwise to in any way jeopardize or delay a complete cure.

T. M. HARRIS.

Frank M. Higby
House of Rep.,
Washington, D. C.

Feb. 3.

Your message. Yes sir, with pleasure. Transportation will be delayed you tomorrow.

Drew. Lt. Col.