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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 8, 1902.

The Naval Recruiting Officer,
League Island,
Phila., Pa.

Sir :

You have among your recruits an Indian, Isaac John John, from one of the New York tribes, who was formerly a pupil of this school and ran away nine years ago. His sister is now a pupil here, living in a family at West Chester for the winter. Isaac visited her there about the first of the month and prevailed upon her to accompany him to Philadelphia and then it being late and easier advised her to return to Carlisle. His letters indicate that he is making an effort to be released from his obligation. In my judgment nothing could be better for him than the discipline and experience he will have during his enlistment. While here he was generally a good boy and I know of nothing in his character aside from his running away from here that would reflect upon his prospective usefulness. It would be better if he could be hastened aboard ship and sent away where his return would be difficult until his homesickness disappears.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF
THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 8, 1902.

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

Dear Doctor :

I have your "Flash Lights on the Indian Question" and with one or two exceptions would like to print it. You will get this in the first mail Monday. If you have no objections to my using it in next week's "Red Man" won't you telegraph me at once, my expense, "Yes" and I will go ahead.

The Indian question is moving on. Lake Mohawk is coming to think more and more as we do and there is a general feeling all along the line that the Indian should have more opportunity and less reservation.

Coriolis yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Mrs. Ella M. Colegrove,
Black River Falls, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Colegrove :

Your son is here and I cannot imagine that he has failed to
write you for three weeks. He is so thoughtful and excellent in ev-
ery way that it seems to me incredible he would neglect his mother.
There must be some mistake about it. I will speak to him directly
about your anxiety.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Dr. W. T. Harris,
Commissioner of Education,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :

I thank you very cordially for your trouble in getting for me
the first batch of extracts from the "Southern Workman", forwarded
by yours of the 8th instant. What I am really looking for is what
occurred prior to the dates herein, although the articles you send
are good material.

I arrived at Hampton with the Indian prisoners from Florida in
April, '78 and the details of what occurred there from that time un-
til I left in '79 are what I instituted the inquiry for. Anything
you can do for me in this line will be especially appreciated, and
I am very grateful to you for your interest in the matter.

Very faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
Indian School,
Riverside, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Cook :

Yours of Oct. 26th came duly and I let Miss Burgess read it
to carefully take out a little news for the "Red Man". Thanks for
your congratulations on our victory over Cornell. Sorry we cannot
claim the same for our combat with Harvard; but wait until you hear
from our struggle with Pennsylvania next Saturday.

We appreciate your condolences upon losing Nana. We have gained
a manly grown-up son-in-law of whom we are quite proud. They are the
most systematic and methodical young couple I ever saw. Every detail
of furnishing and housekeeping, and even the purchases were arranged
before their marriage and their house was all fixed and ready for
them to go into and begin housekeeping immediately upon returning
from their trip.

I am glad to hear such good accounts of Edwin and his wife.
Please remember me most cordially and kindly to them. Tell him I am
always proud of him and although his wife is not a Carlisle I am
just as proud of her. She and Edwin both show the spirit that leads
out and up.

We shall expect the graphic account of the first really big game
your football team plays and have space reserved on purpose. My con-
dolences in regard to your epidemic of pneumonia. How unjust to the
other nonreservation schools to make such flamboyant allegations in

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regard to health conditions in a particular locality. It was just
the same at Phoenix and yet the greatest argument for Phoenix was the
healthfulness of its location. You are probably right about its be-
ing an initiation and that you may not hereafter be so bothered.

Thank you for your confidences. They are most refreshing and
agreeable and are a good antidote for having spared you temporarily
from service here. I congratulate you on the prospects for Hobart.
While he has been shifted from place to place I am sure it has not
been without very great advantage to him. The wideness of experience
in all lines of life, school included, is the best thing, provided
the experience in each case is all right, as I am sure it has been in
his case.

In regard to Ida Griffin, her father seems to have relented and
begun a new course of behavior toward her, and a lawyer writes that
there is considerable property to come to her and her brother eventu-
ally and there is a desire to resume relations. While I was at Mohonk
a friend of the father's stopped here to see the children on his way
to Washington. His reports of the school, and of her and Tommy have
no doubt influenced the father favorably. If the father is disposed
to renew fatherly relations it is of course proper that Ida write him
the customary monthly letter and I have so instructed.

Faithfully yours,

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November 10, 1902.

Dr. J. A. Lippincott,
W. R. Hospital,
110 Broad St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor :

What glorious weather ! It ought to be some plainer for Dr. Reed. The lateness of his defection seems to have created an impression very much against his political aspirations among many of his good friends. It seems to me the result will be a gain to the office. If he will quit politics, and that now seems inevitable, it certainly will be a very considerable gain to the other interests in his keeping. The Doctor really did have a very big bee in his ear both in the governorship and the lieutenant governorship. It is passing around that he made personal appeals and tried to have influential emissaries go to duty in his behalf for these two positions.

Mrs. Pratt and I remained at Mohonk until the
lowing Tuesday and enjoyed the quiet of it intense,
though the weather turned bad and we came awry in
quite a raw early winter drizzle.
I have been intending to get down to Philadel-
phia every day or two for a long time, but though
was there once for about four hours it was not pra-
cable to get around to see you.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Supt. Harwood Hall,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear wall :

I have asked Mr. A. J. Poston, General Agent for the Southern Pacific, 511 Penna. Ave. N. W., to give you the same rate he would give me and told him you would call on him about it. If he does not make you a satisfactory rate, I can give you a rate over the Penna. and the Santa Fe to Riverside.

Why don't you stop off and see us ?

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Dr. O. O. Benson,
Sandstone, Minn.

My dear Doctor :

I have not yet been able to get an answer from the Department
in regard to your case and fear after this long delay that it means
adverse action; still I have not given up hope. I spoke to the Com-
missioner about you when we were together at Mohonk but he did not
give me a very definite reply. It is my expectation to be in Wash-
ington before long and then I hope to get at the bottom facts. So
far I have been unable to get away.

There is one feature which has been before me all the time, and
which I mentioned when you were here, that is, whether with the good
practice and outlook you seem to have in your present location you
would not yourself regret the change after you had made it. This
has been something of a stumbling block to me.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Henry Horse Looking,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

Dear henry :

Your letter brings to my mind a manly, well behaved young man who for several years went up and down out to the country and back to Carlisle, performing all his duties in the most satisfactory manner, and who then went home and for a long long time failed to write to his old superintendent, which made his old superintendent feel very badly. Now that he has broken the long silence, his superintendent feels better.

you mention
I am glad to know you are getting along so well and that Ralph
Eagle Feather, one of our best students while here. He has not writ-
ten me for many years. Tell him I said so. Am glad to know you can
say he is all right and that you are keeping on the Carlisle track.
It is not pleasant to know that any of our old students are not doing
as they ought What you say is somewhat discouraging. Still, we must
always remember that the difficulties people have to contend with are
things to be considered in making an estimate upon their conduct.

Carlisle has grown greatly since you left us and it would be well
worth your while to come and see us. Why can't you and Ralph and some
of the rest come in to our commencement this winter? It would do
you good and would give us in your experiences something for a future
guide. I will put you on the program and will cheerfully give you a
place on the platform and you can each say something to our great

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gathering of friends at that time.

Give my kindest regards to Ralph and to all the Carlisle students
whether they have failed or not. Tell them I am anxious about them
and am always pleased when I hear something good of them, and reserve
for yourself the constant regard and best wishes of

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1902.

Mrs. Anna Dawson Wilde,

Fort Berthold, N. Dak.

My dear Mrs. Wilde :

I have yours of Nov. 4th saying that Clare Everett's people are urging his return home; that they are led to this desire because Clare writes he is homesick; that his mother and sister come to you crying and begging you to ask me to let him come home; that they will send money to pay his railroad fare; and that they need his help at home because they have rheumatism.

In reply I have to advise you that all students come here for a fixed period, five years, and cannot be sent home before the expiration of that time unless their own health demands it. Clare is in good health and is getting along nicely and there is no reason so far as he is concerned for disturbing him. What is being done for him and for his family is far better than what they would have me do, and I have no alternative but to hold him to his obligations and opportunities.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1962.

Miss Elnora A. Jamison,
#19 Emlie St.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Nora :

Brother Trippe writes me that you want to return to Carlisle and says you are trying to earn the money to do that. It is not necessary for you to wait until you can do that. We can pay your way. Rev. L. M. Lawrence of Iroquois, N. Y. is making up a party for Carlisle. As soon as he is ready they will start from Buffalo and you can join them there. You would better write Mr. Lawrence asking when and where you can meet the party. If there is going to be some delay in their starting you need not wait for them, but let me know at once and I will arrange for a ticket to Carlisle to be delivered you by the railroad agent and you can come immediately.

We shall be glad to have you return here. Sorry you waited so long.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1902.

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

Sir :

Replying to your letter of Nov. 10th marked "Education 66399" concerning the daughters of Peter Chubb of Hogansburg, N. Y., I have to respectfully advise you that Lizzie and Nancy Chubb were pupils at Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia for five years prior to coming here. There Nancy reached the second grade and Lizzie the third. During their three years here, a little over half as long, both have reached the fifth grade. Nancy will be seventeen in February next and Lizzie nineteen in March. Both came here in August 1899. Their father, Peter Chubb, whose letter originated this correspondence, consented to their coming here for five years, promising to cooperate in the carrying out of the rules and regulations of the schools. (See as original consent in each case herewith.)

Both girls have been in the country as explained in my former letter and Lizzie is there now under her own application and the rules and regulations, originals of which are herewith. I forward also her last report. As these papers properly belong to my files I respectfully request they be returned. I have not waited to get an expression from Lizzie in regard to her desire to go home, as your letter states the Secretary seems to require, well knowing if asked the direct question she would probably say "Yes", as would nine out

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of ten children anywhere absent from home at school.

I have just had Nancy in my office and asked her if she had
written home that she desired to go home. She said she had not done
so since returning to the school, but that while she was out in the
country she was lonesome and wrote her father that she would like
to make a visit. I asked if she thought her experience in the country
had been valuable and she said it had been very valuable; that she
had a very nice country home, that she liked the people and they were
very kind to her, and she had gone ahead of a number of those who
were in her class when she went out. I asked her if she liked the
Carlisle school and she said she liked it a great deal better than
Lincoln and was happy and contented here. Under our outing regu-
lations requiring pupils to save half their earnings, Lizzie has
$42.90 to her credit here and Nancy $22.90. These amounts are at in-
terest for their benefit when they leave the school.

This covers the ground so far as I am able and understand the
Secretary's wish for information.

Very respectfully,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1902.

Wilson Laundry Machinery Co.,
Columbia, Pa.

Gentlemen :

The lid for # dip wheel was duly received. When placed upon
the machine two cracks were found which though not noticed in unpack-
ing were undoubtedly there on arrival. Please furnish a new lid.

A. K. (P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1902.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York,

My dear Brother Trippe :

It would have been a great treat for you to be at Mohawk as it is for anyone who goes there, entirely outside of Indian interests. It certainly is one of the most beautiful places on earth naturally and artificially, and the generous hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Smiley and the other Smiley's is a wonderful contribution to the evidence of God-in-Man of today.

I think I understand, my dear Brother Trippe, better than most of those who deal directly with Lands in Severalty just what it means the great disappointment there is in it for those who calculate upon its being the emancipation of the Indian. No giving of lands, no arrangement in regard to lands, no giving of money, no arrangement in regard to money, ever has emancipated the Indian or ever can, and the glamor that has been thrown around Lands in Severalty as being the redemption of the Indian is very very wrong. There will be bitter disappointment just as there has been in the false use of education, creating expectations that cannot be realized. I count the hard knock that comes with the reaching of self-support through industry the most powerful civilizer and elevator, coupled, of course, as all the best things in this life must be, with God's grace. You and I can see that our Indian friends in order to wave themselves have got

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to fight their way through past to present conditions. Manner
and disappointment is the really great fact of growth. Lands in sev-
eralty must be, not because it is in any sense a material emancipator
but because the lands are held under our laws and regulations now in
common and there can be no individualizing until we break up the com-
mune. Giving lands in severalty in one great mass together does not
break up the tribe and commune, it only helps; and it much more re-
 motely helps than a good many people think, as the experience with
 the Winnebagoes, Omahas, NezPerces and others has demonstrated. How
ever, it is in the right direction and the fact that its advocates
claim such tremendous benefits for it is not our affair particularly.

We shall as you say have to take up our work more strenuously.
I am decidedly in favor of the Vreeland Bill, not because according
to my judgment it is the best thing, but it is apparently the best
that can be done now. Once broken into fragments, the reservation
cannot be re-established.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 11, 1902.

Miss Fannie Rubinkam,

Newtown, Pa.

Dear Miss Rubinkam :

Your letter came during my absence at Lake Mohonk, and I have meant to take it up every day, but other things have necessarily crowded it back until now.

Glad to know of your pleasure in reading The Red Man. If we could keep track of those who go home and know just how they are carrying out what they learned in the east. I am sure we might all take courage in the large proportion of successes we would find. Strange but true, those about whom we hear the least are often the ones whose lives are the most commendable. Living quietly and simply without any effort at show or publicity, they do not attract the comment of others, and so while we do not forget them we forget to count them among the faithful until some chance brings them to notice

I am sorry our Sunday School arrangement does not commend itself to you, but I still think it best to scatter the boys and girls in Sunday school as in the day and public schools. It seems to work very well at other places, and the failure you report in Newton I think must be attributable to some other cause.

Thank you for your good wishes for my daughter Nana. She is very happy in her home in Steelton.

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as you know our accommodations are limited, and it occasionally happens that we are forced to leave out a few of those who have been with us often and know just what we are doing, in order to accommodate those through whom we can most widely educate the public to proper ideas in regard to Indians. This you know is as necessary as to educate the Indians and is much more difficult to accomplish. If you were omitted last year it was not through any wish to slight a tried friend, but to give room to someone who had not before attended.

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1902.

Dr. C. A. Eastman,
Crow Creek, S. Dak.

Dear Doctor :

The rumor concerning Titus White Crow is altogether false. Titus is here at school, works in the carpenter shop half a day and goes to school the other half. He is in good health and is doing very well.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1902.

Mr. John Whipple,
Cutmeat Creek,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :

Jennie Standingbear, your sister, has been here less than two
years out of the five for which she came to Carlisle, being sent here
by her guardian, Mrs. Hugg, formerly of Lincoln Institute, Philadel-
phia. It is against the rules of the school and of the Department to
send pupils home for a visit before the expiration of their term,
and as Jennie is well and is improving all the time there is no rea-
son why the rule should be broken. It would be a much wiser plan to
spend the money you would pay for her railroad fare for stock which
would increase in value, or place it at interest. It would cost in
the neighborhood of sixty dollars to go and come.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1902.

Rafael Gaudier,

Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

Dear Rafael :

I have yours of Oct. 25th requesting that your money be sent
you. You understood of course when you ran away from the school that
you forfeited everything here. We use the money belonging to run-
aways to pay the expenses of capturing runaways. All your funds re-
maining here have been credited to the Emergency Fund for this pur-
pose. You lost your title to consideration when you so flagrantly
violated your obligations to the school.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1902.

A. W. Greason,
1329 Spring Garden St.,
Phil., Pa.

My dear Sir :

Our football team has to pay for the tickets and feels that the
large number required for the students and people connected with the
school are as many as they can afford to furnish free. I think their
position is the right one; otherwise I should be very glad to oblige
you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1938.

Mr. A.C. Harvey, D.P.A.,
Great Northern Ry. Co.,
836 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sirs:-

I enclose check No. 36335 on the Asst. Treasurer, U.S., New York for $23.74 in payment for one ticket, Devil's Lake, N. Dak., to Carlisle, Pa., furnished as per your letter dated November 7th.

Please sign accompanying sub voucher No. 10, stamp it on the face with your office stamp and return it in envelope herewith.

Thanking you for your trouble in connection with this matter,

I am,

(N)

TELEGRAM.

Nov. 12.

Comm. Indian Affairs,

Washington, D. C.

My letter Nov. 3rd requesting authority for groceries. Conditions of bids and our necessity require immediate authority.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Postal. 3:55 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1902.

Mrs. Geo. V. Lukens,
Roswell, New Mexico.

Dear Mrs. Lukens :

I send you our Carlisle booklet which gives a full expose of our curriculum and other information in regard to Carlisle; also an editorial in regard to native industries in answer to Mr. Lummis, though I do not mention Mr. Lummis' name because I know the character he exhibited among the Indians was such as to make it better not to give him the public attention his name in print from me or anyone else would.

It may not be new to you that I am somewhat radical in my views as to what ought to be done for the Indians. These views come from a very long and large experience. I believe them to be entitled to the fullest opportunities accorded foreigners and not only to foreigners, but to our own people. Experience has shown that living with their people, associating with them, engaging in industries, going to school with them will do for the Indians just what it does for other races, make them American citizens. Segregating them, making them the special objects of attention by self-constituted ethnologists and other influences are the great causes hindering their development; and not only that; the complete change from the activities of the old life to the conditions forced upon them by these segregating schemes is directly responsible for their present deplorable health conditions. Activity, exertion more than anything else will lift them up again, and

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this activity cannot be enforced in their mass segregations on tribal
reservations. It is different, of course, with the New Mexico people
who have always been agricultural. Of them I would not speak in quite
the same manner.

There is no book I could cite you to that would give you the
general information you want. All the Indian books I know of are
more or less in the interests of tribalism. The various and volum-
inous reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, agents and school
superintendents are somewhat tinctured with the same influence, keep-
ing the Indians together. We who labor in Christ's name ought to be
at least large enough to adopt his principles. Placing limitations
upon the freedom and opportunities of a brother is certainly alien to
his teachings. Excuse the expression of opinion, but I see you are
in a position to exert very considerable influence and my concern
about it is that you should be right as I see it from my experience.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1902.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

My dear Brother Trippe :

If in your judgment Henry Gordon is worthy I shall not hesitate
to give him the opportunities we have here at Carlisle. Certainly,
one who is permanently a cripple is entitled to every educational
help we can give. If he has been a bad fellow and has not been worthy
of such opportunities, that calls for further consideration. Awaiting
further information from you,

Faithfully yours,

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Mr. S. I. Leclair,
Night Editor, "Phila. Press,"
Phila., Pa.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1902.

Dear Sir :

Thank you for the courtesy shown in sending me the full text
which was the foundation for your item in "The Press". It is of ma-
terial service to me.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1902.

Mr. D. . Miller.
R. F. D. # 1,
Shippensburg, Pa.

by dear Mr. Miller :

I did not understand the other day from your son here that there
was such great need for Estaiene to remain by the case longer as
tHERE now seems to be. I of course very cheerfully consent to her
remaining a week or ten days longer as you desire and so informed
William yesterday.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1902.

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

Dear Brother Lawrence :

You will doubtless have something from Elnora Jamison and know
what to do in the way of forwarding her before party. You would bet-
ter telephone to Mr. Fraser of the Penna. R. R. in Buffalo and find
out if the order for tickets to you is still good and if not good,
advertise me and I will see that it is made good.

In regard to Lawrence Jamison, I am very willing if he returns
to Carlisle to give him such special industrial training as we can
and I somewhat agree with his father about the necessity for it; but
you can readily see that if I open the door for a change in our sys-
ten and curriculum in the case of one I must be ready to do it for
dozens and scores and hundreds of others and we should get into such
an interminable tangle of conditions that I should not be able to
decide upon all the little points arising in consequence. If he
wants Lawrence to learn a trade why doesn't he take him to some of
the near-by New York towns and put him with a regular carpenter ?
Lawrence has gumption enough now to behave himself outside and to be
faithful and earnest enough in his work to commend himself to an em-
ployer; and if he does that it will lead the way to others and save
the Government further expense, beside accomplishing there all that
he could here.

In regard to James Snow, after talking with Ely Parker I don't

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1902.

Samuel W. Long,
C/o American Bridge Co.,
Edgemoor, Delaware.

My dear Sir :

If pretty early in January I can come down and give your asso-
ciation a talk. Saturday evening is my evening with the Carlisle
students and is most important to them and to me in our relations
to each other, so that some other week-day evening would suit me bet-
ter. The character of the work would justify a Sunday evening talk
and I could leave here after our meeting here, spend the night in
Philadelphia and come over to Wilmington Sunday morning. However,
if Saturday night is of very considerable importance to you I will
waive our arrangement here and come to you some Saturday .

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PERSONAL.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1902.

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

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

Mr. Sherry is showing up so well I think we might as well un-
dertake his wife in place of Mr. Frank, as I have telegraphed you
today. The fact that her name came over to the Bureau for appoint-
ment so soon after she took the examination, as I understand, indi-
cates that she took a high grade. Mr. Sherry is quick and somewhat
nervous and a little eccentric but the testimony is that he does
make his pupils learn and that they hold on to what he gives them.
He has a jolly disposition that grows on us. He is struggling with
a small salary and expects to have his wife here in December even
though she is not employed in the Indian service. I question whether
their arrangements are such as to permit her to accept appointment
elsewhere. If Mr. Sherry continues as he has begun and she is com-
petent we shall care to have them here continuously.

I hope you will understand that I do not recommend Mr. Frank's
transfer because we do not want him here, but because we have no
place for his wife and he entered the service hoping that both could
be employed and expecting a promotion before a great while. He
makes no complaint, and his letter to you with mine accompanying is
a frank presentation of his case.

While writing I think you would better read the enclosed letter
from Dahney E. George. Dahney is one of the most competent young

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women we have turned out. She not only graduated from Carlisle but
has a diploma from the West Chester Normal, one of the best schools
in the state, and from our knowledge of her I am sure is unusually
capable as a teacher. I dread to have any of my people go to either
Rosebud or Pine Ridge. The home and day school epidemic under Dr.
McChesney and the seeds and growth of the same left by Col. Clapp
at Pine Ridge are all dead against any of our Carlisle young people who
go there whether as employes or returned students. I have letters
every now and then indicating this. Dahney is of course very new and
has not yet gathered up the situation clearly, but her expressions
are honest and I am confident entirely true. Please return her let-
ter.

The White Buffalo - North-American matter is going to work out
I believe very great good for us. One, Foster, Sunday editor, who is
responsible for the article's going into the paper, is preparing a
crusade in retraction that will be very wide spread in its publica-
tion and influence and put us right.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1902.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

I noted what you were witnessing on Saturday and felt sorry for you. I trust you have taken note of what I witnessed in Philadelphia on Franklin Field. If you had seen it I am sure you would have been as hilarious as I was. Two hundred and twenty-four of our people went down to the game, leaving here at 8:50 Saturday morning and getting back at about 9:30 in the evening, running right to the grounds.

Your intention to let us have Mrs. Sherry in case of Mr. Frank's transfer if she is available is all right; or if not available, to give us a single unmarried eligible, that is all right too.

I think you would better read a letter just received from Rev. Sanford, copy of which I enclose. I can see how without either the Office or the agency people being really to blame in the premises your anxiety to keep the per capita expense in regard to employes below a certain sum and your stringent orders requiring that the schools should be filled may have led to an excess of zeal. It seems to me it would be better for Mr. Sanford to pour out his virus while he is about it, but before giving full credit to what he says about the people who wanted to send their children to the public schools I would care to know the names in these special cases, and if you say so I will ask him for them.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Mr. J. L. Smith,
27 South Sixth St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

All our maps are bought by the Indian Department at its annual
lettings in New York and Chicago.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

P. O. - If you desire to bid on maps you would better correspond with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and secure blanks and information which are furnished to those making application sometime before the spring lettings, usually April or May.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Dr. Wilson L. Gill, Pres., etc.,
New paltz, New York.

My dear Doctor :

With all due regard for your methods, my notion is that my meth-
ods are even better for our purposes here than the civil methods you
propose and are not materially different. Ours is a trial by jury
practically and I feel very sure the military feature of our school
could not be improved upon by any civil organized system that could
be adopted. Our boys and girls are divided into companies with cap-
tains, lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc who are charged with
special duties. The system works no injustice and is something I am
thoroughly familiar with and feel at home in.

It is likely I cannot remain at the head of the Carlisle school
many years longer. I shall be retired in about two years. Then if
not before there will probably be a change. Let someone who is more
familiar with your system than with mine who may succeed me undertake
it; but I like mine so well that I shall hold on to it.

With kindest regards,

Very faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Mrs. Lucinda Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Wheelock :

The demands for the return of children on account of sickness
of relatives at home became so numerous that it became imperative
to have a rule against sending them home for any other reason than
their own poor health. Sickness and trouble at home really forms
no reason at all for recalling pupils from school. When my children
were away at school we never thought of sending for them because some
one at home was ill. If we were to begin sending children home for
such reasons, the kind of illness, who was ill, the title to consid-
eration and many other questions would be coming up all the time, mak-
ing it almost impossible to decide equitably in all cases. While I
deeply sympathize with you it is plain that the going home of your
daughter would not in any way relieve the illness. Instead it would
add unnecessary expense, set her back of her classes in school and
lessen her interest in her studies. It seems to me you ought to be
thankful that she is where she is and is well cared for when trouble
threatens you.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Mr. Wm. F. Boogar,
24 Pine St.,
Millville, New Jersey.

Dear Sir :

Olive Choteau leaves here for her home in Indian Territory near Seneca, Mo. which will be her post office address. I have obtained from her the enclosed statement. Should you desire a sworn statement you can address her at Seneca, Mo.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

THIS CERTIFIES that on or about the 26th of September last I was employed by Mrs. Harold on Ocean Avenue near Ninth Street, Ocean City, New Jersey. About a quarter past twelve on that night I woke and saw a light. I looked out and saw a large building containing a number of shops on fire. When I first saw it the fire was near the centre of the building, which was of wood and burned quickly. I ran to waken the family and afterwards went back to the window and saw the whole building was on fire and was nearly burned down. Mr. Boog-er's business was in one corner of the building and did not seem to be on fire when I first looked out. I do not remember what was in the particular place where the fire was when I first saw it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Anagarika Dharmapala,
Belmont Hall,
Belmont Ave.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear Sir :

It would be quite impossible for me to give you any estimate
for your project. The grounds here were purchased by the United
States Government for a military station in 1755 and the military
barracks were still here when I came. The buildings have been re-
built several times, changed and added to in order to suit our pur-
poses. The Government appropriates for our support on the basis of
$167 per annum per capita, but the actual cost per capita to the Gov-
ernment is only about $120 per annum. We do not limit ourselves
to the number our appropriation of $150,000 would cover at $167, but
carry about 150 more, paying all expenses of food, clothing, trans-
portation, buildings, repairs, etc. out of that sum.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Hon. Irving P. Wanger, M. C.,
Norristown, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 17th in regard to clothing for pupils
at this school, I have to respectfully advise you that the materials
only are purchased, and that is done by the Department at its annual
lettings in New York and Chicago. We manufacture all our own cloth-
ing, but all other schools throughout the service are provided with
ready made clothing.

It would be well for Mr. Zendt at Souderton to write directly to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs stating he is a dealer in these
articles and would like an opportunity to bid. Then before the annu-
al letting the Commissioner will provide him with the necessary
blanks and information to enable him to bid. The clothing supplies
required are very large, being for something over 20,000 children.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Rosario Fernandez,
102 Sol St.,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Friend :

Your boy Julio left here some weeks ago intending to return to
his home in Porto Rico. He said if I would let him go to New York he
could arrange for his passage himself. He came to America as a stow-
away and I suppose thought he could get home in the same way. After
remaining in New York a while he turned up here again in company with
another young man from Porto Rico and is still in town. He wanted me
to take him back into the school, but he is bothersome that I hes-
itated to do that. He seems to lack continuity. When I placed him in
one shop he somehow immediately became discontented and gave the in-
structor so much trouble that he asked me to relieve him of Julio,
and when I tried him in another place it was the same thing, he
would find fault with everyone and everything. Since leaving the
school Julio has written me several times very penitently promising
to do his best in the school if I would reinstate him, but on account
of his unfortunate ways it has not seemed best to worry with him fur-
ther. He is in good health.

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Carlielle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Miss Lena M. Baldwin,
P. O. Box # 25,
Middleboro, Mass.

Dear Miss Baldwin :

We have an industrial Indian school here carrying about a thousand pupils representing practically all the tribes in the United States except the five so-called civilized tribes. Children from these five tribes and those from beyond the limits of the United States are not admitted. All others are entitled to the privileges of the school. I send you a copy of our catalog for this year which please return after you have examined as our supply is becoming limited. I enclose an extra envelope addressed to me in which you can return the book without postage. This gives the curriculum and all details which may be necessary for the information of your pupil.

Allow me to say if she is looking toward Carlisle that if she has the privileges of your public school she is better off than she would be in any Indian school. The principal feature of the Carlisle school is what we call the Outing. This provides that during the summer vacations practically all our students are sent out to work, largely on farms, the girls at housework and the boys in the field. Some, however, go into shops and the more advanced girls go into opportunities to learn specialties pertaining to their sex. During the winter we leave out about three hundred to attend public school and associate with white children. This is the most advantageous feature of any in an Indian school. As the girl you speak of

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Rev. Lawrence A. Deering,
St. Patrick's Church,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Father Deering :

The position you take in regard to Nettie Cole is so contrary
to our Carlisle practice all the years and to the understanding I
have always had with the parish priests, and so ominous in its
results if carried to a logical conclusion that it would be better
if we had at once a full understanding. I should be glad if you
could come out and see me tomorrow Wednesday morning.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, a., Nov. 18, 1902.

Mr. Henry Fielder,
Westwind Soldier's Day School,
Cavite,
Leyton Co., S. Dak.

Dear Sir :

Your letter in regard to your sister Adelia is before me, also
your wife's letter to Miss Barr.

Adelia as you know has been in the country under our outing and
has been attending Friends' school and is in the next to the highest
class of the Intermediate Department. She has been troubled with sick
headaches and a cold, but Mrs. Hilyard with whom she is living writes
that she is improving in that respect, looks well and is apparently
well and happy. She began school the last week in October and has
not lost a day. She tells Mrs. Hilyard that her headaches are more
frequent and worse in the winter, and for this reason I am arranging
to replace her and bring her in to the school, although she seems
herself to prefer to remain at Bancocas. There is really no cause for
anxiety in regard to her health I think. As soon as she returns to
the school I will have our school doctor examine her and if he re-
ports seriously against her I will act accordingly, but I do not an-
ticipate more than a temporary trouble.

I am glad to hear such good reports of the success of your and
Mrs. Fielder's work. Remember me kindly to her.

Faithfully yours.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1902.

Mr. Sarah I. Trippe,
Salamanca, New York.

To dear Mrs. Trippe :

I have sent for a ticket Olean to Carlisle for the boy and should
have it within a few days. Will then send it to you or if you prefer
to him at Tuncsassa. He will have to get to Olean himself.

I am glad to know the testimony in regard to his character and
qualifications is so good. I am sure we can be of material help to
him.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1902.

Mr. Wm. J. Bailey,
712 Ninth St., S. E.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter has as much clothing issued by the Government as
is necessary for her comfort. Anything you might send her would sim-
ply encourage pride. It would be better that she earned her extras,
which she can do under the rules and regulations of the school. In
the summer time we arrange that all our students who are able bodied
may go out and earn money. Mary also has everything that is really
necessary in the way of school-room equipment. In the art depart-
ment all pencils, colors, etc. are supplied.

Yesterday I forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a
bill for your transportation to and from Carlisle amounting to $3.96.
I could pay your daughter's transportation, but not yours. I trust
you will send me the amount.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1902.

Mr. T. W. Potter,
Supt. Chemawa Indian School,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Potter :

I received your telegram this morning and am very sorry I shall be absent on Saturday and Sunday. The Union League in Philadelphia, of which I am a member, celebrates Founders' Day on Saturday and entertains Saturday night as its guests the President and his cabinet. There are over two thousand members. Two hundred and seventy-five are to dine specially with the President. I am one of the fortunate ones and cannot well miss the opportunity.

You will probably go on to Washington and come back here. If you will give me something of your plans it may be I can see you in Washington should you not return by way of Carlisle I want to thank you for your interest in bringing us a party of ten. Mr. Allen and Mr. Beitzel will look after your expenses.

My address in Philadelphia will be 214 W. Logan Square and if you are in Carlisle over Sunday and wish to, you can talk with me by telephone.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1902.

To The Editor of
"The Ledger",
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

At the bottom of next to the last column on Page 18 of your to-day's issue is a little squib alleged to have its origin in me.

No such incident occurred within my knowledge nor have I made any statement that would warrant anyone in writing such stuff.

About nine out of ten of the squib stories about graduates and returned Carlisle pupils are pure fiction. I have a large collection of such. The frequency with which such stuff is printed would indicate a factory for its manufacture, and from the character and quality of most of it, of disparaging intent. The Indians are quite like like other people. When educated, they are as sensible as other educated people; when uneducated, quite as simple as others who are uneducated.

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PERSONAL.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1902.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

Last night I mentioned to Mr. Frank that there was a prospect of
his getting what he asked for recently in the way of larger duties
and salary and employment for Mrs. Frank. This morning he comes to me
and says that Mrs. Frank has taken up the special study of music in
the Metzger Conservatory of Music in Carlisle and has paid her tuition
in advance; and for this reason they both feel they would rather con-
tinue here during this year. I simply write you this as it happened
and have no expression of opinion to give.

I had a letter yesterday from Bingenheimer at Standing Rock en-
closing copy of a letter he had written to Senator McCoomber about
his case, and asking me whether I could not do something to help him
out. He recently sent me a very nice party of pupils, thirty-five
in all, and advises he is making up another party of twenty to twen-
ty-five. He states that the greatest interference with his plans in
getting up a party is Mrs. McLaughlin, wife of Inspector McLaughlin
who is continually advising parents against sending their children
away, and assuming prerogatives that are not in keeping with a modest
and proper performance of her official duties. If you think I could
help Mr. Bingenheimer in any way I would gladly make a move in that
direction, but I do not want to mingle with affairs outside my duties
here unless you think best. I am booked for a sitting at the Found-

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ers' Day banquet at the Union League Saturday night next where the
President and all his cabinet are to be guests. Later, when in Wash-
ington I might call on the President and say a word to him about the
matter; or I might write him. It is evident both from your experi-
ence with one missionary and Mr. Allen's when he recently visited
there and was making up a party for Carlisle, and also from Bingen-
heimer's that Standing Rock is too much under the management of narrow
minded women whose long tenure there and isolation from affairs
has rendered them incapable of the larger judgments that ought to
prevail at this time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 20, 1902.

Mr. Chas. H. Hogy,
531 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your recent inquiry, I send you today copy of one of our late catalogs, giving curriculum, object and some of the results of the Carlisle school; also copies of addresses on various phases of the Indian question, reports, etc. Our supply of catalogs is becoming quite limited, and I therefore ask that you return the copy when you have examined it, using the enclosed franked envelope.

From the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., you
can secure the Annual Report compiled by him for the whole Indian
service.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 20, 1902.

Mrs. I. Williams,
Thatcher,
San Juan Co., Wash.

Dear Mrs. Williams :

Your letter in regard to Josephine came duly and I have been
waiting for special reports before answering it. Josephine is with
Mrs. H. B. Taylor at Rancocas, N. J. attending an excellent private school.
We
have regular monthly reports from her. In September she had a cold
but it was only temporary, and later reports show that she is in good
health. Her aunt, Mrs. S. J. Cliffe, of Fairhaven, Washington, has
made inquiry about her and I have written her the facts. It seems
that Josephine divides her letters, writing sometimes to you, some-
times to Mrs. Fred Williams at Chimocum, Wash. and sometimes to her
aunt, which probably accounts for any lapse in correspondence. I
will send her your letter and direct that she write you.

My records show that I wrote you at Port Stanley, Wash. Nov. 20,
1901, in answer to your inquiries concerning Josephine, but I do not
find any letter from you in our files since that time, so that the
one you speak of as unanswered evidently miscarried.

Your letter to Josephine has been forwarded to her.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Miss Josephine Williams,
C/o Mrs. H. B. Taylor,
Rancocas, N. J.

Dear Josephine :

By the enclosed letter you will see that your mother is quite
disturbed about you and complains that you do not write her. Please
write her at once and explain whether you received the stamps she
speaks of sending you. Whether you hear from her regularly or not,
you ought not to neglect to write her often. If you write to your
aunt that is all right, but it should not cause you to leave your
mother without frequent word from you.

Please return the letter for my files when you have written
your mother.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

My dear Sir :

I have your letter of the 20th instant, and can wait for the
money to the end of the month as you ask, but would like to have it
then in order that the bill may be paid and the matter closed.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr. Geo. B. Haggett, Supt.,
Indian Boarding School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter in regard to Grace Thumbo, I have to
advise you that Grace came to Carlisle in the summer of 1899 for a
five years term and is therefore not entitled to return home before
the expiration of that period. She is in the country under our out-
ing attending public school and doing well. Mr. Dickens, her brother
understands this fully, and having himself been a student here knows
the benefits students derive from association with white people and
attendance at white schools. I am glad to tell you that Grace has
always had an excellent record here, and her progress ought not to
be disturbed by the pleas of her family recalling her from the on-
ly opportunity open to her.

Please remember me to Charles and give him my answer. I am
glad to hear he is doing well.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mrs. Mary Thibbido,
Oldtown, Me.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter about your grandson, Peter Francis. Peter
is in the hospital with a sore throat, but is getting along nicely
and will be out in a few days I think. He does not play football,
nor will he be required to do so. I think however, it would be a
good thing if he did, for the game affords the best sort of exercise
building up physically and developing strength of character and en-
durance. It would be very unfair to Peter to deprive him of the priv-
ilege of taking part in the games our boys play among themselves.

He will write you shortly.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mrs. Joseph Kocer,

Gordon, Neb.

Dear Mrs. Kocer :

I have your letter about Ruth and am surprised that you should
wish to recall her from the only opportunity she is likely to have
to fit herself in a profession in which she promises to do well. I
can understand that it is quite a sacrifice to do without her, but
I am sure the difficulty can be overcome in some way besides sacri-
ficing her interests. Her duty to you and her duty to herself is
better fulfilled it seems to me by continuing her training. When
she has finished her course and is a competent graduate nurse you
will not regret the inconvenience you have suffered to give her a
change. As you know, she entered Carlisle for a five years term, and
the rules of the school and the Department do not permit the return
of pupils before the end of the five year period.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Rev. D. A. Sanford,

Bridgeport, Okla.

Dear Brother Sanford :

It sometimes happens in our affairs that things which are not
at all as we think they ought to be are occasioned entirely by per-
fectly innocent movements where there is no intention to bring about
the conditions alleged against. I am a little inclined to think the
things you object to have been caused by the same conditions that
have bothered me a little.

Economy is one of the points the present Commissioner has in-
sisted upon. He found there were many home schools not carrying as
many children as they ought in proportion to the expense. For employe
force, and so issued stringent orders that every school should be
held to a certain attendance proportionate to the employe expense.
He made an investigation of all the schools and found that some had
expenses far in excess of others on account of larger employe forces
to proportion to the number of pupils, and attempted to regulate that
requiring the discharge of employes or increase in the number of pu-
gils. Agents and superintendents having these stringent orders ba-
fore them have been led to force attendance at their own schools and
so hinder children from going to nonreservation schools or the pub-
lie day schools.

You make strong statements and I would like to use what you say.
You state that the public school district at Watonga, Elaine County,

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Oklahoma secured a contract for Indian pupils. Twenty or thereabout
attended, many of them going several miles to school each day; that
Miss Anna Campbell, one of the teachers who taught those pupils, told
you that those Indian children attended more regularly than the white
pupils; but that the Indian agent managed to stop the arrangement be-
cause the children were wanted for the agency boarding school forty
miles distant. Could you give me the date of this and the names of
the students switched off to the boarding school?

You say, "School District # 82, Blaine County had a contract
for four pupils. Attendance far more regular than white pupils.
Marked improvement of pupils not only in studies, but in general ap-
pearance. Application was made the second year for contract for
twelve Indian pupils, there being many of school age resident in the
school district. After a reluctant endorsement by the Indian agent
the application was refused by the Assistant Commissioner. The re-
fusal of contract, however, did not prevent some of the Indian chil-
dren from attending. One parent went to the Indian agent and asked
his approval to send his two boys to this public school." You give
instances, a, b, c, and d. Please give dates and names.

You say "In the summer of 1902 School district # 83, Blaine
County sent a petition to the Indian Commissioner stating their
willingness to receive Indian pupils, as also the desire of Indian
parents to send their children to the public school. They also
pointed out how the Indian agent had been throwing obstacles in the
way of their attending public schools. That petition, generally
signed by the resident voters of the district, was ignored by the
Interior Department at Washington." May I have date and names in

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I believe you to be entirely sincere and thoroughly in earnest, Let us get as near the facts as we can and avoid making statements that on investigation might react against us. I am very willing to print what you say to help get at the truth. Major Stouck helps me to the army, as I do, and I have believed in him many years. I have not seen him for years, but can well understand that in the difficulties complications surrounding him in the large field of work he has, and also that knowing more about conditions he could easily do things that might seem to an outsider wrong and yet be entirely right. His early training would make him obedient to the wishes of the Department.

The Department orders forcing the home schools to keep filled up or lose a portion of their employee force or be closed has blocked the way some here at Carlisle, and I revert to my original position about Indian schools, which to some extent at least you sustain, that is, that the home schools, day schools and agency boarding schools only industrialize the situation. I think Dr. Montezuma hits it pretty squarely in the last "Red Man".

What you report as being the situation among the Chayennes and Arapahoes might be entirely true, and yet elsewhere the conditions might be so utterly at variance with what you find there as to lead the Department to pronounce the general system of sending Indian children to the local public day schools a failure. These points are taken into account by the man at the top who has the whole field in his care and certainly ought to know more about it than those who have only a limited knowledge in one section of the field; and with very great regard for you and your spirit in the matter I must say that I have found in my long experience a great deal of intermixing

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Rev. Sanford,

with agency affairs by people at and about the agency, and statements
and assertions made that in view of all the facts were not entirely
true because based only upon partial knowledge. The responsible par-
ty sees more of the pros and cons than the one who is not responsi-
ble. While I am willing to admit that all influences even the neg-
ative do some good, almost everything the Indian Rights and similar
associations have to say about the Indian service is in the way of
criticism, and I find that more or less the Department yields to
clamor. It is not difficult to keep the Indians Indian, and to do
the easiest thing is human. It is more difficult to help the Indian
out into the larger life of the nation and to get them imbued with
proper thoughts about it and made equal to citizenship, and many
working for the Indians antagonize doing this because they are not
located where they can accomplish anything at it. Nothing within my
knowledge has been done by these Indian Rights Associations or by
very many of the missionaries among the Indians looking to this re-
sult. Their efforts are largely limited to criticisms upon what the
Government itself is doing in this direction; not all missionaries
or associates, but very many, in my experience the larger proportion.
Time and again I have had missionaries stand directly in the way of
Indians' sending their children away to school, and yet these same
missionaries at the very time they were critiquing my methods would
be utilizing my returned students as interpreters and helpers and
were largely dependent upon Carlisle product for such success as they
met with among the Indians. I could mention cases of this sort in
your own district and pretty much all over the field. I send you a
copy of "The Red Man" containing an article of mine in answer to a
criticism of one of the missionaries at the agency below you.

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You say children ought not to go into the boarding schools on
account of tuberculosis and yet you insist upon these same children
going into schools with white children. You speak of the Indians
having settled homes, and then clearly show that they peak up and
move camp to near the agency for the slight reason that the child is
in the agency school, as though that were a great moving influence.
Is it not a presumption that if they move their camp and homes for
so trivial a reason, any slight cause or no cause at all is needed
to make them change their homes? You are in touch with both the In-
dians and the white people and your advocacy of the public school
may raise a suspicion that you are unduly interested in the same
these public schools get through the Indian children. It is plain
that the amount paid by the Government per quarter makes exceptional
salaries for the local teachers and becomes very material income to
the local management. Twenty pupils in Miss Campbell's school, For
instance, would bring $200 per quarter or $66.65 per month leaving
out any income from the white pupils, which makes it extraordinary
salary for the teacher of such a school.

You speak of the Indians themselves wanting their children to
attend these day schools from their homes. You are among the Indians
all the time and constantly impressing upon them your own thought. Is
it unfair to suspect that at bottom the thought was your more than
it was the Indians', for all experience shows that Indians are not
very jealous in sending their children to school anywhere? I see
these these things to show what we must consider in connection
with the matters under controversy.

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al Pratt, thinks we know
about how it ought to be done and can
see something wrong in every other method. This is a feature of the
case that will be taken into account by the general public. I have
this to say, however, that the people who are actually doing and ac-
tually responsible for the doing are the ones whose judgment should
be the best; not that they are above criticism nor that they should
not be open to suggestions, but I submit that it is not fair to have
the general in command and fighting the battle made so constantly
the only target. I do not know of any missionary work now done or
ever done for the Indians that could not be picked to pieces. I have
heard quite a little about your work and have heard some pretty
strong statements made against you; but as I said in the beginning,
I believe you to be sincere, honest and anxious to do all you can
for the Indians. Believing that of you, I wish to cooperate and to
give others a chance to consider what you may say.

You admit that the demoralization among the agency boarding
school Indians is every whit as bad as among those educated in non-
reservation schools and advocate the use of public day schools for
Indians and whites. Are you prepared to say there is less demorali-
sation resulting from such education and to show there is greater
stamina inculated in these public schools to enable a holding out
against the surrounding demoralizing conditions ? If you can make
this appear there will be tremendous gain; but if by assertions
against the product of the nonreservation school and reservation
boarding school students you simply blind the public, and what you
propose produces no better moral results, you are occupying a posi-
tion most detrimental to our search after truth, and the whole sub-

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ject of further examination into what you say should be dropped.

I entirely agree with you that the agency boarding school and
agency day school filled with children from one tribe is the perpe-
tuator of tribal conditions and mainly prescribes the reservation sys-
tem. That position has long been clear to me and so I oppose such
schools. They are just as you say, the best means for the agency to
perpetuate his power. That I explained in my answer to Agent Sen-
sor's erittinisms.

We ought to quit talking about civilizing the Indian or else
give him a real chance to be civilised; to quit talking about civilisa-
tion for him or else give him a real chance to become a citizen to
quit talking about educating him or else give him a real chance to be
come educated. Civilization, citizenship, education, all involve
the dissolution of the tribe absolutely and the energizing of the
individual, and command most liberal contact with civilization,

Both experience and common sense prove that segregating is the
only way of progress and that wide opportunity and wide potential are
healthier and absolutely necessary to success. That their segregation
should be longer continued for the further advancement of
church, so-called science, speculation, or of any other interests
ought not to be longer thought of. The fact that we have so long as-
grasped in the interests of these influences is the real enemy for
our limited success.

In the interests of his highest, quickest and healthiest development
as special industries, no special schools, the special methods
of any sort are needed for the Indian. Agency and schools in this
way bids us get him into our industries, into our schools, and into

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

I send you herewith a copy of my letter to Rev. Sanford; also
a copy of what I have written Senators McCumber and Hanesbrough.

In the White Buffalo matter we brought the North-American to
time. They found out they had made a very serious blunder; but the
matter had come from a regular correspondent and was so circumstan-
tial that they were trapped into using it as they did. There was no
intention on their part to wrong the Indians or the school. They
have paid all expenses of my lawyers, Buffalo's coming east, our
strips to Philadelphia, etc., which I thought best under all the cir-
caustances to limit them to, and they are now after the correspon-
dent who wrote the matter. They tried to get him to come east to help
 settle the affair, but he was too wary for them. He has located in
St. Louis and is on The Globes-Democrat. The plan now is for Judge
Gordon, Mr. Van Valkenburg and Mr. Foster to go to St. Louis and take
White Buffalo, arrest the fellow for criminal libel and then proceed
against him, using this as the beginning of their explanation and ex-
pose of the whole matter to the public. They ask me to accompany
them to emphasize the matter. I have furnished them some six or
eight similar fake stories written about our Carlisle and alleged
Carlisle graduates and they propose to give the whole matter as full
and complete a hearing as possible.

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-3- Mr. Jones,

They assure me that all the syndicate papers will publish what
they put out and that it will go into many papers not in the syndi-
cate. They intend also to completely drive out of the profession the
man, Draper, who wrote the article, by circular information to all
the newspapers in the United States.

It is seemed to Judge Henderson, Mr. Wetzel and myself a good
deal better for our cause than to get any of the North-American peo-
ple in gall and punished as we might have done. So far I feel pret-
ty good over it.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr. Victor B. Cooke,
112 W. 42nd St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 15th instant, the Sioux expression
"Wita-tipi" is given me, meaning "Island Home".

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Prof. Harry Smith,
Gratz,
Dauphin Co., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 18th, I have to advise you that we
have booked all the entertainments we can undertake this season.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

I have directed that Nettie Cole return to the school and she
will be here in a few days. It is not practicable to send Charlotte
Bigtree home to visit during the holidays. Why can't her mother
come here and see her daughter and the school ? I could arrange
that she have our Indian rate for a ticket.

We know nothing of the whereabouts of John Chubb, but supposed
he had reached home.

Fraternally yours,

November 22, 1902.

Mr. Geo. H. Bingenheimer,
U. S. Indian Agent;
Standing Rock Agency,
Port Yates, N. Dak.

My dear Sir :

Upon receipt of your letter I wrote the Com-
missioner and he suggested that I write to Senators
McCumber and Hansbrough direct. I enclose you
copy of my letter. I shall watch and if oppor-
tunity offers shall say a word in your behalf
elsewhere.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Rev. L. F. Jones,

Juneau, Alaska.

Dear Brother Jones :

Jessie Abbott is at present with Mrs. Ellis K. Styer at Norristown, Pa., attending public school. She missed four days a short time ago on account of the illness of the teacher when the school was closed; otherwise she has attended regularly since starting. She is in a good home and it would be well if we could leave her there all winter, but Mrs. Styer thinks of moving, in which case I would of course recall Jessie, and let her attend here at Carlisle the rest of the year.

As you know, it is our plan to give each student at least one winter in public school during their term here, and this I count one of the greatest opportunities Carlisle affords. To associate and compete with white children does vastly more for an Indian child in developing ability and independence than anything that can be done entirely among Indians. I have no doubt Jessie will make greater progress this year than she has made since coming here. It is not at all unusual for our girls and boys to return from a winter in the public schools and skip from one to three classes over those of their own grade here when they went out. This is because they attend school all day in the country and because of the extra spur they receive in competing with those quicker than themselves.

Jessie is well and likes her home from all I can gather. Mrs.

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Styer has just made special report.

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 22, 1902.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

Sir :

Before leaving for Philadelphia this morning Colonel Pratt directed me to notify you that he had given orders that Mr. Warner, Director of Athletics here, have placed in your hands by Wednesday noon, the 26th, fifty tickets of admission to the football game, Indians - Georgetown, Thanksgiving Day. These are to be good seats. It is not likely he can be present himself.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 22, 1902.

Mr. Glenn S. Warner,

Director of Athletics.

Sir :

Colonel Pratt directs me to write you that he wants 50 tickets to the football game in Washington to be in the hands of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the Indian Office by Wednesday noon, without fail. If practicable to have them delivered earlier he would like that. The Office closes at four Wednesday afternoon and there would be no chance to distribute the tickets if they were not received by the time stated.

He also directs that 4 tickets be sent Miss Lottie Cutter, 1905 H. St., N. W., Washington, for the use of the Misses Cutter, Miss Luckenbach and Miss Bottsford, and that I have also. I would like three. My address will be 1905 H. St. N. W. Washington.

I feel sure Colonel Pratt wants Mr. A. J. Poston, G. A. of the Southern Ry., 511 Penna. Ave. N. W., to have some, though he did not say so to me. He probably did to you. His remark was "We must be pretty liberal in Washington."

Colonel Pratt also directed me to notify Mr. Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs that you would have tickets in his hands by Wednesday noon for the Office force.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr. David Martyn,
3846 Wyalusing Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 5th enclosing copy of writings which
you wish to have translated, I have to advise you that I have sub-
mitted the papers to students of several tribes who I thought
might possibly be able to give you the information, but they have
come back to me each time with the statement that it did not seem to
be the language of their tribe .

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Colonel George LeRoy Brown,

Benicia Barracks, Cal.

My dear friend :

Thanks for your letter of the 16th just received. Under your appeal for books for the Filipinos I have a box from Boston and have been waiting to know what to do with it. The War Department has agreed to forward whatever may come in. Please advise me just how to send it so that the contents may get into the hands of those you desire to help.

In regard to a school for the Filipinos; why in mischief don't you agitate the matter and start one yourself at Benicia or some place in Southern California ? If you do, I will back you with all the force I can manage. I am close to sixty-two - only two years more of active service. You have many years before you.

What you say about the Filipinos is so patent that it seems to me it would commend itself immediately. You certainly could secure the backing of Judge Taft who some time ago wrote his friends in Cincinnati approving of their intention to bring a few Filipinos over for education. He said as I remember that fifteen hundred selected youth from the Philippine Islands educated and trained in the United States would do more for the Americanization of the Islands than anything else that could be devised, and what he stated went pretty much all over the United States through the newspapers.

To make Americans out of foreigners on foreign soil, whether

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that foreign soil be on an Indian reservation, in Europe, Asia or Af-
rica, is practically an endless and almost impossible job. There
will be plenty of interests served by keeping the Filipinos alien
just as there are plenty of interests served by keeping the Indians
Indian and these will fight against our doing what we ought to do
just as I am fought here at Carlisle; but a good strong effort will
meet with good backing I am sure, and more and more the public will
come to understand the right of it.

Sorry you are not nearer Carlisle where I could see you and talk
it over. Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest regards to Mrs. Brown and
the children.

Fraternally yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr. J. J. Patek,

Ironwood, Mich.

Dear Sir :

On your request of the 10th instant I sent you some days ago.
copy of our illustrated catalog of the school, for which you had en-
closed eight cents in stamps. Our supply is getting so low that I
shall have to let you pay the price, 30 ¢, or ask you to return the
copy when you have finished with it, so that we may use it again.
The 30¢ includes what you have already sent.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1902.

Miss Leone E. Benyaurd,
Moorestown, N.J.

My dear Madam:-

Referring to your inquiry of the 21st instant relative to schedule of the work which should be done by Elkany Wolfe, I have the pleasure to inform you that Elkany was just about finishing the 5th. grade when she left here to go to Moorestown and it would seem more practicable to try her in the 6th. grade.

I am glad to hear such good reports of Marie McCloud and Melissa Cornelius and trust that they will always be satisfactory in their school work and deportment.

With best wishes for yourself and the girls, I am,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1902.

Mr. Geo. C. Shenton, Agent,
The Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Co.,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Dear Sir:-

Enclosed herewith please find original copies of B/L and W/R covering shipment of 1 case Handkerchiefs, weighing 170 pounds, received through the Lehigh Valley & Wabash Dispatch Railroad Companies, contractors, from Chicago, Ill., to Carlisle, Pa.

(N)

TELEGRAM. Copy. Nov.27, 1902.

Bingenheimer, Indian Agent.

Fort Yates, N.D.

Your letter. Send Young Forte with the party. Pratt, Supt.

W.U. 5.05 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1902.

The Harrisburg Grocery & Produce Co.,
222 Mulberry Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

I enclose check No.86344 on the Asst. Treasurer, U.S., New York for $610.08 in payment for beans, raisins and canned tomatoes furnished by you, the freight on the raisins and tomatoes being deducted as per your request.

Please have your _treasurer_, sign accompanying voucher at the _six_ places indicated, signing the name of your company and his own name below it after the word "by" and return it in envelope herewith.

Also send a separate receipt for $5.76 to cover 131 pounds of beans not included in voucher. My authority from the Government limits me to the purchase of 10000 pounds and that is what my order to you calls for. I have decided to pay the excess from private funds in order to avoid the trouble of returning it to you.

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Nov. 28, 2

Mrs. Nellie L. Munn,

Winnebago Agency, Nebr.

My dear School-daughter:

Your kindly letter gives me an unusual thrill of pleasure, because
I have not heard from you for so long. I like your words of gratitude
and appreciation for what this school has done for you. I am also,
pleased that you desire to make us a visit. How I wish that you could
be present at one of our Commencement Exercises. This event is quite a
great feature at our school now, but if you have the present time to
come, do not defer for the special occasion, because you are just as
welcome now, as later. We are always so busy at Commencement time that
it is impossible to give any one any great attention.

We have a rate of $17.41 from Sioux City, and a little more than
that from Pender or Baneroot. If you wish me to get a ticket for you
from Pender, I can do so, after I hear of your decision. If you could
bring a small party of pupils, I could pay your fare.

Mrs. Pratt and all of the old employees were pleased to hear from
you, and all join me in sending you the most cordial greetings and re-
membrances.

Your friend & School-father,

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Nov. 28,

Mr. C. H. Thwying,
20 Jackson St.,
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Sir:

Yours of the 13th with the enclosed letter of Mrs. Clark's, received. I have written directly to Mrs. Clark that I would take her children. I have written, also, to Rev. Edward Marsden that if there are others who wish to come to Carlisle, I would make the arrangements for them.

The plan would be to have Mr. Marsden correspond with Mr. C.H. Black, Hardware Company, Seattle, Wash. Mr. Black will notify me and forward the children to Carlisle. You might see Mr. Black and be able to give some help to the children on their arrival.

I return the letter requested.

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Nov. 29,

2.

Mr. Henry S. Brown,
3600 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Yours of the 22nd came in my absence, so that my answer is de-
layed. The best young man for your purpose is a graduate of Carlisle,
and also a graduate of Princeton University, Mr. Howard Gansworth.
He is now my cutting agent, and is visiting the boys in Bucks County.

Mr. Gansworth could run in and give you such talk as you might de-
sire. I think he has now an engagement to talk before the Young Men's
Christian Association at Costesville. I have asked him to meet your
wishes. The expense will be trifling. He is a Tuscarone from New York.

Very sincerely,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Dept.

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Nov. 29, 1902.

Mrs. J. A. Van Kirk,
345 N. West St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Van Kirk:--

Replying to yours of this morning, I am sorry to say that
my present obligations are such as to make it quite impracticable for
me to do anything more in this line, for the best part of the year to
come, I have taken a large contribution in the interest of my own
church and this makes it unwise for me to assume anything more at pre-
sent, otherwise I should be glad to help you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1903.

Dr. J. J. Sturm,
Sturm, Okla. Ter.

Dear Doctor:

I have yours of the 21 st, which came in my absence and have
written to The Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs to-day.
you

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Cardiff, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Mr. R. A. Van Walkenburg,
No., "The North Americans,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Sirs;

Unless you see some reason why I should not - if you do please
telegraph me at once - I am going to reproduce in our school paper
this week the picture in your Saturday's issue and the admissible ed-
itorial accompanying it, and will see that every member of Congress
and my official superior, every Indian agent, every superintendent
of an Indian school, and every newspaper in the United States with a
a circulation of over two thousand has a marbled copy.

Unquestionably we have struck the right man. I enclose to you
copy of a letter from Miss Alice M. Robertson of Muscogee, I. T. Miss
Robertson was formerly a clerk here, afterwards superintendent of a
girls' school at Muscogee and now occupies the important position of
Supervisor of Schools for the Creek Nation. I retain the original.
The fact that we can prove not only that the fellow is a liar but
that he is a malicious liar by calling in Miss Robertson, who is ob-
venient to either Wichita or St. Louis, is of value and releases us
from any feeling that we might be prosecuting a man for accidental
criminality.

Please thank Mr. Foster for so promptly sending me the very tell
ing out; also Judge Gordon for the able and discriminating articles
which Mr. Foster advises me the Judge wrote.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Corporal Joseph Gouge,
Co. H., 21st U. S. Infantry,
Fort Snelling, Minn.

My dear Joseph :

I have your letter asking me to aid you in the purchase of the
balance of your service. For several reasons this seems to me to be
a wrong step for you to take. In the first place you obligated your-
self to remain three years. Shirking obligations is an infirmity not
of Indians merely, but of other people also. Training ourselves to
carefully carry out every obligation we undertake is one of the best
things for us. You have not a very great while to serve and can
easily hold out till September. Schools everywhere are now well un-
der way. If you were free now, you would have to enter a broken
year. After good faithful service you can easily present your case
to your Captain and get him to give you a portion of September next
for furlough should your discharge not be due in time to enter at
the opening of school. Stick to your obligation.

I am glad to know you are a corporal. That shows appreciation.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Miss A. M. Goodwin,
10 Follen St.,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Miss Goodwin :

The books came some time ago, and as Colonel Brown who asked for them is in this country temporarily in command at San Francisco, I have written him for careful instructions as to how he wants them forwarded to the Filipinos. His reply has not yet been received, but I am expecting it every day. It takes about two weeks to get a return letter if answer is made promptly. I write you now only to relieve you of any anxiety as to the receipt of the books here and will advise you later of the disposition that is made of them. It certainly will not be long until I have instructions. In the meantime the books have not been unpacked, but are ready to be reshipped

Thanking you for them and assuring you of Col. Brown's appreciation of your response, I am

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

Dear Brother Trippe :

Henry Gordon is here and I shall undertake at once to get some
goodly person or persons to provide him with an extension to his short leg, which will be a great help to him.

Henry wants to become a telegraph operator but he is only in
our third grade and has not yet enough intelligence to make an oper-
ator. Later when he is better prepared I will help him in the line
of his desires. We have had quite a little talk together and I think
he sees the matter as I do and is contented to leave off this spec-
ial training until fitted to take it up.

Faithfully yours,

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Miss Rand Peacore,

Women, Wis.

Dear Miss Peacore :

I suggest that you get into some establishment in the town where you are, or some other near by place, where you can qualify yourself in the lines you wish and not trust to Carlisle or any Indian school for training. We do not accept pupils here for special courses, and you will do better to go among the white people for your equipment. In that way you will get real practical knowledge and experience such as you need in order to succeed in your practical undertaking.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

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

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

I will hold on to Louis for the winter, but if in the spring he asks to go to the country I cannot keep him here unless there is some very special reason. As you know, the outing is one of our very best features and we cannot exempt any from its experiences. If we were to begin that there would be no end of appeals and the students would be deprived of invaluable opportunities.

Fraternally yours,

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Paula Rodriguez de Flores,
Caguas, Porto Rico.

Dear Friend :

I shall not object to your transferring your son Jose to another
school if you undertake his full care and arrange it yourself, al-
though I think you make a mistake in attempting it.

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1903.

Mrs. Mary Morris Rice,
Temple, Mich.

My dear School-daughter :

I have your letter and enclose you an application blank here-
with for your adopted brother. Have him fill out his own part care-
fully and correctly and let your mother sign as guardian. When I
have the blank filled out I can then determine what ought to be
done and take the necessary action to bring him here.

Glad to hear you are all doing so well. I note you are married.
Where is Josephine ?

Faithfully your friend,

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Mrs. L. E. Oliver,
Vinita, I. T.

Dear Madam :

Yours of Nov. 19th was not answered earlier because I was away
from home and it was held for my action. We are not permitted to
take Cherokees from Indian Territory because they have special funds
and special school arrangements. Formerly we did have students from
your place, but were several years ago ordered to send them all home,
fourteen or more, and not accept any more.

Carlisle, pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Mr. H. E. Gansworth,
Brick Hotel,
Newtown, Pa.

Dear Howard :

After reading the enclosed letter please return to me with your
recommendation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,
State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear Bakeless :

Glad to get yours of the 24th ult./ with details of your inter-
ests and experiences together with the assurance that Carlisle has
not yet lost its charm for you.. Lillian has given us a breath of
sunshine by her happy presence here and returns to you today. It is
gratifying to hear that she and the others are doing so well. Noth-
ing in the way of the Indian but lack of opportunity. Give him op-
portunities and that ends it.

I enclose an extract from "The North American" which will inter-
est you. We have struck the biggest liar on the continent I am in-
clined to think, and one who has done us no end of harm, but we shall
land him I trust where he will not bother us or anybody else in that
line for some time to come.

With kind regards to Mrs. Bakeless,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Rev. Geo. W. Taft,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Yours of the 18th ult. came duly, but I have been in the west
running down a liar who has continuously and most heartlessly al-
leged crime against our returned students. I have him now in the
hands of the law and expect to make such an example of him that that
sort of business will be ended.

Thanks for your appreciation of our paper. I have read with in-
terest what you say in your article in the "Post-Standard" of Syra-
cuse. It is the confirmation of what is going on everywhere. Good
Bishop Huntington's address at Lake Mohonk reveals no conditions that
do not prevail with more or less offensiveness on every Indian reser-
vation. We are continually indicating that it is our intention to
break up these Indian communities, to make the Indian a citizen and
give him a chance to live as such, and yet our Government and human-
itarian course is almost exclusively in the line of continuing him
an Indian and perpetuating his tribal and reservation conditions.
If there are any "worst conditions", they prevail on those reserva-
tions and among those tribes nearest to civilization but which have
been held aloof from it.

I should be glad to have you give us something for our paper if
you feel moved to do so.

Yours very truly,

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Mrs. Susie Davisonport Benson,

St. Ignace, Mich.

Dear Susie :

The little girl of five is too young for us, but I could take
the one of fifteen if she is not less than one fourth Indian. En-
closed find application blank which please have her fill out and see
that the other information asked is given, and return to me for
further consideration.

Mr. Gus V. R. Mechin,
711 Chestnut St.,
St. Louis, Mo.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Dear Sir :

I went out of the Indian curio business years ago, sold my collection to the Smithsonian Institute and have ever since discouraged the mania in my family and here at the school. We are trying to work our way out from Indianism into civilization and to do that we must unload all that pertains to the Indian life, etc. I am therefore entirely unable to aid you in your search for Indian curios.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Miss Alice M. Robertson,
Supervisor of Schools,
Muscogee, I. T.

My dear Miss Robertson :

I thank you for your letter of the 28th ult. about Draper. It
helps to relieve us from any feeling that we might be prosecuting
a man who only accidentally committed a crime. If the question of
malice comes up and it is necessary for us to prove it we may ask
you to come to Wichita where we intend to prosecute the man because
it was there he "uttered" (wrote) his libel. We did have him in jail
in St. Louis and he is out on bail. We are required to establish
that he is a criminal and that criminal conduct was at Wichita. Then
we get him extradited to Wichita and bring full suit. The St. Louis
proceedings are only the preliminaries.

I send you a copy of "The North American" which will give you
their side of it. The trial in St. Louis takes the 15th of this
month and I shall go back there and bring White Buffalo from the Ter-
ritory to establish what is necessary there and then switch off to
Wichita for final adjudication.

I am very glad you wrote me about it, and any other help you
can give in this line will be acceptable. We want to make such a
clean sweep of the whole business that it will be dangerous for any
fellow to send a lie about the Indians to any newspaper. "The North
American" intends to expose the whole affair to the fullest extent
and to get the syndicate of papers, of which it is one, to do the

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some thing, and will also send their state of all papers now in
the syndicate.

I am printing the "North American" editorial and their picture
in this week's "Red Man".

Sincerely yours,

P. S. - If you have the articles in which Draper alleges your girl
is a millionaire, and also the one in which he said she was a golf
plague, I should be glad to have them and could return them to you
later. His publishing her as a millionaire was a libel for which
both the paper publishing it and the man himself are responsible.
Possibly I might like to use the articles.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Brig. Gen. Robt. M. O'Reilly,
Surgeon General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear General :

I have here an Indian boy who lost his leg in an attempt to take
a little ride on the cars before coming here. He is recommended to
me as an exceptionally promising young man and I want to do the best
I can for him. The leg is off just above the knee and I would like
to provide him with a cork leg. Would it be possible for me to get
him one from some of the firms that supply the army at special rates?
If so, please place me in correspondence with such a firm and greatly oblige

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Mr. Chas. S. Hood,
Klamath Falls, Ore.

Dear Charlie :

I have your letter of the 22nd ult. and am glad to know you are interested and feel that it is possible to realize a party for Carlisle from there. Your personal presentation of our advantages will, I trust, lead to a better selection of pupils than those Mr. Kirk brought us several years ago. The party included his two sons and they seemed the most disgruntled and discontented lot of youngsters we ever had. I have found out since that Mr. Kirk himself is a good deal of a stirrer up of feeling among the Indians there and a man having excessive expectations.

You will find Captain Applegate a thorough going friend of our cause, I am sure. Do not bring any who are not really anxious to get an education and have ambition enough to strive for it. Use the telegraph at my expense if necessary. I send you a quantity of application blanks. Make the Indians understand that we do not receive students for a shorter period than five years unless they should graduate sooner, when they are free at once; otherwise we make no exceptions to the rule. I may add that we cannot accept any who are less than one fourth Indian and they should be between the ages of twelve and twenty years, preferably not younger than fourteen nor over eighteen.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Chauncey Y. Hobe,

Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

My dear Chauncey :

Thanks for your congratulations for our football team. It wound up the season with a hotly contested battle in Washington with Georgetown University and won 21 - 0. The whole twenty-one points were made in the second half and the boys had thirteen minutes spare time.

You do not say just where you are, and I only guess at the above address. We are glad always to hear from you.

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Mr. Henry Ladauceur,

Leyden, N. Dak.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 11th ult., I enclose you copies of two letters, one from Alfred M. Venne and the other from Mr. Allen my Assistant Superintendent the two gentlemen who made up the party from your place. From their letters I am convinced that they did what was right and proper in the premises. The girls are here and happily located to their greatest advantage, and I do not feel called upon to disturb them.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Arthur Pratt,

Crow Creek, S. Dak.

Dear Arthur :

When your letter came I was in the west getting a man into jail who has been lying about our returned students, accusing them of murder, etc.

Enclosed is a blank application. Fill this out, return it to me and I will endorse and forward it to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs as you desire. You understand of course that so far as possible the places have been filled for the year, and only those are vacant now which have become so by forcible retirement, resignation or death, and you must not be too expectant.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

Mr. Frederick R. Burton,
1 Hamilton Ave.,
Yonkers, New York.

My dear Sir :

We should be glad to have you give us a talk on Indian Music if
you were in this vicinity and it did not cost too much. I am sorry
to say that my funds for this purpose are more than exhausted, but
I could undertake to raise a small sum. We can ourselves produce
Indian music, not only in Ojibway but in many other languages, so you
see it would not be much of a novelty to us, but I think it would in-
terest our townpeople although this is a college town and we are
somewhat overrun with entertainments I would undertake to gather an
audience for you, making your visit to us not only without expense
to yourself but but giving you something over.

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December 1, 1902.

Mr. Emory Foster,
Sunday Editor, "The North American",
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Sir;

Thanks for the cut which arrived this morning.
I propose to print it and the editorial in full in
our school paper this week and send it everywhere.

In a letter to Mr. VanValkenburg I enclosed
a copy of a letter just received from a lay official
in the western school service which helps our case.
We need not be afraid we are cutting an innocent
person.

The Judge's editorial was, - well, - just like
the Judge.

Sincerely yours,

The Draper articles are here with; also his
letter to you returned. I have asked Miss Robertson
for the articles he wrote publishing her Indian
girl as a millionaire and as a golf player, both
of which were calculated to annoy, and hence libel-
lome.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

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

Six

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

My address for the next month is as above.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1902.

To The Adjutant,

15th Cavalry, U. S. A.,
Manila, F. 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. G., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. I. G., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Inter-
tior dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

Lt. Col., 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1902.

Dear Brother Lawrence :

I have been waiting to hear from you about the party. Are you
getting on ? Is it materializing ? Is anything in the way, and
ought I to do anything ?

In this connection, on November 2nd Wilfred Kennedy and Jesse
Pierce ran away. We have heard nothing of either of them up to this
time. Have they arrived at home ? Jesse was physically and mentally
somewhat defective and Walter was something of a chronic runaway,
having left the school twice before, so that neither are particularly
desirable; still we would like to know about them and if there is
anything we ought to and could do we would undertake to do it. Please
let me hear from you at an early date.

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Dec. 5, 1902.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
Mr. Sherman Instl.,
Riverside, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Cook :

I would like to know whether Riverside has
taken Harry and Howie Sonia. I have information
that they intended to go there, but no confirmation
that they have gone. I will take it as a favor if
you will write me just what ex-Carlisle students
you have enrolled and when they entered at River-
side.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1902.

Mrs. Annie Parnell Little,
Kanab, Idaho.

My dear Annie :

Your subscription to "The Red Man" was duly received and credited by Miss Burgess. I enclose your land patent which has been paid this time in the safe in the treasurer's office.

In regard to the money owing you from Maggie John John, it is
unfortunate that you did not have that settled before you left here,
Maggie is eight dollars in debt here and is so irresponsible that I
doubt whether she will accumulate enough to pay you for some months
as she cannot earn any money before summer. I will keep it in mind

and if she acknowledges the claim as just and right I will arrange
that the amount be sent you when it can be done.

With kind regards,

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December 3, 1902.

Mrs. Laura deRussy Berry,
119 Charlotte St.,
Norfolk, Va.

Dear Mrs. Berry :

Captain Williams returned with the team, pretty badly hurt but not permanently. He is well now with the exception of bruises and is attending school.

Thank you for your interest in our boys. They were disappointed and so were we. Leaving Johnson off the team and knocking out Williams did the business, for these are the two great leaders and when both are absent the team becomes rather headless.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1902.

Levi J. Bird,

Browning, Mont.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter in regard to Ira, your brother, I have
to advise you that he came here November 12th, 1899 for a term of
five years. Only three having expired, he is not entitled to return
home. Ira seems perfectly contented here and is getting on better
than he did, has improved a good deal in conduct, is well, and I am
hopeful now that he will make a man of himself.

Original by error copied in Off. Book.

December 4, 1902.

Mr. Frank Wood,
352 Washington St.,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir :

Mrs. Barrows sent me my speech at Mohawk by
her letter of Nov. 25th, instructing me to send
it to you. I was absent in the west and am only
able now to forward it.

You will be pleased to know that I have treed
one of those western liars. The enclosed sheet
from "The North American" will explain.

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Colonel R. H. Pratt,

I want especially to endorse what the good Bishop said in his classical paper this morning. It went right to the root of the matter. The conditions in New York are not exceptional. I also endorse the Commissioner's short-hair order. It is good because it disturbs old savage conditions.

A celebrated American writer makes one of his characters say,

"The great American idee is to make a man a man And then to let him be."

In dealing with the Indians the eternal thing with us is his property. Property is the stumbling block all the time and I am glad to see any steps taken to get it out of the way. The Indian's property and our greed for it stand in the way of the Indian's progress. If we can make the Indian a man and get him to the point where he has ability to take care of himself and then let him alone there will be no trouble.

Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary in order to destroy racism and classism. Almost all the humanitarian and Government contrivances for the Indian within my knowledge are segregating in their influences and practically accomplish only segregation.

We have brought into our national life nearly forty times as many negroes as there are Indians in the United States. They are not altogether citizen and equal yet, but they are with us and of us. Distributed among us, coming in contact with us constantly, they have lost their many languages and their old life and have accepted of our language and our life and become a valuable part of our industrial forces. The Indian on the contrary, through our contrivances

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to help the Indians shows this. Indeed, one of our greatest mistakes
has been and is the gift of large sums of money. It becomes the en-
gine of their destruction. The Indians do not have it long. It
goes into the hands of the people about them and the most debasing
enticements are used by those of our own race to get it from them.
The distribution of money to an Indian tribe is always regarded by
those living near the Indians as a contribution to the development
of that district. That it harms the Indian is not considered. It is
easier to get money or property from ignorant Indians than from those
who have been educated and especially from those who have been edu-
cated and trained among our own people. No gifts of money can pos-
sibly compensate them for the denial of opportunity to earn and to
learn to compete and become equal to us by actual experience.

I have no sympathy with any plans which compel these people to
think all the time that they are dependent upon and must be provided
for by the Government or their friends, nor with any movements that
claim great sums of money for them. It is the greatest possible
wrong to prolong their Indianism, whether we do it for humani-
tarian or so-called scientific reasons.

We have a bureau in Washington which gets large sums of money
for the alleged purpose of investigating the mysteries of Indian life
and discovering their origin. What particular benefit would it be
if we knew their origin and what possible influence upon the welfare
of the country or of the Indians themselves could it have if we knew
all the music and all the modes and methods and every feature of the
old Indian life? What the Indian was is past and cannot be restored
The only question of material interest to either the white people or
the Indians is that which relates to their and our present and future
welfare in relation to each other.

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The ethnologists prefer the Indian kept in his original paint and feathers and as part and parcel of every exposition on that line. Years ago the head of that Bureau in Washington berated us for our Carlisle plan and claimed that we were interfering with his plans, that he was trying to get at the history and life of the Indians and their language, and that he should never be able to accomplish his work if our school and its purposes went on. It seemed at first large opposition, but I was afterwards glad of it, for it was high scientific testimony that we were on right lines. It will be a happy day for the Indians when the ir ethnological value is of no greater importance than that of the negro and other races which go to make up our population.

Once an anthropologist-ethnologist came to Carlisle and carried away fifty or sixty specimens of hair from the heads of as many young people from the different tribes represented at the school. I suppose they wanted to split them. We have had others come to take facial and cranial measurements of all our students. These people at Government cost got out from year to year very expensive books giving minute accounts of their discoveries our two hundred and fifty thousand Indian population. The ten million negroes seem scarcely to attract their attention. The Indian Bureau is trying to put the Indian on his feet as a self-supporting citizen, but its reports not being illustrated nor highly colored are not particularly in demand for distribution among the electors.

Luther Gauss, who preceded me, formerly the priest for nine or ten years at Carlisle, has intimated that we quarreled at one time. At the same time that we disagreed about certain things we were friendly. His presence and the presence of the great Bishop of his Church

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part of it I have explained, but the school opportunities connected
with these outings are of the greatest value. Every fall we arrange
to leave from three to four hundred of our pupils out in families
for the winter to attend public, private, normal and other schools.
The association and competition in school with the children of our
own race fite the Indian for association and competition later in all
the business and affairs of our American life. We put our newest
and most ignorant pupils out early in the spring. Living in families,
they take on English far more rapidly and learn our ways of life
and how to care for themselves and their property affairs better than
it is possible to train them in any school, because these lessons
are practical while in the school they are of necessity theoretical.

One thing which makes this course popular with our young people
is the fact that they earn money. This last year ending June 30th
the earnings of the boys and girls of the Carlisle school amounted
to over $30,000, and in the twenty-three years history of the school
their total earnings under the outing have been above $350,000. That
large sum would not be paid to workers that were not worth it, and
it becomes an unanswerable argument in favor of the system.

No separate system of industries need be created. It calls for
no great appropriation by Congress and becomes no tax upon the char-
ity of the country to make it go. In order to carry it out we
must loosen the bands with which we have bound the Indians to res-
ervations, to tribal life, to agency supervision, and open the way for
them to thus break up their community systems. The community system
for any of our peoples is against Americanism, against Christianity,
against the best interests of either the people concerned or the
United States. We have Italian communities in our great cities, and

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German communities in certain localized where only Italian and German one spoken. In Berks County, Pennsylvania there is a German community where the fourth generation finds the people unable to speak the English language. It is an inexcusable sentiment that would favor this condition. The operation of our system of schools and association if allowed to prevail practically breaks up such community systems and lifts those diverse peoples into the knowledge, ability and desire to be real Americans.

The President.

We may be proud of the United States Army when we see men who have devoted their lives not to destroying their fellow beings, but to elevating them and to instructing them in the principles of civil government. Our army is sometimes criticised very severely, but there are men who deserve the highest honors. The Government can bestow for what they have done for the elevation of humanity and in the illustration of civic righteousness, and Colonel Pratt is one of them. I want to qualify one of his statements as to scientific people I am sure he would not include among those whom he criticises our friend, Miss Alice Fletcher, who is not only an archaeologist but a philanthropist. She is able to look back without being turned into a pillar of salt.

Colonel Pratt.

Miss Fletcher is all right. It wasn't Miss Fletcher who came to get the different kinds of hair.

The President.

Our session this morning has shown how blessed it is for brothers to dwell together in unity.

Adjourned at 1:00 p. m.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1902.

Mr. Fred E. Smith,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Fred :

Dr. Perkins, Supt. of the Indian School at Truxton Canon, Arizona, is in need of an Assistant who is capable of organizing and conducting a small band made up of the pupils of his school. The salary is $300 per year and board if desired in the children's dining-room. There is a good chance for promotion, and I believe you could fill the place very well. If you care to undertake it, write to Dr. J. F. Perkins, Supt. Truxton Canon Indian School, Truxton, Arizona. His telegraphic address is Hackberry, Arizona. The place has been open for some time and it would be well to make application at once if at all. At any rate, please let me hear from you on receipt of this whether you would accept it, and what action you take

I know Dr. Perkins very well and can assure you that he will recognize competency and faithfulness and advancement under him will be in proportion to merit. He has asked me to recommend someone.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1902.

Prof. H. W. Elston,
2122 Natrona St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Professor :

I will undertake to give you the benefit of my knowledge and ex-
perience for your chapter on"Indian Character,"and shall be glad to
have you give us the magazine article as you propose.

In regard to the lectures, Saturday evenings will perhaps be
the best for us. On the 20th instant we have the Rogers-Grilley
combination entertainment. Aside from this you might begin at once
and use the Saturday s consecutively.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 4, 1902.

Dr. Geo. Edward Reed, Pres.,
Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Doctor :

I have taken up the cases of Hastings Robertson and Healy Wolf
and done what I could to arouse them to greater effort. Healy came
to me yesterday with a note from one of his teachers which stated
that his recitation was satisfactory but not creditable. I urged
that this was not what we want nor what he was capable of and he re-
plied that it was "better than unsatisfactory."

I note that Mr. Robertson has both French and German. Is this
necessary ? He says nothing to me about it; it only occurs to me
personally that the study of two such languages in addition to Latin
while possibly valuable as training is not otherwise entirely neces-
sary and may be overloading the student.

With sentiments of high regards,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1902.

Sir :

I have now been on special duty under the Interior Department over twenty-four years engaged in bringing Indian children from their reservation, tribal, and tepee homes into the midst of our best civilization, and giving them full chance to acquire our education, the language, industries, and other useful qualities of our American life. That it has been as uniformly successful as any work of its kind among our own people I can safely claim. The young from all our tribes who have been thus privileged have obtained a usable knowledge of English, have become so useful in our industries as to be in demand, and have had their courage to compete in our civilized life so developed as in many cases to lead them to move out from the tribes as individual and independent American citizens. The vast amount of civilization and American life and inducement to higher and better things that has gone back to the tribes as a result of the training of these young people at Carlisle and returning many to their homes, is beyond all computation. Had there been no non-reservation schools and no opportunities of this kind during the past twenty-four years our Indians would today still be largely in the hands of designing white interpreters and manipulators of their interests on the reservations, and inextrably more helpless and useless than they are now, and Lands-in-Severalty could not have gone on at all as success-

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fully as it has.

If this movement and work for Indians has been in any sense un-
healthy or has in any way contributed, as is so often alleged, to
make bad leaders, I do not know it. I am in a position to assert
with greatest confidence that the derogatory statements that have
been made are in the main false, and that while there have been here
and there individual cases who have gone wrong, the reasons for such
wrong-going in practically every case can be logically traced to an-
te conditions and influence, or to subsequent conditions and influ-
ences for which neither the school nor its system are to be held ac-
countable; and I can also claim that these isolated cases are in no
proportion nor degree excessive in comparison with the results of
education upon our own people in their institutions. It will hardly
be disputed that the best way to make an alien American is to let
him associate with Americans, nor that to make him a good American
it is essential that he associate with good Americans.

I am led to say this much in regard to the work at Carlisle by
way of inviting the attention of the Department to a subject that has
been on my mind ever since we have reached our present national re-
lations with Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. Two and a half
years ago with the permission of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
I began to accept Porto Rican students here and within a year had en-
rolled forty-six. They have been treated in all respects as we treat
our Indians. Generally, they spoke the Spanish language and because
of their superior intelligence and ready use of that language have
been rather more of a problem in ang lisizing than the Indians; but
I can claim for these students from our island dependency extraordi-
nary progress in English speaking and in the acquirement of a know-

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ledge of our American ways and civilization and a complete readiness to conform to and adapt themselves to it. Nearly all have been fed out from the school into our general school system in the same manner as we have always pushed out our Indian pupils.

With this explanation, I wish to recommend to consideration the establishment in America of schools for the benefit of Filipino youth, and that they be brought to this country in as great numbers as practicable, and be treated somewhat upon our Carlisle plan. About a year ago some friends of Governor Taft's in Cincinnati wrote him proposing to take some of the Filipino young people into their schools. Governor Taft's reply, which was made public at the time, stated that fifteen hundred young Filipinos returning to their homes after being educated and living in America under the influences of our American system of education, training, and industries would be invaluable helps in Americanizing the islands. My experience here confirms the position of Governor Taft in every way and urges it as a policy of most extraordinary benefit.

in selecting places for such institutions my experience here advises that climatic conditions need not be greatly emphasized. Some of our young people enjoy better health than our Porto Ricans and those from Arizona and New Mexico, nor did these have better health at their homes. The condition to be considered most is the character of the industrial and educational surroundings and where the best American influences can be brought to bear. I have had some correspondence with army officers in the Philippines especially interested in the education of the young people there and feel assured the way to be open to successfully inaugurate and with great success carry out

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1902.

Prof. Albert S. Bickmore,
American Museum of Natural History,
Central Park,
New York City.

My dear Professor :

The slides shipped as per your letter of Dec. 2nd are here in
good shape. Enclosed find my check for $330.50 to cover; also man-
uscript of Lecture # 193, Yellowstone Park. The bill is herewith,
which please return.

Sincerely yours,

Dec. 5, 1902.

My dear Sir :

I just have a letter from Mr. F. C. Pierce,
Secretary of the Twentieth Century Club, Brooklyn,
asking me for an Indian to speak at a meeting and
indicates that he wants Indian music also. I have
a young man who can speak and have suggested your
name to him as one who could provide the Indian
music.

It might be you could include this in your
trip in this direction. Reading and York ought to
be good places for you to take in, particularly if
you can get some organization to arrange for you.

I fear your coming here will have to be al-
most entirely with reference to the Indian school
and I shall have to undertake the entire expense.
It seems our townspeople are overrun with enter-
tainment demands.

Very truly yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1902.

Mr. F. C. Briggs, Bus. Agent,
Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute,
Hampton, Va.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 21st ult. in regard to Juan Santano,
a Porto Rican boy brought to this country by a returning Massachu-
setts regiment and placed in this school, I have to advise you that
on Feb. 10th, 1902 the young man was sentenced by civil court to a
term in the Penna. State Reformatory at Huntington, for assault on
Frank Keshena, an Indian pupil of this school. Keshena had been an-
noying him and Juan in a fit of anger struck him with a hammer
and broke his nose. It seemed best under all the circumstances to
let him suffer the penalty which the law provides for such offences
I still consider him a student of this school, as we do not accept
any students for a shorter period than five years, and expect when
he is released by the Reformatory authorities to have him returned
here. He had twice before been guilty of similar offences, once hav-
ing stabbed another boy in the back with a pen knife for some slight
plaguing shortly after he came. Aside from his unfortunate temper
we were all fond of him and he made good progress in every way.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8, 1902.

Eleanor W. McDonald,
Wellesley College,
Wellesley, Mass.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your telegram of the 7th from Boston, received this
morning, asking information in regard to this school, I am forward-
ing you by this mail copy of our illustrated catalog, giving the pur-
pose of the school, something of its establishment, its various in-
dustrial and other departments, course of study, list of graduates,
etc. etc.; also copies of addresses on different phases of Indian ed-
ucation by Colonel Pratt, the superintendent, and marked copies of
the school paper, "The Red Man and the Helper" giving additional
information.

In the academic department fifteen grade teachers are employed
for our 969 students now enrolled, and four special teachers be-
side the principal and assistant principal. Students attend school
one half of each school day and work the other half at one of the
several industries shown in the catalog, receiving instruction while
actually producing or helping to produce some article of clothing,
household, farm, mechanical or other article of commerce.

Carlisle differs from reservation schools and other nonreserva-
tion schools in the advantages it affords for association with and
training among white people in families and communities under the
most favorable surroundings. This is accomplished through the Oying

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Carlicle, Pa., Dec. 9, 1902,

Mr. Louis Lazore,
Hogansburg, New York,

Dear Sir :

I have your letter of the 3rd in reference to sending baskets to your children to sell here, advising that they could keep part of the money. This has been tried by others, but with very unsatisfactory results, baskets do not seem to be much in demand. Some of our children from Maine and Michigan had baskets here several months before they could sell them, and then not at the prices fixed. Your son Louis has $10.45 in bank, all of which he must save under our rule that students must save half their earnings. Philip has $30.57 and is allowed to spend all above $24.08, which gives him $6.39 to use. There is really nothing the boys need and when the time comes around both can earn money again. What they have here in the bank draws interest and will be paid them when their term expires and they go home. They have plenty of food, good comfortable clothing, etc. and it does seem to me at all necessary that you send them any money or feel anxious about them on that line.

Both boys are doing well.

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Carliole, Pa., Dec. 9, 1902.

T. L. Hoover,
Dickinson Preparatory School,
Carliole, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have been in bed for a few days and your letter has awaited
my return to the office. The question you desire to discuss would
be better stated if you said,

"Resolved that all Indian reservations should be at once abolished and that the Indians be made full citizens and placed under the laws of the several states and territories where they reside."

The Indian and his land are part and parcel of each other. Much
is in the way of the other. The question is a good one, but deep,
with many ramifications, and I don't think we can say it could be short-
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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 9, 1902.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

It will interest you, I am sure, to see the trial balance of
our funds. The special deposit with the Girard Trust Company of
Philadelphia draws 3% and the general account draws 2% on daily
settlements. The Pottstown Iron Company bonds draw 5%. The inter-
terest goes to the students in proportion to the amounts they have
to their credit. The fines outside the Government never were an
healthy. There are about 800 students who have money at interest.
The plan of making them save half their earnings is working all right
now and the accounts are all in good shape.

We reached the thousand mark today with the arrival of thirteen
pupils from New York. Bingenheimer has a party on the way and there
are two or three other little parties in prospect that will lift us
quite a little above the thousand. Aside from sending Mr. Allen out
I have made no special exertion to fill up, leaving the general ap-
preciation of the school to do the work. The result has not been
quite so satisfactory as I had hoped it would be, but we shall prob-
ably average a little above a thousand for the year.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1902.

Stacy Matlock,

White Rock, Utah.

My dear Staci :

I had a sergeant major's suit made for you as he was and sent
it to you by mail on the 6th. I trust it will please you. Please
send me fifteen dollars to cover. The sergeant major's studies
a little expenses.

I leave tomorrow for Wabasha, Kansas to help in processing
against a newspaper correspondent who has been out reporting 1944
about our returned students.

I am glad to have some word from you even if it is mainly for
information.

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 6, 1902.

Miss Eliza Nauwegaesic,
Mackinac Island, Mich.

Dear Eliza :

Your sister Lucy disappeared from her country home on the 22nd
of November and we have been unable to find out anything about her
more than that she took the train, evidently for home. Please wire
us immediately upon receipt of this if you know anything about her.
Send the message Government rate, collect here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 9, 1902.

Miss Isabella Young,
The Valentine House,
Valentine, Nebraska.

Dear School Daughter :

I read your letter to Mrs. Carlisle a few days ago and gave her
my not I did not I did not I did not
about it. Yours of the 2nd instant is now in my hands.
It does not seem best to change my conclusions now. You will be
qualified as a seamstress would admit you into almost any
establishment as a learner and give you a small salary. In any
dreammaking
beforehand doing a general business you would get more instruction
than you could in the sewing room at Carlisle because of the greater
variety of work done there. Everything you would take up would be in
the line of what you would be called on to do when you take up the
business independently, while here there is so much to learn in the
style and kind of payments made that the work does not afford the
heat of opportunities to learners. Now that you are : good health,
are in a town and have the courage of the situation, I judge it
that you would make a mistake to send back to Carlisle even if I
should permit it, which I could not do without getting a approval of
the Department, and when your case was known I fear it would refuse.

With good wishes and the hope that some may find opportunities
such as I have described above, and that you will make the wise use
of them that I am sure you can, I am as ever

 faithfully your friend,

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December 10, 1902.

Mr. D. S. Lindsay,
601 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Lindsay :

On the 2nd instant I addressed a letter to
your son, Hon. S. B. Lindsay, in your care, under-
standing from the newspapers that he was in the
city. My purpose was to have him come to Carlisle
and give us a talk on Porto Rico, using any fea-
ture he might choose. No reply has come and it
is possible the letter missed. As you know,
we have a number of young people from Porto Rico
and they would especially appreciate such a vis-
it from him. Please let me know if we may not
expect to see him here before he leaves the country.

I am leaving this morning for the west and
shall be absent a week.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Mrs. Dora R. Leonard,
14 Malvern Ave.,
Hot Springs, Ark.

Dear Madam :

Your letter comes to hand in the absence of Colonel Pratt, but I find from the reports in the Outing Office that Phoebe began school in November and attended eighteen days in that month, and will attend regularly all winter. She is in a good home, and the arrangement is that she shall work mornings and evenings for her board and attend one hundred days at school, as do all our students who are placed in winter homes. I am told the school she attends, though a district school, is a very good one. She is not earning money while going to school. When the term is finished in March or April she will then have the privilege of working all day and receiving wages or of returning to Carlisle to go on with her studies here to the end of the school year.

I note that her conduct and industry have not been satisfactory but have not learned in what particular way. Our outing agent visits all the girls this month and next, and we shall have full report from her shortly.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Mr. Darwin Congdon,
Attorney at Law,
Randolph, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter in the absence of Colonel Pratt, I have
to advise you that Roger Jamison was brought in from his country
home to go home as a result of the repeated requests of his parents,
and that he insisted that he did not want to go. His ticket was
bought and all arrangements were made, but in consideration of his
strongly expressed desire to remain a student here and continue his
outing experience, he was finally permitted to return to his country
home, and those interested were so notified.

The money he tells you he has on deposit here is subject to the
orders of the superintendent, Colonel Pratt, who will not return to
the school for eight or ten days.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Mrs. F. G. Thompson,
Newaygo,
Michigan.

Dear Madam :

Replying to yours of the 5th instant, I have to advise you that
your children are entirely too young for this school. We do not ad-
mit children under twelve, and prefer that they be fourteen years of
age on entering.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Joseph H. Morris,
Temple, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter finds Colonel Pratt away from home, but I have asked
that a ticket to Carlisle be placed with the ticket agent at Temple
for James McGregor so that he can come at once. You would better go
with him to the ticket office and wire us when he starts so that we
may be on the lookout for him. The ticket will be paid for here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Mrs. M. J. Tyler,
West Mentor, Ohio.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your inquiry of the 9th instant, I send you under separate cover illustrated catalog of the school together with copies of addresses by the superintendent, Colonel Pratt; also copies of special numbers of the school paper "The Red Man and Helper", some of them marked. From these I think you can get the information you want.

Colonel Pratt is absent from the school at this time, but will appreciate your congratulations on the football victory the Indians won over Cornell, when your letter comes before him on his return.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 11, 1902.

Miss Eliza Nauwegesic,
Mackinac Island, Mich.

Dear Eliza :

Your telegram came and your letter is just received. Mrs.
Munch is visiting the girls now, and will bring Lucy back to the
school. Thank you very much for the information. Colonel Pratt left
for the west yesterday on a business trip, or he would probably
write you. We all regret that she should have left in the way she
did. We will of course know her story when she arrives. All we know
now is that she did not come home from school one evening and it was
found afterward that she had bought a railroad ticket to Philadelphia
and only through you have we been able to learn her whereabouts.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1902.

Mrs. B. Traversie,
Evarts, S. Dak.

Dear Mrs. Traversie :

Colonel Pratt is absent from the school for a few days, and your letter of the 19th of November has been awaiting an adjustment of conditions here. Felicia is in good health and looks well, and as students cannot be returned home before the expiration of their five year period unless their own health condition makes that necessary, the sickness in your family is not considered for the reasons before stated by Colonel Pratt.

Felicia was in the country, but was lately brought back to the school against her wish because the people with whom she was living had moved to another place and gone into a hotel. On her urgency to go out again, an arrangement is now under way to send her to a place left by one of our graduates who is going west to take an appointment who and speaks very highly of the family. Felicia will go to school regularly either here or at the place she is sent to.

I regret the conditions which cause you to ask for Felicia's return, but you can see that her chances here to escape consumption are much better than they would be if she had to live in the same house with those so seriously affected.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1902.

Mrs. J. Williams,
Fairhaven, Wash.

Dear Mrs. Williams :

Colonel Pratt is absent from the school just now, but I find
he wrote you only a few days ago in reference to your daughter. By
referring to the monthly reports we receive, I do not see that
there is any reason for you to be uneasy concerning her health. She
makes no complaint herself, nor do the family where she is. She at-
tends a private Friends' School only a short distance from her home.

Mr. Potter happens to be here at this time, and I handed him
your letter because of your mention of him. He has suggested that
I refer you to him on the question of consent for your daughter to
come to Carlisle.

Josephine is getting along nicely with her school work.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 12, 1902.

Mrs. Nancy Welch,

Wah-hi-yah, North Carolina.

Dear Mrs. Welch :

Your daughter Lucinda is here at the school and is getting on nicely. She came for five years, as do all students who enter Carlisle, and when the home parties were made up last spring she did not care to go home, and so was continued for another year. We do not send students home in the middle of the year unless their own health demands it, which is not so with your daughter. She has done well, although she is now only in the fourth grade, having begun in the lowest class. If she does not decide to go to the country next spring in preference to returning home, she will be given the opportunity to return at the end of June. It is to her interest, however, to continue in school until she has exhausted its benefits for her, and that will not be by the close of the present year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 13, 1902.

Miss Susan Gibbs,
C/o H. Weidman,
Elbowoods, North Dakota.

Dear Friend :

Your letter of inquiry comes during Colonel Pratt's absence, and I reply for him. I am sorry to tell you that we have had no word at all from your brother Charlie since he ran away last summer. We supposed he was at home.

George Bear's Arm is still in the hospital. The doctor says he sleeps well and sits up a little every day, but a slight operation will be necessary when he is a little stronger. He could not travel and we are doing the best we can for him here and hope to get him entirely well.

Your letter will be brought before Colonel Pratt on his return.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 13, 1902.

Mrs. Addie Jackson,
Irving, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jackson :-

Your letter to Colonel Pratt comes in his absence. Andrew is in
the country and has been attending public school since the 1st of
November. Reports which come about him show that he is doing well in
every way. Under our rules he will attend school one hundred consec-
utive days, and perhaps more. Our visiting agent is making the rounds
now and will see Andrew within a few days if he has not already done
so. In the winter he works only mornings and evenings to pay for his
board.

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 15, 1902.

Mrs. C. E. Lukens,
Roswell, N. Mex.

Dear Madam :

Your letter to Colonel Pratt comes in his absence. He will be
home by Wednesday, when your letter will be delivered to him.

Booklet and "Red Man" and other printed material were forwarded
you at the time the letter was written, addressed to Mrs. George V,
Lukens, Roswell, N. Mex. By referring to your former letter I see
it should have been "Mrs. George V. Lukens". Possibly this accounts
for its not reaching you. I have added two late numbers of "The Red
Man" which may interest you; a so duplicate copy of a report collated
lately, and trust all will reach you duly.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 17, 1902.

Miss P. E. C. King,
100 Perkirk St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Miss King :

Ephraim can leave here via the Pennsylvania at 8:30 Saturday morning and should reach Broad Street Station at 11:49. He will wear the school uniform as you wish.

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 17, 1902.

John W. Wizi,
Clintonville, Conn.

Dear John :

I told your friend when he came to me about it that you could
come back and have been expecting to see you. I supposed he had
written you.

Sincerely yours,

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Carliate, Pa., Dec. 17, 1902.

Mr. Allen Sutherland,
1502 Tioga St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 16th instant, I am sending you today five photographs of different departments of this school; also our illustrated catalog, last annual report, and other printed matter which may be helpful to you in your proposed article.

The pictures may be returned when you are through with them.

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December 18, 1902.

Dear General Corbin :

I return herewith the papers in the case of the
Filipino boy, Estaban Gloria, now at Atlanta, Ga.
Replying to your letter of the 12th instant forward-
ing them and asking if it is not possible to enroll
the boy at this school and if I have funds available
to bring him here, I have to respectfully advise you
that for years I have been carrying more than two
hundred and fifty students above the number enro-
priated for by Congress, accomplishing this through
the use of an Outing System which provides for the
young people homes in good families where they have
the privileges of good public or private schools,
and practically earn their keep by service in out-
of-school hours, sometimes helping with charity funds
given me by those friendly to our cause.

The Department has allowed me to take a very
considerable number of Alaskans, and we now have
fifty Eskimos, Aleuts and Alaskans; also about forty
Porto Ricans, counting these among our extras. Re-
cently I was stopped from taking any more Porto Ri-
cans and a correspondence now pending indicates a
disposition against the Alaskans, owing to the fact

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that the school is appropriated for exclusively as an Indian school. I state these points in order that you may fully understand the situation.

I have charity help and can always get more when necessary and can very easily take the young Filipino, and if not allowed to keep him here at Carlisle can provide that he have good practical advantages through his own service and the help of those who have money and desire to give toward such purposes. The only point at issue is the attitude of the Bureau. If you call Commissioner Jones by phone and explain, I feel sure he will say let the lad come, and then the school would be all right; or if you prefer, I can ask him. He knows the conditions and his verbal sanction serves me.

It would be better not to establish an official precedent unless we propose to submit the question to Congress and ask it to change the wording of the Carlisle appropriation to cover, in which case we might add a considerable number of young Filipinos to our school family to be trained as we do the Indians, which as I wrote you recently I am sure is the very best method for all these dependent races. Mixing the different peoples is undesirable.

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ble incentive to exertion both in school and in-
dustrial training and secures friendliness; and
the bringing together of many experiences adds
greatly to the sum of knowledge of all.

On notice from you or Commissioner Jones
I will place a ticket to Carlisle with the rail-
road agent at Atlanta to be delivered to the lad and
he can come at once, though the late spring would be
better so that he might have the summer and a grad-
ual growth into cold weather rather than a dash in-
to the severe winter weather he will meet here for
the next three months.

Major-General H. C. Cortin,
Adjutant General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 18, 1902.

Mrs. Simon W. Metoxen,
South Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Metoxen :

We have sent for Amelia and she is now here at the school. I
have had my school physician examine her and the enclosed is his
report.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

John Wizi,

Clintonville, Conn.

Dear John :

Charles Dillon was in again to see me about you, and I have
placed a ticket with the agent of the New Haven & Hartford R. R. at
New Haven which will be delivered to you when you call for it and
you can come to Carlisle.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

Edwin H. Smith,

Irving, New York.

Dear Edwin :

I have written Mr. Frazer, passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad in Buffalo, to deliver you two tickets to Carlisle, as per
your request of the 16th and bill to me for settlement. Have also
asked the Pennsylvania for tickets through to Seattle for you and
Mrs. Smith, to be ready by the 23rd inst.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

Mr. Barney Traversie,
Through Mr. Ira A. Hatch,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Cheyenne River Agency,
Gettysburg, S. Dak.

My dear Mr. Traversie :

Your daughter has been living with a Mr. Shroeder at Goldboro, Pa. I am sure both Mr. and Mrs. Shroeder are excellent people, but I recalled Felicita for the reason that I found what I did not know when we placed her there, that they run a country hotel. We have a rule against placing our girls and boys in hotels. During the summer I have permitted some to go to the seashore in boarding houses and summer hotels which I knew had no bar connected with them and which were frequented only by the best of people; but a country hotel where there is a bar and whiskey is sold, and all sorts of people are stopping transiently is not the place for a young girl no matter how good the people may be who keep it.

Mrs. Shroeder has been up to see me about Felicita and seems to be an exceptionally nice woman. Felicita cried to go back with her. It seems while there she acted as nurse for Mrs. Shroeder's child and went to the near-by school which is a fairly good one, and if they did not keep a hotel I should not hesitate to place any of our girls with Mrs. Shroeder. I told her however that if she had direct authority from you that Felicita might live with her I should consider myself relieved of the responsibility I felt in the matter and would permit Felicita to return to her. Mrs. Shroeder brought me yesterday Felicita's mother's letter giving her approval. It was not

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If with the knowledge that Mr. and Mrs. Shroeder keep a little country hotel where men of all characters high and low are constantly coming and going, and that they keep a saloon right in the hotel by the door of which Felicita has to pass in going in and out always, you want me to send her back to them, please write me so plainly; but I would not send a daughter of mine there nor one of our Indian girls except on the express direction of the parents or guardian after they had the fullest knowledge of the conditions.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

Mr. Chas. S. Hood,
Seneca, Mo.

Dear Charley :

You have at least discovered that there is a snag at Klamath
on which to wreck any attempt at getting youth away to school. I do
not think it relates entirely to Carlisle, but to all nonreservation
schools. We certainly had about as troublesome a lot of boys in Rev.
Kirks and their comrades as ever came to Carlisle; but let it pass
for the present.

I note what you say about three or four from your own section.
If you can bring us three, four or five from your people at Seneca,
do that and I will pay your way to and from Carlisle. They should be
above twelve years of age, preferably above fourteen, of course in
good health and of at least fairly good character; not over twenty
years of age, preferably not over eighteen. I send some consent
blanks which please have carefully filled out. Let me know in time
just what you want in the way of transportation and I will arrange
that tickets be delivered you at Seneca or such point as you may name
for yourself and party. The best way on short trips of this sort is
to lunch the party through because that is the cheapest way and we
must always consult the economies.

Should you not make up a party I can of course and will arrange
that you have a low rate for yourself to and from.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

Adam Jones,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 28th ult., please write me where
you have attended school heretofore, how long, why you left without
finishing the course, etc.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

C. H. Drew,
Commercial College,
Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your postal of the 14th instant, I am sending you today one of our illustrated catalogs of this school. We are not allowed to accept Creek Indians as students here as the Department has established a school system at their home in the Territory for them.

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Carlstie, Pa., Dec. 19, 1902.

Mr. Harry Bryant,
323 Green St.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear Sir :

We have cancelled your date, Jan. 7th, and shall await your subsequent assignment to some date in February, either the third or the fourth week of the month. Our commencement exercises occur on the 11th and 12th, so that it would not suit us the first and second weeks.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 20, 1902.

Lt. Col. George Leroy Brown,

Benicia Barracks, Cal.

My dear Brown :

It has occurred to me that inasmuch as I have for years carried more than two hundred and fifty extra students here and have been permitted by the Department to include in these fifty Alaskans and over forty Porto Ricans I might without any detriment but with real advantage to the Indian work undertake fifty Filipino youth. ; and this would leave more than one hundred extras over and above my appropriation for Indians. You understand I do this largely through the Outing and the use of public schools making them earn their own way, which is by all odds the best educational help for any youth.

I have submitted this to the Indian Bureau today. The Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, Honorable Federico Degetau, and the Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico, Mr. Lindsay, are both very urgent in desiring an increase in the number of Porto Ricans here, and I suggest that I be allowed to carry fifty Porto Ricans, fifty Alaskans and fifty Filipinos.

I write further to the Adjutant General on the same line today. If it should turn out that we can accomplish it, it may be I could get them to allow you to go to the Philippines and select the children, or they could be selected there and sent here under care of some officer or educator returning to the States and you could aid with your ideas.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 20, 1902.

Henry T. Coates & Co., Publishers,

Philad, Pa.

Gentlemen :

About this time last year I subscribed for "The Era" for Mr. L. L. Mason, Jamestown, N. Y., and for myself, subscriptions beginning with the January number. Please continue these to the same addresses for next year. Enclosed find my check for $2.00 to cover and send me receipted bill for same.

Yours truly,

Colonel.

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December 22, 1902.

John Wanamaker,
City Hall Square,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 20th instant stating
that Mrs. Edgar Marvin Hawkins(Nana Pratt Hawkins)
426 Spruce St., Steelton, Pa., desires to open an ac-
count with you and refers to me, and asking as to
her means, promptness and responsibility, I have to
advise you that Mrs. Hawkins will enter into no ob-
ligations which she will not promptly meet and I will
be responsible that your account with her will be en-
tirely satisfactory to yourself.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

William Hole in the day,

White Earth, Minn.

Dear William :

On Agent Michelet's recommendation I am today asking that a
ticket to Carlisle be placed with the agent of the Northern Pacific
Railroad at Detroit, Minn. to be delivered to you on order of Mr.
Michelet. Please use it at once. I have also sent Mr. Michelet an
application and consent blank which is to be carefully filled out
and sent with you.

Sincerely yours,

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will be unduly positive.

I have the Commissioner's permission to use the substance of
your letter to him in the answer I may make to the Chief of the
Bureau of Ethnology, but have long hesitated to make reply on the
ground that "Least said, soonest mended" is often the best way.

Carlisle is wanting fifty or sixty pupils to enable us to use
our appropriation. Can't you make up a party and bring in yourself
or send to us ?

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York City.

Gentlemen :

Enclosed find my check for $3.00 covering one year's subscrip-
tion to Scribner's Magazine, which please send beginning with this
Christmas number to Mrs. Edgar M. Hawkins, Steelton, Pa.

Send receipted bill to me.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

The Funk & Wagnalls Co.,
30 Lafayette Place,
New York City.

Gentlemen :

On Saturday last I sent you two subscriptions to "The Literary Digest". I now add another, and send herewith check for $2.60 to cover same, that being the price at which I an offered the "Digest" by subscription agencies. If this is not acceptable, advise and I will remit the balance.

Please send this to Mr. Edgar M. Hawkins, Steelton, Pa. I would thank you for receipted bill.

Yours truly,

Colonel.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

Miss Julia Sor too,
Univili, Indian School,
Pendleton, Ore.

Dear Friend :

I have referred your letter to Miss Gaiter stating that if it
is all right for you to come to Carlisle I will place transportation
for you upon notice fromer.

Yours truly,

ADHESIVE STAINS

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 5, 1901.

Major-General H. C. Corbin,
Adjutant General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :

Referring to my letter to you dated Dec. 5th in regard to the
education of Filipino youth in this country, and also to my personal
letter to you of the 18th in answer to your personal letter concern-
ing the Filipino boy, Estaban Gloria, now at Atlanta, Georgia, I have
to respectfully submit that if they can be landed in the United
States and the Legislative and Executive Departments do not object,
I am able under our present appropriation, aided by the charitable
help available at this school, without further appropriation from
Congress and without diminution in the number of Indian pupils to
undertake fifty Filipino youth.

If this movement is approved I would suggest that the expense
of landing them at some point in the United States might be borne by
the Insular Government, or they might be brought over in War Depart-
ment transports.

Should this proposition meet with favor the Insular Government
through its educational branches could make selections from the va-
rious tribes and peoples on the different islands. It is one of the
most important features of the Carlisle school that we have among our
pupils representatives from almost every Indian tribe in the United
States. Such selections having been made and the young people con-

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gregated, one or two returning educators or army officers would no
doubt undertake their care enroute.

It would be greater advantage to have about us many girls as
boys rather than all boys, and they should come from those who have
been under training in the insular schools so that their superior
qualities and possibilities were established. The ages should be
over twelve, preferably over fourteen, so that after finishing here
they would be mature and useful in various capacities on their re-
turn.

Very respectfully,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

Rev. Curtis P. Cos,
Baptist Orphanage,
Wood Island,
Kodiak, Alaska.

My dear Sir:

The box of dried cod and smoked salmon backs and the barrel of
salted salmon both came on Friday last and I have directed that
those of your young people who are here at the school sit together
at meals and be served with fish regularly. I will report on the
quality later.

Only four of the eleven are here, the remainder being in the
country attending public school and living in good families. We have
ever had other than excellent reports from any of them both as to
health and conduct. My outing agents are making the a tour of the
homes now, and have seen most of the children. They seem a happy
and contented lot, willing and tractable so that all who have any-
thing to do with them like them. Nikefir especially has made many
friends. This fall he has been a substitute on our first football
team and so has gotten around quite a little, to New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston, and Washington. While there the day after Thanksgiving
in company with other members of the team he called on the President
and was very graciously received. No doubt he has given you his own
report of that.

The addresses of those now out are as follows :

Padya Shellikoff C/o Chas. C. Bond, Ringoes, N. J.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1903.

Miss Hattie Pryor,
Owens, Nev.

My dear Hattie :

It is very pleasant to hear from your letter of Nov. 9th that you are well again and have found something to do, and that you are among those who are interested in you and treat you kindly.

Everyone is busy although this is vacation week and the schools are closed. The boys are getting greens ready for the gymnasium decorations. The Christmas tree this year is to be in the gymnasium and the whole school will see Santa Claus Christmas eve and have a social afterward.

Glad to hear Lena is improving. We often think of those who have gone out from the school, and though it sometimes takes a good while to get around and answer all the letters, we are always pleased when our old students think kindly enough of us to write and tell what they are doing. I like to keep in touch with them and know of their welfare. Information at first hand you know is always more acceptable than that which comes in a round-about way.

With kind regards to both yourself and Lena from all your friends
here,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1902.

Miss Bessie Gotholda,
C/o Mr. Selvy,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear Bessie :

Your letter has in it that which makes me feel glad because it tells of your good fortune in recovering from such a severe illness and your being in such a good home. You certainly have much to be thankful for. That your brother John has grown strong and well is also very good news. What makes me sad is what you have to say of Alice Leeds. We all remember her dearly.

We are in the midst of Christmas preparations. We have a common Christmas tree this year which will be set up in the gymnasium and all have their Santa Claus exercises together Christmas eve. The prospects for a good week of skating are very poor now, though we have had ice and snow for four weeks.

The school is in very good shape, with a thousand and twelve enrolled, fifty having in from Standing Rock, North Dakota in the past two months. Commencement this year will be on the 11th and 12th of February and there are forty-six in the graduating class.

Thank you for your good wishes. It is encouraging to be remembered with the gratitude which so many of our old students express.

With best wishes for a good New Year for you,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 23, 1902.

Mrs. H. M. Masales,
Harbor Springs, Mich.

Dear Madame :

I find that Charles Roberts is the young man you refer to. He
has read your letter and will write you.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 23, 1902.

Rev. Alex McMillan,
Rector, St. John's Episcopal Church,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Brother McMillan :

Your young people will be on hand Saturday evening as you ask.

Full lists will reach you tomorrow morning.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Stacy Matlack,
Uintah & Ouray Agency,
Whiterocks, Utah.

Dear Stacy :

I have your money order for Fifteen Dollars and thank you for
being so prompt.

Glad to hear you are getting along so well among the Utes. Letters from other ex-students and graduates who are following honorable civilized pursuits are very encouraging, and there is no end of evidence to prove what we assert about the Indians as against the unjust claims and stories constantly circulated by prejudiced people.

It was recently in St. Louis and Kansas helping to prosecute a fellow who has for years been using the names of our returned students and graduates in outrageous newspaper stories, and publishing as Carlisle graduates any Indians against whom he may be able to secure or invent some libellous story. You will see how the prosecution goes through the columns of "The Helper".

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Mr. James C. Stevenson,
New Castle, Pa.

My dear Sir :

Miss Burgess hands me your letter to her in which you speak of
the Porto Rican boy sent here from New Castle. I am happy to report
that the young man, Jose Ayarro, has made very great improvement. He
is now with Mr. George Schill at Jamison, Bucks Co., Pa., under our
outing, working for his board mornings and evenings and going to pub-
lic school. We have regular monthly reports from all students placed
out in this way, and our visiting agents make the rounds twice a
year, visiting them oftener if any special circumstances make that
seem best. Jose seems well contented and his employer likewise is
satisfied.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Esanetuch,

Kennett Square, Pa.

My dear little School-daughter :

I am very glad to have such a nice letter from you. It tells me
more than you really write in words. I see a happy little girl
among people whom she did not know until a few months ago, learning
many good and useful things that will enable her later to make her
own way without help from anyone. I wish all little Indian girls
could be in homes like yours.

The little girls you name are all well and happy, and although
this is holiday week they are busy as is everyone here, getting ready
for Christmas. We have a big Christmas tree in the gymnasium this
year and Santa Claus comes to all the boys and girls there.

Write me again sometime. It always makes your school-father feel
good to hear from his little girls.

Faithfully your friend,

You have just thirteen cents in bank.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Miss Adela Borelli,
Wildwood, N. J.

Dear Adela :

I am glad to know about your school affairs and hope you may
keep up in your studies. You need to pay very close attention to your
English, written as well as spoken. Advancement in other things you
know depends so largely upon your ability to tell clearly what you
want to say, so that others cannot misunderstand you.

Miss Ely will write you about your account as it is made up
from your reports.

We are in vacation here for a week and are hopeful that there
will be a chance for skating before it closes. All are well here
and busy with Christmas preparations. We have a Christmas tree and
sociable in the gymnasium this evening.

With kindest wishes for a Merry Christmas to you and a Happy
New Year,

 faithfully your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

John Dixon,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My dear John :

Letters from some of you old students are so few and far be-
tween that I have a great time keeping track of you at all. Yours of
the 8th made me feel good. As you know, I am always glad to know
of the welfare of those who have gone out from us to carry on their
own affairs as any citizen of the United States should. Mr. Nori
was in your neighborhood last fall and brought me word from a num-
ber.

Carlisle is running on much the same as in your day, but with
many additions and improvements. Its policy and purpose are just the
same and its fruits prove what I have always maintained, that the In-
dians want only a chance. At present we number one thousand and
thirteen, but we could still make room for other good students, for
forty-six will pass out as graduates in February. We should be very
glad to see some of you here at that time.

With kind remembrance from all your old friends, Misses Ely,
Cutter, Burgess, and myself,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Miss Rachel Patterson,
R. P. D., Route # 19,
Lewiston, New York.

My dear School-daughter :

I wanted to answer your first letter long ago, but now I can
answer that and the one you wrote Dec. 1st at the same time.

Since you wrote we have had several parties from western New
York and over fifty from North Dakota, so there are now one thousand
and thirteen students enrolled. Just now we are in vacation and most
of the teachers and a few of the boys and girls are away for the
week.

I note that you have found out where the trouble was which
caused your severe headaches and am glad to know you are fitted with
glasses that relieve you. Here at the school we are in excellent
health and if the cold weather holds on and the ice gets strong
enough on the pond to give us skating we shall have an exceptionally
good holiday season. We have a big Christmas tree for all in the gymnasium this year and after the exercises there this evening will have a sociable.

I was glad to hear from you, to know that you have found some-
thing to do, and that you remember your school and school-father so
kindly.

With kind regards and best wishes from your other friends here

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Thomas A. Metoxen,

Sagole, Wis.

My dear Thomas :

Your October letter went to Miss Burgess and though she returned
it long ago so many things have come between that I am only now
getting around to it and others that have lain as long. I have been
away three or four different times this fall on business connected
with the prosecution of a rascal who for years has been writing sto-
ries about Indians which circulate through the papers and hold up the
Carlisle school and its returned students and graduates to ridicule
and censure; and this with the regular round of work which becomes
heavier as the school increases has been somewhat unfavorable to my
personal correspondence.

Glad you still keep up interest in us. We should be glad to see
you here at commencement in February. A class of forty-six will
graduate, and their passing out will leave room for a number of good
students. At present we have enrolled one thousand and thirteen,
and could accommodate more, but do not feel that we ought to take any
under twelve on account of our industrial system; otherwise we
might have an unlimited number.

With kind regards to Elizabeth and best wishes for a prosperous
year,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

John Benson,

Unalaska, Alaska.

My dear John :

Your letter of Oct. 8th with the fifteen dollars came duly. It
was a few cents above your indebtedness.

Thank you for the red fox which was received before your let-
ter. It is certainly a very fine skin and I shall have something
made from it that will be useful. Mrs. Pratt and my daughters admire
it greatly and would be proud to wear it. That it came from my lit-
tle orderly makes it all the more prized.

What interesting experiences you have on those far-away shores
and what opportunities for a young man in that vast territory ! If
I had my youth again I certainly would be tempted to try my fortune
somewhere in that wonderful land !

This is vacation week and school is closed. We have one big
Christmas tree in the gymnasium for all and after the Santa Claus ex-
ercises this evening the boys and girls have a sociable. All are
looking forward to a chance for skating before the week ends, but
it is quite uncertain now whether the ice will be thick enough.
Our winter set in early, but has taken a relapse, and heavy rains
have spoiled the sleighing.

This will not reach you until long after Christmas and New Year
are past, but my good wishes are not for the season only, and there
are many here to join me in most affectionate greeting.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Mrs. Susie B. Ryan,
Oswego, Mont.

My dear Susie :

I thank you for your good letter of Oct. 29th. It is too bad
that answer has been delayed so long, for it was on my mind to write
you almost immediately. That you passed through heavy trials with-
out sinking under them is of very great concern to me, and if Car-
lisle and your determination not to disgrace it helped you to over-
come your difficulties, as you say, then so much the more interest
and gratitude we have that you held out. I congratulate you on
being so happily settled.

Our school is now quite full, one thousand and thirteen being
enrolled. Most of the teachers are away and we are in vacation and
busy as bees getting ready for our evening exercises which this year
will be held in the gymnasium.

Write me again. I am always glad to hear from those who have
passed out from the school, and particularly from those whom we re-
member so pleasantly as yourself.

All join me in best wishes for a prosperous year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1902.

Mr. N. Perrier,
P. O. Box # 8,
Ochelata, Creek Nation,
Indian Territory.

My dear Mr. Perrier :

I am very sorry to hear of your unfortunate condition, but can-
not send home Thomas as you ask. He is attending public school and is
getting along nicely and is not entitled to return home before the
expiration of the five years for which he was entered here. As he
came in '90, you see that is two years ahead. Your urgency for ahu-
gone and his final desertion on account of it last spring beats me
to say that with such a disposition toward the future of your boys
our efforts for them are very greatly impaired. You insisted that
Eugene could attend to your affairs, and if you had left him here
long enough to really accomplish something he could have been val-
uable to you. If he is now unable to meet your needs it is full
evidence that Thomas also needs further schooling. Please consider
the matter in the light of your son's right to school advantages;
and in your letters to him encourage him to keep on where he is.
Present opportunities mean so much to the boy, and the benefit of his
presence to you would be so very small in comparison that I should
very much regret anything that would cause him to desert as his broth-
er did. I do not doubt the emergency seems very great to you, but
I trust your fatherly interest will this time find some other way
out of the difficulty.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902.

Dear Brother Lawrence :

I have your two letters about Amelia Kennedy. This is a very great surprise because both Amelia and Henry Arthur were considered exceptionally good and well behaved students. Henry went to the country in April last but had hemorrhages and came back to the school in such condition that we thought best to send him home. Of course had I anticipated anything of the kind I should not have allowed either to go home. Henry had quite a little money and was abundantly able at the time he left here to help out. I think always the question of marriage is to be considered.

I like Captain Wagner's letter, and that they have been so kind as to open their doors and take care of Amelia quite touches me. I feel that they ought not to be at a loss on her account, and notwithstanding the difficulties in my way and the innumerable obligations I feel that it is best to see that they do not lose anything by it, particularly when the amount is so small. I therefore send you my check for twenty-five dollars and ask you to give it to Captain Wagner, not to save Amelia but to save them from the expense. I want it regarded as a contribution to the Society, and wish that you and they would make Amelia do all you can to pay for her conduct. There should be some punishment meted out in some way. So far as Henry is concerned I fear it is impracticable to reach him. He has gone to

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902.

Joseph Morris,
Temple, Mich.

Dear Joseph :

James McGregor arrived safely on the 24th, but has not started into school yet as this is vacation week. I trust he will be happy with us and use well all that Carlisle has to offer him.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902.

Rev. Edward Maraden,
Saxman, Ketchikan P. O.
Alaska.

My dear Edward :

I thank you for your letter of the 11th instant. What you give
me in regard to Mrs. Clark's children is right and I am very greatly
obliged to you for protecting us against children of that character.
What we want and what we ought to get all the time is the purely na-
tive children, both Indians and Alaskans. Unfortunately, Dr. Jack-
son's great heart often gets the better of him and he and other mis-
sionaries help to fill us up with children like Mrs. Clark's, which
is not fair nor strictly honest to the Government. At best I can
take only a very few more Alaskans and they ought to be exceptionally
good ones. If you have any such to send I shall be glad to take care
of them, and if you can get a very low rate from Ketchikan to Seat-
tle I will undertake the expense of their transportation clear
through. You would better notify me in advance so that I can ar-
range transportation from Seattle. You could arrange it yourself
from Saxman to Seattle and instruct the Company to send bill to me.

In order that consent and all such matters may be properly at-
tended to I enclose a quantity of application blanks which please use
in each case.

We shall be delighted to have from you anything for "The Red Man" at any time.

With most cordial Christmas and New Year greetings from us all,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902.

Mr. H. H. Fuller,
Howard City, Mich.

My dear Sir :

There are so many applications like yours for our band as to
make it utterly impossible to accept the engagements offered and keep
the members up satisfactorily in their school work, and I have been
compelled to limit their appearance before the public to such as seem
actually necessary in the interests of the school to educate the pub-
lic.

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Carlsile, Pa., Dec. 27, 1962.

Major J. W. H. Stouch,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Bartington, Okla.

My dear Major :

It slipped entirely out of my mind that I was going to send you
a copy of my letter to Rev. Sanford. I enclose it now, and should
like to have your reply to him to make use of if it is contradictory
as I know it will be to what he has said; but perhaps it would be
better not to use it unless the Commissioner directs. It seemed to
me he ought to be drawn out, and that was what I attempted to do.

How is White Buffalo getting on with his party ?

You probably heard that we were unable to hold the Wichita cor-
respondent at St. Louis. The whole matter therefore had to go over
until there is a new county attorney. Draper had two attorneys, one
Amador, the partner of the county attorney of Wichita. Of course the
county attorney was saying Draper. Judge Gordon succeeded in getting
out a warrant for Draper, but the judge of the court had to swear
Van Valkenburg himself and make a record of it and place it in the
hands of a marshal. The clerk of the court refused to issue the war-
rant, stating that he was instructed thereto by the county attorney.
The judge ordered him to do it and he declined to obey the judge.
The judge then told him in the presence of Val Valkenburg and Judge
Gordon that if he could find a way to do it he would put him in jail
for contempt of court. A nice legal condition in Wichita !

I am informed since that innumerable appeals are being made to
the Governor not to respect a request for extradition of Draper.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902.

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

To your letter of Commissioner :

For your personal and private information only I enclose three items from "The Chilocco Farmer and Stock Grower". In the October issue Mr. McCowan speaks of his Comanche party and then repeats the statement in the December number and gives a picture of Juanada Parker, daughter of Quannah Parker, showing her in her reservation dress before she entered school and her picture after she had entered Chilocco. Juanada was a student at Carlisle six years and six months, commencing in the beginning grade and reaching the sixth before she left, July 1901.

When we began here in the fall of '79 among our first students were three Comanches. In 1880 quite a large party came and we have not been without Comanches at any time since. Juanada, her two sisters and her brother were here for years.

I enclose also a clipping from "The Indian Leader" of Dec. 19th about Francis Red Tomahawk. The point I take exception to is the statement that he went home for vacation last summer. Tomahawk says he was at Haskell his full three years and had gone home to stay; was employed by a railroad company but when he had an opportunity to go to Carlisle he asked to do so and after an investigation of his case and on the judgment of Agent Bingenheimer Mr. Allen brought him. He has been a third team man on our football squad since arrival, but

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-2- Hon. W. A. Jones.

was allowed to substitute in a game or two. He says he was first
at home for one year and without any desire on his part was
transferred to Haskell, it being arranged between Mr. Pears and Mr.
Goodman. When asked why he was transferred he said it was to play
football. The fact that Haskell paid his transportation at the time
he went home last spring would seem proof positive that he had com-
pleted his period there.

I send you these items because they may come before you in some
other way and it is well for you to have our side of it now. If Tom-
chawk is not here by full right, as I believe he is, I shall at once
on protest from Mr. Pears or indication from you send him to Has-
kell. I always give instructions to agents collecting children for
Carlisle not to bring any who are obligated to other schools. All
the facts in Tomahawk's case were before Mr. Allen and Agent Bingen-
heimer. Mr. Allen was deceived in one boy from Oklahoma who lied to
him, as it appeared afterward that he was a runaway from Haskell. He
soon disappeared from here, so that odds are even.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1902.

To The Honorable,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Commissioner :

The enclosed is a duplicate copy of my reply to Major Scott's
request that I accept here a runaway from at least two other schools,
which letter is also herewith. Please read.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1902.

Miss Clara G. Miller,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Clara :

Please have your cousin fill out the enclosed application blank
His parents and the doctor can fill out the blanks intended for them.
The paper should then be returned to me. If everything is right I
will place transportation for him. You understand that we cannot
accept students now who have less than one fourth Indian blood, and
prefer only those who are full or nearly full Indian.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Dec. 27, 1902.

E. O. Gildit,
109 Huron St.,
Albion, Mich.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your inquiry of the 23rd instant, I enclose to you
copy of our school paper 'The Red Man' containing a refutation of the
story of Montezuma, the Sioux ex-student and bootblack; also several late numbers of the paper giving something of our effort at
prosecuting a writer of libelous stories about Indians and graduates
of this school.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1902.

Miss Ollie Saunoke,
Cherokee, N. Car.

Dear friend :

Replying to your letter about Manus Screamer, I have to advise
you that Manus came for five years and is therefore not entitled to
return home at this time. He needs the opportunities he has here
more than you can need him at home, I am sure. Just at this time he
is visiting a family near Carlisle with whom he lived in the summer.
He is getting on along very well, and can be of much greater service
to you after he has had a chance to prepare himself than he could
possibly be now.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

J. Donald McIntosh,
Fort Grant, Arizona.

Dear Donald :

Your postal card of the 18th tells so little of yourself that we are almost as much in the dark as before concerning your doings. We are always glad to know what has become of our graduates and former students, and a very great number do write us often enough to enable us to keep some track of them.

We have just passed through a short vacation period and are again down to work. We expect to graduate a class of forty-six in February. The exercises will be on the 11th and 12th. Have had a very successful year so far, - one thousand and fourteen are on the rolls now.

With best wishes,

Aithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

Jacob Smith,
450 S. Main St.,
Ashville, N. Car.

Dear Jacob :

From your letter of the 21st I see you are quite well again and
I am very glad to know it. Thank you for your Christmas greeting. We
had a very enjoyable time here. Our exercises were held Christmas
are in the gymnasium, one large Christmas tree serving for all. Can-
ry and presents were distributed, we had band music and closed with
a sociable.

The photograph you enclose looks like a school-house. Are you
attending school in Ashville and is this your school building ? You
give no explanation.

School began here this morning after a week's vacation. Commencement follows in about six weeks and there is much to do before that time.

With best wishes for a good New Year,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

Mr. Charles L. Adams,
Sept. Cataract Mines,
Quincy, Cal.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter of the 16th instant with its enclosure for
Louis Giraud, but am unable to deliver it just now as Louis took
French leave with several other boys last night. The police and
railroad officials have been notified and are on the lookout for
them and if the boys pass their way they will be arrested and returned to
them here. I regret to say that Louis's conduct has not been exemplary
here. I trust, however, when he is returned to the school, we may
be able to get him into better disposition. Boys who have never
known any restraint often find the regularity and discipline here
somewhat irksome at first, but after seeing the need for it and the
benefit to themselves, adjust themselves to conditions and become
contented and interested students. We have just had a week's vac-
cation for the holidays when there is considerable let-up, and this
I fear is in a measure responsible for the trouble.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

Mrs. G. Lydick,
Cass Lake, Minn.

Dear Mrs. Lydick :

Your telegram was received Christmas day and answered immediate-
ly. Charles is very well and received your Christmas presents as my
return telegram stated. You will hear from him direct shortly. We
require all students to write at least once a month to their parents
and in order that there may be no failure it is attended to in school.
This does not bar them from writing as often as they please, and we
encourage weekly letters but do not compel them.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col., 15th Cavalry, Dept.

TELEGRAM

Dec. 29,

George Lydick,
Cass Lake, Minn.

Charles just in office. In excellent health. Received Christmas
presents.

Prett. Colless

W. S. Collector.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

Mr. G. D. Hodgkinson,
Sisseton, S. Dak.

In accordance with instructions from the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs I accept of the Indian girl, Ida May Sawyer, as a student here and have asked that a ticket to Carlisle be placed with the logs of the C. M. & St. P. R. R. at Sisseton to be delivered to you for her use. Please have her come at once and notify me when she arrives so that we may be on the lookout for her. The railroad agent will probably apprise you when the arrangement is complete, which ought to be within a day or two after receipt of this letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 29, 1902.

Mr. John Davine,

Tulsa, Ind. By.

My dear Sir :

Relying to your letter of Dec. 25th, I regret to tell you that
your son Lewis ran away with another boy from his country home May
14th, and though we have police and railroad officials on the lockout
for us nothing has been heard from the boy since, and I can give
you no idea of his whereabouts. We supposed he had reached home.
If we hear anything about him, will inform you at once, and I should
be glad for anything you may learn about him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Mr. Richard Heyl,
227 N. Second St.,
Camden, N. J.

Dear Richard :

First, I send the good wishes of the season to you and yours.
Next, on the evening of January 8th I am to give an Indian talk be-
fore I judge something of an audience at Wilmington, Delaware under
the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., and would like to have you join me
in Philadelphia sometime that afternoon if you will and go down with
me and be present at the meeting. If the way opens I want you to be
ready to use five or ten minutes in talking. My judgment is that
something of the spirit of your letters to "The Red Man" and covering
your own experiences and what you think would happen to Indians gen-
erally if they were given the same opportunities you had, would be
the best thing. You are the most convenient and best representative
of what I would like for Indians and there is nothing like having an
example on hand.

Next, I want you to be present at our commencement exercises on
the 11th and 12th of February. If practicable bring Mrs. Heyl with
you.

Please write me promptly on receipt of this about the trip to
Wilmington.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Mr. E. O. Sellers,
Gen. Secy., Y. M. C. A.,
1007 Market St.,
Wilmington, Del.

My dear Sir :

There is a young Apache Indian at work in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Camden who is a good illustration of what may be done with a wild Indian who locates in civilization and has the benefits of the public schools and such opportunities as fall to the general lot of the well-to-do American boy. He is able to make a few remarks and I think best to invite him to accompany me to Wilmington and let him use five or ten minutes of the time. Unless you see any objection to this I will endeavor to arrange it as a part of the program for my evening of the 8th prox.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Miss Vasha Nakootkin,
North Wales, Pa.
My dear Vasha :-

The little piece of needlework was very pretty and Mrs. Pratt and I both appreciate your thought of us and your kind greeting. We had a very pleasant Christmas, but Mrs. Pratt has been quite sick since and is only now able to get outside the house. We had one large Christmas tree in the gymnasium for everybody, and it looked very pretty with the candy and presents piled around it. The electric light people put in colored lamps for us in place of candles. After we were all gathered around it Santa Claus came in and the presents were distributed.

Everyone is down to work again. It is just six weeks till commencement and the classes want to accomplish a great deal before that time.

You say nothing about school, but I judge from what I hear that you are getting along nicely. We are pretty full here. At present there are one thousand and fifteen pupils enrolled.

With best wishes for a good year to you, I am

Your loving friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Paul Logan,
Wakefield, Mass.

Dear Paul :

I have made some inquiry concerning you, and on your request to
done here will place transportation to Carlisle for you when you no-
tify me where and when you wish it. Enclosed is an application
blank. Please fill out your own part carefully, have your father and
mother fill out their parts, and the Indian agent and physician
fill theirs. Return to me with the information asked above, when I
will act.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Miss Sarah E. Hayes,
Sherman Institute,
Riverside, Cal.

My dear Friend :

I should not know you under your new name, or rather the name
you have just begun to use. I have not forgotten you at all, and am
glad you gave me your old name also so I could tell who was writing
to me.

How is it that you wanted to go home if you were going off to
school again in the fall ? We certainly looked for you here if you
were to go to any Indian school.

In regard to the money, Maggie Hill has no money here that she
can spend and will not earn any before next summer. It is rather un-
fortunate that you loaned her money, and that having loaned you did
not have it settled before you went home.

We have just gone through a short vacation season on account of
Christmas and enjoyed the holidays very much. Most of the teachers
went away and some of the girls and boys and we had a few visitors
from country homes; but all have returned and everyone is at work
again. It is only six weeks until commencement when promotions will
be made. There has been snow here since the first week in December.
As I write I hear the shouts of skaters on the pond below the laundry

All are well, and the school is pretty full, one thousand and
fifteen being enrolled today.

With best wishes,

With all the best for you and your friends.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 30, 1902.

Margaret W. Leighton,
Malrose Highlands, Mass.

Dear Madam :

The only Indian word I have been able to get meaning "little bright eyes" is Sioux "Esta wu-yak-pa-la", pronounced as marked. I fear this will not be suitable for your purpose.

I know of no published work giving names of wild animals, birds etc., but suggest that you write to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. If there is such a publication they can probably inform you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1, 1902.

Rev. Dr. Geo. Edward Reed,
Pres., Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Doctor :

When yours of the 20th instant in regard to James E. Johnson
came he was in the West and I wished to show it to him before remark-
ing upon it. I regret that James has not reached higher grades in
his studies, but under the circumstances must give him credit for
having passed in everything. The coming term, I am sure, will show
him up in a better light. He has been at the head of our small boys
as Assistant Disciplinerian. This added to the extreme demands of
football hindered him quite a little. By filling this position he
gets the money to meet his college expenses, and while I ask no con-
ditions for him and don't think any should be made on that or any
that account, it ought to be known to you and to his instructors
that he is doing this extra work in addition to athletics.

As James has been elected captain of the football team for next
fall it will be better to make some provision and excuse him from the
uty of assistant disciplinerian during the fall campaign. Before
leaving for home it was doubtful whether he would continue here after
this year as a scholarship at Yale was open to him. I told him I was
beginning discouraged by our boys getting a start at Dickinson going
off to some other institution, and that his interests would be served
at least as well by remaining here. He has now reached this conclu-
sion himself and expresses a determination to stand by his change
here and at Dickinson.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Adam Jones,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 29th ult., from all I can find out about you from those who have come from Onondaga and know you, you seem to be entirely too old for admission here. We prefer students between twelve and eighteen years of age, but do take those who are twenty-one if they seem very much in earnest. Older than that we must get the approval of the Department. My information is that you are between twenty-five and thirty years old, which is quite beyond the limit.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Mrs. H. Fairchild,
Irving, New York.

Dear Madam :

Relying to your letter of the 1st instant, I have called Jesse Kinjockety to my office and he acknowledges the debt, $2.44, and states that he has no money at present, but that his aunt inVERSILES, Mrs. Elizabeth Pierce, has some money belonging to him and that he will write her to send you the amount for him. If it is not settled in this way and you notify me, I will see that it is paid when Jesse earns money here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded
to invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you have
been chosen to come from the non-graduates.

If you could bring with you a few good pupils I could pay your
expenses from Government funds; but if you cannot do that I shall
pay them from other resources. It has been a long time since we had
any word from you. Write me at once whether you can come, in order
that I may make the necessary arrangements.

With kind regards from all your friends here,

Miss Josie Vetter,
Rulo, Nebraska.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1, 1903.

Ms. Jemima Wheelock Webster,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear School-daughter :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded
to invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you have
been chosen to come from your class.

If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then
pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I
shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should
prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to
pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once if you can come and how in order that I may
make the necessary arrangements.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Joel Tyndall,
Indian School,
Yuma, Arizona.

Dear Joel :

Show this letter, and if you can, get permission from your su-
periors and I will ask further permission from the Department. If
you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your
expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay
them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having
you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer
to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay
your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once if you can come and how, in order that I may
make the necessary arrangements.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Stacy :

Show this letter to your superiors and if you can, get their
permission, and I will ask further permission from the Department.
If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then
pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I
shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but
expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once whether you can come and how, in order that I
may make the necessary arrangements.

Faithfully your friend,

Mr. Stacy Matlock,
Indian School,
White Rocks, Utah.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Levi :

Show this letter to your superior and if you can, get his per-
mission and I will ask further permission from the Department. If
you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then pay
your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall
pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of hav-
ing you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should pre-
fer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to
pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

With kind regards,

Mr. Levi Levering,
Fort Wall Indian School,
Blackfoot, Idaho.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1, 1902.

My dear Edwin :

Show this letter to Mr. Wall and if you can, get his permission
and I will write him also and will ask further permission from the
Department. If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I
can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do
that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the grati-
fication of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going
class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation;
but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that
end.

Faithfully your friend,

Mr. Edwin Schanandore,
Sherman Institute,
Riverside, Cal.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

Show this letter and if you can, get permission from your su-
periors there and I will ask further permission from the Department.
If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay
your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall
pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of hav-
ing you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should pre-
fer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay
your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Mrs. Lydia Flint Spencer,
Seneca, Indian School,
Wyandotte, I. T.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Dennison :

Show this letter to Mr. Peairs and if you can, get his permis-
sion and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you
can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your ex-
penses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them
from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having you
help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to
have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay your
way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write at once if you can come and how, in order that I may make
the necessary arrangements.

Mr. Dennison Wheelock,
Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kans.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Harry :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded to
invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employees and you have
been chosen to come from your class.

If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then
pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I
shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but
expect to pay your way anyhow if you can come.

Write me at once whether you can come <u>and how</u>, in order that I
may make the necessary arrangements.

With best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

Mr. Harry Kehpay,

Pawhuska, Okla.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

William Denomie,

Reserve, Wis.

My dear William :

Show this letter to your superiors and if you can, get perma-
sion to be absent for this purpose and I will ask further permission
from the Department. If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two
to six, I can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you
cannot do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the
gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going
class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation,
but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that
end.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Thomas Blackbear,

Porcupine, S. Dak.

Dear Thomas :

If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can
then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that
I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but
expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs there.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Ben :

If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then
pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I
shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of
having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should
prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to
pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end. Show this
letter to Major Scott and if you can get permission from him I will
ask further permission from the Department.

Faithfully your friend,

Mr. Benj. Caswell,
Indian School,
Class Lake, Minn.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-son :

Show this letter and if you can, get permission from your super-
tors and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you
can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your ex-
penses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them
from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having you
help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to
have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay your
way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once if you can come <u>and how</u>, in order that I may
make the necessary arrangements.

Mr. Hugh Soucea,
Indien Training school,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Delos Lonewolf,

Lonewolf, Okla.

Dear Delos :

I understand you are not now in Government employ, but if you
are you would better show this to Colonel Randlett and get his per-
mission if you can, and I will ask further permission from the De-
partment. If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can
them pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that
I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but ex-
pect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once if you can come <u>and how</u> , in order that I may
make the necessary arrangements.

Delos Lonewolf,

Lonewolf, Okla.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter:

Show this letter to your superiors and if you can, get their
permission and I will ask further permission from the Department. If
you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your
expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay
them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having
you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer
to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay
your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Wish best wishes for a good new year,

Miss Alice Parker,
Indian School,
Ponsford, Minn.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear David :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded to
invite to Carlisle at least one graduate from each class and several
of those who left us before we began to graduate. Selection was sub-
mitted to five of our oldest employes and you have been chosen to
come from your class.

If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can
then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that
I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but ex-
pect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange to come.

With best wishes for a good new year,

David McFarland,
Lapwai, Idaho.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear William :

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

If you are in Government employ show this letter to your super-
iors and if you can, get their permission, and I will ask further
permission from the Department. If you can bring with you a few
good pupils, two to six, I can then pay your expenses from Government
funds; but if you cannot do that I shall pay them from other resour-
ces. Aside from the gratification of having you help to balance the
loss of the out-going class I should prefer to have the Government
pay your transportation, but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can
arrange affairs at that end.

With kind regards and best wishes for a good new year to both
yourself and Mr. Simpson,

Mrs. Martha Owl Simpson,
Hupa, Cal.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded
to invite to Carlisle at our expense one graduate from each class
and several of those who left us before we began to graduate. Se-
lection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you have
been chosen to come from your class.

Show this letter to your superiors, and if you can, get their
permission and I will ask further permission from the Department.
If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay
your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall
pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of hav-
ing you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should
prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to
pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

With kind regards and best wishes for a good new year,

Miss Edith Smith,
Oglala Boarding School,
Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Edward :

If you can get permission from the college authorities to be absent for this purpose we shall be very glad to have you with us.

Faithfully your friend,

Edward Rogers,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minn.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Henry Redkettle,

Kyle, S. Dak.

My dear Henry :

If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange to come.

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Carliella, Phil, Jan. 2, 1908.

My best School-daughter :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-eight. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distribution and have concluded
to invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
State and several of those who left us before we can be graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employees and you have
been chosen to come from your class.

Show this letter to Mr. Lemmon and if you can, get his permit-
sion and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you
can bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your ex-
penses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them
from other sources. Aside from the gratification of having you
help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to
have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay you
way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

With best wishes for the new year,

Faithfully your friend and school-father.

Mrs. E. Lillian Complainville Keller,
School Institute,
Grand Junction, Colo.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

Show this letter to Mr. Spray and if you can, get his permission
and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you can
bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can then pay your trans-
portation from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay
them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having
you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer
to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay
your way anyway if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write up at once if you can come and how, in order that I may
make the necessary arrangements.

With kind regards to Mr. and Mrs. Spray and best wishes for
yourself,

Miss Annie George,
Indian School,
Cherokee, N. Car.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

Edward Peters,

Caldwell, Mich.

My dear Edward :

If there should be in your neighborhood several good pupils
whom you could bring with you, two to six, I could pay your expenses
from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them from
other resources Aside from the gratification of having you help to
balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to have the
Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay your way anyhow
if you can come.

Write me at once whether you can come _and how_, in order that I
may make the necessary arrangements.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

Show this letter to your superiors and if you can, get their
permission and I will ask further permission from the Department.
If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then
pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I
shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but ex-
pect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear school-daughter :

Show this to your superiors and if you can, get their permission
and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you can
bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then pay your
expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay
them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having
you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer
to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay
your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

With kind regards from us all,

Miss Pasquala Anderson,
Indian School,
Toreva, Arizona.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-son ;

Lilian is here from Bloomburg, but will return in a few days.
You know of course that she graduates this year.

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Carlsisle. Pa., May 2, 1903.

Dear Sam :

If you can bring with you a few good pupils, I can then pay your expenses from government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect anyhow to pay your way if you can arrange to come.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear School-daughter :

If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can
then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that
I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification
of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I
should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but ex-
pect to pay your way anyhow if you can come.

Write to me at once whether you can come and how, in order that I
may make the necessary arrangements.

332

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1903.

Ralph Iron Eagle Feather,
Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear Ralph :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded
to invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you were
chosen to come from the non-graduates.

If you are in Government employ show this to your superiors and
if possible, get their permission, and I will ask further permission
from the Department. If you can bring with you a few pupils, two to
six, I can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you can-
not do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the
gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going
class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation,
but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that
end.

Write me at once whether you will come and how, in order that I
may make the necessary arrangements.

Seven of the graduating class are Sioux.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1905.

Edgar FireThunder,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear Edgar :

If you are in Government employ show this to your superiors and
if possible get their permission and I will ask further permission
from the Department. If you can bring with you a few good pupils,
two to six, I can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if
you cannot do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from
the gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-
going class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transpor-
tation, but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs
at that end.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1903.

My dear Frank :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being
the largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded to
 invite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each
class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate.
Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you have
been chosen to come from your class.

We shall be very glad to have you with us, and trust you can ar-
range to come. Write me at once whether you will come, in order
that I may make the necessary arrangements.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1903.

John Dixon,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dear John :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. Being our
largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded to in-
vite to Carlisle at our expense at least one graduate from each class
and several of those who left us before we began to graduate. Five of
our oldest employes have been helping me to make selections and you
have been chosen to come from the non-graduates.

I understand from your recent letter that you have entered the
Indian service at Santa Fe. If this is so, you would better show
this letter to your superiors and if possible get their permission,
and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you can
bring with you a few pupils, two to six, I can pay your expenses from
government funds; if you cannot, I will cover them from other resour-
ces. It would be gratifying to have you help balance the loss of the
out-going class, but aside from this I should prefer to have the Gov-
ernment pay your transportation. I expect to pay your way anyhow
if you can arrange to come.

With kind regards from your friends here,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1903.

My dear school-daughter :

Our fifteenth commencement is to be on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February. The graduating class numbers forty-seven. This being our largest class I wish to give it distinction and have concluded to invite to Carlisle at least one graduate from each class and several of those who left us before we began to graduate. Selection was submitted to five of our oldest employes and you were chosen to come from the non-graduates.

If you are in Government employ show this letter to your Indian Agent and other superiors and get their permission if you can and I will ask further permission from the Department. If you can bring with you a few good pupils, two to six, I can then pay your expenses from Government funds; if you cannot do that I shall pay them from other resources. Aside from the gratification of having you help to balance the loss of the out-going class I should prefer to have the Government pay your transportation, but expect to pay your way anyhow if you can arrange affairs at that end.

Write me at once whether you can come and how, in order that I may make the necessary arrangements,

Mrs. Laura Doanme,
C/O Lt. Col. James F. Handlett,
K Iowa Agency,
Anadarko, Okla.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1903.

Rev. Geo. Pax,
Glencoe, Minn.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your s of the 30th ult., we have no year book of
this school except the illustrated catalog which was issued last
spring, copy of which I send you.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1903.

Miss Abania Edna Davis,
Reidsford, Pa.

Dear Miss Davis :

Your letter of Dec. 15th came in the hurry of holiday preparations, was referred to our Girls' Department and there shelved until vacation had passed. Miss Lizzie Wirth, one of our pupils from Montana, has written you and will cheerfully give you any information you wish, so far as she is able.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

Mrs. Annie Gesis Pierce,
Irving, New York.

My dear Annie :

I send you three application blanks for the children you speak of, but unless they are over twelve years of age I cannot take them. They must be in good health as shown by examination by Dr. Lake, of good character as shown by endorsement of someone who knows them,- if you or a Relative can certify to that it will be all right;-and they must be at least one fourth Indian in order to enter Carlisle. When the papers are returned to me I will arrange further, but it will not be worth while to expect me to accept them unless these conditions are all fulfilled.

With kind regards and best wishes,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

James Stuart,

Kooskia, Idaho.

Dear James :

I have yours of the 23rd ult. with the ten dollars enclosed.
In regard to rates east I will gladly arrange that you have a half
rate to Chicago and a rate a little above half Chicago to Carlisle.
If you can bring me as many as five good students, part girls, above
twelve years of age, preferably above fourteen, under twenty, prefer-
ably under eighteen, in good health and of good character, and at
least one fourth Indian, preferably full Indian, I will cover your
expenses as escort coming and returning home, and also your expenses
in making up the party.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1905.

Col. George LeRoy Brown,

Senicia Barracks, Cal.

My dear Brown :

A letter from Colonel Edwards advises me that copy of my letter
has gone forward to the Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands,
Manila, P. I., for the consideration of the Philippine Commission.

that "The matter of sending young Filipinos to the United States for education is one that comes within the jurisdiction of the Philippine Commission and, it is understood, is probably under consideration by that body", and that as soon as a reply is received I will be informed.

I have yours of the 28th ult. and note what you say about Hall.
I am inclined to think he will not be changed from his present place
but doubt whether he will be allowed to receive Filipinos unless he
can do as I should, take them outside Government expense.

I have not been well for several days, but am better now. There
is some question as to my continuing here after my promotion which is
likely to occur soon after Henniesee's retirement on the 16th. Swi-
gert is up for retirement, but will probably remain until promoted
by Henniesee's retirement and then himself retire at once as he will
never perform duty again. That will give me my promotion at that time
if none of the other indicated changes take place before. Whether
they will leave a colonel of cavalry here is to me somewhat doubtful.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

John W. Miller,
State Normal School,
Bloomington, Pa.

Dear John :

We wanted you here to have your picture taken with the class,
but as it was impracticable to accomplish that we have procured
from one of the boys here a picture of you which can be reduced in
size and fitted on to the class picture.

We shall hope to have you here at Commencement to receive your diploma with the others.

The ticket has been received here. With kind regards and best
wishes,

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I. Col. John P. Nicholson, Recorder,
139 S. Eleventh St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

January 5, 1903.

Dear Sir :

Enclosed find my check for $5.00 covering dues for 1902. I have not received the new Registry and should be glad to have a copy.

Fraternally yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

Dear Brother Trippe :

On May 14th last Wilton John, a seneca from Gwanda, New York, who entered this school in October 1901, deserted from his country home with Lewis Javine, a small Osage boy who had been placed by us in the same home. Nothing has been heard of either, and the father of Lewis is very anxious as to his son's whereabouts. Will you kindly make inquiry and if you find Wilton John in your neighborhood or the places you visit I would be very glad if you would have an interview him and if possible learn what he knows about the other boy, what direction he took, etc. It is possible he accompanied Wilton to New York.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

Dear Brother Lawrence :

Wilton John, a Seneca Indian, who came to us from Gowanda in October, 1901, deserted from his country home May 14th with Lewis Javine a small boy from the Osage Agency who was working at the same place. Nothing has been heard of either and we supposed both had reached their homes. I now have a letter from John Javine, of Tulsa, I. T., father of Lewis, indicating much anxiety as to his son's where abouts. It is possible the boy accompanied Wilton John to his home and is now in your neighborhood. Will you please make inquiry in regard to John and if you can learn anything from him about the direction taken by Lewis, I should be greatly obliged if you notify me.

I will pay the expenses of yourself or anyone coming and returning who will bering to Carlisle one or both of the boys.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1903.

John Javine,
Tulsa, I. T.

My dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 51st ult, in regard to your son Lewis,
I am today making inquiry of the memoraries in western New York
about Wilton John, Seneca, with whom Lewis left his country home, and
whose home is in that neighborhood. If I learn anything that will
help to locate your boy I will inform you at once. Should he be on
the Seneca reserve I will find him and bring him back to the school.

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fancy carpenter work and tools and I believe with a little teaching
he would become an expert as well as a useful mechanic.

I would like very much, if you can so arrange, to have him finish
his education at Carlisle as a carpenter and believe you will have
no hesitancy in accepting him as an inmate of your school.

I think you know the history of this boy without my repeating
it now. He has been under my charge since 1874, and has been reared
and taught as one of the family.

Let me hear from you when convenient.

To that I replied as follows :

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1887.

First. Lt. C. H. Hayl,
23rd Infy.

Sir :-

It will be easy to get Department consent, and I will be glad
to take your advice, and will, if after this letter you think it
best, His ten years of living outside of Indian life, has, by your
account, advanced him so that he would be good leaven in our great
mass of unleaven, but would it be best for him ?

My advications are all against congregating Indians in any form
in schools or reservations, and as I can I disperse them from here.
Over a hundred of our pupils are now out in white schools and in
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the way of fitting them in capacity and courage to meet the issues
of civilized life.

With the qualities your boy has acquired, it seems to me you
might easily apprentice him to a good carpenter, where his surround-
ings will continue to be above him and so he be compelled to climb.
If he comes here the chances are that nine out of ten of his asso-
ciates will be below him, and that will unavoidably have its effect
to hinder his gain. Besides this our carpenter instruction, while
quite as good as it can be made in school, is more or less theoreti-
cal, and lacks the range of regular business, and therefore does not
at all compare with the training of regular shops.

Having said this much, I leave it to you to send your boy here
or not. If you send him we shall of course do all we can to improve
him in the lines you desire.

The boy was not sent to Carlisle to learn to be a carpenter.
Instead he was apprenticed in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in Camden to become a machinist. I introduce to you "Dick", in other
words, Mr. Richard Hujl, a reputable citizen of the city of Camden
New Jersey, who was captured by my army friend in the operations of
our troops in Arizona, who is a genuine, full-blooded Apache, that
tribe to which the people of Arizona and their representative in Con-
gress so entirely deny the common rights of humanity. This repre-
sentative told Congress, "We can no more civilize the Apache than we

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the Pan-American in Buffalo applied for an Indian to take charge of
and explain the Indian exhibit. Mr. Gansworth was available and
went. Instead of keeping him a month as arranged, the authorities
found him so useful that they begged for and were allowed to keep
him through to the close of the Exposition. He returned to Carlisle
as assistant disciplinarian, then taught for a time, and when I was
looking for someone to take charge of what we call the Outing, under
which system we now have 150 to 175 boys out every winter on farms
working for their board and attending public school, and in the sum-
mer four hundred at regular farm work, I gave the place to him be-
cause he had been an outing subject himself and had had experiences
which made him especially valuable. He had the interests of the In-
dians at heart and was entirely capable of meeting the issues of any
difficult cases that might come up. Mr. Gansworth belongs to that
tribe of Indians which gave to this Government not very long ago his-
torical General Eli Parker, during the war a trusted aide of General
Grant's and afterward when Grant was President Commissioner of In-
dian Affairs. Later he became engineer of the city of New York,
which position he filled until his recent death. One peculiarity of
General Parker's when Commissioner, as told me by old employees in
the Indian Office, was to decide all business coming before him on
the day it was presented. General Parker was educated away from his
tribe and sought employments and remained away from his tribe, else
he had never been Brigadier General in the army, Commissioner of In-
dian Affairs, and engineer of New York City.

Mr. Gansworth, a Seneca, is from one of those incongruous Indian

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reservations in the great state of New York which are just as effective at keeping the Indians worthless as the western and other reservations.

Mr. Gansworth speaks.

Official statistics tell us there are 270,000 Indians in the United States proper, omitting Alaska. This is about the population of the city of Washington. I venture to say that never in the history of the world has there been a people which caused another people so much trouble and expense through so long a series of years. The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs very recently declared that the Indians in one way and another had cost the United States a billion dollars. What the cost has been in human life it would be difficult even to conjecture. They have been driven from their homes to reservations, some of them from reservation to reservation, and there imprisoned under guard. The driving and guarding has cost us many thousands of the lives of our people, but more Indian lives have been taken by us because we had the best and most destructive equipment.

Have we at any time, in any sense, given him a fair chance in dealing with this red man or in the telling of our intercourse with him? Read any of our American histories either general or for the special instruction of our youth and what is the opinion of the Indian to be formed from such reading? Recently a historian asked me to read and comment upon a chapter on Indians he proposed in a his-

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tory of the United States he is writing. Let me quote.

"We have read of the Indian wars of colonial days -- of the horrible massacres, the inhuman tortures; of the bands of hideous warriors who roamed over hills and valleys, seeking out the peaceful abode of the industrious pioneer, who with his devoted wife and loving children, had sought to make a home in the wilderness -- of those who these painted fiends dashing with dreadful yells upon the harmless family, training the astonished husband and father with the tomahawk before the eyes of the wife and children; stopping the shrieks of the fond wife only by striking her down also, to die quivering in her husband's blood; seizing the terrified children and carrying them away into hopeless and life-long captivity! We have all heard the baleful story; and it is not fiction; it is the truth, and was enacted hundreds of times."

The Indian often tortured his captive. He would flag him alive, cut out his tongue, or burn him to death over a slow fire. And he would gloat with the joy of a fiend over the dying agonies of his foe. For this no excuse or palliation can be offered.

The most hopeless feature in connection with the Indian problem is that the race seems inevitable of civilization. Most wild animals are capable of taming and training; but there are some exceptions. So it is with man.

Their learning the use of firearms and of the horse has greatly

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changed their mode of life, but has not brought them civilization.
Their centuries of contact with the most enlightened race of the
earth has profited them nothing, -- not because they have lacked
opportunity, not because they were crowded from their original homes,
not even because of a want of native intelligence, but because they
have fought against the arts of civilized life and resisted it to
the death. Ages of contact with civilization has produced no per-
ceptible aspiration to improve his own condition, to make his race
a world-force, or to elevate it above the state of barbarism. The
Indian's contact with the white man has in the main proved a curse
to him rather than a blessing; for he has absorbed the vices without
the virtues of an enlightened people.

Such is the American Indian of today; such he was three hundred
years ago. What will his future be ?

On reading this and knowing the similar assertions in our school
histories I was interested to learn the impressions such histories
made on our Indian girls and boys in the higher classes, and asked
them to furnish me some extracts from their school histories in re-
gard to Indians that they object to and give me their objections. I
was soon provided with a large collection. Let me read you several.

A Public boy gives the following :

" The Indians were unsurpassed for cruelty. It was their cher-
ished custom to put captives to death with lingering tortures.

- John Fiske, Litt. D., L. L. D., Instructor in Media-
val History and Lecturer on Philosophy, Harvard
University.

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The historian was mistaken in his idea that the Indians were unsurpassed in cruelty. For example, take the Apaches, the most savage of Indians, and the Pueblos, the most peaceable. These two tribes were in constant wars with each other in the early days. Many stories have been told me by the old Pueblos about their battles with the Apaches. There were several men of my tribe who could speak both Apache and Navajo. These men were once captives and were held for ransom. They all said they were well treated.

When the Pueblos had any captives they were well taken care of. John Fiske got his idea that the Indians were cruel because they treated the white man so; but the red man learned to torture his prisoners from his talented Christian brother, the Anglo-Saxon. As a rule the Indians are not cruel. Look up the Dark Ages in English history, the ancient days of Rome, etc. and compare their cruelties. Remember, the latter are supposed to be civilized.

It was very seldom that the Indians burned anybody. In the daily papers we often read where a negro has been burned at the stake. Is it barbarous and fiendish for the Indians to burn people and not fiendish for the white people to do the same thing? Why don't historians record the bad deeds the savage white people do?

Is it according to God's laws and teachings that a superior race should do and teach all manner of vices and crimes to an inferior race? The Indians are just as good as the white people. When at home I live near the station and there is gambling and drinking going on there by the few white men employed by the Railroad Company. I used to go with other Indian boys to watch these games. When my

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father found that out he made some rules for me to follow. I was
to chop wood the first two hours every morning; the next two hours
to bring my mother water if any was needed, etc. After dinner I
could go hunting and fishing. He bought me a fishing outfit and a
gun so that I should stay away from those gambling and swearing white
people from whom the young Indians get their ideas of evil ways..
The men that teach the Indians these things call the attention of
the other white people to these bad Indians.

How dare historians bring the Indians before the world as bad
men when they have been put in ruts of degradation by the Anglo-Sax-
on?

Here is another by a Sisseton Sioux girl from South Dakota.
She quotes from Eggleston's History, page 87.

*The Indian did not hesitate to resort to treachery to entrap
his foes. He would profess friendship in order to disarm an enemy.
He gloried in ingenious tricks, such as the wearing of snow-shoes
with the hind part before, so as to make an enemy believe that he
had gone in an opposite direction. He would sometimes imitate the
 cry of the wild turkey, and so tempt a white hunter into the woods
that he might destroy him. An Indian scout would dress himself up
with twigs so as to look like a bush. Many of these things the white
people learned to practice also. ..

## and then remarks

"I don't see why the Indians are called treacherous when they
do ingenious tricks to catch their enemy. In time of war it is con-

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sidered very great to surprise the enemy. Look at Washington, who surprised the Hessians on Christmas eve. Still the Indians are called treacherous, and many of the things the Indians did the white people learned to practice. Then why don't the white people call white people treacherous ? "

A Santee Sioux girl from Nebraska.

Eggleston's History, page 369. The Sioux Massacre in Minnesota, 1862. The history says,

"In the summer of 1862 the eastern bands of the Sioux nation fell suddenly upon the defenseless settlements of Minnesota and killed nearly five hundred people."

"My grandfather, Standing Soldier, who is now dead, often spoke about this 'massacre' as historians have called it, and he was a member of the band known as the Santees.

All during the winter of 1861 - 2 my people were suffering from cold and starvation. My grandfather was one of the delegates sent to Washington to appeal to the President. They met with no success, and finding they had no means to get along with grew desperate. Who would not under such circumstances ?

My mother, who was then only nine years old, often told me how they suffered. I know if the whites had gained that victory they would have called it a battle, but being worsted it is a 'massacre'.

Another thing, the officials in Washington had made a treaty with the Santees, and when the Sioux asked for help it was refused. The white people did not keep their promise and naturally that made the Indians think that all the settlers were like them and it made them suspicious."

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A Chippewa girl from Minnesota. From Wilbur F. Gordy's

History, page 77.

"The statement made by Mr. Gordy that 'The Indian is cruel to his enemy and often tortured and burned him alive' is not true of the Indian alone, for the same can be said of all peoples or races of the world. Take the Romans; - cruelty to their slaves, captives and enemies seemed to be their aim, and considering their inferiors as brutes was nothing to them. Even now, you cannot find a nation more cruel than the Turks and there is no excuse for their cruelty because they have been surrounded by civilized nations and their constant contact with Christian people ought to calm their treacherous natures. Similar examples can be given of other races, and the above statement made by Mr. Gordy is not true of the Indian alone, for many other nations surpass the Indian race in their cruelty to their enemies."

A Chippewa boy from Minnesota quotes -

"The Indian was treacherous and revengeful and cruel beyond description. Much as he loved war (and war was his chief occupation) the fair and open fight had no charm for him. To his mind it was madness to take the scalp of an enemy at the risk of his own, when he might waylay an ambush or shoot him with an arrow from behind a tree. He was never so happy as when at the dead of night he roused his sleeping victims with an unearthly yell and massacred them by the light of their burning home. * * * * * Courage and fortitude he possessed in the highest degree; yet with his bravery were associated

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all the vices, all the dark and crooked ways which are the resort
of the cowardly and the weak."

—John Bach McMaster, University of Pennsylvania in
History published in 1897, Page 69.

He comments :-

"As a friend the Indian was a friend indeed and as an enemy he
was of the bitterest sort. The whites made him their enemy, there-
fore he appears treacherous. He did not appear that way to William
Penn and his people.

It was not the Indian's delight to massacre and kill. He was
being oppressed, eye-driven from his home and this was the only way
he knew of resistance and protection."

The quotations read are from school histories in common use
through the country. They were all written by members of the great
Angle-Saxon race for the instruction of the children of their own
and the other races.

In addition to these permanent historical records, in these
times we are contending with a syndicate of newspaper fabricators.
During the past few years many purely fictitious articles have been
written about educated Indians focusing them of committing crimes and
of behavior most ridiculous. More than twenty of these articles
have been printed at Carlisle, in not one of which was there a word
of truth. In such students ever attended the school and in almost
every case no murder or wrong had been committed. If an Indian does
wrong anywhere it is likely to be alleged he is a Carlisle graduate.
Within a week an Indian, probably with some Buffalo Bill show, struck

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and surprising him by surprise is strategy. In civilized warfare it
often results in capture of the enemy, but in Indian war where com-
mands were remote from any support the fighting inevitably fell
profoundly destruction to one or the other, and it oftenest resulted
in the Indian's going down to death agonies. In civilized war, when
we are about to attack a force in a village or town, sometimes - not
always - notice and time is given for the non-combatants - women,
children and the aged - to get out of the way of danger. But did
you ever hear of a case where American forces, militia, volunteer
or regular, in attacking an Indian village gave any such warning or
allowed any such privilege of escape for the women and children ? I
never did. It was always a surprise if possible and usually a
slaughter. I do not intend to disparage the acts of particular com-
batants, I only desire to illustrate the truth as I see it. Indi-
viduals who have participated in these things have only been the
creatures of circumstances, conditions and customs.

I was Adjutant to a command of regular troops at the time tem-
porarily occupying a fortified camp within sixty-five miles of the
place where the incident I am about to relate occurred, and the com-
mand I speak of two days after came into our camp. The follow-
ing is from a description by the commanding officer of that command
of an attorney he made with his troops upon an Indian village thirty-
four years ago last month. He relates very graphically how he found
the Indians' camp at two o'clock at night by following a trail, his
friendly scouts having first discovered it and brought him word ;
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who were then pouring in a rapid and well directed fire from their stations behind trees and banks. At the first onset a considerable number of Indians rushed from the village in the direction from which Elixot's party had attached. Some broke through the lines, while others came in contact with the mounted troopers, and were killed or captured.

Before engaging in the fight orders had been given to prevent the killing of any but the fighting strength of the village; but in a struggle of this character it is impossible at all times to distinguish, particularly when, in a hand-to-hand conflict, such as the one the troops were then engaged in, the squaws are so dangerous adversaries as the warriors, while Indian boys between ten and fifteen years of age were found as expert and determined in the use of the scalpel and刀 and arrow as the older warriors. "

Only women and children who remained quiet in their tepees, during the fight were saved. It was a complete surprise and practically all the fighting force of the Indians was destroyed. That affair access in history as the "Battle of the Wessita"; yet it was followed on our part by men armed by the Government and sent out for that purpose, accomplished by stealthy approaches and complete surprise. If the history of it were written by an Indian he would reverse the account and characterize it in most graphic terms as a "scandalous, desecrable, and abhorrent thing."

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Mr. Hayl speaks.

Mr. Hayl is not a Carlisle product, but he is a good representative of the Carlisle idea. He has had the privilege of becoming an American citizen under common-sense surroundings and influences of American citizens, which is the only natural way. His foster friends, Colonel Hayl, hisbrother and family, who took the trouble to give him his opportunities would tell you that throughout his whole life under their care and since, now covering twenty-nine years, Richard was very like civilized boys and has become a thoroughly civilized man. He had to be instructed the same as white boys and possibly there might have been the same disciplinary measures, but no more of these than is required among the best of our Anglo-Saxon races in raising our own children.

My next sample is of Carlisle. His education had been well advanced at his home before he came. He caught quickly and intelligently the Carlisle idea and when he had finished Carlisle hungered for higher equipment. He went to Dickinson College in the town of Carlisle and continued to live with us at the school. Then came a desire to graduate from one of our greatest universities. He did manual labor to help cover his expenses, passed four years at Prince ton, and graduated creditsly with the same class in which he entered. After graduating he accepted an invitation to help me at Carlisle. The authorities in charge of the Government exhibit at

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PERSONAL.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 8, 1903.

Dear Mr. Commissioner :

I suppose you have discovered that I never received any instructions from your office to make a report of this school according to the methods of the other schools, as alleged by Mr. Dortch. I never saw the little blank sent up by yours of yesterday until today.

In studying it, it seems to me to be an invitation to misrepresent the facts to you. I have been curious enough to compile a little table covering the last three years' reports of ten schools as represented by your annual tables and herewith send you a copy of the result. That there has been gross misrepresentation I am sure you will see at once. Practically $200,000 has been dropped from each year the "Expense to Government" of these schools; and when we take into account the fact that the transportation of students to and from all schools except Carlisle is omitted and that the transportation of supplies to all including Carlisle is also omitted, the misrepresentation is very greatly aggravated. I would recommend that there be an additional column in the report and that under the heading "Expense to Government" every expense including buildings, purchase of lands, installation of electric, heating or other plants, transportation of students and transportation of supplies shall be included, and that the extra column shall show the cost of maintenance only, that from the total cost there shall be omitted only purchase of lands, new buildings, enlargement of buildings, installation of elec-

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1903.

Mrs. Henry C. Ternant,
123 Pleasant St.,
Mr. Holyoke, Mass.

Dear Mr. Medem :

Referring to yours of the 7th asking for sign-lars, etc. in
regard to this school, I send you today copy of the illustrated eat-
sing of this school, also copies of Colonel Pratt's late annual re-
ports, addresses, etc., which material need not be returned.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1903.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 6th inst. to Col. Pratt, who is
absent for a few days, I enclose application blank for the Halftown
boy you speak of. When this is returned properly filled conclusion
can be reached as to what is best to do.

Yours very truly,

Acting Supt.

The Orange boy, Lewis Javine, about whom Colonel Pratt wrote
you a few days ago, has since been located and brought back to the
state.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1903.

Dear John :

You would better send me your measure and we will have a suit
made here in the tailor shop for you.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1903.

C. A. Bruninger,
Indian School,
Chamberlain, S. Dak.

Dear Sir :

I am returning your music today without having opened it. The
demands upon me are such that it is impossible for me to serve
you in this matter.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 7.

Sam W. Long,
American Bridge Co.,
Edgemoor, Del.

We arrive Wilmington 5:30 P.M. If practicable return to Phila. after lecture.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

TELEGRAM.

Mat Vaux,
1415 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

If practicable, be there tomorrow noon. Mrs. Pratt not well.

R. H. Pratt.

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Carlsberg, Pa., Jan. 12, 1907.

Miss Deane H. George,
Indian School,
Indianah, Ind.

In behalf of Deane:

I am so glad to know that things at Roseburg have settled down
a little. The condition somewhat satisfactory to you and trust your stay
there may be all that it now promises to be in profit to the school
especially, but to yourself as well.

Thank you for the twenty-five dollars. It is a pleasure to help
our students when they need my efforts with so much gratitude and
heartily appreciate.

Our commencement occurs on the 11th and 12th of February and I
expect a number of our old students and graduates from the west to
be present. Mr. Strong will give us one of his good lectures the
teaching evening before. The graduating class numbers forty-seven,
the largest in our history. Sorry you can't be with us.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 12, 1903.

All I. Johnson,

Cambridge, New York.

Dear Sirs

It is our habit when boys run away from school to confiscate
everything they have, trunks, etc. It was a disgraceful act on the
part of young Johnson to leave us as he did after only a few hours here.
He brought me complaint to me and as he need not have come if he had
not wanted to, he is not entitled to any consideration. I paid $4.98
for his tickets, and shall hold his trunk until I am repaid for it.

Where there is such a limited amount of principle to work upon
it is not likely we could make much of the boy and so from his action
I anticipate failure in any attempt to make anything out of him any-
where, I am glad he left us so soon as he did.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

S. A. Hench & Co.,
325 Market St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Gentlemen :

Your bill dated the 1st advised that the shirts would be delivered in about ten days, and I have withheld payment so as to make our settlement. Trusting the shirts will be along shortly, I am

Very truly yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

J. D. McIntosh,

Fort Grant, Arizona.

Dear Donald :

I am glad there is a prospect that you will be usefully employed at something beside interpreting. Clerking for the Quartermaster, if you follow it with care and integrity, will increase your equipment and make you more and more useful and independent. Being an interpreter merely is too small business for any Carlisle graduate. Your copy of the Quartermaster's endorsement is herewith returned.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Mr. John Logan,

Winnebago, Nebraska.

My dear Friend :

I shall be very glad indeed to have you come to our commencement which occurs on the 11th and 12th of February. If you could be here a little before that time to visit with the young folks it would be well. I shall cheerfully make half rate arrangements for you and if you could contrive to bring us two or three good pupils, would pay your way. I send you a few blanks. Pupils must be in good health as shown by doctor's certificate, have parental consent, and be at least one fourth Indian, preferably full Indian. We cannot accept those who are under twelve nor over twenty except by special arrangement, and prefer that they be between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years.

Levi St. Cyr states he would like to come in with three or four of the principal men from the Winnebagoes who contemplate a trip about that time. If three of you principal men do come in and will bring me among you eight children I will pay the way of all coming to Carlisle and returning. It means a great deal to our young people to have their parents and the head men of their tribes interested and present on their graduating occasion. This year we graduate our largest class, forty-seven in number.

Let me hear from you in good time as to what you can do, and count on me sure for the half rate if you do not bring pupils.

Faithfully your friend,

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 13.

Anderson, Indian Agent,
Colville Agency,
Fort Spokane, Wash.

Please indicate most suitable railroad point to meet four Runnels children ordered returned by Commissioner.

Pratt. Lt. Cpl.

W. U. 8:50 A. M.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., Pa.

My dear Brother Lawrence :

I think we will let Wilton hoe his own row. "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn from no other", and I count him very much of this sort. The other boy, Lewis Javine, we located at Staten Island through information from his father, and sent for him at once and brought him to the school. He was working for a colored man delivering coal and I judge had found out that Carlisle's methods of work and the liberties of Carlisle are better than those he had been able to find for himself.

Fraternally yours,

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 13.

Staley, Supt.,
Greenwood,
via Wagner, S. Dak.

Your letter. Explain duties of Indian assistant. Several available now; a month hence when class graduates a number more to select from.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

W. U. 8:20 A.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Princess Chinquilla,
Garfield Ave.,
Jamaica, Long Island,
New York.

Dear Friend :

It is strange nothing has been heard of your boy. I feel quite
sure he will turn up somewhere in time, but don't see what can be
done to push matters. He has probably adopted another name to escape
detection and it will take so me change in fortune's wheel to make
him willing to reveal himself. We have always had considerable trouble
with our Indian boys in this way. Somehow, the system of treatment
at the agency schools teaches them to run away. They are continually
leaving the schools there and the only penalty they suffer is to be
brought back by an Indian policeman. Boys have come to us who had
run away as many as twenty times before they left the agency. Your
boy of course was not so trained, but he probably fell in with those
who were and was led to accompany them.

Sometime when passing this way we should be glad to have you
stop and see us. Our fifteenth commencement occurs on the 11th and
12th of February and if you could be here at that time I am sure you
would be pleased with the efforts of our young people and the recog-
nition they receive. If you wish I can supply you with a ticket New
York to Carlisle and return to new York at the cost of fare one way.

Sincerely yours,

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My dear Doctor :

The situation between myself and the Indian Office has been con-
strained for a long time and things have been done that make me feel
uncertain about everything. I have not been in Washington since you
were here. I have occasionally talked with the Commissioner by long
distance phone but it has always been on something very pressing, and
your matter was not brought up. I am very sorry to say it does not
seem best to broach it. My promotion to colonel occurs within a few
days and I have been exceedingly uncertain as to what that might por-
tend. Altogether, the situation is unfortunate.

If things come around so I can take it up again I will do that,
but it does not look favorable now.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 13,

Mail me tonight if you can synopais of your talk at Wilmington.

Colonel Pratt,

Postal.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Miss E. L. Bulfinch,
3 Garden St.,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Miss Bulfinch :

It has taken quite a while to get the necessary directions from
Colonel Brown in regard to the books. In the meantime I had the box
opened by the librarian here and directed her to make a list of the
contents and give me her judgment as to the value of the books for
the purpose intended. She advises me there is scarcely anything in
the box that she would recommend to be sent, and that those worth
sending are so meager in quantity as to make it inadvisable to ship
them. I have told her to go through our own library and see if we
could not spare some suitable material. She has been doing that and
I expect to get them off shortly.

When we are sending books half way round the world to help our
own people who are fighting a hard battle with ignorance it seems to
me we ought to send something of material worth. I write this to you
in some confidence. Really, most of what was sent is not worth the
freight.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Miss Louise McDermott,

Rupa, Cal.

Dear Miss McDermott :

I have yours of the 2nd inst. and have talked with Miss Taird about you. From your letter and what she says I have no doubt if you are in the Indian service and available when there is a vacancy here I shall ask for you. At present every place is filled, but there will be a few vacancies at the close of the year, I feel sure. Should you be in the service at that time and still desirous of coming here, let me know, and I shall be glad to give favorable consideration to your transfer to Carlisle.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Mr. Charles S. Hood,
Seneca, Mo.

Dear Charlie :

I have asked the G.P.A. of the Frisco line in St. Louis to in-
struct the agent in Seneca to deliver you at once two or more tickets
to Carlisle, thinking in the meantime you might pick up other pu-
pils, in which case I will cover your expenses both ways If unable
to bring more than the one, I will cover your incoming expenses, hop-
ing you will be here at our commencement on the 11th and 12th of Feb-
ruary. Quite a number of our graduates and old students are to be
with us at that time and I am sure you will enjoy the occasion as
much as anyone.

Use transportation at once unless there is reason for delay, in
which case please notify me.

Yours faithfully,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1903.

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

My dear Mr. Lacey :

I write you in confidence covering a matter which it seems to
me ought to be rectified.

For years Carlisle has been misrepresented in the expense reports of the Indian Office, and lately I have had some correspondence with the Commissioner about it. Instead of presenting all the facts of cost in the annual report each year the underlings of the Bureau have taken the curious course of presenting for all other schools the alleged cost of support only. The Commissioner probably had never thought particularly about it or understood it fully. On my recent protest personally to Mr. Jones, he instructed me to furnish figures that would place Carlisle in the same unreal list with all the others.

It has always seemed to me and I have so argued at the Bureau
that the total expense of every sort should be shown each year in or-
der that there may be an equitable comparison and then that the perman-
ent improvement expenses, such as the purchase of land, erection of
buildings and installation of electric light, heat or other plants
that add to the permanent value of the property be deducted and the
basis of per capita expense found on what remains. In your bill
you name one sum to pay transportation of students to all schools ex-
cept Carlisle. In another clause you give money to pay transporta-

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tion of supplies. The cost of transporting students to some non-
reservation schools is material and the cost of transporting their
supplies is not material, while the cost of transportation of sup-
plies to some reservation and home schools is material and transpor-
tation of students nil, so that in a way there is a balancing between
the two, but those differences do not call for concealment. Indeed,
it seems to me that very properly the Government might on the value
of the permanent investment at every school charge as part of the
cost of that school interest on that investment. I should be willing
to have that done at Carlisle and it seems to me the honest way. In
addition to that I insist that when sugar costs only 3 1/2 or 4 ¢ de-
livered at Carlisle and 8 or 9 ¢ delivered elsewhere, it is fair to
charge up to each school all the sugar actually costs.

I have made a table to show how the case is represented in the
Commissioner's Annual Reports. The table covers ten schools each
for three separate years; in the first column for each year is the
amount appropriated, in the second the Indian Bureau's alleged cost
to Government, and in the third the amount not accounted for. You
will note that in each of these years ( as well as in all the years
previous if you go back and look) the Carlisle appropriation is al-
ways all given all expended and all counted in the alleged per cap-
ita cost. I pay transportation of students, buy a farm, erect build-
ings and make other permanent improvements, and it is all accounted
in my per capita rating; the only thing omitted at Carlisle is the
transportation of supplies. I have verbally contended with the man-
agers of this report in the Department that the cost of transporta-
tion of supplies should be included. I venture to send you copy of

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a letter recently written by me to the Commissioner on the subject when I sent him a copy of this same table.

Take the last year, and you will see that above $275,000 appropriated for nine of these schools is not accounted for in the Commissioner's Report. In the year 1901 I paid $20,000 for a farm, which farm is here yet and would likely bring what I paid for it. I invested over $12,000 in buildings and so added $32,000 to the actual value of the property here and that $32,000 all came from my $150,000 and is not deducted. For the same year you gave Chemawa $115,527 and $54,282 paid for land and buildings is dropped out altogether; and it is alleged that $61,244.31 is the total "cost to Government" and then neither the cost of transportation of students or supplies enter into the account because both of these came from a general appropriation in each case. Thus you can see how much the figures fail to represent the facts in the different cases. I suggest a clause in the appropriation bill requiring that the total cost of each school shall be reported and that this shall include transportation of both supplies and students, and erection of buildings, purchase of land and all improvements; and then if thought best that a showing of cost be given leaving out permanent improvements; and the per capita cost to the Government on that basis be indicated if that is thought important.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1903.

Miss Maggie Reed,
Moorestown, New Jersey.

My dear School-daughter.

I have your letter and your trouble makes me very sorry for you.
I know how you feel and how much you would like to see your mother;
but you must consider other things beside your own feelings. I can-
not let you go home because you came for five years and have not yet
been here four, and the rules of the school do not permit students
to go home because of sickness or death in the family during that
period. If the rules did allow it and I let you go you could not
help your mother, nor could she help you. If she is very low she
might be gone before you reached home and so your visit be in vain.
Your brothers and sisters of course are taking as good care of her
as they can, and were you able to be with her you could not prolong
her time here. To lose our parents is as we all know, one of the
saddest experiences that befall us, but all must go through with it
and the best way is to be brave and keep on with our duties. I note
that you are getting on nicely in your country home. Do not let
your sadness take your mind off your studies, but write home often
and give your mother and family as much comfort as you can that way.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, pg., Jan. 14, 1901.

Mrs. Clara Cash,

Santee Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter of the 4th concerning your sister, Emma Skye. I have not yet learned what plans Emma may have for the future, but I am interested in her success as well as in the success of all the young people we send out from Carlisle, and shall do what I can for her. It may be we can keep her busy here for a while, or if she is willing we can easily find her a place under our outing for the present. I agree with you that it is not conducive to their best interests for the graduates of Carlisle or any other Indian school to be in Government employ so near their own homes, but if they wish Government employment they must of course take it where it is offered. The chances for appointment are somewhat limited, and become more so every year. As this throws them out among our own people more generally I do not regret it.

Emma has done well and I shall be glad to forward her in any way that seems best.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Mr. F. A. Mckenzie,
Lansdowne, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 10th, I must advise you that you can
only get into the Indian school service through examination, which
you can best take here in the east. Having gotten your name on the
eligible list you would better express your willingness to accept
appointment wherever it is offered and say "preferably in the Indian
"territory", should that be your choice.

Any investigations you may make with reference to the possibilities of the Indian industrially will be practically valueless unless you have a pretty wide knowledge of the field and unless you fall in with right hands in reaching your experiences. The Indian has had almost no opportunity or encouragement for industrial development anywhere. The handling of him in masses and by generally inexperienced or not specially interested agents, often changing, has brought a condition that would be ruinous to any race. Even the strong Anglo-Saxon placed under the same methods we are pursuing with the Indians, would soon arrive at the same condition. This school would give you almost advanced and best ideas and I should be glad to have you come here for any investigations you choose to make. The chances are too to one if you locate on a western Indian reservation and try to reach conclusions on what you find there you will be entirely talked and thoroughly deceived.

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of girls, some from the most backward tribes, who have been working
in families and going to public school. Investigation among those
who have employed them would indicate something.

Should you wish to come to come here to look into the subject
from this standpoint, you are welcome to the hospitality of Car-
lisle for that purpose.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1903.

William K. Alochkea,
2 Park Row,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 8th instant, I must advise you
that this school is for Indians only and I have lately been forbidden
to take any others. Sorry I cannot help you. I suggest that you
write to Dr. H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Virginia.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1903.

Miss Lulu M. Hayes,
Asst. Librarian, Carnegie Library,
Lincoln, Ill.

Dear Miss Hayes :

We do not deal in Indian work at all and have taken no interest
in it for the reason that it is only a device to keep the Indians
isolative and secluded. Our energies are given entirely to making them
familiar and competent in our larger and more promising industries.

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CarliLe, Pa., Jan. 13, 1903.

Henry Roman Nose,
Cheyenne Chief,
Watonga, Okla.

My dear friend :

I thank you for your letter and am very sorry to hear that you feel aggrieved because I did not answer your former letter as you state. I make it a point to answer every letter that comes to me, especially those from my old students.

I am disappointed that you do not think you can come with White Buffalo, but shall hope when the time comes you may be able to go company him.

I am planning to bring quite a number of our former students, some of them from our very first parties, and am asking those who can to bring with them two or three children and so enable me to pay their expenses from Government funds; but if they cannot do that I want them to come anyhow and will pay their way out of another fund. Should you find it convenient after all to come with White Buffalo I will arrange for your trip to be without expense to you. By letter to you stated that fact,

Major Stouch writes me that White Buffalo has two girls to bring and I shall arrange tickets so he can be here by the 10th of January, starting about the 6th. This will give you plenty of time to write me again,

I trust you will always bear in mind the fact that I remember you most kindly and am grateful to know you have the confidence of your people so fully that they have made you their principal chief.

Fad thillly your friend,

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Carlisle, May, Jan. 13, 1963

Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 9th instant directing that I for-
ward a complete list in chronological order of all campaigns, battles
engagements, etc. in which I participated either during the civil
war or since as an enlisted man or commissioned officer, I have the
honor to advise you as follows :

As Corporal of Co. A., 9th Indiana Volunteers I was with the ex-
pedition that entered Western Virginia in May, '61, and participated
in the engagements at Philippi June 3rd, at Laurel Hill or Beaufort
July 7th to 12th and Carrick's Ford July 13th.

Re-enlisting, was sergeant and first sergeant in Co. A., and
Indiana Cavalry which joined General Thomas in Kentucky late in '61,
was in advance of General Thomas into Tennessee and with the first
troops to enter Nashville in February, '62; was with regiment and it
formed the advance guard of General Buell's army, Nashville to Pitts-
burg Landing, and was with first detachment of Buell's troops to
cross the river at and participate in the battle of Pittsburg land-
ing April 6th and 7th, '62; was in affairs of Corinth Road and Pea
Ridge April 15th and 27th; Corinth April 27th; Tusculonia Cracker May
31st, and pursuit and engagement to Booneville, May 29th to June 1st,
Was with Regiment in the advance and pursuit of Bragg into Ken-

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tucky and in engagements at McMinville or Little pond, Tenn., Aug. 30th '62 and New Haven, Kentucky, where the 2nd Indiana Cavalry captured the 3rd Georgia Cavalry; at Vinegar Hill Sept. 2nd; Chapin Hills Oct. 7th and 8th '62; Crab Orchard Oct. 15th and 16th '62; Gallatin, (where horse was killed) Nov. 7th '62; Hartsville Dec. 7th, '62; Brentwood Dec. 9th '62; Murfreesboro while Company was detached from regiment, Dec. 29th and 30th, '62; Triune June 11th, '63.

With Rosecrans' advance into Georgia participating in engagements at Guy's Gap, Shelbyville, Sparta, Tullahoma, June 26th to 30th, '63; Elk River Bridge July 2nd, '63; Alpine and Chickamauga Sept. 12th to 26th, '63; Anderson's Crossroads driving Wheeler from train and pursuit of Wheeler and various engagements to Muskelishelli Shoals, October, '63.

On recruiting duty in Indiana October '63 to April '64,

Promoted to First Lieutenant, 11th Indiana Cavalry and Captain, with regiment guarding railroad from Huntsville to Bridgeport, Alabama, and on special duty as Provost Marshall of all Alabama north of Tennessee River, April to October '64; in engagements at Huntsville Oct. 1st and 18th '64. Joined General Thomas and participated in engagements at Shoal Creek, Lawrenceburg, Campbellville and Franklin, November '64; Inspector, First Brigade, 8th Division Cavalry, M.D.M.; participated in battles of Nashville Dec. 15th and 16th '64 (where horse was killed), and in various engagements in pursuit of Hood, Nashville to Tennessee River December '64 as part of General Ed. Hatch's 5th Division Cavalry. Inspector and Judge-Advocate, 5th Division of Cavalry, General Edward Hatch, January '65 to muster out, May 29th.

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Regular Army.

In service against Indians in Indian Territory January. '67 to April '75. Post Adjutant and commanding Indian scouts at Fort Ar-buckle, I. T. summer and fall of '67; with Walsh's command meeting combined Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyennes and Arapahoes at Eureka Valley, Upper Washita, demanding surrender of all white prisoners, August '67; Adjutant of Major Kidd's Battalion 10th Cavalry, campaign against Kiowa, Comanche and Arapaho Indians, late fall of '68 and winter of '68 and 9; Adjutant General, District of Indian Territory, late win-ter and spring of '69; in various expeditions from Fort Sill against Indians on the Staked Plains west from Fort Sill with General Frier-son, '69, '70 and '71; stationed at Camp Supply '71 and '72; broke up five whiskey camps along the Kansas border and arrested fifteen white men engaged in illicit dealings with the Indians, February '72; Company transferred to Fort Griffin, Texas, spring of '72; commanded Indian scouts (Tonkawa) and in charge Tonkawa Indians until July '74, during that time often pursuing and driving from Texas raiding Kiowa Comanches and Cheyennes; with Company joined Fort Sill column under General Davidson for campaign against Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indians beginning July '74, commanding detachment of 30 Indian scouts and 10 white scouts and guides through the fall and winter of '74 and '75 at same time had charge of all Indian prisoners held at Fort Sill.

In April '75 took 74 Indian prisoners from Fort Sill to Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida and remained in charge of them until their release in April '78. Recommended the education of the ypuig-er men which was approved if without expense to the Government; so-

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licited funds from friends of the Indians and provided for 17 at Hampton Institute, Virginia and for 5 in New York. On leave, summer of '78; in fall of '78 detailed by War Department to go first to the Nez perces imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for children for Hampton. This plan was defeated by premature action of those in charge of Indians at Fort Leavenworth. Was then sent to Dakota and brought from the Fort Berthold, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Lower Brule and Yankton Agencies 49 Indian youth to Hampton, late fall of '78. Detailed to remain at Hampton. Special law detailing me for Indian educational duty in Army Bill, spring of '79. Dissatisfied with plan of educating Indians and negoes together and unwilling to enlarge it I urged if I was to be held to Indian educational duty that I be given opportunity to build a separate school and suggested Carlisle Barracks as a suitable place. This being approved by General Hancock in command of Department, by General Sherman, commanding the Army, and by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, I was detailed to establish this school September 6, 1879, and have remained in charge of same to this date.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1903.

Mrs. Nellie L. Munn,
Winnebago, Nebraska.

To dear School-daughter :

I have your letter of the 12th. If you can bring two or more
students. I can pay your expenses from Government funds. Enclosed are
half a dozen application blanks. These must be entirely filled out
by the prospective students themselves, by their parents, the agent
and the doctor. We must be protected against those who are diseased.
The age limits are 12 to 20, preferably 14 to 16, but the two boys
you mention if in good health and of good character will be perfectly
acceptable at 19. We must also take care that all who enter Car-
lisle are at least one fourth Indian, and we ought to have girls as
well as boys.

You ought to leave Sioux City about the 6th or 7th of February.
Return ticket will be made out here when you are ready to start back,
so you can have just as much time as you want in the east.

Trusting we may have the pleasure of your presence at ourance-
sent and that you may be able to make up a little party of acceptable
students,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1863.

Barnes, T. E. Feather,
C. Studd, G. Pak.

Dear Ralph,

I shall gladly make arrangements for transportation to Carlisle, Pa., and Henry Horselooking and any students you may be able to send. You will want to start by the 6th or 7th of February and transportation will be with the railroad agent at Valentine for you that time.

I have written Agent McChesney that if you can bring in several good students, say two or more for yourself and two or more for him, I will pay the expenses of all from Government funds, but I can do that I will pay your way anyhow.

I send you half a dozen blanks. The age limits are 12, preferably 14 to 18. Students must be of good character, have good health as shown by physician's certificate, and must be at least one fourth Indian. Parents' and agent's consent are also necessary.

Keep me informed of the prospect.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1903.

Henry HorseLooking,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Henry :

Ralph Eagle Weather writes me that you will join him on a visit
to us so as to be present at our commencement exercises, February
10th to 12th. We shall be very glad to see you and I have written
Ralph to bring you along, and that transportation for himself and you
and any students you may be able to bring will be with the reduced
agent at Valentine by the 6th or 7th of February when you ought to
start in order to be here by the 10th.

I have sent Ralph application blanks and given him instructions
as to age, character and quality of students desired, stating that if
between you you can bring four or more good pupils I can pay the way
of all from Government funds. If you cannot do that I will pay your
way anyhow.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1903.

Dear Friend :

In the year just past since our last commencement greeting to
you the school has been steadily advancing in influence and attain-
ment. At this date 1012 students are enrolled from 84 tribes.

We are approaching our fifteenth commencement season, when we
graduate a class of forty-seven, representing twenty-one tribes.

The kindly interest evinced during the year by graduates and re-
turned students in the welfare of the school, through correspondence
and otherwise, leads us to hope for an unusually large gathering of
alumni on this occasion. Formal invitation giving dates, etc. is
enclosed and we should be delighted to have your acceptance. For all
who indicate promptly their intention to be present I shall be glad
to secure half rates on railroads.

If impracticable to come to us at this time we should appreciate
kind of greeting from you to the outgoing class and the benefit of
any experience you have had which might help them. The Alumni Meet-
ing will be held Thursday evening, the twelfth of February.

With cordial remembrance and best wishes to you always from
your friends at Carlisle,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1903.

Mr. Enoy Foster,
Sunday Editor, "The North-American",
North-American Bldg.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Foster :

WithDRAW are the pictures for which we desire plates. Please make the class picture 4 1/2" x 7" and mine 4" x 5 1/2". I should be obliged if the photograph of myself could be returned without blunder as it belongs to one of my employees and is from an old negative which seems to have been lost.

Yours Sincerely,

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Hon. W. B. Harris, D. L. B.,
U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :

Last evening Mr. Frederick R. Burton of Yonkers, New York, a musical author of some note having staged "Hiawatha", gave us a most interesting lecture on Indian music, and from that and further conversation with him it seems to me there is an opening for something of national importance in this direction.

I am sure of Miss Fletcher's valuable efforts in this line. Mr. Burton gave the primitive words and music of a number of Ojibway songs, and then a composer's elaboration of both the sentiment and music into a most acceptable civilized form. Certainly the original music and the words are historically worthy of preservation, and the elaboration of them into the selections he gave us, "My Bark Canoe," "The Song of Absence and Longing," "Hiawatha's Death Song," etc., all indicate large possibilities.

One thing that has annoyed me for years has been the court we say to foreign music and the lack of production of something equal on our side of the Atlantic. Now, it occurs to me that by some means there might be a complete gathering of the best things in Indian music from all the various tribes including the words and music contained in the songs and the music of the panjavan. These, as you probably know, are all very old, as heard I have never heard any Indian song that were not short and the range

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mr. L. A. Maynard,
Pittsfield, Mass.

Dear Sir :

Miss Burgess hands me your letter of the 11th. I shall be very
glad to send you a ticket New York to Carlisle and return to New York
and will pay your expenses Pittsfield to New York and return to
Pittsfield, to attend our commencement which occurs on the 11th and
12th of February.

It seems to me of some importance that you come to Carlisle and
see us.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

George F. Williams,
Sylvester, Mich.

Dear Sir :

I enclose an application blank, which please fill out yourself, and have your parents or guardians, the superintendent whose school you last attended, and a physician fill out the blanks intended for them. Return the paper to me and I can then decide what to do. If it seems right for you to come here I will place transportation to Carlisle at such railroad point as you name.

You will note the requirements are stated on the blank. Students entering Carlisle must be in good health, of good character, between the ages of twelve and twenty years, preferably between fourteen and eighteen, and at least one fourth Indian. We prefer full Indians. This in answer to yours of the 12th instant.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Miss W. E. Jordan,
30 Oakdale Ave.,
B. Sedham, Mass.

Dear Friend :

Replying to your recent letter concerning a position at this school, since our conversation several years ago all positions in the Indian school service have been placed under Civil Service rules, and I am not allowed any selections except by transfer of those already in the service. All teachers and others must pass a Civil Service examination in order to get their names on the eligible register and then await their turn for assignment.

Regretting that at this time I cannot fulfil my proposition to you because of the regulation mentioned, I am

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Loran Thompson,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

I have yours of Jan. 12th and in reply have to advise you that
unless John and Ida themselves want to remain here longer and so ex-
press themselves by going to the country in the spring or by remain-
ing out voluntarily beyond the home-going season, I shall include
them in my home list this summer.

Ida is now in the country and is doing well and it would be well
to allow her to continue under our supervision. She has made very
satisfactory advancement in many ways although she does not learn so
quickly in books as might be desirable. She is attending public
school at present. A more serious application to school and shop du-
ties on the part of John would help his progress materially.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mr. W. D. Walney,
Alga,
Cumberland Co., Pa.

My dear sir :

I have your letter of the 12th instant with copies of creden-
tials, which I have placed on file, but can give you no encourage-
ment for employment here for the reason that all teachers and others
at this school are selected by the Civil Service Commission of Wash-
ington, D. C. from their eligible register. To become eligible one
must pass the Civil Service Examination and must then await assign-
ment to any Indian school where there is a vacancy, and as the reg-
ister is usually kept pretty full there is small chance for any but
those who pass at a high grade.

If you desire to take the examination for teacher, apply to the
Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, for circulars
and information as to dates, etc.

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Rev. W. F. Sperbeck,
172 Clay St.,
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir :

I have your inquiry of the 10th instant, and am pleased to tell you that Oleana Yakoff is doing very nicely, is in good health and attending public school near her winter home with Miss Edith Stone, Coatesville, Pa. under our outing. She writes regularly to Klooka Yakoff, Wood Island. I will send her your letter and you will no doubt hear from her direct before long.

Yours sincerely,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Miss Oleana Yakoff,
C/o Miss Edith Stone,
Coatesville, Pa.

My dear Oleana :

I enclose a letter from your friends in San Francisco. You would better write them occasionally, and return their letter to me.

I am glad to hear good things of you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1903.

Juan Santana,
Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory,
Huntingdon, Pa.

Dear Juan :

I am glad to have your letter and to know that you are obedient to the rules of the place. You do not say when your term expires and the rules of the institution forbid money being sent to inmates, so that I will have to have permission from your Superintendent before I can act. You have in our bank $48.92 which is drawing interest and is held for you until you are properly discharged from the school. When you write again let me know just when you are to be discharged and what plan you have, if any, after you are out. You are still on our rolls and should return here, but if there is something better offered you elsewhere and I can know about it I shall not object to giving you a chance to take it up. You have enough English now to get along and under the circumstances it may be just as well for you to begin to act for yourself, only your discharge must be proper and regular.

Let me hear from you again. With best wishes for your future,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Levi Levering,
Fort Hall Indian School,
via Blackfoot, Idaho.

Dear Levi :

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands and approves of my movement to bring in graduates and returned students at commencement, as I have written Mr. Locke.

In regard to pupils, we shall of course drop the subject, regretting that the way is not open. Glad to know you can come. Let me know from where and when you wish to start so that I may arrange transportation in good time.

The prospects are good for quite a little reunion of graduates and others and we are anticipating a pleasant and profitable time.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mrs. Lydia Flint Spencer,
Indian School,
Wyandotte, I. T.

My dear Lydia :

We are all very glad that you can be with us. To be here in good time you should start about the 8th of February. Let me know whether you will want transportation at Seneca or Wyandotte and as soon as you know, just what you can do in the way of pupils. Two or three of proper age, character and health, with parents' and agent's consent, will be quite sufficient to enable me to cover your expenses from Government funds, but do not hesitate to come anyway if you can-not bring any.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mr. Hugh Soucea,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Hugh:

I have yours of Jan. 11th and have written Mr. Crandall asking his indulgence for you to visit us at the time proposed. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands the movement and approves of it, so that unless Mr. Crandall cannot spare you everything is arranged.

Any students you bring us must of course come with consent both of parents and superintendent if they belong to the Santa Fe or Albuquerque schools. I shall expect to hear from you soon again. You should be ready to start at latest by the 6th or 7th in order to be here on the 10th. We are all delighted at the prospect of having so many of our graduates with us.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Henry Redkettle,

Kyle, S. Dak.

My dear Henry :

Glad to hear from you so favorably and so promptly. Let me know
in good time the railroad point from which you wish to start, and
the time, which should not be later than the 7th or 8th in order to
be here for everything.

Be sure to comply with all conditions indicated on the blanks
sent you. If you cannot bring more than two or three good pupils
that will be sufficient to enable me to cover your expenses from Gov-
ernment funds. We need girls as well as boys.

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Miss Alice Parker,

White Earth, Minn.

Dear School-daughter :

I have your letter of the 11th and am grieved that your health
makes it unwise for you to take a trip at this time. We are looking
forward to a very pleasant reunion, only two of those selected having
found it necessary to decline.

Trusting your health may improve rapidly and that you can visit
us at another time,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mr. William Denomie,
Sawyer, Minn.

My dear William :

I have your letter of the 15th with its enclosure from Agent Campbell, and am glad things look so favorable for a visit from you. I have written Mr. Campbell, but he has not had time to reply to me direct. As the Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands and approves of this movement and I have so advised Mr. Campbell, there seems nothing in the way of your coming.

Faithfully your friend,

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Miss Josie Vetter,
Rulo, Neb.

My dear School-daughter :

We are all delighted that you can come to us . Sorry you cannot
bring any pupils, but come anyway. Will you want ticket placed at
Rulo and when ? Please let me know in good time and just when you
will start, so we may be on the lookout for you. We are expecting
quite a number of our old students back at that time.

If you have no use for the blanks you need not return them.
Have twenty here. Enclosed find my check for Twenty-eight Dollars ($28.00) covering interest on your money to January 1st. Please receipt for it.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Dear David :

Glad to hear from you so favorably and so promptly. If you can
bring two or more good pupils, as you think probable, very well, but
be sure to comply with all conditions indicated on the consent blanks

We are anticipating a very pleasant reunion.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1905.

Mr Benjamin Caswell,
Case Institute, Minn.

Dear Ben :

Yours of the 6th came duly and we are glad to know you accept to be with us. I have written Major Scott that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands and approves my plan. I will arrange transportation so you can get as many tickets as necessary, should you find it possible to bring two or three students, but you would rather write me again just where you want transportation placed.

With anticipation of meeting you personally soon,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Levi St. Cyr,

Winnebago, Nebraska,

My dear Levi :

We are always glad to hear from you, though we feel pretty sure
that silence with you is a favorable indication, as you say.

We shall be pleased indeed if you can persuade three or four
of the principal men of the Omahas and Winnebagoes to come to our
conclusion and you come along with them. I can arrange for a half
rate to Chicago and rate of $11.03 Chicago to Carlisle for each, and
will gladly do that if you can make up the party. If there were
a few good students to come in at that time I could pay the way of
yourself and three of the principal men for a party of eight, or
two students for each. Students must be between 12 and 20 years of
age, preferably 11 to 18, in good health and of good character and
at least one fourth Indian, preferably full Indian, as indicated on
the blanks enclosed.

Let me hear from you again just what you can do.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1903.

Miss Edith M. Smith,
Indian Boarding School
Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear School-daughter :

Am glad to know you can come to us and that you have some hope of making up a party. Two or three good pupils, within the conditions indicated on the blank paper sent you, will be a welcome addition, and I shall place transportation for as many as you notify me you have cured.

For various reasons we expect the coming commitment to be a particularly interesting one and are looking forward with much pleasure to the prospect of greeting personally a number of our products and old students.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mr. Stacy Matlock,
Walter授权, Utah.

My dear Stacy :

Your letter of the 11th and Agent Myton's of the 8th came duly
and I am more than pleased with the prospect and with what Mr. My-
ton has to say about you. We have very few pupils from Utah, none
from your agency and a small party, say two or three if more are not
possible, will enable me to pay your expenses from Government funds
and will be a welcome addition to Carlisle.

We are looking forward to a very pleasant little reunion of
graduates and early students.

Faithfully your friend,

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands my purpose and
approves of it, so that you need have no fear of a misunderstanding
as to leave. I am writing Mr. Myton today. Let me know by wire
whether you have other means of reaching Price than by stage.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mrs. Oliza A. Pierce,
Monongaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Pierce :

I send you an application blank for the girl, Lena Bil lings,
show when you write. I must know that she is of reasonably good
character and earnestly desires education. Please have the blank
carefully filled out by the proper persons and return to me. You
will note that we cannot accept those who are less than one fourth
Indian. Upon receipt of the paper from you I can conclude what is
best to do and if all is right will place transportation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mrs. Jennie Wheelock Webster.
Cedar, Wis.

My dear School-daughter :

Your letter is at hand and we are glad you can come to us. Bring
the child with you. At seven he can travel free. Transportation
with
to Carlisle will be the agent of the C. & N. W. in DePere by the
time you arrive. As you wish to surprise your sisters I will say not-
ing to them of your coming.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Annie By,
Mr. and Mrs. L. T.

Dear Mrs. May :

Replying to yours of Jan. 14th, it seems to me that having
been previously a student at Haskell you would better return there
and complete that course .

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Mrs. Helen Blair Coan,
2209 Susquehanna Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Coan :

Replying to your recent letter in behalf of a Porto Rican girl
whom you desire to enter Carlisle, I regret to advise you that we
are forbidden to accept more Porto Ricans.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

Bolivar Thomas,
Hotel Rudolf,
Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your recent favor, I have to advise you that we do not make Indian occasions or any other Indian articles, the students in their industrial periods being kept busy with the regular work of the school, which is in line with the ordinary life and pursuits of Americans.

John Baine, about whom you inquire, left here nearly two years ago, going to Standing Rock, North Dakota. Where he is now I cannot say.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1903.

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

Dear Sam :

I can arrange that tickets for yourself and any pupils you may be able to bring be with the Agent of the Great Northern R. R. at Brown's Valley by the 3rd if you wish. We shall all be glad to see you.

In regard to the children, they should be well selected. I would rather have none at all than those who are diseased or not in other respects proper subjects for Carlisle.

Faithfully your friend,

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 19.

Wm. M. Robertson,
Merriman, Neb.

Hastings here and in excellent health,

R. H. Pratt, Lt. Col.

W. U. P. M.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 19.

Gen. Francis V. Greene,
Police Commissioner,
New York City.

Would like to be at Church dinner. Have you room for one more ?
Advise by wire.

R. H. Pratt, Lt. Col.

Postal. 8:55 A. M.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 20, 1903.

Major General H. C. Corbin,
Adjutant General,
Washington, D. C.

Your message today. Having suggested and built up this school, so long as conditions are endurable I cannot consistently seek relief by asking other duty.

R. H. Pratt, Lt. Col.

W. U. 5:40 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1903.

Misses Augusta and Violetta Nash,
Thurston, Neb.

My dear School-daughters :

Your photograph came this morning and makes a very pleasant
New Year greeting. Thank you.

I have just recommended either of you for a position in the In-
dian school at Greenwood, South Dakota, where an assistant is need-
ed. The Superintendent, Mr. James Staley, writes me asking for some
one trained here, and states that the duties are mostly as Assistant
Matron in charge of the small boys. One of our girls is there now
and he is so pleased with her success that he wants to secure another
One or the other of you would better write him at once if you care
to take a position in the Indian service.

With kind regards to your brother and sister,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1903.

Mrs. Bemus Pierce,

Irving, New York.

My dear School-daughter :

It is desired to have you here to represent your class at Commencement the 11th and 12th of February and if you can come and bring the two Shingler girls, (12 and 14) I can pay your way from Government funds You would better see Mr. Lawrence about it at once.

The application and consent blanks should come to me. Mr. Lawrence represents them to be exceptionally bright and good subjects.

Let me hear from you promptly.

Faithfully your friend,

The little sister of Blanche Lay about whom Brother Lawrence said is only eight years old, according to her sister's statement, and is therefore too young to be admitted here. I mention her so you may understand the situation should the matter come before you also.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1903.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

In our phone conversation about the four Runnells children whom
you had ordered me to return to Agent Anderson, you said you would
write me.

I hope you understood there was no disposition on my part to
keep them here. I simply thought you ought to know what the girl
said. In addition to what I reported to you she said that the young-
er boys would not go to the Government school even if they were sent
home; that they had tried it and were not satisfied and their par-
ents were not satisfied. The oldest boy is something of a hard case
I am sure, as Agent Anderson says, but after severe punishment for
an offence here on his coming out I had a talk with him and feel
that his case is not hopeless.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1903.

Rev. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Brie Co., New York.

Dear Brother Lawrence :

We desire to have Mrs. Remus Pierce here at Commencement to report her class and if she can come she could bring the two Shingler girls, and that will enable me to pay her way from Government Funds. I have written her to see you.

Blanche says her sister is only eight years old and we cannot take students under twelve.

Faithfully yours,

January 19, 1903.

Mr. George Veux, Jr.,
Gerald Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear George :

A letter from Mrs. Rillis advises that Mr. Rillis will be in Wisconsin lecturing on the days named. Will see that commencement invitations go to those you suggest.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1906.

To The Editor,

"The Public Ledger",
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Please give me the name of your Carlisle correspondent who
wrote the abominable conglomeration of lies appearing on Page 10 of
your Saturday's issue, about our football team.

There is not a word of truth in it. Neither Dr. Montezuma nor
Dr. Eastman are graduates of Carlisle. Montezuma is in Chicago and
could not have said anything of the kind because he has no knowledge
on the subject. Dr. Eastman's station is at Crow Creek, S. Dakota.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth and Montezuma of the University of Il-
inois. The circumstantial quotation has no doubt deceived you and
the fellow should be purgatoried in some way. Give me his name
please, and I will endeavor to teach him a lesson.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1904.

Mrs. Cordie Tallchief,
Irving, New York.

Dear Friend :

Yours very truly,

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Carliole, Pa., Jan. 10, 1905.

Mr. C. D. Gibbs,

Williston, N. Dakota.

My dear Sir :

Relying to your age of 15th, I am sorry to inform you that
your son Charles ran away from this school last spring, and though
we notified railroad officials and the police authorities at differ-
ent points along the road west we have never heard anything about
him, so that I cannot tell you where he is. He was getting along
very well here, so far as I could tell, was in my office not long be-
fore leaving, and from his bearing I had no indication that he was
other than contented. Should you hear of his whareabouts, please let
me know.

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Carlsbad, N.C., Jan. 19, 1942.

John Dixon,

Cochitl, New Mexico,

Dear John :

I have your letter of the 12th and am glad to hear you are com-
ing to commencement and that you have hopes of bringing children.
See that they meet all the requirements indicated on the blank
sent you, and keep me informed of your movements.

We are anticipating a right royal time when all who have se-
capted our invitation are gathered.

With kind regards to yourself and all our school boys and girls
whom you may meet,

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Curtinale, Pa., Jan. 19, 1906.

Dear Joliet,

Your letter reached me this morning. Glad to know where you are and that place is a prospect of your bringing some good students. Be sure that all the requirements indicated on the blanks forwarded you are met. You will note that agents or superintendents consent is necessary as well as parents. Be particularly careful that all you bring are in good health. The blanks, properly filled, should come to me by the 25th. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands and approves of my purpose, so that the matter of leave need not trouble you if Mr. Flinn approves and can spare you. I am writing Mr. Chamberlain to-day.

Tortuusly yours,

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Carliell, No., you. 10, 1863.

Mr. John Finn, Dept.,
Training School,
Chamberlain, R. D.

Sixteenth commencement is to be on the 16th, 11th and 12th
The graduating class numbers forty-seven. Being our
I, wish make the occasion memorable by bringing to Car-
left us before we began to graduate. Joel Tindall,
and if you can conveniently
I shall be obliged.
I him at Yuma, Cal., and am just in receipt of his reply
If he could bring a few good students I could pay
Government funds. The speaks of four young men who de-
I these young men soon to you to be good subjects for
I approve of their transfer. I can place transporta-
tion as soon as notified by you.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands and approves of
my purpose, so that such leave as is necessary and consistent with
the needs of your school, will be favorably passed upon in the De-
gartment. I trust we may have your cooperation.

Please advise.

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Carliola, Jun. 19, 1904.

Mr. Charles Bontemana,
100 State St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Doc Juris,

An invitation will be sent Miss Witter so you ask. I will have a ticket to Chicago with the agent of the Pennsylvania so you can start on the 10th as you propose. A day or two earlier would be all the better for us if convenient for you.

The prospect is good for quite a gathering of graduates and early students and we are anticipating a good old reunion occasion.

Gordially with fairmannly yours,

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Carlsbad, N.Y., Jan. 19, 1946.

Barnard Miller,

Red Spring, N.C.

Dear Bill:

And you're doing well that you can bring us at least one stu-
dent. But now be in all probability up to the requirements indicated
on the envelope next. If you can add another of two, well and good,
but we shall have to do the rest anyway.

The indications are we shall have a goodly gathering of grad-
lates and there, and we look for a season of individual interests.

Best wishes and successfully yours,

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Carliella, Pa., Apr. 19, 1903.

Miss Isabella C. Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear school daughter 2

Ticket to Carliella for yourself and for pupils if possible
me you can bring any, will be with the agent of the C. & M.W. In De
There in ample time. Your ticket returning will be made out here
when you are ready to use it, so you can have it at any time as you
want to visit Miss Bage and we can produce you here a ticket to
Downingtown.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs understands my purpose
it has its advantages, so that the matter of leave of absence will be
all right provided he start and spare you, I have written him.

Keep me informed of the progress and when you will be re-
start.

Grazingly yours faithfully yours,

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Hartley, Pa., Jan. 20, 1905.

U. S. Charles University
100 State St.
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Doctor:

Colonel Pratt directs that I send you the enclosed and ask you
to return it as promptly as possible just how much you had to do
with the marked articles, with the return of the papers.

REPLY,      Carlsbad, Pa., Jan. 20, 1905.

Major, General W. C. Corkin,
Adjunct General,

Washington, D. C.

Your message tacky. Having suggested and built up this school, so long as conditions are suitable I cannot consistently seek relief
y working other duty.

R. H. PRATT, Lt. Col.

W. W. - 5:40 P.M.

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