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Dec. 26, 1899.

Mr. E. McNiel,
Shannahan,
Easton, Md.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to yours without date, requesting that James Wheelock be permitted to go with your orchestra early in January, I have to advise you that when I permitted the football team to go to San Francisco I had to take Hudson out of my office; and in order to cover that absence was compelled to take Mr. Dennison Wheelock, formerly a clerk in my office, from his duties with the band and place him in the office, thus throwing his duties together with James Wheelock's duties upon James Wheelock. There are no changes I can make that would make it practicable to allow Mr. Wheelock to be absent from the school at this time. The quarterly returns for the end of December are the second most important of the year and must be in the Indian Office by the 20th of January. It will be all I can do to accomplish that with the help of Mr. Wheelock in the office, and to omit band practice and the other duties which fall upon Mr. James Wheelock is not at all practicable.

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Dec. 26, 1899.

Mr. D. S. Lindsay,
3912 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Lindsay :-

I acknowledge with great pleasure the Christmas gift of
Twenty-five Dollars from Dr. Trumbull's bible class, and thank you
for transmitting the same.

It was on my mind to call on you when in Philadelphia recent-
ly, but as I was under treatment for rheumatism in the hospital,
for my eyes with the oculist, and having my teeth attended to at
the same time, I was not in a condition for calling and had about
as much as I could stand. I met Dr. Trumbull twice at lunch and
told him I intended to call on you. My locomotion has been impaired
for about seven months, but am glad to say the treatment is bring-
ing relief though I am not yet in shape.

Wishing you most heartily the compliments of the season, I am

 faithfully yours,

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Dec. 26, 1899

Henry Kophay,
Osage Agency,
Pawhuska, Okla.

Dear Harry :-

I have your letter of Dec. 8th about your cousin Benny,
and have changed his work. I advised him to go to the carpenter
shop. That was the first you mentioned, and in my judgment is the
best place for him. I quite entirely agree with you that persons
of his habits and health history should not be in a tailor shop.

I am glad to hear from you, Harry, and especially glad to
know of your welfare and success. As you know, I have no other
desire than to help, and shall always pay attention to such sug-
gestions as you make.

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Mr. George S. Conners,
22 E. 25th St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Conner :-

When I consented to your coming here in connection with
our football team in the fall, and when later I consented to Mr.
Thompson's agreement with you for continued service in connection
with the athletics of the school, I supposed your experience and
qualities were entirely such as your employment by Cornel would
indicate. Today's paper in a despatch from Illinois indicates that
you are regularly in the pugilistic business in connection with
"Young Griffo", and it is advertised that you are trainer for the
Carlisle Indian football team.

I am sorry that these relations should make it necessary for
me to change my mind in regard to your coming here, but that is
the case. You will therefore consider the agreement cancelled.

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Dec. 28, 1899.

Mrs. Mary J. Ranco,
Oldtown, Me.

My dear Mrs. Ranco :-

Your daughter from Philadelphia has just been here for
several days. She is a bright, capable girl, and her coming has
had a great influence on Johnny. He has just been in my office
and tells me that he is satisfied now, and will write you to that
effect; so that from now on I do not think you will be disturbed
by Johnny's complaints.

Trusting this will be so, and that you will eventually have
very great satisfaction in the results of sending your son to us,
I am, my dear Mrs. Ranco,

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Dec. 27, 1899.

Francisco Nejo,

Nesa Grande, Cal.

My dear Friend :-

Replying to your letter of the 17th in regard to your
son Richard, I have to advise you that he began going to school
where he is on the first of December, and will go every day thru
the winter. This experience we give to all our students; in fact,
we require them to take it, and do not accept any students that
are not willing to take this part of the curriculum. It is the
best part of our Carlisle School, for it brings them into actual
relations with people of a good class and they take on the cour-
age as well as the abilities of our life far better and quicker
than it is possible to get them to do in school. The school is
theoretical, must of necessity be however well conducted, but this
is practical and just the kind of influence that I myself was sub-
jected to, and which I have subjected my children to.
the

Richard is learning many things that white boys learn. He is
a good boy and doing I think, fully as well as you could expect.

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Dec. 27, 1899.

Silas R. Moon,

Kaak Village, Alaska.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 4th inst. I have to advise you that Susie Moon is in the best of health, and that so far this winter she has been in the public schools of Merchantville, New Jersey, and has made excellent progress. A break in her conduct, not uncommon in Susie, leads me to recall her to the school, and she will be back here at the end of the week. Except for her disposition to give a little trouble now and then because of her peculiar temperament, Susie is doing well, and you have no reason to feel uneasy about her health. I am inclined to think that her last break is to be as much attributed to her employer as to herself, and I have thought best to recall her and end relations with the family. Susie was loud and abusive to a lady on the street because of a fancied wrong to her employer. Her conduct was not excusable by any law governing in such matters.

Mary Moon graduated last spring and is taking an advanced course in the Normal Department for the purpose of better fitting herself as a teacher. I submitted her case to Dr. Jackson sometime ago with a view to her possibly being needed in Alaska, but he advises that she be employed in the States, and when she is through here I shall cheerfully recommend her to the Department for that.

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Princess Chiquilla,
C/o Dayton Show,
Yankton, S. Dak.

Dec. 28, 1890.

My dear friend :-

I was led to say what I did in my telegram because your son told me that he was getting on all right and keeping up with the other boys in the public schools of Lowell, and I understood he was no expense to you there. What you say about his being an expense to you puts a different face on it. I have no trouble in finding places where boys can go to the public schools of the state and people are glad to give them homes for the winter where they can earn their board and washing by helping mornings and evenings. I supposed your son's attendance at school in Lowell was on similar conditions.

Harry seems to have settled down among the boys and to be happy here. It is duty to write you once a month and we send with this letter his monthly report. In addition to this he can write to you every day if he wants to.

The presumption is that every Indian boy as well as every white boy will have to hoe his own row in the competitions of our American life, and the very best place for a boy to learn just that thing is in the public schools. There he learns just what competition is and what he must become in order to be on an equality in business and industrial life. Part of my plan, as you per-

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haps know, is that every student shall have one or two years of
outside experience attending public school and living in a family
where he must work for his board. If he is in a good home I some-
times let him stay several years, and often find he makes more
progress than he can here in a purely Indian school, as the Can-
lisle school is.

Please be assured that you annoy me not at all with anything
you have to communicate in regard to your son. I am here to lis-
ten to the wishes of parents and to execute them so far as practi-
cable with my duties and the management of the school.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 28, 1899.

Mr. Harry Keiser,

Crow Agency, Mont.

My dear Mr. Keiser :-

Frank comes to me requesting that I allow him to go to the business college in Carlisle, and I have told him that in my judgment such a course should come when he is further advanced in his school course. A business course, to be most advantageous, should follow the high school, as a knowledge of the language and mathematics is necessary to successful business which is not reached before that is accomplished, and it is a great waste to undertake it before. I will say, however, that if you prefer to have Frank take this course now irrespective of my judgment, I will arrange it. The cost he will have to pay will be small.

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Dec. 28, 1899.

Matthew Johnson,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Matthew :)

You can send the ticket here to Miss Ely and she will settle with you for it, and it can be used later by someone wanting to come from New York. I want to say to you, however, that I do not approve of your course in leaving Carlisle and after getting home coming to such a conclusion. It was not honorable to leave the school in such a manner. If you had wanted to quit the school, you should have made it known at the time and acted in a fair and open way. But from your class standing and your standing in the band it is perhaps just as well that you do not return.

Your friend,

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Daniel Robb,

Merchantville, N. J.

My dear Mr. Robb :-

I find that it was after her interview with Mrs. Robb that Mrs. Dorsett had her interview with Mrs. Lewis, and that she had two interviews. I therefore wish to recall any reflection that may have been implied in making the statement I did. Am glad you accept the conclusion so philosophically and sorry for the inconvenience it causes you as I know it must be for the present at least we have reached the right conclusion of this business.

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Miss. School-daughter :-

I want to thank you for the kind电话 you sent me. It
is a very fine one and represents much skill and patience.

How is it I have not heard from you before? I was away from
home when you left Carlisle and did not see you just before you
started. I hope you are busy and happy.

Xmas here passed off much as usual. We had a very mild day, but it has since turned colder, so that the girls and boys have an added amusement for their vacation week in the skating pond at the rear of the laundry. The field was flooded sometime ago, and is now in fair condition for skaters. Xmas presents were distributed in quarters very early in the morning, and everyone was remembered. Entertainment is arranged for every evening in the week, including stereopticon show, band concert, concert by the mandolin club and orchestra, basket-ball, sociables, etc. You know just about what we are doing.

Our school is now up to its fullest capacity. There were 1027 on our rolls several days ago. Our school building was enlarged during the summer, and all preparation made for the added numbers that we could make. Next week school begins again and everything will go on regularly until spring.

If you see Alice and other Carlisle girls and boys, give them my kind regards.

With best wishes for yourself for the coming New Year,
Faithfully your friend and school-father,

P.S. - I send you by early mail a copy of "Our Red Brothers" together one of my late photographs. The book speaks of much that you know about, but I think it will prove very interesting to you.

Miss Alice Sakieh,

Fort Hill. O. T.

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Dec. 28, 1899.

Estaine Dupelt questaogue,
C/O Mrs. Will Hayes,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Estaine :-

When your letter of November 30th came to me I turned it over to Miss Luckenbach for information in regard to your account, and only today has it come back to me from her. She had it among other papers and overlooked it. I am very sorry for this long delay, but as I had depended upon getting the letter back to bring it to my mind, it entirely escaped me until brought up in this way.

Your account shows you have a credit of twelve dollars, which you can call for at any time. In regard to the ticket, that went into the Government accounts long ago and could not be revived, nor would it be proper to take from you that amount. Neither would it be proper to let you pay for your clothing. You were regularly enrolled as a pupil and we took credit for you as such. These things were regularly issued you because of that relation; so that there is absolutely no charge against you here, but there is a clear credit, as before stated. I am sorry if the situation adds anything to your unhappiness, but I assure you it is perfectly right and just to let the matter rest as stated above.

I am glad to feel, my dear Estaine, that you are working out of difficulty and that the equanimity of things may very soon be all that you and I and all your other friends could desire. Clean-

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Mrs. Jennie Bealair,
152 Jefferson st.,
Wall River, Mass.

Dear Madam :-

Your brother, Edward Granger, has not sufficient money
to pay his way to Wall River. I have just had him in my office and
told him that as soon as he could get the money to pay his trans-
portation I would let him go to you, or to Minneapolis, or wher-
ever he could go to school. If he could go to school in Wall River
or in Minneapolis it would be very much better for him than to go
to any purely Indian school, Carlisle not excepted.

The fare to New York on our special rate is about $3.00.
from New York to Wall River I do not know the cost.

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Dec. 30, 1890.

H. A. Gross, G. E. A.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Gross !—

I am sending this to you by special railroad delivery, and if there is anything further you want to talk with me about and think it safe to do it by telephone you can go to the phone in the station and call up my office.

when the boys agreed to play with California it was after the consultation I had with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; I explained it could be used as an opportunity to break down the prejudice against us at certain Indian schools in the west, and mentioned Grand Junction on the way out, and Perris, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Haskell on the way back. The Commissioner agreed to it and thought it would be a good thing for Carlisle and the whole Indian cause. I then asked for rates. The very first person I went to about the business was you. I was in Phila. at the time under hospital treatment. I went to a long distance phone and called up your office. They told me you were in Georgia and gave me your address, but I saw at once it would be impossible for me to negotiate with you at that long range; so I went immediately to your Philadelphia agent. He can give you the best account of what occurred from that on. Suffice it to say that he was unable to get any naming of rates because the parties in San Francisco in-

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stated and persisted in managing the business, sending us via the
Union Pacific and returning us via the Southern Pacific and New Or-
leans. As Mr. Vaille will tell you in what I said to him, as it
was only one school on the way out, I was willing to forego visit-
ing that if the rate named had been as low as by the other route,
principally because it was a quicker route and because of my fried
ship for you; but being unable to get any rate, and the people in
San Francisco persisting that I would have to take their dose or
none, I finally told them they would let me manage the business
of the team, or we would not go. This brought them to their knees
embarrassed the contention; but even at the very last when I wanted
your Phila. agent to name me a rate he was unable to do so. I
think if you had been in New York and I could have talked with you
a few minutes about it, it would have been all right and there
would have been no trouble. We had, as you can see, an object to
accomplish which was of very much greater importance to us than
the football game. One of my difficulties is the jealousy of
these western institutions, and it was the Commissioner's opinion
and mine, and the results already show that the move to have the
football team visit them after its successful career this fall and
in San Francisco, will accomplish just what we anticipated.

I think you have the whole of this matter and it is likely
the Union Pacific people have found out that I do and must control
the Carlisle Indian School business. There was not and cannot be
the slightest prejudice in my mind against your line as in favor
of any other. You know that without my saying it, from our long
and entirely friendly business relations.

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Dec. 30, 1899.

Dr. C. L. Keedy, Pres.
Kenney College,
Hagerstown, Md.

My dear Doctor:-

I find no record of an answer to your note without date
received sometime ago in regard to your people coming here, though
it is on my mind that I did write you. Fearing I did not, I write
now.

We have undertaken at the school to have special entertainments
to which all the children can go, and asked those who had the mon-
key and were willing to contribute to do so, and the employers also.
We then made our arrangements for the winter, using the funds we
had; but I find I have already gone quite beyond our allowance; so
that so far as action from the entire school is concerned, I am
handicapped. I have no doubt, however, if your young ladies came
to town to give an entertainment I could find quite a number of
our young people who would be glad to attend, if we knew your date
long enough beforehand to prepare for it; but I could not prom-
ise until I knew this.

You perhaps know that our Commencement occurs the last of Feb-
ruary and the 1st of March, and from this time on we shall be ex-
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Dec. 30, 1899.

Mr. J. D. Patterson, Chief Clerk,
Commission Soldiers' Orphans' Schools,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of yesterday, our band gives a concert here at the school tonight, and the enclosed is the program. For the singing we can give you a couple of numbers by the glee-club and there will be no additional cost for transportation on account of it. They sing very well indeed. The glee-club is composed of about fifteen members of the band who have been specially trained to sing. There will probably be about fifty-five, and I think I should like to go along and perhaps one or two of the faculty. If Thursday evening next will suit you, we will fix up on that time, leaving here at 4:30 unless you can make arrangements for us to run up on a special later. One car would do. Leaving here at 4:30, you would have to give the boys a meal.

We have no special female voices at present.

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Dec, 29, 1899,

Miss Jenny Erierson,
Lock Box 63,
San Juan, Porto Rico,

My dear Miss Erierson :-

Your good long letter of Nov. 7th has lain much longer
than I had intended. Three weeks of the time I spent in Philadel-
phia, mostly in a hospital under treatment for rheumatism, and
have not been in the best condition at any time since the receipt
of your letter. I thank you for the general information you sent
me and highly appreciate it. Mrs. Pratt and I both thank you for
your postal Xmas greetings. It is a pleasure to know that you and
Mrs. Etnier are getting on so nicely and are so conspicuously
helping to forward American interests in our new possessions, I am
very much better than for months, owing to the treatment received
while in Philadelphia, but am not sound yet. Everybody has a
cure for my rheumatism, and I am trying them all, hoping in time
to get hold of the right one and be entirely cured.

"The Helper" must give you the details of news here. Our num-
bers have grown to 1027, 718 of whom are here at the school. The
football boys thrashed the biggest team on the Pacific Coast on
Xmas Day, and are now on the way home, stopping off at Parris,
Phoenix, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Haskell. They will reach Car-
lisle about the 7th of January.

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Boy in the hospital and only four girls, all wild nuns.

Richenda is spending part of her vacation with a school friend in Lock Haven. Nana, Mrs. Pratt, and I occupy the big house. Our little grandchild, Mary Stavick, is here from Denver for eye treatment. You remember perhaps that she is cross-eyed. The doctor is trying to cure her without an operation, but that looks doubtful.

I am not without some hope of seeing Porto Rico this winter, just when it doubtful as the trip itself is. I shall go to Washington tomorrow and intend to see the Quartermaster General and find out whether he can favor me with transportation. If he can't, I won't go.

Wishing you a Happy New Year and great success in your work,

I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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December 30, 1899.

My dear Doctor :-

I thank you for your hearty commendation of my course and for your sentiments in regard to the assaults on me by the Catholics. The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs have been reading the same papers you read, and the Secretary says that I am entirely right and who I have said is nothing but the truth; but that he can see no good in my getting into a fight with the Catholics and thinks it would be impolitic to keep up the contention although he admits I have the best of grounds and reasons. He goes so far as to make a personal matter and say he hopes I will oblige him by letting them hammer away and say nothing in reply. The Commissioner is of the opinion that we can handle what they say before the Committee quietly and accomplish a great deal more than we could by public response. I have said that personally I can take all they may say, and it will not distrub my rest in this particle; and as it will be doing what the Secretary wishes me to do, I shall of course do that at least for the present.

You can keep the papers. They have sent me a whole lot. They are still at it. This week's issue of the same paper, which came yesterday, has a half column tirade against the Commissioner and myself. They evidently think that by attacking Cardinal and me on account of our conspicuousness they will attract the attention of the country and have some weight in Congress. The Commissioner admits there are a good many men in Congress who in my case with them, and we may expect the matter to come up there not on the Indian Bill.

One of their allegations which you may remember, and which is reiterated, is that if the Catholics had a school supported by the Government in which every employe was a Catholic, the whole country would be up in arms against it. As a matter of fact there are three schools supported by the Government entirely, at Yuma, Cal., Standing Rock, N. Dak., and Fort Totten, N. Dak. In each of which there is not a single Protestant employe and never has been. They are absolutely supported by Government appropriation.

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under the Indian Bureau. The school at Fort Wotten
is in the hands of the Grey Nuns, has been in exist-
ence a dozen years and in that time it has not
changed its employees once, so far as outside appearance
go. Whenever there has been a change a nun has been
put in under the same name and no note made of it on
the records. The headquarters of these nuns is in
Montreal and the Government checks paid them are sent
direct to the Superior of the order in Montreal and
come back to the United States with her endorsement.
In the school at Yummi, Cal. a woman has been super-
intendent and the Department has been put to it to
find a Catholic woman to fill the place several times
Recently the woman took into the school a Catholic
priest and kept him there under the guise that the
Catholic employees needed the ministrations of a
priest; but it was soon found that he was indulging
himself and others in the use of spirituous li-
quors to the disgrace of the service and the injury
of the students, and that his conduct otherwise was
not all that it ought to be. The Department had
some difficulty in ousting him and had to find a
new superintendent in consequence of the revelations
made.

If there is one human quality possessed by
Catholic priests in a greater degree than any other
to my knowledge it is the quality of lying straight
out. I got enough yesterday in talking with the
Commissioner to be able to fire off a twenty-inch
gun at them, but you see the restraint I am under
which makes it impossible. However, things will
keep.

Your book came, but no bill for it. I would
like two more to present to a couple of friends of
mine, and if you will kindly ask Dr. Thompson to
send them with a bill for the three, I shall be
obliged to you.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Jas. M. King, Secy.,
Arch St., near 10th,
Phila., Pa.

1997

488

Jan. 1, 1900.

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

Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this school under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved
June 27th by S. O., No. 794, Headquarters of the Army A.G.O.,
August 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior dated September 6th, all 1879.
My address for the next month is as above.

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January 1, 1900.

Dear Mrs. Wilbur :-

I got your note inviting me to the drawing-room meeting of the Washington Auxiliary of the Woman's National Indian Association just as I was starting for the train; and as I had seen Dr. Gates but a few minutes before and explained to him that I would not be there, I trusted to him to make my apologies and did not stop to write my regrets. As Congress was not in session I was only in Washington for one day for special purposes, intending to be home for business the next day. It was desirable, of course, to be present at your meeting, and I regret that this arrangement which seemed best deprived me of the privilege of attending your meeting.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Mary E. C. Wilbur,
1719 15th St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

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January 1, 1900.

Hon. Jas. S. Sherman,
Utica, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Sherman :—

I am delighted that Dr. Stryker will come when I get down to it, it appears that last year's account of the conditions here we put off our commencement until the middle of March, and the conditions were so much more favorable that there was a general urgency that we use that period hereafter instead of the end of February and first of March. It comes up again in the necessary work of the school and my people all favor adopting the middle of May regularly for the Commencement time. That is just before farmers have to begin their spring work, and they can be here, and it gives us a chance for favorable weather, and as we never get Congress anyway in the short sessions it does not make any difference on that account.

I hope this will make no difference in Dr. Stryker's acceptance. We will take "Lincoln" from him rather than lose him. Three years ago we had "coln" from Gen. Eaton, and two years ago from Dr.

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Spinning; but Lincoln is the colossal figure of the century, and in view of the fact that there is such a disposition to exalt minor characters and leave Lincoln in the background, we all feel that we cannot have too much of him. There are more than four hundred pupils here who were not here at the previous lectures and those who were are now more advanced and better able to comprehend. The conditions were all named in my first letter to Dr. Stryker and will remain the same.

Tuesday evening, the 13th of March, will be the time for the lecture. Dr. Stryker's letter is herewith returned. Please let me know as early as convenient. I telegraphed you today so you might know more promptly.

Sincerely yours,

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Jan. 1, 1900.

Mr. E. McDaniel Stannahan,
Weston, Md.

Dear Sirs,

I have at very great sacrifice and by employing temporarily a special man here, arranged to let James Wheelock go with you. I trust that in all future arrangements of your orchestra there may be no counting on using any of my employes without my knowledge in any single time. If it were at another time than that succeeding the end of the last month of the quarter, - i. e. if it were in February or the last days of January there would be no material trouble. Our press of work comes just before the end of the quarter and the first twenty days following.

Mr. Wheelock will be at Middletown, Del. as you request.

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Jan. 1, 1900.

Mr. Geo. H. Pradt,
Laguna, N. Mex.

My dear Sir :-

Many has never been out from the school for a winter as our curriculum requires, having always successfully managed to evade it by just such means as she is now using. I have inquired in reference to her home, and while there are some small conditions that are not entirely satisfactory, in the main she is under the influence of a very strong womanly woman, and if she would make use of her opportunities and surroundings I am sure she would be much more benefitted by remaining there than by spending the winter at Carlisle where we are simply a great band of Indians. She needs just the sort of experience she is having in order to make her strong and capable. I will look further into the matter and will make a change if that seems best, but I assure you she is not under any influence that I would not have my own daughter be under.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Jan. 1, 1900.

Editor,
"Yakima Republic",
N. Yakima, "Wash.

Dear Sir :-

In your issue of Dec. 15th you speak of a bad Indian, Oscar Spencer, and as usual with western papers you state that he was educated by the Government at the Carlisle Indian School.

If you had taken any pains to get at the truth you would have discovered that the statement was without foundation in fact, so far as this Indian's being educated at Carlisle is concerned. Since the beginning of this school to the present time only one Yakima Indian has been enrolled here, Ambrose Mark, who entered the school Dec. 20th, 1894 and was discharged in July, 1896. No Oscar Spencer from Yakima or any other tribe has ever been on our rolls. The friend who sent me your paper advises me that it is another western lie, which seems to be the proper characterization.

Yours truly,

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Jan. 1, 1900.

Mr. Chas. H. Fischer,
1710 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Fischer :-

The last lot of records came duly. I have tested one
package and could not produce successful results. Somehow, if it
started out all right, after going a little way there would be
what sounded like an echo, then utter confusion; a little later it
would get on the track again and go on all right; or there would
be a point in the record in which the production would be so low
that it could not be heard distinctly. I have not had time to go
through all, but will do so in a day or two. It may be the exceed-
ingly cold weather has something to do with it, and when it is
warmer they may do better.

I write you thus early to let you know the situation as it
has been presented.

Sincerely yours,

Diktated(P)

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Dec. 14, 1900,

Harry B. Hallett
S. H. & Q. M.R.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Your address. Major Stantley. Postmaster General's Office.
Standish, Asst. Asst. Stpt.

W. H. - and. H.
5240 7. M.

Dec. 22, 1900.

Pierce, Supt...
Green Bay, Wis.

Robitaille started for White Earth, Minn. Mon. night, expected to arrive Sat.

Pratt, Major.

Sublett.

W. H. - 2:52 P.M.

Dec. 20, 1900.

Supt. McCowan,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Ariz.

Wire W. G. Thompson, Mag. Indian Football Team. Palace Hotel, San Francisco. I think you can arrange this. Pratt, Major.

5:00 P.M.

Dec. 22, 1900.

H.A. Gross,
461 Broadway, New York.

Major in Washington. Spent home today.
A. J. Standing.

Dec. 27, 1900.

Julie Sonogosh
New York, N.Y.

Impossible to get meeting and to come back home. It is against the rules of the school.

Write to me.

Cefraut,

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