412

In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 5th 1894.

Mr. Barton N. Knode, Sec., etc.,
Hanover, Pa.

My dear Sir:

Your letter has been held for my return from Washington. We have let a considerable number of our band members go to the country under our outing system for this summer and while there is a nucleus here it is not at all in a condition to properly and favorably represent itself on an occasion such as you refer to. I have been compelled to send an unfavorable answer to a number of applicants in consequence of this condition and am sorry that I must treat you in the same manner.

Dictated.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 5th 1894.

Julius Ance,
Suttons Bay, Michigan.

Dear Julius:

You ran away from school and went home. If you want to return to school you can but you must return to Carlisle in the same way you went. If there are any other children who want to come here let them write to us so that we may know who they are.

Your friend,

Dictated.

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Judge D. M. Browning, page 2.

The situation here and the conditions that surround the
appropriation lead me to hesitate about taking the trip I
had contemplated and I would rather that the authority be
left open so that I could either go myself or send.

I have taken the liberty to write out such an order for
your personal and private information as I would like to have.

Very respectfully yours,

Dictated.

Capt. R. H. Pratt,
Superintendent Indian Industrial School,
Carlisle, Pa.

Sir:

You are authorized to expend during the current
fiscal year the additional sum of $2,000.00 in returning
students who from expiration of their time, ill health or
other causes are entitled to return to their homes, and also
in collecting and bringing to Carlisle suitable pupils who may
desire, and are eligible under the law and regulations for
such, transfer. Indian Agents and School Superintendents in
the Indian service are hereby authorized and directed to
co-operate with you or your agent to secure such transfers.

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In reply to:

Carliell, Pa., May 7th 1894.

Miss Julia Henry,
Wilson College,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Julia:

After the first of July there will be a radical
change in the civil service examinations for Indian Schools,
and it will be easier to secure the teachers whom we want. It
will be just as well to defer your examination until after
the first of July. The questions under the contemplated
arrangement will be entirely different from what they now
are. I have no doubt of your carrying the day. In the
mean time come here when you are ready.

Dictated.

419

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 7th 1894.

Charles F. Jenkins,
Farm Journal,
Philadelphia.

My dear Friend:

In reply to your letter of the 5th it will afford me great pleasure to send you Dr. Montezuma for your Indian meeting on the evening of the 17th. The Doctor can more properly present "the greatest need of the Indian at the present time" than any man I know.

Unless I hear to the contrary from you Dr. Montezuma will leave here in time to be at the meeting.

Dictated.

422

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 6th 1894.

Miss Lucy Walker,

Directress of Presbyterian Nurses' Hospital,
39th Street & Powelton Avenue,
Philadelphia.

Dear Madam:

As your instructions state that nurses are admitted in April and in the autumn, and as Flora Campbell is anxiously awaiting her admission, I venture to request information in regard to the probable outcome of her application. She is quite setting her heart upon the prospect and I do trust that nothing may intervene to disappoint her.

Dictated

423

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424

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 7th 1904.

Miss Alice M. Seabrook,
2309 Thompson Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Miss Seabrook:

I have your letter of the 5th and while I should be very glad to give Miss Seabrook employment for the summer as she wishes, we have so many girls now who are advanced and need such work that I think best to fill the places with them.

Regretting that I cannot send you a favorable answer to your request, and with best wishes for you, I am,

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George Nocoechluke, page 2.

to the Indian cause, in showing people what Indians can do.

The boys are playing bass ball during their leisure time now. Last Friday evening they played with the men employees and came off ahead with a score of 22 to 6. Some of the gentlemen had not played for many years so that the boys had the advantage of them. But both sides had great fun over game.

How are you getting on with your work in Alaska? I hope
you will soon write me and tell me of all you are doing. Do
you go fishing, and how is the fishing there?

With best wishes for you always, I am,

Your friend,

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437

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 11th 1894.

Annie Noble,
Jenkintown, Pa.

Esteemed Friend:

I have had your letter in regard to Miss Carrie Hulme for some days. I was taken quite ill with the grip last Saturday and am only now just going about attending to affairs.

The position that you spoke of here will not become vacant because of the lady's marriage, she is still with us expecting to remain.

The reductions which are likely to be made in the Indian service in the near future are opposed to my holding out any anticipations.

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

Dictated.

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440

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 11th 1894.

Mrs. Lillie Charles,
Akron, New York.

My dear Mrs. Charles:

I have received your letter of the 8th asking that Clarinda Charles visit you this summer during the vacation. Clarinda was anxious to go to the country this summer and made a request to go. She went out last week, and having settled for herself how she would spend her summer she cannot now be disturbed. Besides many of the New York pupils have asked to go home this summer and I cannot let one go without opening the door for them all, and I cannot make an exception in the case of Clarinda.

Yours truly,

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in reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., May 11th 1894.

Thomas Skunkhead,
1651 Third Avenue,
Lancaster, Nebraska.

Dear Friend:

I have your letter of the 6th and in reply I have
to inform you that you are mistaken about having any money
here. You have none here.

Amos has gone to the country and Hannah is here at the
school. They are both well. Hattie, you know probably, wants
home some time ago.

With best wishes for you,

Yours sincerely,

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445

In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 12th 1894.

James Beck,
Clayton, Rabun Co., Ca.

Dear Sir:

I have your letter in regard to your daughters.
Mamie is progressing nicely in her school work. She is in
the Normal room, where she has the opportunity to learn to
teach.

In regard to your other daughter coming here, I do not
see how I can well take her now. If you could afford to send
her here I might open the way after she comes.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 12th 1894.

Robert Horse,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Dear Robert:

I received your letter and was glad to know that you and Jennie reached home safely. If you will have the bill for your stage fare sent to me I will pay it.

I hope you and Jennie will improve in health and be benefited by the change in climate. We are having very delightful weather, and the grass is green, the trees have their leaves and the grain in the fields is several inches high. It seems very much like summer.

I shall be glad to hear from you and to know how you find your friends at home. If you see any of the Carlisle students tell them that Captain sends his good wishes to them.

Your friend,

446

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In reply to:

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

Carliole, Pa., May 12th, 1994.

Charles. English,

Winnipeg Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Sir:

I have your letter of the 7th asking that your son Charles return home this June. Charles' time expires this June and I wrote you that he might then return home if you desired to have him and he wished to go. It has been our custom to allow students to remain longer than their period of five years if they wished to. Charles was given full chance to return home this year, but he said he wanted to stay another year and some time ago he went out in the country at his own request. Now having this decision it is best to allow him to carry out his plans. While he has this opportunity to learn it is best to let him stick to it as long as he will.

448

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 15th 1894.

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

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 14th enclosing 2 1/2 tickets Gettysburg Junction to White Cloud, Kansas, and naming amount due ($54.63) for them, I send herewith my check for $54.63.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 17th 1894.

Rev. John N. Collins,

Rosebush, Isabella County, Michigan.

My dear Mr. Collins:

Betsy made up her mind that she would not return
home this year and has already gone to the country under our
outing system. As she would not be entitled to return until a
year from next June under the rules of the Department she
could not return this summer anyway. I think you have every
reason to feel gratified that Betsy is developing so well. I
hope you will encourage her to stick to her opportunities at
least for one more year.

I shall have to send Solomon home. He does not seem to be
entirely sound in his mind. I think that home and farm work
will be the best medicine for him. As he will go home perhaps
that will make it more convenient for you to spare Betsy.

In the financial conditions up there you were not without
company. All over the country times are close. I reckon it is
the Lord's way in rebuking our extravagance and making us feel
our dependence.

I remember your visit here with a great deal of pleasure
and am glad to have an appreciative expression from you about
it.

Your friend,

Dictated.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 17th 1894.

Mrs. C. R. Thomas,
1322 14th Street,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:

Miss Quinn has spoken to me of you and Senator Allison
has written very kindly of you for the place of dining-room matron
at this school. Suppose you come to Carlisle and try the place
for a few weeks and you will know and I shall know whether it
is best to continue. Your years are what I fear mostly on
account of past experiences and yet from what Miss Quinn and
Senator Allison both say of you I am very willing to let you
undertake it on trial. You can come at once. The salary is
$50.00 per month with furnished room light and heat. You can
board at $3.00 per week in the Teachers' Club and have your
washing done at 50 cents per week.

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 17th 1894.

Miss Annette Brown,
North Wisconsin Academy,
Ashland, Wisconsin.

We shall have several vacancies among our teaching force here the ensuing year but I am not entirely at liberty to make arrangements as the Civil Service rules have been made to apply in Indian Schools. The teacher in our highest department, after nearly fifteen years service here has concluded to give herself a rest and take up lighter work. The salary for the position is $720.00 and there will be other vacancies at $600.00 and $540.00 per year. We give furnished room, light and heat. Board costs $3.00 per week and washing .50 per week. These salaries include one month's leave of absence without loss of pay.

I judge from the education and experience you have had that you might, if you undertake work with us here at all, incline to the highest department. I hope to know soon just how much authority I shall have in arranging for teachers. Heretofore that has been left quite entirely in my hands and I am hopeful that I shall still have control.

I should want before employing to have a conference with you and the best place for that is at Carlisle. I should like also to have the names of your referees.

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Miss Annette Brown, page 2.

It is perhaps as well for you to know that we graduate our
pupils a little above the grammar grade of the public schools
so that none of our teaching is even of the high school grade.

With this statement of the matter I shall hope to hear
from you soon again.

Yours truly,

Dictated.

Carlisle, Pa., May 17th 1894.

Zenas J. Gray, Manager, etc.,

Yohn Bros.,

Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I am greatly obliged for your complimentary attention
for the Decca entertainment and shall have great pleasure in
attending.

Quite a number will attend from the school. If you send
me 20 tickets I think perhaps I could sell them for you.

Yours sincerely/

Dictated.

Capt. & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 17th 1894.

Supt. A. J. C. Smith,
Media, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I have your letter to Prof. Barton of Shippensburg
in reference to the Indian students occupying a portion of the
time of the next State Teachers' Association. Prof. Barton was
here in regard to our making an exhibit, both industrial and
school work, which we expect to do. During the course of our
conversation there was an expression in favor of our coming
before the Association with classes, and I said we would be
glad to undertake that. Your letter indicates that the program
is so far advanced and the time so occupied as to make it some-
what impracticable to give the class work. I am quite as well
pleased with this and shall not therefore arrange for the
class work. We shall be on hands with a pretty full line of
our written school-room work and with our industrial work as
well.

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 18th 1894.

Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton,
President Women's National Indian Association,
Philadelphia.

Dear Mrs. Quinton:

I am obliged to you for your kindly notice of Carlisle's
Commencement and also for your intentions in regard to the
concerts we gave in the cities. One thing is sure: a great
weight of responsibility lies upon us who can to do some
considerable parading before the public with our civilized
and educated Indians in order to prevent the public sentiment
from becoming utterly debased in regard to them. The country
is full of Buffalo Bill shows and Indian medicine troupes. And
strange to say the Department seems quite as friendly to them as
to the schools.

Sub rosa: Gen. Armstrong and Mr. Palmer, the Chief of the
Educational Division, are in their places because the Catholics
put them there and they are both doing the bidding of the
Catholic church. The scheme to get rid of the Superintendent
of Indian Schools is a Catholic scheme so that the Catholic
officials in the Department may have greater swing. I have
confidential but most reliable information that a much larger
raid is contemplated on the general $1,000,000.00 fund allowed
the Department than has been ever made before.

Why doesn't your Society look into the quality of the

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Mrs. A. S. Quinton, page 2.

Catholic work for Indians, and why don't you say something about the importation of foreigners? Scarce a Catholic school has native born Americans in its employ and very few have naturalized Americans. When Plymouth Church wanted a paster and selected one from England immediately there was a howl that it was a violation of the laws against importing foreign labor. There are Catholic schools with priests superintending them who have not been in the United States a year and who cannot speak our language intelligibly. Their great St. Ignasus school, which has $45,000.00 a year from the Government is simply a money making scheme. They run a farm there of 800 acres, the best land in that section. They have unlimited pastorage for their herd of 1400 head of cattle; they raise and market a large number of hogs and horses; they have a grist and saw mill doing regular merchant service for the country thereabouts; they use logs on the reservation costing them nothing but the hauling to the mill; they raise large quantities of wheat and have a herd of cows and dairy quite extensively; they take children from 2 to 3 years old and receive for them the $150.00 per capita from the Government. The subsisting, clothing, the instruction in industrial and literary knowledge are only ordinary in quality. I think if your Society could quietly get hold of the facts and the conditions in a considerable number of their largest and most noted schools, particularly those appearing in the Indian Bill by name and would expose them to the country, you would be doing one of the greatest services possible to the country.

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Mrs. A. S. Quinton, page 3.

Instead of making headway towards Americanizing and disintegrating the tribes through Catholicism we are binding them more thoroughly to the tribe and violating the first amendment to the Constitution by fastening upon them before they have any knowledge of any other religion, a religion inimical to our form of Government and its institutions. The move to keep out of our training schools children who have not attended some other school three or four years is in the interests of Catholicism. If they can fasten their religion in their schools on the reservation they can in a few years own Carlisle and other schools. Priests located at points near the training schools demand jurisdiction over the Catholic students. To be thoroughly United States we must allow it.

Of course I write you all this confidentially. There is nothing more against the civilization of our Indians than the supremacy of the Catholic influence in it.

Yours sincerely,

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 18th 1894.

Rev. W. J. Reed,

Clerk General Assembly U. B. Church,
Albany, Oregon.

My dear Sir:

A pastor in your church urges me to write you in reference to the attitude of the Catholic work in our Indian tribes, and urge that you bring the matter before your Assembly and have resolutions passed similiar to those passed by the other great religious bodies of our country. You can perhaps best formulate your resolutions from reading the enclosed resolutions passed by the Episcopal House of Bishops lately, and also the ones I take from the records of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for 1892 and 1893. The Methodists, Baptists and, I think, the Lutheran Church have also passed like resolutions.

The Catholic church is receiving about three times as much money for Indian school work as all the other churches combined. They are establishing schools and gathering in large tracts of land on the reservations under the laws of the United States, and more than this they are importing foreign priests and nuns to manage these schools. The absurdity of attempting to Americanize and citizenize the Indians under these circumstances is apparent on the face of it. $365,000.00 is the sum they annually receive from the Congress of the United States for

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Rev. W. J. Reed, page 2.

the so-called education they give young Indians. They not only oppose every other denominational effort among the Indians but they have come to oppose and meddle largely in the work of the Government schools.

The first Amendment of the Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law establishing religion. But it does make a law establishing the Catholic religion whenever it gives an appropriation for a Catholic school. They have no other purpose in their work for Indians but to make Catholics of them.

Yours sincerely,

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 18th 1894.

Celinda K. Metoxen,

Oneida, Brown County, Wisconsin.

Dear Celinda:

It will be almost a month before Dennison returns
to Carlisle. I think it can be arranged that you return with
him, but I will write you again on this matter.

Your friend,

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To reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 18th 1894.

Harry Kepay,

Eastman Business College,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Dear Harry:

I am willing that you should go home this summer as you wish. You know, though, that you will pay your own expenses.

I am glad to hear you are getting on so well.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., May 18th 1894.

Mr. Fisk Goodyear, Chairman etc., Committee,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I have given orders that a body of our cadets join
in your parade and if we can muster enough band men we will
place the band in the parade also. Mr. Campbell will have
the matter in charge and you may please send instructions to
him directly.

Yours truly,

Dictated.

Capt. & Supt.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 19th 1894.

Mr. Harry Coleman,
228 North Ninth St.,
Philadelphia.

Sir:

Please send me one copy of Otto Langey's New Method for the Cornet (Coleman Edition) and oblige,

Yours truly,

Capt. & Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., May 19th 1894.

Eclipse Studio Co.,
202 Main Street,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

Enclosed you will find my check for $6.50 covering your bill of the 15th. The pictures reached here safely and I am much pleased with the work. Thanking you for your prompt attention to my order, I am,

Yours truly,

YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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In reply to:

May 19th 1894.

Rev. W. H. Roberts,

Stated Clerk, Presbyterian General Assembly,
Saratoga, New York.

My dear Doctor:

You have of course seen the action of the Episcopal
Bishops appealing to Congress to stop sectarian appropriations.
Our General Assembly is now in session. Last year and the year
before it took good initiative grounds on this question. The
Indian Bill has been reported by the House Committee. It contains
as usual about $365,000.00 for Catholic schools $114,000.00 for
schools by name and over $250,000.00 from the $1,000,000.00
general fund the Department has under its special control each
year, and they are pushing hard for a larger slice from this
general fund. They are working quietly but they are well
entrenched in the support they receive from Catholic Department
officers whom they have had appointed. The Indian Committee
of the House, is just now especially susceptible to Catholic
influence. Through this school work among the Indians, under
a law of the United States the Catholics are accumulating large
tracts of the most promising town site lands on Indian reservations
and altogether are cutting a wide swath towards future
aggrandizement.

They now hold about as much land as all other denominations

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Rev. W. H. Roberts, page 2.

combined.

Now it occurs to me that one of the most important duties
resting on our General Assembly is not only to promptly
reiterate its former resolutions but to make them more binding.
To be effectual, personal presentation is most important. I
have talked it over with Dr. Norcross and others and they agree
with me that the best way would be to send to Washington at
once while the Assembly is in session with orders to report
back to the Assembly, a number of our strong men to place the
resolutions before the committees of Congress, the Department
heads and the President. Such a movement inaugurated immediately
and vigorously carried out would undoubtedly have great weight
against the increase the Catholics are trying to secure this
year. The fight is on, it must be kept up until we win, for
along these lines lies a great national danger. The Government
approval of the use of public funds in Catholic mission schools
is a tremendous entering wedge to a like use of the common
school funds of the states. You can, without fear of being
successfully contradicted, assert in stronger terms what the
Episcopal Bishops did mildly as to the weak character of the
work of the Catholics. It is purely, simply, entirely Catholic,
not United States in any particular. The whole Catholic
contingency in the Indian school work is made up of foreigners,-
many of their school employes not having a single naturalized
citizen, much less a native born citizen, among them. They are
constantly importing priests and nuns to manage and instruct in
their Indian schools. Along our northern border Canada furnishes

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## COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 19th 1894.

Gov. Beavor,

Bellefonte, Pa.

Please hear my Mr. W. P. Campbell who will call upon
you.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

## COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 19th 1894.

W. P. Campbell,

‰ Post Office,

Bellefonte, Pa.

Have telegraphed Gov. Beavor you would call.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

489

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

T. W. Heinemann Company,
34 & 36 W. Monroe Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

Gentlemen:

I am obliged to you for the corrected bill and here-
with enclose my check covering the same.

Yours truly,

Dictated.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

Chief Lone Wolf,
Kiowa & Comanche Agency,
Anadarka, O. T.

My dear Friend:

I have your letter of the 14th in reference to the money. I have not felt uneasy about it and it will be all right to send it at your earliest convenience.

I am glad to hear that my old friends the Kiowas are going to build a good many houses this summer. That has the look of a real serious intention to abandon the tepee and roving life which have been such great drawbacks to your prosperity. I am also glad to hear of the goodhealth among the people and of their farming.

I will have Delos look up the canes and send them by the boys when they go home next month.

I have letters indicating that ten or fifteen of the boys and girls at the Fort Sill School will come to Carlisle and I hope soon to have further letters from other portions of the reservation. If all looks well I will send Mr. Standing early in June to look over those who want to come, not only from your Agency but also from the Cheyenne and Ponca Agencies where children are offered us. I should be glad to renew the relations which once existed between this school and the Cheyenne and

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Chief Lone Wolf, page 2.

Kiwas. I believe we could do more for you than any other school in giving your boys and girls a knowledge of the United States and our people and the little difference there is between us and the closer schools in our insisting upon the pupils sticking to school should not disturb any father or mother. It has never disturbed me in the education of my children. I like to have them go out in the world for in that way they become men and women of mark.

Please remember me to Quanah and my other friends at the Agency. I would go myslef after the children but the Indian Appropriation Bill is now just before the House and it seems as though I should stay at the school. But I shall see you at Anadarka before many moons, if all goes as I hope.

Faithfully your friend,

Dictated.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

Major H. B. Freeman, 16th Infantry,
Acting U. S. Indian Agent,
Osage Agency, Pawhuska, O. T.

My dear Major:

I will provide transportation for Herbert Spencer on
notice from you that he is ready any time prior to June 30th,
as I have the authority and funds. During the forepart of
the ensuing year there may be complications for a little while.
I mention this that you may govern yourself accordingly.

me

Your writing of Herbert Spencer specially assures that he
is in your judgment all right for us to accept.

Very truly yours,

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

Mrs. J. H. Babbitt,
Warner, California.

Dear Mrs. Babbitt:

We can meet the girl in Harrisburg at any time you
notify us. We could not refund the transportation at a later
date. If we pay the transportation at all it must be at the
time she makes use of it.

I shall be glad to co-operate with you in any way to
carry out your wishes.

Yours sincerely/

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

Thompson C. Gill,
1319 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

The regulations require that a check payable to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 5% of the amount of your bid shall accompany your bid.

Dictated.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1894.

Capt. Edward McConnville,
Supt. Indian Industrial School,
Ft. Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Captain:

I send you a letter which explains itself. I will hold an answer to it until I hear from you. My experience is almost universal that there is little or no need of complying with these requests: that the parents are called upon to endure no hardship that parents of our own children do not cheerfully endure in the absence of their children for education. I have found too that there has been a great deal of disturbance of a treacherous, under-handed nature everywhere. Of course if you should see any further great need, this request should be complied with I would give it more serious consideration. Please give me a brief notion about it.

Yours sincerely,

Dictated.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlsle, Pa., May 23rd 1894.

To

The Editors of "The School Journal,"
61 East Ninth Street,

New York:

Gentlemen:

We have only three of this year's graduates remaining at the school and I explained to each of them what you desired. Their efforts are herewith. They encroach so little upon each others ideas that it seemed to me you might care to have all three.

I send you also, as you requested, a plate of myself, which
together with the graduating class plate please return when you
have used.

Dictated.

Yours sincerely,

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