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VOL. 43

Personal.

June 3, 1900.

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

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright advises me that she
will be in Washington on the 5th, and I suggest that
you give her and her husband a private hearing, and
ask particulars about affairs at that Agency. Mrs.
Wright has written me quite a little, and I believe
there are conditions existing there you ought to hear
about from her and her husband.

Carlisle, Pa., July 3, 1900

Mr. R. Fok,
113 N. Fifth St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

The advertisement in "The Press", "V. 20" is mine. What I want is a man who can fill the bill as advertised. As I have a number of applicants from whom to choose, I wish to secure so far as I can the one most suited to our needs. To enable me to judge fairly, will you kindly fill out the enclosed application blank and have two well known persons who know you well fill out each one of the other blanks, and send all to me in the envelope herewith? If after that, my judgment is in your favor, I should of course be glad to have you come to Carlisle and see me. Indeed if you choose to come before that, it would be all right, though if you were appointed, these papers would be needed any way, and it would be as well to fill them now.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 6, 1900.

Thomas Tiosh,
The Jail,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Thomas :-

I have your letter, but all the circumstances of your
offense are of such a nature as to make it necessary in my mind
that you feel the full force of the law in such matters. You re-
member what a time I had getting the watch, and it may be you are
deceiving yourself in this other matter. At least, I believe it
will do you good to learn how the law takes care of cases of that
kind.

Your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 6, 1906.

Miss Earnie Wilbur,
"Illinois on the Strand",
Ocean City, New Jersey.

My dear Earnie :-

I have held your letter for some days, hoping to see my
way to a definite answer. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda have concluded
to go to Ocean Grove to a quiet hotel on the lake where a very dear
school friend of Richenda's is to be next week. Chenda is very
anxious to be with her, so they expect to go down next Monday.
Whether or not I shall run down to the ocean is doubtful, but I
may go down for a very short time to see Mrs. Pratt and Richenda,
and for that reason only.

You do not seem to offer me any inducements on the fishing
line, and I suppose Ocean Grove would be no better, but I would
hardly like to go to Ocean City when the family is at Ocean Grove.
However, if the places are not too far apart I shall certainly get
down to see you all.

try to

We had the usual big time on the Fourth, plenty of noise and
heat. The boys had an unusually large number of fire crackers, and
big ones. In the evening we had sports and fireworks.

With love to you all,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 6, 1900.

Mr. R. S. Moore,
Dent, O. T.

My dear Sir :-

As it is only about eight months until Edwin graduates, it seems quite out of the way to send him home and bring him back for that short period. We have a rule that when students have reached the Junior or Senior classes they shall remain, even though the five years for which they came has expired. This is a measure of protection and economy which seems entirely in keeping with the interests of the students as well as of the Government and I trust you will see it so. Edwin has a good chance to earn something during vacation, which will be his spending money during the winter, and having earned it he will more wisely expend it than if it were given him. Taking all and all, I trust you will see the matter as I do and will without further objection allow Edwin to stick.

He is in excellent health, and won in a foot race in our Fourth of July sports.

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Carliole, Pa., July 6, 1900.

Miss Evaline β. Hanmer,
Oak Lane,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Evaline :-

I have your letter of July 4th and have instructed Mrs. Dorsett to look into the matter when she arrives there. In the meantime I enclose you a copy of the cutting rules, marking Rule 6 which covers in this case. It is well for you to remember that I am filling the place of your father. If I found that one of my daughters was secretive in her correspondence with young man and had reason to believe that correspondence was not proper in every way I should without hesitation open her letters and find out about it. So long as she is dependent upon me she fills that position; it matters not that she has passed the age of maturity. When she becomes independent of me by self-support or marriage, that changes the status of things. While I should explore her making a blunder of that kind, I would not even then feel I had the same authority of control I had over her while she remained under my roof and care. It is exactly the same with you Indian girls. Mrs. Dorsett will report to me just what the situation is, and I have referred your letter to her with that direction.

I hope you will always feel that we are only making an effort to guard your interests.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 5, 1900.

James H. Hall,
16 Eighth St.,
Fon du Lac, Wis.

My dear Sir :-

Your town I think is a much larger one than Carlisle. We
have here a small commercial college which serves its purpose very
well. Our Indian boys who take their course receive very sati-
factory instruction, but I have no doubt you have one equally good
in Fon du Lac, perhaps better because your city is larger. My ad-
vice to you therefore, is to drop into the commercial college where
you are. I should think you might find something to do out of
school hours to pay for your keep. I find many such chances for
my boys and girls, and if you come here that is what I should have
to do for you. Why not do it for yourself there? You are already
pretty well equipped with an education. There is a very consider-
able proportion of Indian boys and girls who have not the opportu-
nities you have because they live in remote places, and in my judg-
ment such Indians are first entitled to the privileges the Govern-
ment offers, and Indians like yourself ought to take care of them-
selves.

I write you this in all kindness and friendliness, and as I
believe in the interests of your own highest good and success.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 3, 1909.

Miss Sarah Jacobs,
Pinconning, Mich.

Dear Sarah :-

I am glad to know your mother is willing for you to return to Carlisle, and you would better write me sometime in the latter part of August the exact date you will be ready to start and the railroad point from which you want a ticket. I will then have a ticket placed with the agent at that point, and you can come through without any difficulty. When you do come back, I do not want you to spend your time in the country except during vacations. I want you to stick to Carlisle until you graduate.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 5, 1900.

Mrs. Agnes L. Newhall,
Jessie Lee Home,
Unalaska, Alaska.

Dear Mrs. Newhall :-

I have yours of the 18th of June with its enclosed P.O. order for $75.00 to pay railroad and steamer fare for John Benson because his father wants him to come home as soon as possible.

In reply I must inform you that as John came to us in 1898 he is not entitled to go home now. We do not accept students for a shorter period than five years, and it is therefore impracticable for me to send him home before the expiration of that time unless his health should demand it, and that is a matter for the doctor to decide. I have credited the $75 to John's account, but as he does not need it, having quite a little money of his own, and being where he can earn something, I shall not allow him to use it until I hear from you again. Then if his father wants the money returned I will send it back to you.

John is in good health now. He did have diphtheria, but recovered very nicely from it, and is doing well.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 6, 1900.

Mrs. L. A. Winney,
Tiff City, Mo.

Dear Mrs. Winney :-

We never accept of students at the Carlisle School for three years. The only instance of this kind in the past fifteen years is a party of seventy-five who came from Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia about the last of June. Congress refused to appropriate for that school this year, and the students whose time had not expired were ordered sent here. As they had entered that school for a three years' term, I was compelled to accept of them subject to that condition.

Annie Lewis came to us in September, 1897, and is therefore not entitled to go home this summer. She is getting on nicely, is well and apparently enjoys the life here.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1900:

Miss Alexine P. Griffith,
Indian School,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Miss Griffith :-

If you had applied to me for transfer, with the knowledge
I have of you I should immediately have asked the Department for
your transfer and forwarded your application as my warrant for it.
Now that you have explained to me that Mr. Nardin objects, and have
thrown upon me the responsibility of settling the matter with him
I must say to you that I never interfere with the interests of my
fellow superintendents when I know it. I will add this, however,
that if Brother Nardin objects to your transfer he is very differ-
ent from me, for I do not argue with any of my employes when they
feel that they can do better by transfer to another school. That
is a personal right, and they are under no obligations to remain
at Carlisle unless it is to their interest to do so, and it is some-
what of a surprise to me that Mr. Nardin takes a different view of
it.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1900.

David Billings

Onandaga Castle.

Syracuse, N. Y.

Dear Sir:-

Enclosed herewith find Baggage check No. 68097, Cumberland
Valley R. R. for the trunk belonging to your daughter, who went home
from Philadelphia, the trunk coming here by mistake.

A. J. S. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1900.

Mr. W. S. Kennedy,
Gwanda, New York.

My dear Sir :-

I made arrangements to send your son Walter home with
the home party, but he decided to remain and earn money during the
summer, and go home later. Accordingly I struck his name off the
list, and he is still with Mr. Satterthwaite at Fallsington, Pa.
If he wants to go home in the fall it will be all right, and I
will so arrange.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1900.

Mrs. Addie Jackson,
Irving, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Jackson :-

The pupils who came from Lincoln Institute were transferred June 28th. Among them are Andrew Jackson and Elsie Bell Jackson, who I presume are your children. As both entered Lincoln Institute June 21st, 1899, for three years, they are not entitled to go home, and I am not at liberty to send them on your request. I had orders from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to take all students whose time had not expired or who were not provided for in the charity school the Lincoln authorities proposed to establish. We do not accept of students for a shorter period than five years, and as exception was made in the cases of the seventy-five from Philadelphia who are to complete the three years' term, I cannot further decrease that school period by allowing them to return home before the proper time.

The children have settled down and become a part of our school
and I trust you will look at the matter as we do.

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July 26, 1900.

Mrs. Emma H. Bellows,
4B Burnett St.,
Newark, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Bellows :-

When I nominated you and Mr. Bellows for appointment
here, I sent your credentials with my nomination to the Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs. On receipt of your letter of the 19th
asking their return I wrote to the Commissioner for them, and
they have just now reached me. I enclose them herewith.

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July 26, 1900.

Fidelis Chakrakshah,

Gray Horse, Q. T.

My dear Fidelis :-

I have your letter of July 21st asking to come back to
Carlisle in the fall to remain two years. We do not accept stu-
dents for a shorter period than five years unless they graduate
before the five years has passed. During the summer someone from
here will be at the agency to pass upon those who make application.
Present yourself then, and if the doctor who examines you says
your health is entirely restored I shall be glad to have you return
with the party.

From your letter I conclude you are harrier when you have
work to do, and I am glad. We have just had a splendid rain which
we needed badly to save our gardens and field crops. During the
storm lightning struck the old walnut tree at the end of the teach-
ers' quarters, we are all well at the school.

With kind regards and best wishes,

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July 26, 1900.

Dear Louie, Folioeman,
Tartlington, O.T.

My dear friend :-

Your son is at the school, and I called him to the office and found he had received $5.00 from you sometime ago. He told me he had just written you a few days ago. I do not consider it entirely safe to send students money in letters, and it is not best for the students to receive money home often. When parents do send them money, it should be registered letter or money order. Then we can keep track of it, and if it is lost on the way the matter can be more easily traced.

Solomon is well, works every day, and is getting on very well. He promised to write you again in a few days.

Faithfully your friend,

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July 26, 1900.

Miss Sara W. Smith,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Sara :-

You are of the 28rd is just at hand. Glad to have you
tell me what you do about Robitaille. I will checkmate it. This
is the better place for Fred. It will be disastrous to any young
fellow to fall under the care of Ernest Robitaille, I fear.

In regard to your returning, I shall continue you on duty and
think it is just as well for you to remain where you are and build
up if you can, and come back a little before the first of Septem-
ber. This will give you a better chance to get your pupils together,
and will in every way be more satisfactory to all concerned.

Of those who have just recently gone home from Carlisle, we
should be glad to receive back Alpheus Powles, Charles King, Genie
Faird, Lewis Betester, Amelia Metoxen, Cecelia Metoxen, Electa Me-
toxen, Electa Schenandore, Ellis Cornelius, and Phoebe Schenandore.
The others who on account of poor health or for other reasons are
not desirable, you need not speak to about coming, and if they
want to return and come to you about it, submit each case to me.
Electa Schenandore, if not well enough to come with you, can re-
main and come later. I will provide a ticket for her and she can
travel alone. It may be a month or two longer will do wonders for
her. In regard to Electa Schuyler, Carrie Island, Elizabeth Faird
and others who want home on account of health, I should want to
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To Miss Sara Smith,
to their return. Mr. Mart sent me word that he could send only a few
only and physically sound pupils, and I am very glad to hear him
examine that control over the matter.

You understand, of course, Sara, that the small expenses of
your working up a party will be paid by me; so that any expense
you incur by delay, even for your board, I will take care of. You
have only to be careful to take subvoucher receipts and be able to
make a clear statement when you return.

Mr. Meltzel will send you your check as soon as the payment
is made for July.

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July 26, 1900.

Mr. W. P. Anderson,
Secretary of the Student Department,
3 W. 29th St.,
New York City.

Dear Sir :-

We do not issue a catalog. I sent you herewith my last
annual report, and will place your name on file for future reports.

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Eupt.

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See my letter of June 24th.

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July 28, 1900.

Frank Scott,
2748 N. 15th St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Frank :-

I received your letter of the 8th of July some time ago.
Of course you understand very well that it would be impossible for
me to say that under any circumstances you did right in leaving
your place and finding yourself another. You are one of our old-
est pupils, and well advanced, and are therefore an example to the
others. You agreed to abide by the rules if I would let you go to
the country. If you had not agreed to do that I should not have
allowed you to go. Having agreed to abide by the rules, you are
entirely without excuse for your action. Had you written me your
complaint and waited for my answer and given me a chance to inves-
tigate as to the correctness of your statements, a satisfactory ap-
rangement might have been made without your breaking the rules.
I feel entirely confident that you are not making any more money
by this change, and also that you will be under the influence of
associates that will break you down and do you more harm than you
would have been in the other place. In fact, I can see nothing in
the way of gain in your change, but much in the way of loss; for
having allowed yourself to violate your own promise you have to a
certain extent broken down your sense of honor and right, so that
it will be easier for you to violate another obligation in the fu-
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gations will be such as to make you entirely unacceptable in bus-
iness contracts among men.

I have allowed you to remain where you are without following
to
you up because I thought that a man of your knowledge and experi-
ence the wrong of your action would present itself more and more
strongly and would be a greater and better lesson to you than if I
had sent someone to bring you back to the school, which perhaps I
should have done at once. If one half or even one quarter of the
girls and boys were to do as you have done and ignore their agree-
ments, our outing would be a failure in a short time. Indeed, such
is the behavior of the boys this year, for some reason or other,
that the whole outing so far as the boys are concerned is going
down instead of up. We are building a worse reputation for our-
selves instead of a better, and if I cannot get enough integrity
into the boys so that they will stick to their bargains and keep
the rules, so far as I can see, the whole thing will be a failure
and I shall lose the opportunity of sending out my boys at any
time to any place I would be willing to send them.

The statement you make against Mr. Miller is not sufficient,
because you did not complain at the time. It looks as though you
had made up your mind to do this thing and had simply adopted that
method or plan as some sort of an excuse for your misconduct. I am
sorry for all this, Frank, more sorry than I can tell you; because
it hurts not only me, but the whole school and the whole Indian
cause. If I cannot depend upon my largest and best boys, what can
I expect from the smaller and more ignorant ones ?

Sincerely your friend,

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July 28, 1960.

Mr. T. Jay Buford,
U.S. Indian Agent,
Siletz, Ore.

My dear Sir :-

I sent you a duplicate of the draft Robert Depoe gave me on which I advanced him $55.00, and under your letter of July 3rd shall expect that you will send me the money as soon as payment is made. Enclosed also is a copy of your letter of June 18th to Robert Depoe. I am unable to read it in any other way than as an encouragement to him to make a draft on you such as he did make, and that it would be paid. The original draft has been returned to me through the banks as refused by you per your letter to Wells Fargo & Co.'s bank in Portland, Ore, dated July 18th. This was a personal accommodation, and therefore a little unfortunate for me.

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July 28, 1900.

Thomas Carlisle,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Berlington, Okla.

Dear Thomas:-

Replying to your letter of July 28th, I wish to state that
the reports that come to us from Nica's country home are excellent
Better than they have ever been before.

She is now in a home where great interest is taken in her and
she seems to have made a new beginning and is doing very nicely.

She is now reaching the age when she needs careful attention
and if you will entrust her to my care a while longer I am sure
she will develop into a fine woman.

Major 10th, Cavalry, Supt.

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July 30, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Pallado,
#180 Cape St.,
Oskosh, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Pallado:-

William did enlist in the Navy and went on his ship to Pprto
Rico, returned to the United States and soon after deserted. He
came up and hired out to a farmer in Bucks Co., then ran away from
there about three weeks ago. It was supposed that he had gone to
his home. This is all I know about him.

(R.B)

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July 30, 1900.

Lossle Bigjin,
% Jacob Twining,
Newtown, Pa.

My dear Lossel:-

The presence of Indian boys who have been students of Carlisle
but have been dropped either by graduation or because they have
finished a five year's term is proving unfortunate for our other
boys in Bucks County. In your case I hear pretty good reports and
have no great complaint to make; but I want to call your attention
to the fact that you are leaning upon Carlisle just as much as
though you were a student at Carlisle. It is the fact that we hav
our boys under discipline and rules which we enforce that made a
good name for the Indians in Bucks County and that vicinity and
made people willing to keep Indians. You go there assuming that
you are independent of Carlisle, which is not a fact. You are not
under our rules and so feel at liberty to do things that boys un-
der our rules cannot do; and therefore you are a disturbing ele-
ment and influence. If you want to be independent of Carlisle you
should go away from Carlisle and its influence. Go to Ohio, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Illinois, or any other state, or into western
Pennsylvania and it will be all right. Then you will be standing
entirely on your own merits.

If you insist upon remaining in Bucks County I must take you
up as a student and enforce our rules. I will tell you this now

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so you may guide yourself accordingly. You owe the man you are
working for an obligation through his busy season. When that is
over I shall expect you either to go away or come under the rules
of Carlisle as any other student. I shall report you to the In-
dian Office and proceed against you if you do not take one of the
other of these courses. I do not care to take you up as a student
Would much rather you would go away and take care of yourself and
be your own man.

(R.B)

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July 30, 1900.

William Larch,
Woodbourne,
Pa.

My dear William:-

The presence of Indian boys who have been students of Carlisle
but have been dropped either by graduation or because they have finished a five year's term is proving unfortunate for our other
boys in Bucks County. In your case I hear pretty good reports and
have no great complaint to make; but I want to call your attention
to the fact that you are leaning upon Carlisle just as much as
though you were a student at Carlisle. It is the fact that we have
our boys under discipline and rules which we enforce that made a
good name for the Indians in Bucks County and that vicinity and
made people willing to keep Indians. You go there assuming that
you are independent of Carlisle, which is not a fact. You are not
under our rules and so feel at liberty to do things that boys under
our rules cannot do; and therefore you are a disturbing element
and influence. If you want to be independent of Carlisle you should
go away from Carlisle and its influence. Go to Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Illinois, or any other state, or into western
Pennsylvania and it will be all right. Then you will be standing
entirely on your own merits.

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July 30th, 1900.

Oscar Warden;-
Pine Ridge Agency,
S. D.

My dear Oscar:-

I am glad to hear from you and glad to know that you are so
determined to live up to Carlisle's teaching and be a man among
men. If all the returned students would do likewise there would
be no Indian Question.

Carlisle has grown to a capacity of 1000 pupils within a few
years but of course we have improved our facilities to do that.

The Government has been very kind to us because most of the
pupils who have gone out from us do well and show signs of appre-
ciation for what has been done for them.

If you have good health and a sound body you can enlist in
the U.S. Army. Whether you could enlist elsewhere I don't know.

About 20 of our boys, altogether, have joined the Army and
seven are in the Navy.

Uriah Goodcane is now on the way to China. Several of the
boys are in the Philippine Islands among them, William Colombe,
whom I think you know.

be
I should think a recruiting officer would stationed at Omaha,
Neb. You can write U.S. Recruiting Officer there. If you should
need a word from me I will be very glad to him about you.

(R.B)

191

July 31, 1900.

Clinton Brooks Burgess,
#12 Theysier Hall,
Cambridge, Mass.

My dear Sir:-

I have no possession in this school as Instructor of Oratory.
I have as I have told you positions as Teacher. We have some 18
all told.

The school is divided into graded sections; each teacher in
charge of a section.

In introducing the system into the school, I wanted to test
it before asking for a regular position; if at any time I found
it possible to do that. I thought I might get a person skilled in
your system as teacher. They could then take hold of the work and
demonstrate its value. When asking for salaries another year I can
ask for that position.

I would not care to have an employe who gave time elsewhere.
If a teacher fills the position here there would be no time for
work elsewhere.

Our teachers are occupied seven hours a day which includes
an evening study-hour four nights a week.

Our pupils are both sexes and all ages up to maturity.

If you return to Baltimore you had better run up and see the
school and I think it will be a better chance to arrive at conclusions.

R.B.

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July 30, 1900.

Mr. Charles P. Wright,
Leach Lake, Minn.

Dear Sirs:-

If you recommend the three young men you speak of as good characters, I shall be glad to accept them as pupils. If they have been attending some other Non-reservation school they ought to go back to that school. If they are profane, immoral or whiskey-drinkers, I do not want them.

I send you parental consent blanks and transfer blanks which you can use in case they are eligible to come to Carlisle and when they are ready to come notify me what R.F. and I will arrange for transfer.

The whole Indian School Service is afflicted with young men going to one school a little while then to another. If these come here they must distinctly understand that they enroll for a term of five years, unless they graduate sooner.

R.B.

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July 31, 1900.

Mr. Geo. H. Ringenheimer,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Standing Rock, N. D.

Dear Sirs:

My School Physician reports as follows on William Drives-the-Bear:

William Drives-the-Bear is not well, and it would be better
were he to go home.

"When he came here his eyes were defective which in his case
made me feel suspicious of some hidden scrofulous condition of
his system and made me fear that he would not stand the wear and
tear. He is sluggish and slow mentally and physically. His lungs
are diseased. I have taken him from work and have kept him under
the best care, under charge of hospital but he does not recover."

William has been ailing ever since he came here and this report of my School Physician leads me to send him home. I will accordingly send him to his Agency as soon as I can get a ticket from Chicago to Bismarck and I will give him an order on the Stage Co., to transportation from there to Agency, and he can make the trip without difficulty.

R.B.

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Aug. 1, 1900.

Mr. H. W. Darces,
Lickdale, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of July 30th, I have to state that
the Band has disbanded and some of its members are out in the
country on farms and others have gone to their homes in the west,
so that we have no Band and no leader.

R.B.

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Aug. 1, 1900.

Mr. George Logan,
Vermailler,
Chatt. Co., N. Y.

Dear Sir:-

We have a rule that students entering this school must re-
main five years before they go home. If we did not have a rule
of that kind all of our pupils would be gone. So many letters, like
yours requesting that pupils be allowed to go home for a visit,
come to me every day and if I would grant every request it would
be a great expense to the Government, which is useless. Then too,
it is for the best interest of the pupil that he remain here for
a term of five years if his health permits it. If we find that
the health of a student will not permit him to stay here we send
him home. We have a good School Physician who looks after the
health of the students carefully.

Wesley is well and happy here and in order to enforce the
rules of the school I cannot give my permission to let him go
home for a visit.

R.B.

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Aug. 1, 1900.

Frank C. Rooks,
Cody, Neb.

My dear Frank:-

Your letter of the 28th, ult., received. I was very glad to hear from you and to know you are well and doing nicely. I am always glad to hear of my boys doing well.

During July and August, as you know, many of the employes are taking their vacation and the pupils are out in the country on farms so there is not much news to write.

If you do not receive the Helper you may not know of the change, that has been made in our school paper. Now instead of the Helper we print the Red Man and Helper together and make it a weekly paper. The subscription price is twenty-five cents a year. If you send twenty-five cents now, you will get the paper for a year and a large sized picture of the Band. We have to charge more for our weekly paper now because it is larger.

Your Pathfinder will be sent to you.

Wishing you health and success in all your undertakings I am,

R.B.

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Aug 2, 1900.

Miss Lilian St. Cyr,
Winnebago, Neb.

Dear Lilian:--

You will not be expected to pay your way hank to Carlisle.
Some time before the 1st, of Sept., Mr. Standing, who will be in
charge, will make provision for your transportation along with
others who will be coming from that Agency.

Your school-father and friend,

Major 10th, Cavalry, Supt.

R.B.

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Aug. 2, 1900.

Mr. Robert A. Crowell,
Tulsa, Ind. Ter.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of the 30th, ult. will state that we
have no catalogues of this school. We have been authorized by the
Indian Office not to accept any pupils from the Five Civilized
Tribes because of their school advantages at home.

R.B.

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Aug. 2, 1900.

Mrs. A. M. Daniels,
Swathmore, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Daniels:-

I am very sorry to be compelled to deprive you of the services of Matilda but I am doing the best I can toward giving you a supply in the person of Lilly Felix, and I think you will have no reason to regret the change. My Mr. Standing, who goes down, will explain to you the situation. The disappointment to you can not be equaled to what it is to us.

R.B.

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Miss Sara Williams,
Belding, Mich.

Aug. 6, 1900.

My dear Sara:--

I was very glad indeed to hear from you and glad to know you
are doing so well. You are on the right road and if you stick to
your work I am sure you will make a success of it. You are carry-
ing out my idea of how the Indian should make their living. I am
always glad to hear from my old pupils. Write me again from time
to time and let me know how you are getting along.

Your friend & school-father,

R.B.

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Aug. 6, 1900.

Miss Minnie Reed,
C/o L. E. H. Leeds,
Moorestown, N. J.

My dear Minnie:-

In reply to your letter dated Aug. 3rd, I will have to inform you that it will not be advisable for you to attend Commercial College until now have first graduated from here. Before that time your knowledge will not be sufficient to take that course. You need a good foundation upon which to build if you wish to be successful in a Commercial College. After you have graduated from here will be time enough for you to consider the other.

R.B.

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Aug. 8, 1900.

Miss Nellie Lillard,
Château, Mont.

Dear Miss Lillard:-

When I wrote you last I supposed that would end your desire
to come to Carlisle but as you stick to it and insist upon coming
please write me at once your age, if you are in good health, how
much Indian you are. If you are full, or part and how much and
whether you have parental consent. If you come here it must be
for a term of five years unless you graduate sooner. No home rea-
sons must call you back.

R.E.

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August 6, 1900.

Miss Mettie Buckles,

Siletz,

Oregon.

My dear Mettie:-

I should be very glad to have a very small party of boys and girls from your home Agency and would make the arrangements for transportation but I very much fear from past experience that the home influence is too strong against it. The Government has erected a large brick school and, the Superintendent thinks that all the work can be done at home and is unwilling to forward children to Carlisle any how. When you get home talk to Major Scully and if the way opens and we may have any where from five to ten good boys and girls not under fourteen, not over 18 years of age, I will be very glad to pay the expenses of their coming and you in charge. We should be delighted to have a visit from you at Carlisle.

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Aug. 6, 1900.

Mr. C. G. Kutz,
North Hanover St.,
Carliole, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I was in Washington, Saturday, attending to the farm transfer. It is now in good shape and will be pushed forward as rapidly as red tape in such matters can be pushed.

I explained fully to the Secretary of the Interior and to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and they were in full accord with what I had done.

Judge Henderson went with me and upon his return to-day will take up the matter of making out the deed.

### Insurance

In regard to the XXXXXXXX, I told the Insurance Agent that the Government incures its own property and you will have to be guided as you think your interest demands.

I think that in less than a month the matter will be adjusted.

R.B.

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Aug. 3, 1900.

Mr. M. Chamberlain,
Campo Bello,
Eastport, Me.

My dear Sir:-

Edith Ranco's father made his appearance here while under the
influence of liquor, was boisterous and asserted that he was going
to take Edith home whether or no. She is in the country and I
sent one of my employes with him to satisfy him that she was all
right.

He switched off and got lost in Philadelphia but turned up
the next day at Edith's country home. He soon discovered that Edit
did not want to go home, so he left, vowing that he would come back
later and take her any how.

Edith proves to be a dangerous girl, exceedingly untruthful,
a thief and disposed to try to seriously injure other people's
character, so that I am not sure but for the good of the school I
shall be compelled to send her home.

R.B.

P.S.- Will send her home later.

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Aug. 4, 1900.

Rev. James Garvie,
Niobrara, Neb.

My dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of July 29th, desiring to bring your children and Mr. Bakers' here, I am compelled to tell you that we have 927 students enrolled and can only carry a little above 1000 and the number to make up this aggregate is practically arranged for.

We do not accept children under 12 years and prefer they should be over 14 and two of yours and two of Mr. Baker's would be barred by this.

I note what you say about sending girls out into families and beg to advise you that we take the greatest care in selecting our families and that almost invariably the girls are members of the family circle and in nearly all cases are under better influence than they would be at home or even here at school. Should you ever come this way I would be glad to have you look up our Outing System and am assured that you would certainly approve of it in the highest degree.

R.B.

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Aug. 6, 1900.

Mr. Simon Hicks,
Gold Creek,
Elko Co., Nev.

My dear Sir:-

Your son came here as a member of our Band when the Band was
expecting to go to Paris. It was not sent so all the band-boys
were allowed to return to their former places. We desired to keep
him here but there was a fever on the part of the band-boys to re-
turn to their former places because of their disappointment in not
crossing the Atlantic. His record here was not prejudiced in any
way.

R.B.

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Aug. 6, 1900.

Mrs. J. B. Johnson,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear Mrs. Johnson:-

In reply to your postal dated Aug. 1st, I have to inform you
we have a rule that all pupils entering this school enter for
a term of five years and they are not allowed to go home unless
they graduate before the five years.

I receive letters similar to yours very frequently and if I
were to allow the return of students every time the parents desire
it there would be a continual stream of pupils on the road, which
of course would be a great expense to the Government. I am very
sorry indeed that I can not comply with your request.

R.B.

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Aug. 7, 1900.

Miss Henrietta R. Freemont,
Omaha Agency, Nebr.

My dear Nettie:-

I will expect your brother and sister to return with the part
I have arranged for to come from that Agency about the last of this
month.

A Carlisle Diploma is sufficient for entering Drexel Institu-
te, providing you do not wish to take too high a course. For some
studies you would of course need a better education and would like
ly have to take an entrance examination.

R.B.

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Aug. 7, 1900.

Mr. E. A. King,
Shawano, Wis.

My dear Sir:-

In reply to your letter of July 31st., I will say that I have
had a personal conversation with your daughter Inez, and she tells
me that she is feeling very well and wrote you to that effect.

We have here a physician, who I consider, second to none
in Carlisle. The following is his report about Inez.

"I have examined Inez King and I see no occasion for any alarm about her. She says she feels well, does not ask for any medicine does not come to the hospital. When her health begins to fail we can easily see it and will immediately report same to you."

R.B.

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Aug. 7, 1900.

Mr. Perry Tsumaruwa,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

My dear Perry:-

I was very glad to get your letter dated July 26th. I like
to hear from my boys and girls and always glad to hear of their
success.

We have never had on our rolls a pupil named Walter Mohawk.
He evidently thought by taking the name of a Carlisle student, it
would be a good advertisement and assist him in his undertaking.
We never had such a person here at Carlisle.

At present many of the students and all of the teachers are
away for the summer and I expect to begin my vacation about the
last of this week. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda will go with me to
Prince Edwards Island. I feel very much in need of a change and
I think that with the cool air and good fishing, I will get just
what I need.

Give my kindest regards and best wishes to other Carlisle
students who are with you at the school as well as for yourself I
am,

R.B.

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Aug. 7, 1900.

Mr. H. Ballard,
State Normal School,
San Diego, Calif.

Dear Sir:-

In reply to your postal of recent date I have to inform you
that we do not get out regular catalogues. Enclosed find a copy
of my twentieth Annual report to the Commissioner of Indian Affair
which may be helpful to you.

R.B.

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45

Aug. 7, 1900.

Mrs. E. L. Barber,
#1006-Est, 10th, St.,
Winfield, Kan.

Dear Madam:-

The schools of Winfield, Kansas are better in every way for your boy than any Indian School. He will have to fight the battles of life with the Anglo Saxon, better have him compete with Anglo Saxon in school.

Students come to us from Agencies upon the recommendation of Agents. Term five years. Not allowed to go home until the five years is up.

R.B.

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Aug. 8, 1900.

Mr. Kelly Lay,
Box 47 Lawton, N. Y.

My dear Sir:-

Mr Warren told me that you wanted to come to Carlisle and he wanted you but the point at issue was that you did not want to stay five years before going home. I told him that I could not wave the five year limit but after you had been here a time I could arrange to let you go home during the Christmas holidays. But of course you would have to return and finish your term.

My hope is that if you come here it will be for the purpose of getting an education letting foot-ball be secondary, very secondary. We are not aspiring to make champions of our boys and if work in that line results in that I will have to break up foot-ball altogether. The foot-ball members have unusual privileges which is all right providing they use them rightly.

I shall be glad to receive you on the above basis if you let me know in time so that I can arrange for your transportation.

If you can come you ought to be here to begin school on the 1st of Sept.

R.B.

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Aug. 8, 1900.

Mr. Lewis Sha-wan-dose,
Northport, Mich.

My dear Sir:-

Your son Jonah is out in the country on a farm for the summer.
He went out of his own accord and preferred that to going home.
He is doing well and earning money, which if you are in need would
be of more help to you than his presence. He is very ambitious to
graduate and does not want to give up his school opportunities yet.
The rules of the school provide that at the expiration of a stu-
dent's term here, he decides whether he shall stay longer. That
Jonah did by not going home this summer.

I receive letters daily from parents asking for their child-
ren to come home but if I grant one request I must grant all and
that would be a great expense to the Government.

R.B.

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Mrs. Laura Royal,
#103 Spruce St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Aug. 9, 1900.

My dear Mrs. Royal:-

The railroads have established a very stringent rule in regard to arranging special rate tickets for others than regular employees and students of the school. I am therefore barred in my desire to help you and very much regret it.

I shall leave home to-morrow morning at eight o'clock and will be absent for several weeks.

R.B.

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256

Aug. 9, 1900.

Glen S. Warren,
c/o Edward Goldberg,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Geneva, Mo.

My dear Mr. Warner:-

I have your letter of July 31st from Anadarko, O. T., only.
In regard to the names not on the list we have no information. You
will find the same conditions at all places.

I have a letter from Lay and he said that you told him he did
not have to stay 5 years. I wrote him yesterday that I could an-
range for him to go home during the holidays but I could not wave
the 5 year rule.

Redwater has decamped. He was under punishment. He is so
depraved that I have made no attempt to catch him and shall be
glad to be rid of him. Too much army or football or both.

Mrs. Pratt Richenda and I leave for Prince Edward Island to-
morrow, to be back about the 1st of Sept. Mr. Standing will atten
to matters here.

R.B.

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Aug. 9, 1900.

Torey Pesueh,
Trenton, N. J.

My dear Torey:-

I see by your report that you have $29.50 to your credit but
I don't think you had better buy the watch. Not until you return
to the school any how. New rules are being printed which will ne-
cessitate you having more to your credit in bank than you used to
have so I think you had better be saving of your money.

R.B.

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Aug. 9, 1900.

Mr. J. A. Flanders, Agt.,
$290 Washington St.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir:-

I have your telegram of yesterday stating that you have nothing to offer us, Boston to Charlottetown. Our party has concluded to go any how. If you can not take care of us we will take another steamer or the Rail Road. There will be myself and wife, young daughter and girl friend. We will reach Boston early Friday morning and hope you can have a reservation. My going to Prince Edward Island is in part due to the desire for the ocean trip and it will be a disappointment not to take passage with you. Your letter mentioned in the telegram is not here yet.

R.B.

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August 22, 1900.

Miss Josie Vetter,

Red Rock,

Oklahoma Ty.

Friend Josie:-

Your letter of the 13th inst. finds Major away from home.

Will you write again yourself or have your Niece write and say just
what her wishes are and give her address which your letter does not
give, so that when Major comes home and takes up the matter, all the
information may be ready to hand.

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August 24, 1900.

Major R. H. Pratt,

Care of The Place Vigor Hotel,

Montreal, Canada.

Dear Sir:-

I have written to you twice at The Cliffs, Prince Edward Island, but it seems you have not received the letters. There was however nothing of special importance. Department authority received this morning for the purchase of the farm provided the title and all legal points connected with it are found to be correct, the whole thing to be put in shape and then submitted to the Attorney General. I am surprised to receive this morning from the department a Civil Service appointment of a Wagonmaker, taking the place now filled by Mr. Lau, Mr. James E. Cavett of Columbus, Ohio. This will be quite an upset for Mr. Lau as he gave up his business to take the place. I think we had better run him for a while on the authority for Expert Trimmer as wagon orders continue to come in. The smoke stack is practically completed, the cap to have another coat of paint, lightening rod to be put up, scaffold to be taken down. I have ordered sufficient of the Egyptian Preservative to do the work of coating it. I think we have a first class job.

The work of moving the boilers has proved very tedious and they are only now fairly at work at the brick setting. I think all the material is here of every kind and the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible. The fronts only came a couple of days ago.

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Department supplies are coming in heavily but are very high in price and nothing special in quality, some very poor. The department refused to approve the action in Mr. Kemp's case unless charges were preferred or his resignation sent in. I have his resignation, taking effect the 25th. For several days past we have had very cool and wet whether which has delayed us in our outside pipe work but we will be ready by the time the boilers are. Nothing promising comes from the West in regard to new pupils. I have just to hand a letter from Sarah Smith, stating that her party will not exceed twelve. From the Missionary, Mr Merrill I have learned that Sarah has not been very energetic; that agents of three other Schools have been there and taken parties ahead of her. I have cautioned her about small pupils and she says that none in her party will be under thirteen.

Mrs. Dorsett just in from the country and we have this morning been going over her reports which on the whole are satisfactory. Mr. Warner keeps me posted of his movements but his letters have no information of importance. It is quite probable that we will loose Frank Hudson.

He is after a position in a bank at Pittsburg with every probability of getting it. Mrs. Purgess is losing ground all the time and it would seem as though the end could not be very far off. On inquiry at the bank I found that they cannot issue Montreal Exchange except by sending to New York for it. I think therefore the Government check as good as anything we can send you which find enclosed here with. The teachers are coming back one by one, Miss Robertts yesterday Miss Stuart today. Miss Miles has proved very helpful at the Girls' quarters and conditions there are now normal. Miss Eck at the Dining hall did not take hold with the best of tact and I had to some extent to depend on Miss Miles to keep things right there.

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to depend on Miss Miles to keep things right there also, having no
one else suitable. The Alaskan party is expected to reach San Fran-
cisco about the 1st. of Sept. and I have arranged for them over the
Union Pacific, they giving best rates, time and all considered.

Doctor Eastman has nothing yet from Washington, daily expects but
nothing comes. He is now out in the country straightening up several
matters. Mr Beitzel is back from the shore, vastly improved in health.

You seem to have struck an unfortunate time for your Prince Edward
Island visit. I have no doubt that when it is wet there, it is both
wet and miserable. The rain here is doing us lots of good.

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August 25, 1900.

Mr. Charles H. Dixon,

Supervisor Indian Schools,
Genoa, Nebr.

Sir:-

Replying to your inquiry in regard to Miss Fisher, I will say that she has always stood very high in our estimation here, for her qualities as a lady in every sense of the word, and during my knowledge of her, extending over many years, I have never heard her veracity questioned and consider her above suspicion in this regard.

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August 25, 1900.

Miss Jennie P. Cochran,

Millerstown, Pa.

Dear Miss Cochran:-

Your letter of the 23rd comes to hand in Major's absence
but will come to his notice on his return to the school about the
1st of September, and I am sure he will be, as I am, very sorry that
you have come to the decision you have. We shall miss you very much.

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Miss Rowena Fowler,
195 W. Ninth Ave.,
Columbus, O.

Sept. 1, 1900.

Dear Miss Fowler :-

On my return from an absence of several weeks I find your letter and Mr. Standing's reply. From what I have heard about you I would be glad to have you at Carlisle, but as Mr. Standing explained the music positions are both filled. Have you a tendency toward anything else that I might consider ? There is a probability of an assistant matron's place being vacant, and it might be used to bridge over. I think from your standing at the Indian Office that a change could be made in case the vacancy occurs.

If you have an inclination this way please write me fully about yourself, your experience, age, and qualifications, which would enable me to handle the matter.

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Sept. 3, 1900.

Miss Sara J. Rinch,

Curries' Crossing, Ont.,
Canada.

My dear Miss Rinch :-

If you could take the Aleut girl to Buffalo and put her on the car under the care of the conductor she would come safely to Harrisburg; and on telegraphic notice from you that she would be on a particular train, I would arrange to have her met there; and all your fears as to sending her alone would be satisfied. From the amount of traveling I have arranged for my Indian girls and the ease and comfort with which they have made long journeys unaccompanied, I do not think there would be the slightest trouble especially if you gave her a note addressed to conductors and others. Brakemen and railroad officials are very careful to look after those committed to them.

I can place a ticket at Buffalo for the girl's use at any time. Otherwise I can see no way to work it out except on the line you have indicated.

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272

Sept. 3, 1900

James Hall,
16 Eighth St.,
Fon du Lac, Wis.

My dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 20th ult. has been held for my return
from a three weeks' absence.

I still think your best course is to avail yourself of the
schools where you are. I anticipate that you have even better op-
portunities there than you would have here. There are some diffi-
culties in the way of taking advanced students to give them college
and higher education here; so that it seems best for me to limit
myself on such lines to those who have graduated from Carlisle.

With proper effort on your part I am sure you can accomplish
your desire without coming here. Trusting your success will prove
what I say in the matter, I am

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273

Sept. 3, 1900

Mr. Fred Coleman,
Julian, Cal.

My dear Sir :-

On my return from several weeks' absence I find your letter asking that your son Charles be sent home to assist you on the farm. In reply I must advise you that while I can understand somewhat the situation in which you find yourself, it is quite impracticable to send your son home. There are so many cases similar to yours in the homes of our pupils that if we were to consider home conditions we would be constantly sending children home, thus cutting off their chances for an education and incurring enormous expense. Your son is doing well, and according to the rule we were forced to adopt years ago on account of the frequency of such appeals as yours, I cannot send him home now as you ask.

Charles has been here considerably less than two years, having come in March, '99, and is therefore not entitled to go home before the regular five years has expired, unless his own health should make that necessary. He does not need the change. The disciplinarian gives me an excellent report of him.

Trusting your own health may improve, I am

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Sept. 3, 1900

Mrs. J. H. Pabbitt,
Warner, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Pabbitt :-

I have asked Mr. Poston, G.A. of the Southern Pacific in
Washington to arrange for a ticket from Colton to be delivered to
you about the 15th at our rate, which I believe is about $45.00.
He will instruct whether you are to pay for the ticket on its de-
livery or pay in Washington. I have guaranteed its payment.

Pasquala has not yet received an appointment, but on the spur
ring of your letter I dropped a note to the Commissioner saying
that I hoped she would receive something soon. I trust the matter
will be attended to.

Have just returned from a three weeks' absence with Mrs.
Pratt and Richenda in Canada. Had a delightful trip.

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Sept. 3, 1906.

John Warren,

Graceton, Pa.

My dear John :-

On my return Friday morning I found your letter of the 6th ult. Had been absent three weeks.

Trusting all goes well with you, I am

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Sept. 3, 1900

Rev. Jesse Kirk,
Silver Lake, Ore.

My dear Friend :-

I note what you say about your boys' learning trades. Am sorry to tell you that last night Clayton ran away with another boy. He has bothered quite a little about money matters. He has had too much money and too much freedom in spending it for a boy of his age. I have endeavored to keep him in proper bounds, but he rebels against it and does not submit to the rules of the school as well as he ought. Perhaps his course may change after his running-away experience. It very often happens that boys take things into their own hands, go off and are kicked around a little, and are then glad enough to come back and settle down. Still, I think you have committed quite a problem to me in sending me your two boys. I shall of course do the best I can for them, and when you come to see us next winter, we can talk matters over and come to a good understanding.

All who came from your agency are in good health, so that the apprehensions on that line were entirely unwarranted, as I felt sure they were.

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Sept. 3, 1900.

Miss Mattie Maxey,
Mesa Grande, Cal.

My dear Miss Maxey :-

Your brother is in such a condition that it would be im-
possible for you to keep him at your home. He needs the constant
care of an attendant, and I believe the doctors have finally con-
cluded that his case is a hopeless one. Therefore, the place where
he now is is the best for him. The general government has charge
of him and takes care of his expenses and provides all that is nec-
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Sept. 3, 1900.

Mr. Henry J. Miller,
Elk Rapids, Mich.

Dear John :-

On my return from a three weeks' absence Mr. Standing
turned your letter of Aug. 28th over to me. From it I understand
you are ready to return to Carlisle, leaving Rapid City on the 6th.
Accordingly I have asked that a ticket be delivered to you on that
date. You can call on the railroad agent and sign for it there.

School began today, and you should be here as promptly as possible. Shall expect you to use the ticket as soon as you receive this.

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Sept. 3, 1900.

Rev. James Miller,
South Milton, Mich.

My dear Sir :-

A letter from your son John who returned home at the end of the school year, indicates that he will be ready to return here leaving Rapid City on the 6th. His letter states that at present he is at Elk Rapids at work and that he does not receive mail daily. Will you therefore, on receipt of this, notify him that a ticket will be ready for him and that he shall call on the railroad agent for it on the date mentioned, or if he does not receive word in time, as soon thereafter as possible?

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Sept. 3, 1900.

A. L. Lloyd,
Tulsa, Ind. Tx.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Aug. 13th, I send you my last annual report of the school. We do not issue a catalog.

In regard to your entering this school as a student, we are not allowed to receive members of the Cherokee Nation, nor of any of the Five Civilized Nations. Other Indians whose names appear on the rolls of some agency, and who are between the ages of 12 and 18 years, of good character and suitable health, are eligible for admission, but none are received for a shorter period than five years unless they graduate sooner.

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Mr. G. A. Hancock,
748 Spaulding St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Sept. 1, 1900

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Aug. 30th in regard to a position at this school, I have to advise you that all places are filled either by transfer of employes already in the service or by assignment from the civil service register. All our places are now filled by one or the other of these means; but should you desire to take up work in your line at some one of the other Indian schools where there may be an opening, I suggest that you write the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in Washington for information.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 3, 1900.

To the Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cavalry,
Holguin, Cuba.

Sir :

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. O. August 33rd, 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.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 3, 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 provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th for S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August
23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of
the Interior, dated September 6th, 1919.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant.

Major 10th Cavalry, Sept.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

The Journal Printing Co.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Gentlemen :-

I have your bill of August 15th for 1000 books, but so
far they have not turned up here. If shipped, please send tracer.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Miss Mary A. Eppley,
238 A. St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Miss Eppley :-

Replying to your application for employment in our
sewing room, I have to advise you that at present we have no-vacancy, but your application will be placed on file for future reference.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia F. Spencer,
Seneca, Mo.

My dear Lydia :-

Yours of the 28th ult. received. Write to Gen. H. Clay
Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. and state your
case fully: what company and regiment your husband served in, when
he enlisted and when he was killed, and ask him for full instruc-
tions and blanks in order that you may make application for pension.
You will probably need legal help, but the Indian agent might be
able to do it for you, or your superintendent. If you were here
I could attend to it.

The application made, the documents go to the War Department
for proofs from there. As it is a very straight, simple case, I
do not see how they can be long in coming to a conclusion. The pa-
ters are not difficult to make out, and you need not necessarily
incur material expense. Evidence that you were his wife and that
there are three children, will have to be furnished.

I am glad you have work to do; that will help you to bear
your troubles with more equanimity. I cannot tell you just what
the pension is, but it is quite worth your securing and will last
as long as you remain single. There used to be a law that when a
woman married again she lost her pension. Whether that is in force
now, I do not know.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Miss Josie Vetter,
White Cloud, Kans.

My dear Josie :-

Your letter of the 13th ult. was held for my return from
Canada where Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I spent three weeks.

I have written your niece, Miss Esther Bryan, telling how we
manage it here, and suggested that it might be managed from Haskell
in the same way. There must be nurses' schools connected with the
hospitals in Kansas City; possibly even in Lawrence or Leavenworth
certainly in St. Louis; and by using the same method we do Supt.
Fears ought to be able to give his girls the same chance we do.
Am glad to serve you always, and if Miss Bryan cannot accomplish
her course there, we may be able to arrange for her to come to us,
of course with the approval of her superintendent.

Glad to know you are so pleasantly situated. Am feeling better after our trip to Canada. We stayed a week in Prince Edward's Island, then went up the river to Quebec for a few days, then on to Montreal, and home by way of Lake Champlain and Lake George and down the Hudson to New York City. It was a delightful trip, and the scenery charming.

With cordial remembrance from all,

Always faithfully your friend,

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Cullisla, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Miss Esther Bryan,
Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kans.

Dear Miss Bryan :-

Your aunt, Joeie Vetter, writes me at your desire to come
to Carlisle and take a course in nursing. Our girls who take such
a course get their first lessons in the school hospital under di-
rection of the school physician and school nurse. Later, when the
have had a little preparation, we find places where they can fin-
ish their training in nurses' schools. I should think you might
do the same thing from Haskell. Dr. Dixon knows all about our meth-
ods, and I suggest that you talk with him about it. If you cannot
make a satisfactory arrangement there and Supt. Peaire and Dr. Dix
on approve of your transfer to Carlisle for that purpose, I am ready
willing to arrange for you to come here.

Look the field over where you are with these suggestions, and
write me again or get Dr. Dixon to do so.

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Sept. 4, 1900.

Mr. John C. Mason,
Exalted Ruler, etc.,
Jamestown, N. Y.

My dear John :-

Your invitation to participate in the higlarity of 'The Elks' on the 7th is a very great temptation, and were it not that your Aunt Laura and I have just returned from a three weeks' absence and Mr. Standing left last night on his vacation, I should go but it is quite impossible. I should like just that sort of a billet and thank you for think of me in that connection.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Rev. J.S. Krehbiel,
Geary, O. T.

My dear Sir :-

Your letter about Ella Romero, dated Aug. 15th, was held
for answer on my return last Friday after a three weeks' absence.

In regard to Ella, what she needs first is an education, un-
til she has that she cannot teach anything. She says she proposes
to teach art and music, and she needs a great store of intelligence
before she can do that; even when she graduates from Carlisle she
will not be prepared to follow that line of work properly. She
should have at least a high school education. Like all children,
especially Indian children, she gets tired of school and tries to
reason out a shorter road to the end, and as guardian and parent
it is your duty and mine to do for her as we would with our own
children, and see that she keeps at it until she accomplishes what
we think she should accomplish. Ella has musical chances here.
The mandolin affair was exceedingly expensive to me and not so suc-
cessful as I was led to anticipate it would be, and after spending
several hundred dollars for a teacher I ended the matter temporar-
ily until I could get someone as an employe in the school who might
be able to carry it on.

It would be very well for Ella to have a little money here in
order to help her along the line of her desires, but she will need
very little. During the summer she might have earned something by
going to the country and working as part of our girls do every task

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Sept. 4, 1900.

My dear Mr. Hildreth I-

I am fortunate with you greatly in your loss and we all do. Your lot has deemed to be a pretty hard one, but you must also to have had great comfort.

Mr. Pratt, Richenda, and I have just returned from a three weeks' absence in Canada, and many things wait my attention. Mr. Standing left last night on his annual leave, and I find myself very busy. As you probably know, Mr. and Mrs. Redman and Helper, we are growing slowly, and the coming year promises to be the strongest and best we have yet been.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Nise Jeannette Horne,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

My dear Jeannette :-

Thank you for the money which closed your account here. I am delighted to hear from you, and what you say of Trinity Summit makes me long to pay you a visit.

Mrs. Pratt, Richmond, and I have just returned from a three weeks' trip in Canada. We went first to Prince Edward's Island, then on to Quebec and Montreal, and returned via Lake Champlain and Lake George and down the Hudson by day boats to New York; then home. It was a most delightful trip, but all the time I was away I did not have a chance to satisfy my desire for a good fishing experience. From what I hear of Booga and its vicinity I think it would be just the place for me to recuperate in. May be next year I can go there.

Mr. Standing went away last night; school opened yesterday, and I am extremely busy; but do not forget that your school father is always glad to hear from his school daughters and sons.

With kind regards to your sister,

Faithfully your friend,

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Sept. 3, 1900.

Miss Carrie E. Weekley,
Ponce, Porto Rico.

My dear Miss Weekley :-

Yours of the 9th of August with enclosed P.O. order for
$1.17 received. Thank you. Enclosed is the receipt.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I have just returned from a three
weeks' absence in Canada. We went to Prince Edward's Island, then
up the St. Lawrence to Quebec for a few days and on to Montreal;
after a short stay there we returned by way of Lake Champlain and
Lake George and down the Hudson by day boats to New York. We saw
much of interest in Quebec and Montreal, but found nothing outside
the United States that exceeded or equalled in beauty and grandeur
the scenery of Lake George and Lake Champlain and the banks of the
Hudson River. Lake George is said to excel Como in beauty. The
trip was a most delightful one.

Mr. Standing started on his annual leave last evening, and I
am exceedingly busy. School opened yesterday. There have been a
number of changes among the employees, and some new faces among the
pupils. We shall have a very full school, and as things start out
expect a more than usually successful year.

With kind regards to all our Carlisters,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Dr. Willard G. Paull,
# 9 Standish St.,
Dorchester, Mass.

My dear Sir :-

Eugene Fisher is a runaway from this school and a viola-
tor of the rules of the school. I question very much whether he
has any other object than in some way to accomplish his return to
his home. Still, I believe in scattering Indians among the whites
and if thru violation of the rules and running away from school
that can be accomplished in even a few cases and successful quit-
ting of tribal relations come out of it, I am willing it should at
least be tried. I will therefore drop Eugene from our returns. He
is in your care, and while I should like to hear from time to time
how it works, I will place no other restrictions on the situation
than just that,

shall wait to hear from you again before notifying his agent
of this arrangement.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Capt. G. C. Applegate,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Klamath Agency, Ore.

My dear Captain :-

I am sorry to tell you that Clayton Kirk and Joseph Ball ran away Sunday night. The enclosed note from my disciplinarian indicates something of the character of these two boys. I am usually done, I suppose they will be picked up by the police authorities and returned to the school. In regard to Clayton, I regret to say that so far he has not indicated very much desire to improve his education, and his coming before me constantly about small matters shows that he is likely to need quite a good deal of discipline. Really, the whole party from your place has been a disappointment, and unless you can send some really good material I think we would better drop the matter of another party. So far as health is concerned, all are getting on very well.

With kind regards to Mrs. Applegate and other members of the family, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Miss Elmore Jamison,
Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Elmore :-

I am just advised by the G.P.A. of the Pennsylvania R.A.
that the G.P.A. of the Erie R.R. has no agent at Irving, N.Y., so
that he cannot issue a ticket to you there. He asks that you go
to Carrollton, three miles from Irving, and says that the agent
there has been instructed to give you a ticket. Please do this
and make use of the ticket at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 3rd., 1900.

Annie Ground,
Laguna, N. M.

You must either return to Carlisle, at once or send
me your resignation.

You need not mind getting pupils.

(Gov't. rate charged.)

Sent 3:45 P.M. by Western Union.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 5, 1900.

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

My dear Sir :-

I expected to be able to send my school physician after
the New York children before this, but he is delayed in Oklahoma
on a similar mission. He is due here tomorrow, and as soon after
as possible I intend to send him to New York. He will have in-
structions and will bring back a small party. Bring the case of
the young man you speak of, twenty-four years of age, before Dr.
Given when he arrives, and he will decide upon the matter, of
course in accordance with my instructions.

Fraternally yours,

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Sept. 5, 1900.

Gen. John Eaton,
The Concord,
Washington, D. C.

My dear General : -

I left home on the 11th of August for Prince Edward's Island to be absent three weeks, and returned last Friday. I told Mr. Standing not to let anything but a matter of the gravest importance come to me, so that I might have complete rest; so your letter remained for my return.

Thank you for your friendly commendation of The Red Man and Helper. We had a very enjoyable trip, but found it too cold and wet at Prince Edward's Island; so we went up the St. Lawrence to Quebec and then on to Montreal, returning home by way of Lake Champlain and Lake George and down the Hudson to New York. Our boat rides were simply grand. I feel much better and Richenda also is greatly improved. Have taken up work, and affairs are running on as usual. School began Monday.

Trusting you and Mrs. Eaton remain well, and with cordial regards, I am

Faithfully yours,

314

Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 5, 1900.

Frank Scott,
2742 N. 15th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Frank :--

I have your letter of Sept. 4th. There is nothing what-
ever in the letter I wrote you that warranted the statement you
make in your letter of the 4th. I gave you no privilege of the
kind. I did not release you from any obligation. I simply let it
rest for the time being, in order to see what would work out of it.
You are not free from Carlisle, nor are you away from Carlisle. It
is entirely the Carlisle reputation you are traveling on and not
the reputation of Frank Scott; it is the fact that you are a Car-
lisle student under the regulations of this school that enabled
you to get your place, and you took it upon yourself to violate
your own promise and agreement and to violate the principles of Car-
lisle and do what you can to destroy the work I have for years
been building up. I still carry you on the rolls of Carlisle.
You say that all you asked was the great privilege of remaining
where you are, and you fancy you are doing a big thing. You are a
bad influence for Carlisle, as I explained in my former letter, and
if you really had the principle you claim to have, of taking care
of yourself, you would at once take yourself entirely beyond the
possibility of Carlisle students knowing anything about your con-
duct. I add your bad example.

If you do not return to Carlisle at once, I shall expect you

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to get out of eastern Pennsylvania and far away from all our out-
ing neighborhoods. Staying where you are and doing as you do, says
to every boy in Bucks County, "I can lie about my employer as Frank
Scott did, and I can hire myself out in Philadelphia as Frank
Scott did, and it will be all right. Major Pratt allowed Frank
Scott to do it and he must allow me to." The result will be dis-
astrous.

I shall expect you to inform me at once of your conclusion in
regard to this letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 5, 1900.

Mr. W. F. Jamerson,
Clark of the Seneca Nation,
Grant, New York.

My dear Mr. Jamerson :-

I already have such a multitude of New York Indians, many very young, that it is entirely impracticable for me to think of the boy; but if you will keep the girl until my agent is in your vicinity, which will be in the course of a few days, and bring her before him he will do whatever is best in the matter, of course according to my instructions.

I am thinking about writing to Mr. Lincoln of your Orphans' School to see if I cannot unload some of the very young children who came to us from Lincoln Institution on him. They are altogether too small for our school. My agent will be able to accept only a very few, and I shall instruct him to take the best.

Shall be glad to have you and Mrs. Jamerson with us at our next commencement.

With kind regards,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 5, 1900.

Arthur Bonnicastle,
Co. "E", 9th U.S. Infantry,
Peking, China.

My dear Arthur :-

Yours of Aug. 3rd from Tien Tsin reached me two days ago just one month after you wrote it. I have followed the old Ninth and the boys in blue ever since they landed in China with the utmost interest. The graphic description of your fight about Tien Tsin which were given day after day in the papers, aroused all the old soldier in me, and I even sent word to General Corbin the other day that I was ready to go to China if he wanted me. He then told me what is now occurring, that there would be little fighting but that it would be a battle of words between the diplomats, and no war between the United States and China.

Well, your letter is a treat. To think of one of my Indian boys participating as a soldier with credit to himself in one of the greatest events in the world's history is a gratification to me of the highest sort. Yours is the first letter from China. I have had a number from the Philippine Islands, and as you may know William Colombe thought he shot the fellow who killed General Lawton. Of that I was proud, and also of the fact that General Lawton had selected William as one of ten men for his body guard.

Harrison Printup, who is now in the 6th Cavalry and probably in China with you, wrote interesting letters from San Francisco and from Japan. The letters from you Carlisle soldiers are a great help in stimulating our boys, making them think wider than they

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Arthur Bonnastyle,

have been in the habit of doing, and consider things in a different
light than before. I will print your letter in The Red Man and
Helper and have given orders that the paper be sent you regularly.
Hope you will give me accounts from time time of your doing, and
what you think of the Chinese, etc., so that we may print them and
let them go out to the Indians.

I knew your general who was killed, and I know Major Lee, of
your regiment, and Col. Coolidge very well. You may, if you will,
o to Col. Coolidge and give him my kindest regards, and show him
this letter. He will be glad, I am sure, to know that one of my
boys is under his command. Major Lee used to be the agent for the
Indians at Rosebud, S. D. many years ago; later he was agent at
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency, so that he is also interested in Indi-
ans, and if you let him know you are in his regiment he will be
glad to see you.

School opened yesterday. There are quite a number of changes
among teachers and others. Only the Seniors and Juniors have come
in from the country yet; the others will be back about the 15th, as
usual. The summer has been very hot and dry and for a long time
the grass was almost burnt up; but recent heavy rains have restored
it and our lawn is beautiful again. Mrs. Pratt, Richenda, and I
have just returned from a trip to Canada. We went first to Prince
Edward's Island, where we stayed a week, and then went up the St.
Lawrence to the famous old city of Quebec. I saw many British sol-
diers and talked with some, while we were there one hundred who
had been to South Africa, returned, shattered and broken in health

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They were given a grand reception. Canrons boomed, flags wave, bands played, the troops marched, the crowd cheered, generals and other officers made speeches; altogether it was a magnificent demonstration. From Quebec we went to Montreal, also one of the oldest and most historic cities on this continent. We remained a short time there, and returned home by way of Lake Champlain, Lake George, and down the Hudson by day boats thru some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, to New York, and from there home. It was a delightful trip.

I send you The Red Man and Helper by mail and hope it will reach you regularly from week to week. We want you to keep up with us, and you must not fail to write so that we may keep up with you.

All at Carlisle send greetings and good cheer.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 4, 1900.

Miss Alice F. McCarthy,
Baribault, Minn.

My dear Alice:-

The blank which you received from the Indian Office thru
the civil service commission and which you enclosed to me, is in-
tended for the use of one who expects to take a civil service ex-
amination. Being a graduate of Carlisle, you are exempt from such
examination, and therefore the blank does not apply to your case.
I send you a form which our graduates have used when applying for
appointment while here at the school. You can fill it out and
forward it to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs together with a
letter stating more fully your qualifications. The Office will then
probably write me as to your record here and fitness for Indian
service, and I will very cheerfully say a good word for you. I
doubt, however, whether you can get a speedy assignment as the
places to be filled are few and those waiting to fill them, many.

School began yesterday with everyone enthusiastic, and we have
reason to expect this to be our most successful year.

With best wishes from your friends here, I am

Faithfully your friend,

P. S. - I return the manual and blanks you sent me.

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Sept. 6, 1900.

Lt. Col. W. H. Carter,
Asst. Adjt. General,
War Department;
Washington, D. C.

My dear Colonel :-

You may please have two copies of your
"From Yorktown to Santiago with the Sixth Cavalry"
sent to me, one for myself and one for Mr. August
Kensler, who was First Sergeant, Troop "K", Sixth
Cavalry, from May 1861 to November 1876. Mr. Kens-
ler is retired commissary sergeant, and has been
my most valuable storekeeper for the past eight
years.

I find that Joseph Miller, formerly of the
Sixth Cavalry, about whom you asked me sometime ago
is a little on the tramp order. He is registered
in Carlisle as living at #140 Liberty Avenue, but
disappears and reappears, and does not always pay
his bills. He has been in Carlisle recently, but
is not here now. Mr. Kensler is on the outlook for
him, and I will give you more particulars when I
get them.

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Dr. Theo. R. Moss, Prin.,
State Normal School,
California, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I thank you for your complimentary
copy of "The Chapel Hymnal". The lady who has
charge of vocal music at this school pronounces
it very good, but says we have all the selec-
tions it contains in the "Epworth Hymnal".

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 7, 1900.

Miss M. Kathryn Morris,
Vireland, N. J.

My dear Miss Morris :-

Replying to yours of Sept. 1st making application for a
position in this school, I have to advise you that all vacancies
are filled by transfer from other schools, or by assignment from
the civil service eligible lists. It will therefore be impossible
for me to consider your application.

Should you desire information in regard to civil service ex-
aminations, write the chairman of the Civil Service Commission in
Washington.

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Sept. 7, 1900.

Miss Ednorah Nahar,
46 Myrtle St.,
Worcester, Mass.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

You fix the time in October that suits you the best, and let me know where you are and I will arrange transportation for you to and from Carlisle and will arrange for your entertainment here, as I proposed. If we can induce an attendance from the town, will hope to make something in addition for you. Please advise me as far ahead of the time as you can.

Glad to hear of your success and take pleasure in doing what I can to push your interests.

Am just back from a three weeks' vacation in Canada.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 7, 1900.

Walter S. Kennedy,
Gowanda, N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

In answer to a letter written by LeRoy W. Kennedy in regard to your son Walter, I have to advise you that he asked to go to the country, promising that he would conform to the rules, and on your urgency I agreed that he should return home in the fall after his obligation was ended. While in the country he grossly violated the rules of the school, and his offence was so flagrant that I could hardly overlook it. If I did it would be disastrous to the interests of the other students. Had he behaved himself at the last as he did through most of his school period, he would have gone home all right.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 7, 1900.

Horace Juan,
• Indian School,
Tucson, Ariz.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of inquiry about Saline Juan,
who is known here as Saline Williams. Saline is not at all strong
but on his request was allowed to go to the country to do such
work as he is able to perform. He is not sick, and has not been
sick. He is not due to return home, and as his health does not
call for a change, he will remain in the country for the winter
and go to school there. He should write you every month, but as
school is not in session during the summer I presume he may have
neglected it. After August this matter is regularly looked after
and I trust you may have his letters every month. It often hap-
pers that parents and guardians have no regular address, and pu-
pils' letters sometime go astray on this account.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 8, 1900.

Dear Sarah :-

I have asked that a ticket be placed with the railroad agent at Pinconning, to be delivered to you when you call for it, and have stated that you asked for it about the 19th. Am sorry you lose any time in that week. You ought to be here so as to begin school Monday, the 17th. As you plan it, you will lose the whole week.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 2, 1900.

Mr. C. W. Booz,
Edgewood, Pucke Co.,
Pa.

My dear Sir :-

William Mt. Pleasant says he had no conversation with George Booz that would indicate that he intended to quit home; that George asked him some questions about his own home and he told him that he lived in western New York near Niagara Falls, and that this was the extent of their conversation on the subject. This in reply to yours of Sept. 6th.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 6, 1900.

Mrs. Maggie Henault,
Piegan, Mont.

Dear Mrs. Henault :-

Replying to your letter In regard to your little daugh-
ter I am happy to tell you that she is well and happy. She has
spent the summer in a country home, but will be at the school in
a few days. While in the country, pupils are somewhat inclined to
neglect their home letters, but you will hear from her regularly
hereafter. If you do not, notify me.

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Carlisle, Pa. Sept. 8, 1900.

Alfred Logan,
Lawton Station,
Erie Co., N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

Howard Joe has come in from the country and is going
to school again. He has improved very much since he came a year
ago, seems well, and apparently has no thought of going home. Hav-
ing come for a period of five years, he is of course not entitled
to go home, and were he at home would be only an additional care
to his grandmother.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 10, 1900.

Thaddeus Redwater,
C/o Central Hotel,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Thaddeus :-

Your letter of Sept. 4th went into the outing mail, and
as those letters are hundreds in number, it did not come before me
until yesterday. Miss Ely said she spoke to me about it, having
the letter in her hand at the time, and said "What about Thaddeus
Redwater ?", and I said "Mr. Warner has his case in hand", not
knowing then that she had your letter. I should have answered yes-
terday, but Prof. Bakeless told me you came up from Harrisburg on
the same train he was on; that he got off at the Junction, but you
went on; so that I had no assurance you would be in Middletown.
I send you a copy of this at that address, however, and as you re-
quested Mr. Warner, I send this to you in Harrisburg.

I have always expected you to return to Carlisle. I now ex-
pect you to do that, not on your own conditions, but on such con-
ditions as I can bring myself to consent to after I understand the
whole situation and have a conference with you. You need not fear
to return because of being put in the guard house, for I shall not
do that unless something more than has happened up to this time oc-
curs to compel me to do that. You can come to me and we can talk
it over, and I will endeavor to settle it in such a way that you
will say I am just in the matter.

Sincerely yours,

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Thaddeus Redwater,
Box 47,
Middletown, Pa.

Dear Thaddeus :-

Your letter of Sept. 4th went into the outgoing mail, and as those letters are hundreds in number, it did not come before me until yesterday. Miss Ely said she spoke about it to me, having the letter in her hand at the time, and said "What about Thaddeus Redwater?" and I said "Mr. Warner has his case in hand", not knowing she had your letter then. I should have answered yesterday but that Prof. Pakeless told me that you came up from Harrisburg on the same train he was on; that he got off at the Junction, but you went on; so that I had no assurance you would be at Middletown. I send a copy of this to the Central Hotel, Harrisburg, as you requested in your letter to Mr. Warner.

I have always expected you to return to Carlisle. I now expect you to do that, not upon your own conditions but upon such as I can bring myself to consent to after I understand the whole situation and have a conference with you. You need not fear to return that because of being put in the guard house, for I shall not do unless something more than has happened up to this time occurs to compel me to do that. You can come to me and we can talk it over, and I will endeavor to settle it in such a way that you will say I am just in the matter.

Sincerely yours,

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