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out Civil Service examinations. But it is a long story to send to such a very busy man as you are. The closing sentence in your letter induced it, and I feel sure from your expressions of friendship and your constant kindly and helpful course towards me you will not object to my giving you the situation, particularly as you have indicated your anxiety about it and the efforts you have already made.

Mrs. Pratt and daughters join with me in the most veneration
love to you and yours.

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["In reply to:", "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,\nINDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,\nOFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,", "Carlisle, Pa., March 17th 1897.", "J. R. Wood, G. P. A.,", "Philadelphia.", "Dear Sir:-", "I enclose herewith your bills of March 6th for $462.26 and March 15th for $45.60, to the first of which I have added note covering 15 tickets Washington, D. C., and Gettysburg Junction, given my Assistant Superintendent, Mr. A. J. Standing, by Railroad Agent in Washington to meet the demands of the larger party from there, the items in all amounting to $567.11,", "I return to you the following tickets not used:-", "4 exc. tkts. Phila. & Gettysburg Junction at $3.70----------$14.80\n1 \" \" \" \" \" \" \" \" \"

J. R. Wood, page 2.

check enclosed. Please send me receipted bill for this amount.

We sent two Philadelphia tickets to one of our patrons, a Mrs. Cadmus, at her request, but owing to sickness in the family she was unable to come. She informs us that she returned the tickets to us on the 10th, but they have not reached us and have probably been lost in the mail. We have made inquiry, and if they turn up I will forward them to you at once.

In explanation of the number of tickets returned, I have to advise you that the very unpropitious weather just before the Commencement deterred many from coming to us who had planned to be here; also, tickets were ordered from Lambertville, N. J., and the mistake in sending us tickets from Landisville instead probably occurred through a misunderstanding in giving the order over the telephone and telegraph.

Thanking you very cordially for your favour in this Commencement business, I am,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A., Sept.

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In apply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., March 18th, 1897.

U.S. Campbell,

St. Xavier, Mont.

My dear Mr. Campbell:

It has been a principle with me always not to meddle with appointments in the agency or school service. I have been frequently consulted both by the President and by the Department for various appointments, including the highest in the Indian Service, but have never solicited except in the case of a few Special Agents or Inspectors, and these were old and tried servants who asked reinstatement. It has always seemed to me that it would place both me and those for whom I asked appointments in a false light and in false relations. It has never seemed wise to me to have those who desired appointments in the Indian Service ask the Indians to endorse them. I believe that such solicitations have had an adverse influence, officials in Washington knowing generally the ease with which such endorsements can be secured.

I feel that it is best to be entirely frank with you, and yet if it comes so that I can consistently speak well of you to either the Secretary or the President I shall be glad to do that, for I believe thoroughly in retaining experience, and especially such experience as yours. From what I hear, changes will not be made rapidly nor radically and there is plenty of time, and if it seems to you that by speaking to anyone I can advance your cause, advise

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in reply to:

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

Penington Powell,
Pocatello, Idaho.

My dear Penington:

I have steadily avoided all these years recom-
mending anybody for appointments at Indian agencies; but if the
agent or the Department asks me in regard to any of my pupils I
most cheerfully give the very best endorsement I can. Your bet-
ter way is to tell your agent or the Department that they can ask
Capt. Pratt about you. You were a splendid farm hand and I shall
give you that name if they ask me. Of course your agent knows
what your character and ability has been since you went home.

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In reply w:

Miss Anna Randolph,
2002 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Miss Randolph:

I have yours of the 13th and desire to say
that you seem to think that the Indian Rights Association and its
management have the exclusive privilege of abuse. I happen to
know that Mr. Herbert Welsh is in the constant habit of abusing
those who do not agree with him on Civil Service and in my last
Red Man, which I see you have received by your letter. I reproduced
an article of his published in his City and State and also an art-
ticle of Mr. Leupp's, both of which were full of abuse of me, us-
ing much more virulent language than I used towards them in any
of my articles. You know absolutely nothing about the demonstra-
tion of Civil Service as it is. I defy Mr. Welsh or any of the
champions of Civil Service to produce half as many instances of
actual spoils' practise under the old spoils system by any mem-
ber of Congress, either House or Senate, in the last twenty years as
I can prove beyond all peradventure against Gen. T.J. Morgan, who
was the Indian Rights' first champion of Civil Service in the
Indian Bureau, establishing and demonstrating it, and against his
successor in the school service, Dr. W.N. Hailman; name incident,
time and everything else. You simply do not know what you are
talking about.

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Morgan Toprock,
Indian School,
Wt. Lewis, Colo.

Dear Morgan:

I am very glad to hear that you are so well situated and occupied. I trust your work may prove so entirely agreeable to you in every way and you so agreeable and satisfactory to your superintendent that it will come to be that the Wt. Lewis School can hardly do without you, and you hardly do without the Wt. Lewis School. Everything depends upon yourself. I know you can be a man, and a good strong one when you try.

We had a grand time at Commencement, more people than ever and a bigger class than ever, and everything went off pleasantly. I am looking forward to the time when on these occasions we shall have a large delegation of our former students with us.

Faithfully your friend,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Delos K. Lone Wolf,

Anadarko, O.T.

My dear Delos:

I received your kindly note from Chicago, and from
several newspaper clippings saw some account of your doings there.
I hope you will remember, Delos, what I said to you about taking
up your farm or secular work. I would not, if I were you, go into
regular mission work, but rather do what you can on that line with-
out compensation and get your living by your carpenter, farm or
other work.

A letter from Anadarko advises me of your family prospects,
and I congratulate you. Give my love to your wife, and believe
me always

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., March 16th, 1897.

Henry C. Roman Nose,
Cheyenne Chief,
Watongy, O.T.

My dear Friend:

Although the new President is now in power, the
changes in the Department have not been made yet. We still have
the same Commissioner and Asst. Commissioner. It seems to me very
wise for you Cheyennes and Arapahoes not to use up your principal
money, but rather to let it remain in the Treasury and draw inter-
est for you. If you use up the principal, then there will be no
interest, and in a little while you will all be much the worse off
for it.

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In reply to:

Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear Levant:

The watch for Nancy Seneca is defective in one very
important point for her use. She is a nurse and goes from us to
the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital in Philadelphia for advanced train-
ing, and she needs a watch with a second hand. I return the watch
to you, hoping that you can change the watch and give her one with
the second hand. She is greatly pleased with it otherwise as were
the young men who gave it to her. Advise me price of the watch
in exchange and I will remit at once to cover same.

I hope you will all get down to see us this spring and pretty
early too, because we may have something else to do and you might
find us absent.

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In reply to:

Maj. W.P. Hall,

Asst. Adjutant General, War Department,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Replying to your letter of March 13th asking whether I am
willing to relinquish my right inder the Act of Congress, approved
October 1st, 1890, to an examination by a Board entirely of offi-
cials appointed from civil life or of volunteers only during the
War of the Rebellion, I have to respectfully adviac that I am
quite willing to leave the matter entirely to the Department.

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 19th, 1897.

R. Broden Moore,
Vinsland, N.J.

My dear Sir:

Yours of Feb. 27th sending me a copy of the "Seminoles
in Florida" by Minnie Moore Willson, was duly received. I have been
much interested in it, and thank you for sending it.

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In reply to:

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

My dear Doctor:

Your letter of the 2nd found me in the midst of preparation for our Commencement, and I left it unanswered for a more favorable season. I want to say to you, Doctor, how very highly I prize you constant enthusiastic utterances, and your goodensible comments and endorsements.

We had a splendid time at our Commencement and I only regret that you and many of our pupils and all were not present. We start in the new school year with a fine class of thirty-five, and I feel that the time has arrived when we can expect to almost make our break seem. You need not wait for a Commencement season to visit us, as we should be glad to see you at any time.

Faithfully your friend,

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 19th, 1997.

Mrs. Mary S. Morris,
Hancock Street,
Germantown, Pa.

Dear Madam:

I perhaps ought not to say a word in answer to your letter, but it occurs to me that you take a very strong position without knowing both sides of the facts. You charge me with an unjust attack on Mr. Herbert Welsh and the Indian Rights Association. I beg to inform you that I know Mr. Herbert Welsh perhaps a great deal better than you do, and I am fully informed from the very beginning of the Indian Rights Association and its work, and the only fault I find with myself about it is that I have been passive so long. Mr. Herbert Welsh is not a god that he may sit in judgment, nor has he any human right to slander and put out ex parte criticisms of his association. Both are very much in the way and always have been, and I know him to be unscrupulous in his methods.

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In reply to:

Emilie L. Tucker, Chairman,

50 West 45th Street,

New York City.

My dear Friend:

I thank you on my own behalf and on the behalf of
my teachers and helpers here for the very nice contribution of
books received yesterday from "All Souls Friendly Aid". They have
gone into our teachers' library and are being catalogued. A num-
ber of them are quite valuable additions to that library, and all
are useful.

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In re: to:

Rev. Dr. T.S. Childs,
1308 Connecticut Ave.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Doctor:

Thanks for your kindly note. You feel about the
Indian Rights Association and Mohawk Conference just as I do. If
we make any progress in Indian civilization we have got to change
the machinery. The Indian Rights and Mohawk Conference people
have captured it all, and are using the whole establishment along
purely sentimental lines. I have been in a mood to quit the busi-
ness during the last two years, and was fast coming to that condi-
tion before. If the present Administration has nothing but the
old time methods and management to perpetuate, it is my intention
to be counted out.

I am sorry we did not have you with us at our Commencement.
We had a bigger time than ever. Over 3000 people from everywhere
gathered to see our class of 27 graduates.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Childs, I am

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In reply to:

P.W. Grube,

437 N. Bedford Street,

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I did not give you any permission to sell to my stu-
dents. I did authorize you to go to my house and to sell to any
of my employees. I cannot have hucksters peddling cakes, fruits,
or anything else among the students. That opens too wide a door
atgether for the best interests of the school. I found you
selling your cakes to a little girls which was not inaccordance
with my permission.

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I am reply to:

Carliole, Pa., March 19th, 1897.

Charles Bird,
Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota.

My dear Charles:

I have your letter of March 6th and have sent the catalogue as you wished. I have not forgotten you, and was very glad to hear from you and to know that you are getting along so well. You would find many changes here at Carlisle after 11 years. Now buildings have been added and others have been enlarged. We had a big time at our Commencement this year; over 5000 people were assembled in our gymnasium to see the class graduate. I hope some year it may be possible for you to visit us at that time, and you can feel assured of a cordial welcome from us all.

Hoping to hear from you from time to time, I am

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In apply to:

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

Hon. J.A. Pickler,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Pickler:

During the entire period of my service in the Indian Department I have made it a principle to avoid all solicitations or endorsements for office except for those under me, and have been especially particular to keep myself free from trying to secure appointments of persons who would have authority over me. Following this rule, I have already declined to endorse three men who are ambitious to run the Indian Bureau, two of them personal friends.

My ideas of what ought to be done are so radically at variance with the management of the Indian Office that I am living in constant hopes of a great change. We are spending vast sums of government money to no purpose, and all our methods in spending it do but constantly build in every way to greater expenditure. The whole school system has been captured in the interest of perpetuating the Indians as tribes. You probably think that the school system we now managed is an admirable thing. In my judgment if nine-tenths of the schools were wiped out utterly, and the Indians deprived of such advantages, it would be better for them and for the country as well. While we grandiloquently talk about breaking up the tribes and making the Indians citizens, we are constantly

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Hon. J.A. Pickler.

doing exactly those things which make them more compact as tribes
and keep them from acquiring the qualities of citizens. If
you, a western man, could think as I do and understand as I do
and had the courage to wade in and act, I would be only too glad to
become a lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, or even a private under
you and work with every faculty I possess. If things continue as
they are I am ready to quit. There is something left in me yet,
and my family's rights are entitled to respect. I could only con-
tinue to sacrifice family rights if assured that there would be a
great and radical change. I do not think, however, that such a
change is to be accomplished with any Commission such as is proposed
What we want is a man big enough to understand, have the intention
and carry it out. I have great regard for you because you have
been extra liberal considering the locality from which you hail
and I believe you have been entirely loyal to my work as far as you
understood it, and I am

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W.P. Hall,

Sir:

Replying to your letter "51388" dated February 27th, I have to respectfully advise you that if acceptable I will designate as the topic of my essay "The Indian. Migration from Tribal into the National Life: only Salvation."

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In reply to

Susan Dellwyn Wharton,
210 Clinton Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Madam:

I regret very much that it was not practicable for you
to be present at our Exercises to give me a chance face to face
to meet your criticisms and to explain my position. I revere the
memory of the friend you speak of as highly as that of any person
I have come in contact with in my life. I have scores of her
letters in which she, understanding my difficulties along these
very lines, was not alienated but rather sympathized constantly.
I have been nearly eighteen years here, and almost thirty years
dealing with Indians, and am getting heartily sick of being bossed
and having the management over me engineered by inexperienced boys.
I appreciate your kindly note and the fortitude and plainness of
your speech most highly.

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I reply to

March 20th 1897.

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

Dear Sirs..

Replying to your letter of the 19th, I enclose herewith
my check for $7.40 covering the two excursion tickets, Philadelphia
and Carlisle, lost in the mails. The error in deducting the
account of the lost tickets from the bill, instead of paying for
them, was a misunderstanding on the part of my clerk, who wrote the
letter and took account of the tickets for me. I regret exceedingly
that the mistake should have been made.

Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., March 20th, 1897.

E.I. Heath, Manager
Spalding Bros.,
1216 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I enclose my check for $82.50 covering wheel for Mrs. Pratt which Mr. Weld said would be $110.00, 25 off. The bill came to me for $88.00. I mentioned the difference in my letter to your firm of the 18th, and as there is possibly a feeling about it that I would not like to exist between your firm and myself, I will cancel the order for the additional wheel if it has not yet been shipped. It seemed to me a perfectly fair understanding that the price was to be as I stated in my letter, and I do not like to occupy the and the large equivocal position your letter of the 19th places me in; not that I do not want the wheel.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 20th, 1907.

Dr. Shelden Jackson,

Commissioner of Education for Alaska,

Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C.

My dear Doctor:

Thanks for yours enclosing the Evening Post editorial. An old editor, now retired, of one of our most prominent and oldest New England papers, states his willingness to take up the fight for me, and says he learned that whenever anything appeared in the Evening Post the best way was to believe the opposite.

He gives me a rather charitable view of Welsh saying that when he ran a newspaper he had the same "mania for running the Universe". The only criticisms that come to me on what I have said are from the Evening Post, City and State, New York Independent and the School Journal. I have another broadside bigger than either of my former ones, double shotted, but think I shall let the Red Man for this month go with full details of our Commencement.

I expect to go to Washington for several days the first of next week, and hope I shall find you at home.

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In reply to:

F.J. Kellogg & Co.,

Editors of School Journal,

61 E. 9th Street, New York.

Gentlemen:

In your Journal of March 13th on page 336 you print an official letter which purports to be a judicial conclusion in regard to myself made by the late Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Francis.

I request that you will give me the name of the person who furnished you with that document and the author of the concluding paragraph.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 26th, 1897.

Editor of the Journal,
Delphi, Ind.

My dear Sir:

Will you be kind enough to furnish me if you have them with two copies of your issue March 11th containing the editorial "Hailman wants to stay." Allow me to say that you are entirely right so far as you have gone, but there is a great deal more to be said along the same line.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 26, 1867.

Mrs. Isabel Spencer Freeland,
2127 West Dauphin Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Freeland:

I have yours of the list with its associated
dollar sent through you by some interested friend of the school,
and have placed the same in my charity fund and am very greatly
obliged. In regard to our needs. It has so happened that far
quite a number of years all the money I have needed for my work
here, outside of government appropriation, has come to me unutili-
ted. This year, however, I must make an appeal. In the first
place I undertook over 250 students above my appropriation number.
Then a storm came when we were building and blow down one of my
buildings so that we had an expense of near $2000 to again rear the
walls and cover the breakage and damage. I need about $500 to get
me through in good shape, and am thinking of organizing a little
force of my pupils and going around as other institutions do to se-
cure this. I am glad to say that I have never appealed to the pub-
lic without meeting a full and hearty response, and I can also say
that I have never appealed to the public when it was unnecessary,
preferring to get on with my appropriation and leave other and en-
tirely chatitable work an open field. There are so many demands on
the charitable that I find myself very loth to ask aid. I placed my

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Mrs. I.S. Freeland.

situation before the Department and asked that it be submitted to
Congress, but you may understand to some extent I have not been
on the best of terms with my Department and I think that my letters
does substantially pertain to hold and never touch again.
Chairman of the House Committee, if, perhaps, informed me that the
my letter has been read over by his committee, the friendly letter
speak to me in it would have given me all I asked. In anything
say you may should the matter come up, you will be願 to do a
hard for covering expenses of additional students over and above
what the government provides for and to cover the damage of about
$2000 by myself.

I thank you most cordially, Mrs. Freeland, for your great interest
in our affairs.

(Dated)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., March 24th, 1897.

A. Spalding Bros.,
1216 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

gentlemen:

By direction of Capt. Pratt who is just now absent from home, I forward to you today by Adams Express, prepaid, a bicycle that was to be returned to you in exchange for one which came to hand yesterday.

The one received came by freight and in unpacking the guard of rear wheel was found to be damaged, but whether in transit or in original packing we cannot tell. The mechanic who unpacked it thought it was in the original packing as the clamp was not large enough. To complete the one received the guard was changed, the damaged one returned on this wheel and the matter reported to the Railroad Company.

A. I. B.

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TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., March 30th, 1897.

Capt. R.H. Pratt,
Ebbitt House, Washington, D.C.

A letter needing your attention

mailed to-day.

(signed) Standing

Postal Capt. Acct. Gov't R.

1:45 P.M.

TELEGRAM.

C.A.H. McCauley, Q.M., U.S.A.

1428 Arch St., Philadelphia.

March forage requisition will reach

you tomorrow. (apt. Pratt absent.

(signed) Standing. Asst. Supt.

Govt., Capt. Acct/
(Postal 1:31 P.M.)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., March 31st, 1897.

Mrs. Ruti Farquhar,
Wilmington, Ohio.

Dear Madam:

Replying in the absence of Capt. Pratt to your letter
of the 23 inst., I have to say that I am informed by the girls'
matron, Miss Shaffner, that Mary Moon's affairs seem to have been
getting along rather better lately, and that she thinks there has
been no recent communication with the Doctor, but she still has
to be very watchful and careful with her. The other question in
your letter will be left for Capt. Pratt's attention.

A.J.S.
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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 1st, 1897.

Mrs. L.L. Blankenburg,
214 W. Logan Square,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Friend:

I am just back from Washington, and shall have to return there soon. Mrs. Pratt and I intend to be in Philadelphia Friday night. If agreeable to you and you receive this before ten o'clock tomorrow morning, please wire me at once whether we can come to your house for Friday night. We shall go to the Williamson School Saturday and return home late Saturday night.

We can let you have eight or twelve girls as you may desire to sing for you at Harrisburg on the evening of April 14th. If you could have an organ in the Chamber it would help very much. Please write me on receipt of this whether there will be an organ, and my music teacher will understand better how to proceed in preparation.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 2nd, 1897.

Julia M. Long,

M.E. Hospital, So. Broad and Wolf Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Julia:

My school funds have run so low that I have been com-
pelled to cut off in every direction in order to pull through the year.
As you know, we need less help in the hospital during the summer than
in the winter, and things are going nicely and no need of increase of
help seems necessary. Nor is there work elsewhere at present that I
could give to you. After the first of July it might be I could use
you, and certainly I could use you during the coming winter.

I am very sorry indeed to hear that Dr. Lord is in such condition.
Give her Captain's love, and say to her I hope she will soon rally and
recover. Give my love to Dr. Seabrook and tell her that when she
makes a visit home I hope she will stop and see us. Mrs. Pratt and I
are going to the Williamson School Commencement Saturday, and it is just
possible we may be able to get out to the hospital, but I am afraid not.

It might be a good plan for you to give yourself a let up by tak-
ing one of our country homes for a few weeks or months. There you
would earn something, and at the same time get an entire change of
diet and life which would build you up. If you think of doing this, let
us know and we will help you.

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In reply to:

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

Mrs. Ruth Farquhar,
Wilmington, Ohio.

My dear Mrs. Farquhar:

I was away when your letter came, and answer was
made so far as Mary Moon is concerned. My visit to the Mission on
Douglass Island was so brief and at such an inopportune time that I
could hardly express an opinion. I met a number of lady teachers, for
whose enthusiasm and good judgment I formed a favorable opinion. There
were statements by some of them that savored of dissention.

Mary Moon has not been entirely straight in her obedience, and is
under a little discipline now.

Sincerely yours,

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In reply to:

Henry Kitewmi,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear Henry:

I am glad to get your letter, and to know that you are struggling along and doing the best you can. I feel very much obliged to that railroad for giving so many of our Carlisle boys work. Your brother John is well and doing very well. I hope you will write to him occasionally and urge him to do the best he can. If you are in good health you might talk to Col. Marmon about returning to Carlisle.

Faithfully your friend,

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In reply to:

Belknap Fox,

Ft. Belknap, Mont.

My dear Belknap:

Thanks for your letter which is the first I have had
from you for a long time.

"Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings;" says the good Book. I have heard of you from time to time, and always understood that you were diligent in your business, and now you write me that you have a ranch, cattle and horses. It is just carrying out the good Book's words.

I am sorry to hear what you say about Francis Lungs. It is too bad, but he is the one that will suffer for it. I have given orders that a picture be sent you as you request.

Sincerely your friend,

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In reply to:

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

Supt. G.L. Pigg,

Anadarko, Okl. Ty.

My dear Friend:

I thank you for your letter of March 24th. You are
entirely right about Dr. Hailman. He is making a desperate effort to
remain in the School Service, but I question very much whether he will
succeed. Indeed, I feel quite sure he will not. The Indian Rights
Association is full of high endorsement of his work, and the Board of
Indian Commissioners are crowding for him. I am glad you returned the
paper without your signature. If we may endorse our superiors for of-
vice, we may, of course, condemn them. They seem to take the position
that it is all right for us to favor them, but they are brimful of an-
ger if we express ourselves on the other side. I received a solicita-
tion to endorse him and have my employes do so, but I shall do exactly
the other thing. In fact, I have already started the ball rolling for
investigation of some of his official acts. Poor Capt. Baldwin. I am
sorry for him. He is his own worst enemy. There are no end of charges
pending against him in Washington, and it looks as though if he did not
quietly back out he would suffer very greatly. There is a desperate
effort being made to keep him in Service. I wish you would write at
once, giving me any information you have about Dr. Hailman that would
help in his exposure. I am taking the brunt of it myself, and shall
stand for it, but would like to lay my hands on facts everywhere. Seb-
ators have been written to to use their influence to keep him in

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In reply to:

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

Mr. Frank Terry,

Supt. Indian Boarding School,
Crow Agency, Mont.

My dear Terry:

I send you a photograph of our graduating class of '97.

Your article in the Review of Reviews has been on my table for some
time, and I have been intending to read it and then write you. The
fact is that I have been on a regular hop, skip and a jump. First, about
our Commencement and since with some affairs in Washington. As I have
not read your article and do not know the point you make, of course,
I am unable to say anything about it. Why should you be transferred to
Tomah? It seems strange that you should be transferred so often. I
suppose it must be promotion.

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Carlisle, Pa. April 2nd, 1897.

D.R. Thompson, Proprietor,
The Sentinel,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Enclosed find check #934 for $.50 in payment of bill dated
March 25th, for which please acknowledge receipt, and obligo

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In reply to:

Mrs. Lottie Herrick Laver,
Delta, Ohio.

My dear Lottie:

I send check for $35.00 for mother for April. I hope you are all well, and that the weather is as delightful there as here. It has seemed as though our days were perfect, yesterday and today. Spring is upon us and the buds are swelling everywhere. I have been twice to Washington and talked with the President each time, and have begun to get acquainted with the new officials. I hope as soon as they get into their places we shall have a better condition of things. Laura and I are going to Philadelphia this afternoon to be present at the Commencement of the great Williamson Trade School to morrow. Nana is spending two weeks in Washington as the guest of Miss Teller, the daughter of Senator Teller. Marion from Denver, has been visiting us since February. She has her youngest child, the boy, with her, and leaves for home next Thursday. Mason and his family are very well, and all goes well with us at the School.

Won't you please return to me soon the book giving the Herrick family genealogy. Mrs. Southard and I are very anxious to trace out some of our ancestors. We want to get into the Revolutionary Organizations.

I hope some time soon to see you here again.

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

Mr. Frank H. Leverance,
Editor Illustrated Express,
Buffalo, N.Y.

Dear Sir:

Yours of the 31st ult. came to hand as Capt. Pratt was about to leave for Philadelphia. He, therefore, directed me to send to you a selection of photographs and reading matter such as we have, which I think will give you the information needed for your forthcoming article.

We do not publish any elaborate report, but the working of the school will be made plain to you by looking over the pamphlets sent.

The aim of the School is to lead the Indians from whatever stage of barbarism they may come to us into civilization and citizenship. The idea being that to accomplish this there can be no better way than to bring them right into the midst of civilization as they are at Carlisle, and then supplement the school work properly, by the industrial departments of the school and by the Outing System, which you will find explained in the printed matter sent you. It is this feature of the School that we consider specially important for the experience it gives in the line of actual self support, and contact with the other peoples of the country.

What the Indians specially need is individuality. Tribe and chief and precedent have ruled so long that the individual has been well nigh lost. Now, however, there is real growth in this

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individualizing direction, and year by year we notice more ability for self help and independent action on the part of the Indian pupils who leave us to make their way as best they can in other places. It may fairly be said of the Carlisle students that there are none of those who leave us in good health and who have served a full term of five years, but what are able in any civilized community to make their own living by their labor - some in one line, some in another, but all capable of something.

The School system is half a day study and half a day at some industry for all. The graduating point is equal to about one year of High School work and a very considerable number of graduates are now rendering satisfactory service as teachers and helpers in other Indian schools.

If any additional information is desired write again.

Very truly yours,

A. J. S.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 3rd, 1897.

The Bailey Banks & Biddle Company,
Philadelphia, Penn'a.

Gentlemen:

Enclosed find check # 938 for $2.00 in payment of bill dated March 4th, for which please acknowledge receipt and oblige.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 5th, 1897.

Chief Roman Nose,
Watonga, Okl. Ty.

My dear friend:

During my two visits to Washington I have met the President and the Secretary of the Interior, and assure you that we are going to have a business administration and one that will help the Indians. We have not yet a new Commissioner. I am looking for him about the middle of this month. When he comes in I will see him and if the chance offers I will speak to him about the things you wish me to, but the better way if as you propose to come on and talk to him yourselves. It would be no use for you to come now. Wait for the new Commissioner, and when you do come I want your party to come and stay with me several days at Carlisle so that we may get acquainted again.

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In reply to:

Landis & Ricketts,

Delphi, Indiana.

Gentlemen:

I am very greatly obliged to you for the copies of the Journal and the editorial concerning Prof. Hailman. You have got the size of the situation to a nicety. It is unfortunate that the pedagogue is so often visionary and impractical. In all my long experience I do not think I have ever seen a man in a place of such importance as the one occupied by Prof. Hailman who was so utterly incapable of properly judging men and women and fitting them into places. The whole School Service is harassed beyond measure by his peculiarities.

Thanking you again for the stand you have taken, I am

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In reply to:

Annie Parnell,
West Grove, Pa.

My dear Annie:

I know just how you feel about your affair, but
that very feeling is helpful to you and in the end you will be
glad for all the experience you have had because you will have
learned lessons only to be learned in that way which will serve you
a good turn all through your life. What you need to do now is
to just make up your mind to do the very best you can. Do what-
ever you have to do, and do it well. Be pleasant, kind and faithful
in your work and everything will come out right with you, and in
the end happiness and contentment will come in a greater degree
than ever before. It does not seem wise to me and I am sure your
friends at the Agency and everywhere else would advise you against
your intention to go home this year. You are in good lines, and
there is a future opening up before you. You need to stick to this
road until you get to the end of it, and then you are prepared to
walk out into a border and better road. I know your sister is
inclined to discontent. She always was so, and you are entitled to
judge entirely for yourself. You would not find satisfaction be-
tween you and your sister after you had been home a little while,
not near as satisfactory as hear at Carlisle. While you have
your chances you should take them. When we begin to throw away our

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In reply to:

Mr. L.L. Blankenburg,

My dear Mr. Blankenburg:

It rained hard all day yesterday and I could not well see Mr. Cramer incidentally. I would have had to go direct to his house and practically admit my connection with the information you have, so that taken altogether it seemed best to let the outcome depend upon your letter to him. From his spirit in the matter I feel certain that you would have no difficulty in getting from him direct. However, if you think it wise for me to acknowledge my connection with it and to talk with him straight, I have no serious objections to that.

Mrs. Pratt and I had a perfect day at the Williamson School. Left Philadelphia at 6:30 P.M. and reached home at 11 o'clock by the Phila. and Reading Road.

With kind regards to you all.

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In reply to:

L. Maynard Dixon,
1513 Jackson Street,
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir:

The following young people who have been at Carlisle for
a time, some of them graduates, would perhaps be able to aid you
in your purpose.

Mrs. Marie Marmon, Laguna, N. Mex.; Constant Bread, San Carlos, Arz; Elija Brown, Chemawa, Org; Kish Hawkins, Cheyenne, Darlington, Okl. Ty.; Wm. F. Campbell, White Earth, Minn.; Henry Standing Bear, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.; Geo.W. Means, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak; Carl Leider, Crow Agency, Mont.; Benj. Thomas, Laguna, N. Mex. Harry Kohpay, Kaw Agency, Okl. Ty.; Minnie M. Yandell, Ft. Hall, Idaho; Florence L. Wells, Chemawa, Org.; Clark Gregg, Blackfeet, Mont.; Wm. Hazlett, Piegan, Mont.; Thos. Black Bear, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.; Martha Napawat, Comanche Agency, Anadarko, I.T., Fred Big Horse, Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.; Stacy Matlack, Pawnee Agency, Ind. Ty.; Julia Elmore, Copley, Cal.; Robert Hamilton, Piegan, Mont.

I do not know how much these young people can help you, but
you can find out by writing to them. They are all former students
and have sufficient intelligence to understand what you want, and
to write out what they may know.

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In reply to:

Miss Nancy Seneca,
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Nancy:

I heard of you the other day from Mr. Edwards whom I met for just a moment at the Methodist Hospital. Mrs. Pratt and I were in the city over night, and I ran down to see Julia who you perhaps know is very ill. I am glad to know that you drop into your place so handsomely, and find it so much to your liking in every way. You have now the great opportunity of your life. If you are wise and make good use of it you will equip yourself for one of the highest professionsthat your sex can fill. I am so glad to have my Indian girls show such interest in this profession. It does so much to make the white people understand that Indians are kindly and helpful people instead of the ugly, scalping, fighting people that the histories all make them.

I have given instructions to have four of the photographs sent to you as you ask, and Miss Ely can charge them to you here. They will cost you just what they cost us, which is not much. I am glad to hear such good words from Mamie Nonchamp. It must be a great comfort to her to have you there. If you can get time, I think it would be a great help to Julia to see you. They were fearing appendicitis when I was there, but it was not fully determined.

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Faithfully your friend,

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In reply to:

Lieut. Col., Joseph T. Haskell,
President Examining Board,
Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.

Dear Colonel:

I am notified to get ready for examination for promotion. Having been more than twenty years away from strictly military duty, giving my whole time and energy to the management of this School, I am rusty in almost all that pertains to the Service and shall have to brush up a good deal to meet the examinations, and this is my busiest time. It would be a great favor to me if I may know about what the scope of my examination will be, and it is intimated to me at the War Department that I may ask you, in as much as I am to appear before your Board.

I shall avail myself of all the rights I am entitled to as an officer in the volunteer service during the War.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 6th 1897.

Dr. Lyman Abbott,

110 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, New York.

My dear Dr. Abbott:-

I send you an Indian story and the letter of the author sending it to me. You will note what she says. My daughter Marion (Mrs. Stevick) is visiting us from Denver and speaks in the highest terms of Mrs. Vaile, the author. Mrs. Vaile is the wife of one of the most eminent lawyers of Denver, occupies a high social position, is a member of the Congregational Church, is a leading member of the Mothers' Meetings and is an author of some standing. We have all read the story, and all the others feel it is excellent. For myself I approve of it most highly and know it is well founded and the case is fairly well presented. I do hope you will be able to give it a place in "The Outlook" and so counteract the many stories about the Apache Kid and other so-called educated Indians on the opposite line. Should you not use it, please return it to me with any suggestions you may have to make. Should you use it, you can correspond direct with Mrs. Vaile.

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In reply to:

Mrs. Charlotte M. Vaile,
Denver, Colorado.

My dear Mrs. Vaile:-

I have been away from home somewhat cumbered with my
affairs in Washington, and did not have time until Saturday to read
your story. I took it with me on a trip to Philadelphia and read it
to Mrs. Pratt on the way. We are both agreed that it is an excellent
story, timely and fair to all parties, and I have taken the liberty
to send it to my good friend, Dr. Lyman Abbott, and have urged
that he give it a place in "The Outlook" and correspond with you
about it. Being written by a western woman, especially one living
in Colorado, and bearing upon the Indians of Colorado, it is the more
significant.

It gives me no little pleasure to have you endorse my views
after so much careful thought as you must have given to your story.

(Dictated)

N.

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In reply to:

Mr. W. H. Henderson, Ticket Agent,

Pennsylvania Station,

Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Henderson:-

My daughter, Mrs. Stevick, wishes to leave for the west
on the Chicago and St. Louis Express at 7.30 P. M. Thursday. Will
you kindly reserve for her one lower central berth; if not central
she would prefer it nearer the ladies end, but not the end berth;
and oblige,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6th, 1897.

Col. J. Roe Young,
U.S. Indian Agent,
Sacaton, Arz.

My dear Colonel:

The administration is so new and the President
and Secretaries so cumbered with applicants for office and no
Commissioner yet appointed, that nothing has yet been done in In-
dian matters. As a principle, Mr. McKinley has intended that
unless there were urgent reasons to the contrary to continue those
in office until the expiration of their commissions. I have been
hustling up the situation quite a little in my fight with Welsh,
Hailman and Co., and am sure that in time I shall come out on top.
I found the subordinate places, like yours and mine, had not yet
received attention and will not I am sure until the new Commissioner
is in office and understands something of the situation. I will
take pains to push matters in your interests whenever the way opens,
and if you know of anything going on to your detriment and will
advise me, and have anything to suggest about how I can meet it,
trust me to do all I can.

(Dictated)
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In reply to:

Miss Frances C. Sparhawk,
Newton Center, Mass.

Dear Miss Sparhawk:

Your error in regard to the check is too funny
for anything. I require all checks I sign to state in the vacant
space at the end what they are for. This enables me to trace
them. It so happens that I am responsible at the Bank for three
separate funds. For my Government funds I sign "Capt. U.S.A., Supt.
of Indian School," and have an account under that head. For my Char-
ity funds I sign "Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.," and for my students'
funds I sign "Capt. & Supt. in trust." These are all put on the
checks before I sign them, or else I do not sign them, and are
necessary to keep the accounts entirely separate and distinct. The
money for the subscriptions came from the students' fund, being
credited on our books of each one subscribing, hence was signed
"in trust."

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In reply to:

Richard Davis,

Boggy, Okl. Ty.

My dear Richard:

Since the receipt of yours of March 19th I have been in Washington twice. Have seen the President and the Secretary both times. There is as yet no new Commissioner of Indian Affairs, so that nothing is done. The Secretary, of course, is busy with his multitude of departments. You know he has education, lands patents, railroads and the geological survey besides the Indians, so that his hands are full and he has not had time yet to think of much about the Indians.

I entirely agree with you in opposition to the colonizing system, and that is the plan of the past administration and it cannot be changed until the administration falls into new hands. Whether we shall be able to turn the tide then depends upon who is appointed Commissioner, and what the spirit of the present administration is. I also agree with you as to the colonizing at Segar. It is more harmful than the old reservation system as you say, because it is insidious and has the semblance of something helpful, but it means Indian colonies forever. I have quite a time with the Indian Rights Association, but shall fight it out if it takes all summer.

When the party comes, I hope they will come to Carlisle which

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for
is always a home them as you know, and if little Wolf comes along
I shall be glad to talk his matters over with him. In regard to
your employment of course I can say nothing. The Agent should
fix all that. My judgment is that if the Agent will employ you,
and you like it better than looking out for your farm you had better
take anything you feel inclined to. I am expecting now that the
change i n the Commissionership will take place about the middle of
this month.

We had a splendid Commencement. Better and bigger than ever
before. Over 3000 people outside of our students present to wit-
ness it. The Governor, Gen. Eaton and others made splendid speeches
of which you will read in the Red Man just now being mailed.

We all join with warmest love to Nannie, the children and
yourself.

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Miss Delia Hicks,
Wyndotte, Ind. Ty.

Dear Delia:

We are very glad indeed to give you the token of Carlisle's approval, and trust that it may be useful to you as it has been to so many others. I find after discussion with my people that it would be quite impolitic to enter largely into acts of that kind, and what we have done for you must not be taken as a precedent in any future cases.

I am glad to get your nice letter and to know of your well-fare, and trust that the future has great and good things in store for you.

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In reply to:

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

Miss M.A. Fisher,

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Miss Fisher:

I was away when your note came. The question
of why 21 guns has become the International and Presidential salute
was never in my mind before, and I am very sorry to say that I am
quite unable to answer it. I spoke to my principal teacher, Prof.
Bakeless, whose knowledge of such matters is very wide, also to
Mr. Standing, my Asst. Superintendent, and neither of them or
anything we can find can answers the question.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 7th, 1897.

My dear Judge McCammon:

You knew Mr. Woog when he was in the Indian Office. You know his record, and you probably remember the difficulties I had with the Finance Department in the earlier years of the School. You will remember that I often blamed Mr. Woog. I afterwards became entirely satisfied that my difficulties did not come through Mr. Woog, but through Mr. Howard who was dismissed from the Service, and I think probably from facts I presented to the Commissioner in regard to him. I come to believe that Mr. Woog was thoroughly honest, and found that he was one of the best posted men in all matters pertaining to the Department's business of any in the Service. He is an old soldier and I am satisfied he was put out by the last administration in order that certain schemes, not in the best interest of the Indians, might be carried out. My conviction is that he ought to go back to his old place. The marks of his great loyalty to the Government carries in his face. Until I am on a better footing with the Department I do not feel like saying anything myself, but I intended to express to you when I was in Washington the hope that you would use your efforts for the reinstatement of Mr. Woog. This looks to me as if it were going to be a business administration, and Mr. Woog, as I finally came to know him, is strictly on that line.

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In reply to:

To the President,

The White House,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Mr. John G. Heid of Juneau, Alaska, asks me to endorse him for the position of United States Attorney for the District of Alaska.

My knowledge of Mr. Heid enables me to say that he is a man of excellent character, free from the habits that have, I am sorry to say, somewhat disgraced the Government in some of the highest officials appointed to Alaska in the past. He is a most capable lawyer, standing far to the front in his profession; is a resident and therefore especially interested in the welfare of the territory. If appointed his services will be creditable to the United States and satisfactory to your Administration. I cheerfully add my endorsement and solicitation for his appointment, and shall be glad to stand responsible for all this letter indicates.

With greatest respect,

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Frank Jones,

Keokuk Falls,

Okl. Ty.

My dear Frank:

I am very greatly pleased to hear from you of your safe arrival at home and your improved health. What a time you had with cyclones down there. Still, we have not been quite free from them up here as you know, but never have they treated us so badly. Twenty-five people killed in a small town is a great number.

I understand very well the tussle you have on hands, but somebody has got to stand fast and overcome, even in such a moral atmosphere as that else everything will go to the bad. The greater the trial the greater the victory. The greater the test of manhood successfully borne, the greater the increase in moral manhood. Every such thing is opportunity. We all rejoice and shall rejoice always in your success, and should your steps trend eastward you will of course not pass Carlisle by.

Mrs. Pratt has not yet mastered her wheel fully, but she is courageous and I have no doubt will be taking a ride to the country with me before long. Remember me most kindly to your father, and believe me always

Faithfully your friend,

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

Edith Smith,
Stoughton, Pa.

Dear Edith:

You allowed perhaps that I have been in Washington for a number of days and so have not been at my desk. I am glad you and Mattie's dear弟es, but I should not have gone until later. Now tell me about it in detail. I know so well what good dear friends and such a delightful home. I hope very for you from this experience. What you need to do is to build up your health. Do not concern yourself about being or anything else just now, but give yourself over to accumulating a big stock of health and the future will take care of itself. I would not建议 do much about friends either, though that is rather health giving if you do not do too much of it. Things are going on nicely. Nearly 200 boys and girls have already gone to the country school and we are constantly appealing to you for more. I wish I had a thousand children to put out this year.

We all send love to you.

Sincerely and gratefully your friend,

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Mo

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In reply to:

Fred Corbett,

Apache Camp, Ft. Sill, Okl. Ty.

Dear Fred:

I got your letter some time ago, but have been away
from home. How glad I am to know that you have a position and work
to do. This will keep you out of trouble. Now if you apply all
that you have learned at Carlisle and do your very best all the
time, you may get on well even out there where there is so much a-
gainst you.

We had a grand Commencement time. More people than ever, and
all went off pleasantly. I trust you will save your money, and
build yourself up to a strong, noble and I hope a wealthy manhood.

Give my love to Earnest Hoge, John Lowrey and all the other
Carlisle boys and girls too. We should be glad to see you
should you as you promise come to Carlisle sometime.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Mr. John G. Heid,
June 6 Alaska.

My dear Mr. Hyde:

I have today written the President a letter of which
the enclosed is a copy. I was very glad, indeed, to find while in
Washington that there was unity of purpose among those seeking ap-
pointments in Alaska. Your partner, Mr. Johnson, retired from the
field in favor of Mr. Brady for Governor. I do not hear of any
other candidates for the position you seek, and I trust you will
have a clear field and be successful.

With cordial good wishes.

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In reply to:

Henry K. Coale,
136 Washington, St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

You may please send me one of your folding camp beds, and
also two folding camp chairs. Enclosed find my check for $5.75.

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

Prof. A.P. Foss,

Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Professor:

Yours just received. Your mates are so much higher than I thought they would be that I must forgo the pleasure of hearing you though my daughter who attends Dickinson and heard you in the morning declares that you are fine. My financial matters are in such shape that we can only afford a very limited expense in this line, and I usually get such entertainments as a special favor for the school for $10 or $15. I did not imagine yours would be more than $15.

I am sorry I did not understand the matter better before I spoke as I did about it, though I thought I indicated that the price would have all to do with it.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 8th, 1897.

Miss E.L. Tuckerman,
58 W. 45th Street,
New York City.

My dear Friend:

I have been Washington some time, and your letter of the 26th has remained unanswered. I shall be very glad indeed to get the Centuries as they cover ground from '90 to '95, for which we have not the sets. The books received are all useful, some especially so.

Thanking you for your continued kindness in this matter, I am

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Penn Pharmacal Co.,
3808 Market St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:

Mr. Sipe sent me the three bottles of Malix, and they
were tested by different members of my family, all of whom agreed
that they were an excellent tonic, and I thank you for the courtesy.

The Government buys all our supply for the School and it would
be only a family patronage that I could direct your way, and just
now we do not seem to be in need.

(Dictated)
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In reply to:

Hon. Daniel H. Hastings,
Executive Chamber,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Governor:

I thank you very cordially for sending me the
note of Mr. Porter, Secretary to the President, indicating that
you had written to the President in our behalf.

Throughout the past Administration every means possible ex-
cept open prohibitory acts were used to crowd me to the wall by
the Indian Department and Indian School management, and to enlarge
the reservation and western systems of education. I may add
with the fullest confidence these opposing acts were in the inter-
ests of the surrounding white population rather than the interests
of the Indians, as the results, and in some cases the actual claims,
show. In my judgment the President could not do a better thing
for the Indians than to gradually suppress the reservation and tri-
tal systems of schools, and correspondingly enlarge the bringing,
encouraging and helping the Indians to get out into our public
school and industrial systems of the country at large. Four years
of energetic and wise action along that line will turn the tide so
strongly in that direction, and so nearly accomplish the breaking
up of tribes and reservations, as to make it impossible for them to
get back to a continuance of them. Whether the President and Sec-

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In reply to:

Gen. John Eaton,

¾ Presbyterian Board of Home Missions,
53 Fifth Ave., New York.

Dear General:

Nana tells me that some one in the Indian Office said to you that my reports were "padded," and understands that the insinuation is that we by some hocus-pocus represent we have more children than we actually have. I wish I knew exactly what they meant. Ever since the Carlisle School began, because of my knowledge of how things were managed at some Indian Schools, I have kept a daily record of students in pretty nearly the same form that a Company First Sergeant keeps and reports to his Adjutant daily his company. Every change is noted in figures and by name, and if throughout the whole course of the school there has been the slightest padding, I do not know it. I believe my reports to be absolutely correct, and there is not a day in the history of the whole school that we cannot practically tell by name where every student was.

In my report to the Indian Office for the last fiscal year ending June 30th, 1896, I gave our average attendance as 722 and a fraction, and based my estimate of the per capita expense on that showing. The Indian Department in its figures and showing of the per capita expense gives me credit for an average attendance of

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741. By what process of computation I have not learned, nor shall I inquire, but so far as "padding" is concerned that would show that they were doing the padding and not I.

Since Commencement, Governor Hastings wrote the President a warm letter of approval, endorsing my industrial and outing plans. This morning he sends me the President's cordial acknowledgement of the receipt of the letter, saying that it will have his consideration and that he will talk matters over with the Secretary.

If practicable, as you pass through Carlisle on your way to Chambersburg, stop off a train or two.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 9th, 1897.

Sergeant Peter,

Pawnee City, Okl. Ty.

My dear Peter:

I have your ~~letter~~ of the 5th of April written by Stacy Matlack, in which you ask me to help you get a pension. I am very sorry to say that Congress has never made any law that would give pensions to Indians serving as scouts. I have tried several times to get special pensions, particularly for those who were wounded, and for the families of those who were killed in capturing Sitting Bull which was a very great service to the Government, but so far Congress has refused to give it and it would not be worth while for me to make any attempt.

I am very sorry to hear that you are getting old. That is most unfortunate. It does not seem so long ago since you were taking such good care of me and my horses, and all that bitter hard experience of the winter of '74 and '75. Yet, when I come to count the years it is more than twenty-three years ago. Many things have happened since then. Great changes have taken place among your people though not as great nor as good as I had hoped. I thought then that before this time the Indians would be wise enough to see that their greatest hope was to quit their tribal ways of life and move out and live among the white people, doing work, learning the language, living in houses, and sending their children to school,

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and all that just as white men do, but I see I was mistaken. The
Indians are not wise. They are very foolish. I sometimes question
whether any of them will ever be wise enough to do what they ought
to in order to save themselves and their coming generations.

I am always glad to hear from you, Peter, and remember you
always as a dear, good, brave and faithful helper to me when I
needed just such a man. My love to you.

Faithfully your friend,

(Diated)
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J. Shirley Eaton,

The Concord,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

I enclose to you a letter I have written to the President, and if you or your father think I can alter it or amend it in any way to make it more telling, I shall be only too happy to have you return it and indicate how and I will cheerfully re-write it.

I wish I khew of some valuable suggestions to give you, but I
can think of none for the reason that I do not yet feel I am in good
touch with this administration. If Senator Dawes remains on the
Committee, I cannot believe that anyone would have a more potential
voice in naming the members of the Committee than he would. From
the relations between your father and Senator Dawes I believe he
would cheerfully give the fullest endorsement.

Years ago I used to be something of a friend of Pleasants
Porter of the Creeks and one of the most influential men among
the Indians, who I believe is in favor of the purposes of the Com-
mission. If I am correctly informed about this and Senator
Dawes thought that Pleasants Porter's endorsement to the President
would help your father's case, I believe I could get him to write
a strong letter.

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In reply to:

To the President,

The White House,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am informed that the Dawes' Indian Commission is like-
ly to be reorganized and that the name of Gen. John Eaton, former
Commissioner of Education, is to be presented to you for considera-
tion as one of the Commissioners, and it is suggested that I write
you in his behalf.

I am sure that it is quite unnecessary that I, or anyone else
should attempt to tell you who General Eaton is or of his great ser-
vices to the country, but General Eaton's invaluable help to me as
counsellor in the inception of this school and throughout its more
than seventeen years' history, makes it not only a duty, but a
great pleasure to do anything it may be thought I can do, to for-
ward his claim to be considered for any place to which he may
aspire.

While I was in charge of the Indian prisoners in Florida, 1875
to '78, Dr. M.B. Anderson, then President of the Rochester Univer-
sity, gave me a letter of introduction to General Eaton, urging
him to consider what I was then doing for those prisoners and what
I contemplated doing, which has since grown to be this Carlisle
School. From the time of the presentation of that letter until

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this present I have found General Eaton to be one of the wisest and ablest counsellors in all my large circle of friends, and my experience of his ability, and my wide knowledge of Indian matters, lead me to unhesitatingly say that there is no one in my knowledge (save Senator Dawes) in whose careful and able judgment, and in whose integrity of purpose and loyalty to the Government, you could place more reliance for the service to be performed than in General Eaton.

The so-called civilized tribes' problem is a peculiar one. It requires that the Commissioners should all be men of great sagacity whom the Indians will not in any way suspect of selfish motives. General Eaton fills this ideal absolutely. Ignorant Indians have great respect for age when accompanied with vigorous and mental qualities. I have frequently met with General Eaton in conferences, and a few weeks ago at my solicitation he delivered a long and most able lecture on his personal memories of Lincoln and Grant, to a large and most select audience of the best people of Carlisle, and afterwards delivered one of the ablest addresses I have ever listened to on an occasion of that kind when he presented the diplomas to the twenty-six graduates of this school this year. His clearness of conception and vigor in expression seems to me unabated.

There are many college bred men among these Indians. General Eaton's ability and his well known official and personal standing will have greatest weight with them. While his appointment would not be regarded as a political one, I can assure you that it would be impossible to find a person more loyal to and anxious for a

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 10th 1897.

Hon. Knute Nelson,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator:-

As I heard nothing from the Secretary I concluded a
letter ( of which enclosed is a copy) might bring the matter to his
attention, so I wrote him sending the letter under "personal" cover
last night. I also thought it well to aggravate the situation a
little on Civil Service lines, inasmuch as I had such excellent
ground, and I accordingly put into our little paper ( marked copy
enclosed) something showing how it operates here, and also wrote to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs last evening the letter of which
I enclose you a copy.

I shall very gladly prepare a letter for you to Welsh in a day
or two, such an one as I would write if I were in your place, if I
wrote at all. Personally I do not like the action of Civil Service
Commissioner Rice in turning the matter over to Welsh. Unquestion-
ably he sent Welsh the copy of the Red Man which you sent to him.
Welsh is a deep politician and his letter is very artful. However,
I think I can give you such a letter as will meet the issue. I have
sent to you the half dozen copies of the Red Man you desire.

Enclosed is a clipping from the Philadelphia Press today, by which
you will see the current is moving our way.

(Dictated)

Mr.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 12th, 1897.

Rev. J. Ewin Smith, D.D.,
Tomah, Iowa.

My dear Sir:

I have spent the best part of my time for two weeks past in Washington and since returning have been endeavoring to catch up with my correspondence, thus answer to your letter has been delayed.

Your Indians at Tomak have been on my mind quite a little for a good many years. I have sometimes planned to visit them and see if I could not pull a few of their young people away from their reservation and environment and into our Carlisle School, but have not been encouraged thereto by the influences that controlled. What Congress has just done for them in giving a large school at home is not at all in accord with my idea of what ought to be done. I am very sorry because I feel assured that it is a waste of money. Even should the school fill up and the work begin, the whole tendency will be towards continuing the Indians as a small, separate and peculiar body to be handled separate from others, and they are smart enough to understand that it is not materially contrary to their own wishes, which are to remain separate and apart. It is possible that you may, if you persuade the Indians to give their children to your school, build up slowly that which might be built quickly and at once in favor of scattering and contending with our civ-

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ilized masses beyond tribal influences.

During the course of years my sympathy with church mission work has been largely driven out by the pedophilia with which missionaries hold on to old and young Indians and segregate them as tribal masses instead of helping to work them out into the larger opportunities of Christianity in the industries of civilized life. Preaching the brotherhood of man, they practice the brotherhood of woeful tribal reservation influences only. The Indian Rights Association is only an adjunct of these influences.

If the school had been 100 miles away from the reservation, in the center of some industrious, energetic community, where the young Indians could be sent out into families during vacation and taught to associate and work with civilized people at civilized pursuits, and so gain the courage of doing it, it would have been immensely better for the Indians, for the state, and for the cause of Christianity. Having the school close to the reservation it will be practically impossible to do much at this Outing, because the children will, for every little miff, run away to their reservation homes.

I do not see what more you can do than to get the children into the school as they do in the Agency schools by force, and keep them there by the aid of mounted policeman, and let the teachers and other school people do what they can to help them. It will be a little something, but a very, very little. If the Indians had an Agent of proper character to control these forces and to keep up the effect with no end of dinning on educational lines, that would be

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Miss Lizzie M. Lampson,
Seymour, Wis.

My dear Miss Lampson:

Your leave of absence with pay extended to April 4th inclusive. Your salary for March was $51.70 and $6.59 for the four days in April, amounting to $58.29. After deducting $5.15 for board, as per receipt herewith, the balance due you is $53.14 for which I enclose my check. Please acknowledge receipt.

W. B. B.
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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., April 13th 1897.

Frank H. Severance, Editor "Illustrated Buffalo Express,"
Nos. 179-181 Washington Street,
Buffalo, New York.

My dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of the 9th, I send you by this
mail a copy of the New England Magazine which will give you the few
facts you desire in regard to my personal history. I will be
obliged if you will return the Magazine after you have used it, as
it is one of the last copies I have.

I shall be glad to receive, as you suggest, some copies of
your paper containing the article you propose about this School.

N.

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

Carlisle, Pa., April 15th 1897.

Miss Ella J. Petoskey,
Petoskey, Michigan.

Dear Miss Petoskey:-

I am grieved to hear of the death of your sister Sarah,
and sympathize with you in your sorrow.

Sarah was one of our good girls while here, and it is pleasant to
know that she cherished such loving thoughts of Carlisle.

Thanking you for your letter, I am,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 15th, 1897.

Dr. W. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Doctor:

This will be handed to you by Miss Rose Bourassa, one of my graduate girls, and for several years past a teacher. She has an eye trouble which has been under the care of a local physician. I have urged her to go to you. Please give her your best attention, and greatly oblige.

(Dictated)
Mc

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 15th, '97.

Mrs. Charles E. Robertson,

448 Monroe Street,
Scranton, Pa.

Dear Madam:

We go out very little with our students holding meetings. We have found it to be very detrimental to their interests in many ways, principally their loss of standing in their classes, and the inflating of them with notions of importance and filling them with the idea that they can prey upon the public. Both our experiences here and observation of this work in other institutions confirms that as little as possible along this line ought to be done with young people whom we hope to build into self reliant manhood and womanhood. There have been times when we have gone with a party for one or two meetings, but of late years very seldom.

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Carlisle Pa., April 15th, 1897.

Hon. Knute Nelson,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

I owe you an apology for not completing the letter
to Herbert Welsh. I have looked up the points and have plenty of
material, but I know Mr. Welsh so well the more I work at it the
less I feel it good policy for you to have anything to do with him.
He is one of the syndicate in my matter. Hailman, Welsh and Leupp,
aided by the Board of Indian Commissioners, are determined that
Hailman shall stay. The move of Welsh and Rice is simply to draw
your fire and then pitch into you perhaps, for he is unserupulous
in such matters. He works his own newspaper and other papers,
and is a genius and insidious at manipulating a case. He has a com-
petence to live on, nothing else to do, and never did anything
else. I thought I would frame such a letter as would meet even
that case, but I am more and more convinced that it is better not to
have anything to say to him. We are dealing with the fruits and
not the theories of Civil Service Reform. Rice surely sent to him
the copy of the Red I an you sent to him. Both Welsh and Rice ig-
nore that, and Welsh sends you a quantity of ancient literature most-
well back in the '80's. These, if you had time to read them,
I know what a manner of man he is. It was Welsh's solicita-

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Carlisle, Pa., April 16th, 1897.

Henry Romeike,

139 Fifth Ave.,

New York.

My dear Sir:

You are rather too prolific in sending clippings.

Such clippings as the enclosed are not desirable. I do not want
any ethnological, archaeological or traditional stories. What I
want is real information about the Indian of today generally, and
about the Indian Service, particularly editorial matter relating to
persons and the business of the Indian branch of the Government.

I would like you to especially watch a paper in Philadelphia called
"City and State", and all the Catholic papers of the country. Clip-
pings from papers that speak of me or the School are most desirable.

(Dictated)
Mc

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In reply to

Annie Kowuni,

Rydal, Pa.

My dear Annie:

I have your letter of April 12th and note what you say about your indecision. This is not the time for you to be un-decided. Had you remained under the care and protection of your father what would you have been. You came to my care here at Carlisle and I have pushed you forward until you can write a very neat and well expressed lady-like letter. You have an equipment for usefulness in life quite equal to that of the average American woman. Your habits of thought, your aspirations, your knowledge and practices of the present, and your hopes for the future are all opposite to what they would have been had you remained at home with your father. You are fairly well equipped, but not as well equipped as you ought to be according to my judgment and the judgment of those of your friends who know you best. Your opportunity to get addi-tional equipment is now. What your father offers would not only fail to give you additional equipment, but would take from you that which you already have. All our experience proves this. You have had your mind made up and I know that I disturbed it. I would settle it back to where it was before, and I am led to do this by Col. Marmon's letter which I sent you. Take my advice and make up your mind to fight a little further and secure more ed-

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In reply to

F. J. Baker, Manager,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

Your letter to Capt. Pratt in regard to the lecture by
Mr. Santanelli at the Opera House tomorrow afternoon has been re-
ceived.

Capt. Pratt directs me to say to you that he will publish the
information among the faculty and students and that probably some
will be there, although there are counter attractions coming off
tomorrow that will take a large number.

(Distated) A.J.S.
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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 17th 1897.

The Horton M'f'g. Co.,
Bristol, Conn.

Gentlemen:-

A few days ago I purchased from our hardware man in town, Mr. Barr, one of your No. 9 rods, and forgot to say to him that I wanted the stand up guides and the eyelit tip. I was out with it yesterday and like it exceedingly well, excepting that the line catches in the rings and tip. As it was my fault that I did not order properly, I take occasion to send the rod to you myself and ask that you will fix it and return as promptly as possible with your bill for doing same. Please make the guides the smallest size you can and as smooth and free from liability to catch the line as possible.

I also send my last year's rod in the same express package, and will request you to do the same for it. I call your attention to the fact that the seams in the two joints have opened and when making a long and vigorous cast there is a catch by buckling in the pole that interferes with the best success. I had two of your poles with me in the Yellowstone Park last summer and one of them broke at the second joint and I gave it to one of the hotel men. I also have one of your largest rods for heavy fishing.

I like the steel rods very much, but have found the same fault in all of them, the opening at the seams, but even with that defect

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I like them much better than the bamboo goods, for they stand more.

It has occurred to me that if you could make a solid rod, perhaps using no more material, and properly tapering, you could give to us a more ideal pole, however I suppose you have thought and tested all this.

Let me beg you again that you get the poles back to me as soon as possible, as the trout season has already opened here.

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

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Carlisle, Pa., April 19th 1897.

Sam Myers,
Manager Santanelli,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your note of this morning enclosing three
tickets for Santanelli's performance this evening, I have to advise
you that it will not be convenient for me to attend, and I therefore
return the tickets to you.

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

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., April 19th, 1897.

Mr. J. Shirley Eaton,
The Concord,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I have written to Pleasants Porter and hope that he will heed my suggestion. It strikes me as peculiarly appropriate that there should be an interest in that quarter in the make up of the Committee. That in itself would be a material help. I am a little afraid to solicit Senators as I have never done such a thing in all my life, but I have written Senator Proctor and Senator Hawley. I would write others, but I am afraid I would interfere with their own personal plans.

(Dictated)
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In reply to:

H.W. Spray,

228 F Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Spray:

The situation becomes more and more oppressive.
I am glad to get your little side lights, but we are actually help-
less until there is a change in the Indian Office. I think it
would be well for you to find out if you can where you stand on the
list, and what your chances are in the Civil Service. I shall be
disposed to help you out all I can, as you know. I have reached a
point where any sort of relief would be most acceptable.

(Dictated)
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In reply to:

Hon. Joseph R. Hawley,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator Hawley:

I understand there is to be a change in the
Cherokee Commission as there ought to be. There are four Democrats
and only one Republican on the Commission. As you know, I have been
dealing with Indians for a great many years. I know the Indian
Territory promlem well, having served in the Territory eight years
spending a great deal of time riding up and down through the coun-
try of these so-called civilized trites. I take it for granted
that the President will be wise enough to hold on to Senator Dawes.
He has the clearest conception of the situation of any one of the
Committee, and is peculiarly adapted to the work.

General John Eaton, former Commissioner of Education, in a con-
versation with me some time ago and following a suggestion of mine,
has taken up the idea of becoming a candidate for a place on the
Commission, and he has presented his case to Secretary Bliss. I en-
dorsed him, and the enclosed is a copy of the letter I sent. The
General's son now writes me asking if I would be willing to write
to several Senators for their endorsement. General Eaton was orig-
inally a New England man, from New Hampshire. If you have in your
mind and heart a willingness to write a letter of endorsement, I

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feel sure you will do that which, if successful, will add great
strength to the Commission.

I am sorry to see the squabble over the Gilsonite matter in
Utah. If the Indian Service was what it ought to be, the very
means necessary for the support and industrial manhood of those
Uncompagre Utas could be found right there in the getting out the
Gilsonite, but there seems no one in Congress to urge that they
are men and women capable of any labor. The Gilsonite ought to
be on the market, unquestionably. The Indian ought not to be al-
lowed at any time or in any place to play the dog in the manger
act. Properly managed, they would not be doing it. Those Utes
will work. Any Indians will work if they are treated fairly. The
truth is that about all the accepted plans for helping the Indians
are worked out by people who have practically no knowledge of them,
and who have no actual responsibilities in connection with their
management.

I am, dear General,

(Dictated)

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336

In reply to:

Hon. Pleasants Porter,

Okmulgee, Indian Territory.

My dear Mr. Porter:

I have been greatly interested and concerned
for a satisfactory adjustment of your five civilized tribes' prob-
lem. I have been glad to hear in an direct way that you were one
of those who favored breaking up the old conditions and joining
hands with the restof us to become one people. This fact leads me
to say to you confidentially that there is likely to be a rearrange-
ment of the Commission. Believing that you are in sympathy with
the wisest and best minds of both sidesbeing called upon to straight
en out the tangle, I am led to make a suggestion to you which is
purely and entirely my own and which, if you do not feel drawn to ,
you can destroy this letter and let it drop there.

For many years of my work here I have had as a very wise and
helpful counsellor, General John Eaton, who was appointed Commis-
sioner of Education by General Grant, and who served 16 years until
the first term of Mr. Cleveland's administration when he found it
best to resign. Since that time he has been taking a general in-
terest in educational matters, and in some of the difficult prob-
lems that our country has been dealing with; in a quiet way, but
as I know in a very influential way. He has been particularly
interested in the Indians, and standing as I do here with large
responsibilities on my shoulders, I have found him a peculiarly

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wise and humane advisor. If the Commissioners to be rearranged,
as I am assured it is to be, it seems to me especially desirable
that it be kept out of the hands of politicians, and that it have
on it men who are unprejudiced and whose hearts are anxious for
fullest justice to the weaker race. Such is my estimate of General
John Eaton along these lines, that I should like to see him one of
the new Commissioners. I believe if you accept the idea, that a
letter from you to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior would
have great weight. General Eaton is a man above sixty, so that
he belongs to that class of old men for counsel," I hope you may
yourself know him, and know him well. The presence of General
Eaton on the Commission would be full assurance that there would
be no job in it if he knew and could prevent it. I am sure from
my knowledge of you that you are anxious about that as any man
can be.

Sincerely your friend,

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In reply to:

Hon. Redfield Proctor,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

I am informed that the Cherokee Commission is to be reorganized as it ought to be, inasmuch as there are four Democrats and only one Republican on the Commission. I take it for granted that the President will hold on to Senator Dawes. Certainly no man in the country is better fitted for the place, and the Senator has taken it up as a last closing event of his great life work, and I hope he may be allowed to work it out.

Ever since my connection with Indian School work I have had the great advantage of constant counsel and friendship of General John Eaton, who was appointed Commissioner of Education by General Grant and remained until President Cleveland's first administration. Knowing Indians as I do by thirty years of experience, and knowing General Eaton as I do by the ties of warm friendship during more than eighteen years, I have written urging his appointment on the Commission and letters have gone in from many sources. General Eaton's son writes asking me if I will get a Senator or two to endorse his father. As General Eaton is originally a New England man with a National character, and a great an unblemished record, I venture to think that you might know him well enough to write a letter in

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