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Carlisle, Pa., July 16th 1897.

Elizabeth Lathrop,

Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y.

Dear Madam:-

In reply to your letter of the 11th I send you herewith
the Sioux words for the names you give, and trust you will find
among them the one you wish.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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Carlisle, Pa., July 17th, 1897.

Mrs. C.W. Maffet,
Lawrence, Kan.

My dear Mrs. Maffet:

Miss Erierson does not seem to understand how impossible it is for me to control the appointment or selection of anybody for any place here at Carlisle. She spoke of one person that I understood was already in the Service, and I was willing to know something about her because I might arrange a transfer. But for persons who are not in the Service, a suggestion from me would be inimical to their interests. The baseness and incompetency of Civil Service is gradually being demonstrated, and changes no doubt will take place that will bring about some relief. That a person in charge of such interests as these at Carlisle should be so utterly denied the use of his own judgment in selecting his employes would be comically nonsensical were it not a criminality, and that his employes should be selected by a person who is inimical to him and his ideas is equally a crime against common sense.

I am sorry not to be able to write you more hopefully in answer to your letter of the 13th. Please remember me

kindly to Mr. Maffet.
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Carlisle, Pa., July 20th, 1897.

Albert Bishop,
Wittenberg, Wis.

Dear Albert:

I am very, very sorry to have the news given in
yours from Omaha, dated July 16th. It is a most unformate
time for anyone to be thrown out of employment. Times are
hard, and there are hundreds of thousands of men seeking
work. I feel it would be impossible for me to get you a
place on any railroad. My advise to you would be to go to
work on a farm either at home or in Wisconsin, or wherever
it may be, show yourself a man, lose no time, and do such
work as you can get no matter about the pay. I am sure you
have tried, and it is more a matter of adaptability than a
lack of honest purpose on your part that has caused your
failure, but times and ways change. There may be in the
near future activity everywhere, and every energy and capaci-
ty available in the country called for. In the meantime
the only thing for you to do is to avoid idleness. Work for
nothing rather than not work at all. Let me hear from you
again.

(Dated at W.)

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Carlsbad, N.Y., July 20th, 1897.

R. J. Belt,

1314 Tenth St., N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Belt:

I have never received a batch of authorities

more discourteous and tangled than those coming to me for the
current quarter. Every point possible seems to have been strained
to annoy, and I shall be compelled to make liberal use of my char-
ily funds unless I can get things straightened out.

I do not care to make a trip to Washington again until the Com-
missioner is there. I am still hopeful about you, and if you will
allow me to say so, I think it would not be at all out of place to
see the Commissioner for a few minutes as soon as you can after he
returns to Washington /

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22nd, 1897.

W.E. Fought,
Chief Burgess,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

The daily town papers inform us that the Council has passed an ordinance revoking the rights of the Trolly Company, and that the same is now before you for your action.

On behalf of myself and a very considerable number of citi-
zens of the town, I appeal to you to exercise your official au-
thority and disapprove of said ordinance for the following reasons:

The Indian School has a greater personal interest in the troilly
than any other equal number of citizens, for the reason that we are
just within the borders of the town, and it furnishes a ready means
of reaching those places of business and residence we need to by
reason of our transactions in the town or our residing therein. We
are the only party (practically) in the community that has put any
money into the development of the road. We gave the right of way
across our land, and expended several hundreds of dollars in open-
ing a highway. None of the other citizens were called upon to do
this.

I invite your attention to the fact that it is the people
who live on the outskirts of the town who are benefited by the
troilly more than those living in the heart of the town, and their
rights in the premises ought, therefore, to be more seriously

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considered. I may also say that the course taken in opposition
to the trolly company in harrassing it, is not adding to the reputa-
tion of our community at a distance.

Others will no doubt urge upon you, and rightly, the pleasure
and health benefit so patent to everybody.

Assuring you of the gratitude of every employe and student at
the Indian School should you veto the said Act of Council, I remain,
my dear sir, with great respect

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1897.

Mary C. Clapp,
77 West Street,
Pittsfield, Mass.

Dear Madam:

I am this morning in receipt of a letter from Senator Dawes quoting the Mass. law in regard to tax on legacies, and informing me that the courts of Massachusetts have decided that institutions not incorporated within the limits of the commonwealth are not entitled to the exemption, and, therefore, in his judgment, the request to Carlisle is not exempt from the tax. The law and decisions are so plain that I would not contest this point.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1897.

Hon. H.L. Dawes,

Pittsfield, Mass.

Dear Senator Dawes:

I am very greatly obliged to you for yours of
the 20th, and I have written Miss Clapp your view and that I accept
it. Send in your bill.

With the new Commissioner out of Washington ever since his op-
pointment attending to contracts, and Asst. Commissioner Smith will
in power and running things his way, I have not yet realized that
there has been any change in the administration. Belt was selected
for Smith's place. Pettigrew objected and his appointment was not
sent in. A former employee of the Office named Bender was then
selected. Somebody else objected and he was dropped. I under-
stand now that Larrabee, head of the land division, is thought of.
In my judgment Belt is the man, and the appointment ought to be
made at once. This would give us an experienced head and a man
who would make things go right.

Carlisle misses Senator Dawes more than it can tell. Cor-
dial greetings to you all from everybody at Carlisle, and especially from

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Guy Le Roy Stevick,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Guy:

I got your letter from Santa Fe and note what you say.
The Santa Fe Normal School was a sort of an explosion at the begin-
ning of the Cleveland administration designed to bring down Carlisle
Every large school was ordered to send three or four of its most
advanced pupils to that school for the purpose of Normal training.
I did not do so, and neither did many of the others, and it has
sort of petered out. We had several students ordered from there
here within the past three years, (who had been sent from other ad-
vanced schools) because of their dissatisfaction with the course
there. Such pupils are now graduated from us and are teaching
in the Indian Service.

Hugh Sousa was one of our good boys, but who has not been
benefited by his stay at Santa Fe. Col. Jones at the head of it
is a very old army officer, who was put into the Indian Service by
Cleveland without any examinations, by some special twisting of the
Civil Service rules. It was supposed that he would be able to
make a good showing in a short time, and so eliminate to some ex-
tent the power of Carlisle. I am inclined to think that before a
great while the school will resume its original preparatory function.
We have had a number of Carlisle pupils go there after their return
home from here, and if I enclosed you their letters you would find

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them very interesting reading.

I have no doubt you had a good time in California. It is a
great place to go for a rest. I wish I could go to Southern Cali-
fornia and stay until spring. Our last word from Mexico was that
we were getting really 'XX XXXXXX' to return to Denver. Her stay
in the mountains has unquestionably been an excellent thing for her.

You will be interested in the enclosed letter from Hugh written
since you left there.

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Hon. Wm. A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Wm. F. Campbell, former pupil and graduate of this school, and also a graduate of the Minnesota Law School at Minneapolis, informs me that he has been hired by his tribe, the Chippewas, to look after their legal affairs, and that his contract is before you for approval, and desires me to speak a word to you in his behalf.

William particularly attracted my attention while a student here because of his logical and strong mind, and after he left Carlisle I personally aided him considerably to enable him to get through the law school at Minneapolis. He has had many difficulties to contend with, and I am especially pleased to know of this confidence reposed in him by his people, and trust there may be no Office delay in giving him the opportunity this appointment offers.

Judge Browning told me one time that a legal paper drawn up and presented by Mr. Campbell to the Department on behalf of some tribal interest, indicated exceptional legal qualities.

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Mrs. E. Knight Bradford,

904 M. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mrs. Bradford:

I have no doubt that Ray would find this a
very excellent locality in which to recuperate, and we should be glad
have him come. The only expense would be $3.00 a week for his
board at our mess. I have plenty of vacant rooms now and he has
the valley, the mountains, and the surrounding universe filled with
delicious air in which to exert himself or not as he chooses.

With cordial greetings to you all.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 23rd, 1897.
1st Lieut. B.E. Stottler, 10th Infantry,

Acting Indian Agent,
Mescalero Agency, N. Mex.

My dear Sirs:

I have read with very great interest your account of
the "Out Look" of your very successful work for the Mescalero Apaches,
and shall print it in our school paper. It reminds me of a somewhat,
though not so extended and large, experience I had among the
Tonkowas at Ft. Griffin, Texas, 25 years ago. I did a good deal
along the same lines, but only had them a little over a year, and
when I left them they fell into less positive hands and very soon
relapsed.

I am in favor of your continuance among the Mescaleros,
until your plan has brought fruit in permanent results. The dif-
ficulty will come when your brain and energizing force is charged
to one with different ideas and less capacity and intensity of pur-
pose. As a brother officer and one having very wide experience
and observation along these lines, I am sure you will take in good
part what I shall only say to you personally. I would make a
criticism on what you say ( and you only do what many Indian Agen-
do, particularly army officers acting as Indian Agents) You stink
of the "returned educated Indiaff and again of "20 educated Indians"
who were "worse than the others," by which the reader is led to infer
that these returned Indians are really educated to a degree of at
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thing of the parties that have gone away from the Mescaleros, where they have gone, and about how much has been done for them, and if you will get the amount of schooling and absence, and the quality of work done for them in the way of bringing about a condition which you call "educated," I am sure you would want to modify your statements.

I am not, and never have been, an advocate for returning young Indians to reservation life, any more than I would advocate the returning to the slums of New York City the thousands of young people who are taken from such slums every year and sent into western states and homes. Still, the policy of the Government has persistently been to return young Indians, and decidedly opposed to doing anything towards inducing them to break away from their tribal life, and one must need yield for a time to the overpowering influence of official supervision. I have no doubt you would find on inquiry that there were plenty of young people among your small band who began in the agency school and who attended it much longer than any of those sent away attended distant schools, and that the results of sending them back to camp from year to year have been no better than the results of sending back the young Indians educated away from their tribes. Too often it has been the policy of the agent because inimical to taking children away, and wedded to the home education, to look askance at the returned weakly educated young Indian, (and I have found plenty of missionaries guilty of the same course), and to rather consign him to the place in which you found the 20, and be ready to publish the fact when he reached that condition.

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You will probably agree with me that it is hardly proper to call a person educated who has not at least acquired a grammar school education, and this for the exceptionally bright white student takes eight years, and for the ordinary or dullard nine or ten years of continuous attendance at school, and this in well graduated schools. The schools at Albuquerque, Sante Fe, and Ft. Lewis, which I believe are the only ones the Mescaleros attended, and then only for short periods (not long enough to acquire even a grammar school education) were in the habit of allowing the children to go home during vacation, perhaps not every year, but they were not required to stick to the school until they had reached the grade of advancement that those schools gave. Perhaps in your whole number you would not find a Mescalero graduate from either of said schools.

Inasmuch as the product of the home schools has not up to this time shown better results, I submit that it is only fair in all impressions of failure, such as you make, the two systems should be coupled, and the facts in both should be shown, and not the failures of the distant schools alone be published to the disparagement of those schools. Three years ago I made a special visit to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe, and to the Kiowa and Comanche agencies in the Indian Territory. These were both under army officers. I made special inquiries of the results of the home school, and knew personally that dating from 1871 and 1872 there had been continuous schools (and boarding schools at that) at work among these people. I was unable to find at either agency a single product of such schools who was standing above his fellows; whereas both agents had Carlisle students employed in positions of responsibility

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requiring exceptional capacity. At the Cheyenne Agency there
were two clerks in the agent's office, a store-keeper and other
employes, and a number employed in the different schools. Two boys,
who were entirely indebted to Carlisle for their education, were
filling county offices, having been elected thereto by both Indians
and whites.

I believe it will eventually appear that we are pursuing a con-
solidating rather than a disintegrating process in about all of our
attempts to help the Indian, and that in doing this, we both wrong
the Indians and the Government. Black savages from Africa, to the
number of eight millions, have been brought by process of force
from their own country and distributed throughout the United States
and are now generally independent and citizens, not all we would
like to have them be, not through herding of tribal autonomy
by keeping all speaking one language in one place, but by distribut-
ing them in families. My experience constantly confirms that we
must bring ourselves to see that beyond the reservation and tribe,
and in actual individual contact with our civilization is the way
to give the Indian the courage and ability of our American life,
else we shall continue to fail. In the meantime all success to
you in what I know to be a most difficult task.

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The New England Publishing Co.,
# 3 Sommerset Street,
Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen:

On June 19th I send you a check for $.30 for subscrip-
tion for "Primary Teacher", taking advantage of the discount on
account of taking both the Journal of Education and Primary Teacher.
I also wrote you July 1st, copy of letter herewith enclosed. Please
sign receipt and return in enclosed envelope herewith.

(Disted) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., July 29th, 1897.

Geo. W. Byers,
McMinville, Tenn.

My dear George:

Although I had not heard from you for years, I recognized your chirography instantly my eye struck it.

I am sorry to hear that your health is not good, and that the
residence in the South has not proved as helpful as you anticipated.

I enclose you certificate which I hope may meet your case, and
harewith return the letter from the Bureau of Pensions.

(Dictated)
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Miss Ella G. Hill,

33 Parkman Street,
Dorchester, Mass.

My dear Miss Hill:

I have yours of the 27th and am very sorry to say
that we have not yet received our quarter's funds, and I fear will
not receive them for 10 days or two weeks to come. I just returned
from Washington and find quite a number of difficulties in the way
that will take me some time to remove. The administration of the
Indian Office is still in the hands of the Democracy, and they are
a good deal like the Pope. "When the Devil was sick, the Devil a
Saint would be. When the Devil got well the devil a Saint was he."

Just now they are enforcing old rules, that have been in existence always, to show that they are extremely competent, although through their whole administration they have been doing exactly the opposite thing. You probably can arrange your affairs to pay when you do get the money. If in two weeks I do not have the Government money, I will endeavor to send you in some other way.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 31st, 1897.

J.H. Bradford,

904 M. Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Bradford:

It will be all right for the other young man to
come with your son, and we shall expect them at 4:30 P.M. Monday.

They had better ticket and check through to Gettysburg Junction
and I will have a conveyance meet them there.

In regard to the work, I very much fear that I shall be un-
able to do anything in that line, for the reason that I have an
abundance of youngsters, and many of them now are quite capable,
and I have to plan to keep them busy, so that your son and his
companion will have to take care of themselves. Socially, and in
the athletic amusements, etc., I should be glad to have them partic-
ipate with our boys if they care to, and the boys will give them a
warm welcome.

I did not succeed in accomplishing what I anticipated when I
went to Washington and things are going from bad to worse. I cannot
do business with Mr. Smith.

With regards to your family,

(Disted)
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E.H. Rishel,

President Baptist Academy,
Atoka, Ind. Territory.

My dear Sir:

Our industrial effort at Carlisle has been along thor-
oughly practical lines. That is to say, we have not gone into the
theories of industrial education, hiring high priced theoretical
instructors to do theoretic work only, but we have hired regular
blacksmiths, carpenters, wagon makers, harness makers, printers,
tailors, painters, etc., and required them to take their boys and
teach them the particular trade, just as used to be done many
years ago under the old apprentice system.

Having an intelligent carpenter and giving him as many boys
as he can handle, and the work to be done, he soon grades them
and works them into their places, and gives them progressive in-
struction under a system of observation and examinations periodi-
cally, and we get the results. It is the same with all the other
trades. We do nothing theoretically. We teach the trades by prac-
tising them, etc.

We have never gotten out a thorough presentation of our work.
It has been unnecessary for us to advertise to get pupils and to
illustrate our work in that way, so that we have satisfied ourselves
with presenting results of the work year by year to the Commission-
er of Indian Affairs, and the same has been printed in his annual

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Carlisle, Pa., August 2nd, 1897.

R.V. Belt,

1214 Tenth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Belt:

I have not said so before, or if I have is has been
in a modest way, but I am more than convinced that back of it all,
and the real opposition to you, comes from the Roman Catholic
Church. They never vacate a position if it can be avoided. Little
by little they gain and entrench. During the last presidential
election they captured the Asst. Commissionership, and they do not
propose to vacate it. Pettigrew is a tool of the Church, just as
Senator Vest. This fact is well known. This administration
they captured the First Asst. Secretaryship, and you will find if
you live enough that it will not be vacated except under great pres-
sure. They can hustle somebody into line to find fault with every
proposed nomination, and continue Smith where he is until they have
time to manipulate and maneuver, and possibly secure the person who
will fill the place, and yet Catholicism will never once be mentioned

I hope you will not be discouraged, but bear with it all for
the sake of the cause and the country, and let all the knocking
cut one from the other side.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., August 3rd, 1897.

Mr. A.J. Standing,

The Clifton,

Atlantic City, N.J.

Dear Mr. Standing:

My trip to Washington accomplished nothing material except to get the information that it was a mistake not to send our accounts in and carry over the unsettled portions. We sent off our Cash papers on the 29th. This morning I am in receipt of a letter which demands our property returns also, and advises that no funds will be placed to my credit because my accounts were not in the time specified by law.

Your leave came all right. I anticipate very considerable delay in my funds if Smith remains in charge of the Office. The Commissioner is probably in New York, though they do not know in the office just where he is. From my last interview with him, I am satisfied that he is meditating the throwing up of the whole job. It appears that during his absence, they have put in a Chief of the Accounts Division, a scalawag and discarded employe of the Pension Office by the name of Shaw, who is perfectly ignorant of the matters over which he has been appointed to preside.

I have advanced so much that I am almost inextricably involved and must make a raise very soon. However, I send you $20.00 as you request. I am glad you are having a good time. Make the most of it.

Sincerely yours,

R.H. Pratt

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Carlisle, Pa., August 4th, 1897.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cooke,
Perris, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Cooke:

I have yours of the 28th and thank you for it. I
had a letter from Joseph and at once asked Mr. Goodman, G.P.A., So.
Pacific, to place a ticket for him; Joseph to get it and use it as
soon as the agent had it. The ticket ought to be there about now.
I shall be glad to forward his interests in every way I can.

You will find it will pay to keep Hobart occupied in vacations.
In this day, when it is so universal to have vacations, the young
fellow who is schooled to constant use of his time and industry, is
the fellow who will get ahead easily, and it will not shorten his
life to be industrious. My boy receives $200 a year more salary
than I do, and I have been working for the Government of the United
States thirty-five years, and have large responsibilities as you
know.

We hit the sentimentalists hard, but not any harder, if as hard,
as they deserve. Every year Father Smiley has invited me to Mo-
honk, and to bring my young Indians, and I have spent a good many
hundred dollars in transporting them to and from his behest and
to help stimulate his meetings. I have taken parties of 6 or 8 at
each, and it never proved a profit to myself financially or otherwise.
He almost universally created an Indian reservation. They
are relapsed to a particular part of the house and all sent to

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one table, and made feel, -although the chief subject of interest
for the Conference, that they were not of it. They are asked to
speak, to be sure, but that is a mere foke. One time I went there
with 6 Indians and 2 of my people. In the dining room I found that
my party was assigned to a table off at one side. In the next
meeting of the Conference when I had a chance I denounced Indian
reservations, and I denounced the Indian reservation there at Lake
Mohonk. It was 7 or 8 years ago, and if you happen to see the
proceedings you will find what I said.

Father Smiley is one of my trustees. He has not been here
for years. Annually when I see him at Mohonk, he makes me the same
speech. "Capt. Pratt, I believe more and more that you are right
about it, and that we have got to get the Indians away from their
tribes and scatter them around and give them a chance;"and there it
ends. He is a very rich man, yet he has never given me a dollar
way
or helped me in any way to cover the expenses of my coming to Mohonk
with my pupils.

I am decidedly in favor of breaking up the whole Indian Com-
missioners' coterie, of which the Indian Rights Association is an
off-shoot, and have said so to members of Congress. I am sure the
subject will come up at the next session. They have put out of the
Bill several times in the House, but put back in the Senate. The
law provides that "the President may appoint certain citizens, emi-
nent for philanthropy" Outside of two or three, perhaps, there
is not now a solitary one eminent for philanthropy. In fact
several of them are eminent for the opposite qualities. With two
or three exceptions, they simply use the position to forward some
schemes and ambitions of their own.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 5th, 1897.

Rt. Rev. C.C. Mc Cabe,
Irontown, Ohio.

My dear Bishop:

I am indeed grateful to you for your very kindly
notes from Chautauqua and when in the depot. The new Secretary
of the Interior and the President, for some reason or other, are con-
tinuing influences in power that have been fighting me. My own
judgment is that standing my ground without flinching will lead to
the difficulty passing away, for there must be changes before a
great while.

If Mr. Belt had been made Asst. Commissioner at the time he
was selected for that place, and the place was offered to him by
Mr. Bliss, I should been out of harassment long ago. What we need
is change in the administrative department that gives us somebody
not Catholic, no matter who. A Catholic is incapable of managing
Government affairs but to help his Church. It is Church first,
and all the time. But I notice this, that the more we try to down
them, the more they appear to thrive, and once in a position they
never vacate it if it can be helped.

Mr. Belt is a Methodist, and was Asst. Commissioner under Har-
rison. The Catholics under Cleveland ousted him and secured the
place. Armstrong, a Catholic, went in in a hurry soon after Cleve-
land took office. Armstrong was put on the Cherokees Commission
with Senator Dawes, and Smith, another Catholic, was appointed.

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The present Secretary proposed to appoint Mr. Belt Asst. Commissioner, because he was the best equipped man in the country for the place. Pettigrew, as chairman of the Indian Committee in the Senate, objected, and stated he would fight his nomination to the last. Pettigrew is one of the tools of the Catholic Church in the Senate, but we know the Senate will confirm Mr. Belt.

When the Bishops of the Methodist Church can handle the Methodist vote, negotiate it before election, and deliver it at election, they will have power after elections too. This is a hard thing to say, but you ask me to unbosom myself and I do it. As I see it, this is "where we are at" in our free government "of the people, by the people, and for the people". What is done, to be successful, will have to be done with the same diplomacy that characterizes the enemy of our liberties.

What becomes of me is a matter of very slight importance. I shall survive and probably prosper better on any action they may take against me that would get me out of the Indian Service, so I am at liberty to be independent. In my judgment, one of the best things that can be done for the Indian Service immediately, is to in some way get Mr. Belt appointed Asst. Commissioner. I saw the Secretary a few days ago and told him that his first judgment as to the man for the place was right, and that I regarded Mr. Belt as the truest and best equipped man for the place in the country. The Secretary said he believed I was right, "but there are complications"

After Mr. Belt's appointment, anything that can be done in the way of turning President McKinley's administration towards a disintegrating instead of a consolidating policy for the Indians is

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the thing to do. The Indians are paupers and an expensive load upon us, because massed and held away from individual opportunities that would enable them to become civilized, industrious and self supporting individual men and citizens. Outside of Carlisle, the whole school policy of the Government is directed towards massing and consolidating tribes instead of disintegrating; tribal schools everywhere, and pouring back upon the mass every young man, (who, by education outside has been equipped for American life) by inducements of extravagant salaries, etc. Catering to the tribes is the policy of the Department, because prolonging the tribes prolongs the Department, and this as you know is preeminently the system of the Catholic Church.

I believe if a party of distinguished Methodists, yourself at the head, called upon President McKinley and urged the appointment of Mr. Belt, it would certainly have great weight, and it would be doing exactly what the Catholic Church does in regard to its officials. In addition to that if you would urge President McKinley to open, instead of closing, the doors into civilization for young Indians, and to use the schools as a means of doing this, rather than as a means of keeping them together in tribes, it would make him think along that line, and would accomplish great results.

The principal part of the funds for schools is given in a lump sum, and the use of that is discretionary with the Department, and can be applied on or off the reservations. If we had 20 Carlisle in 20 different states, and all of them worked as Carlisle does to get their young Indians out among the people and into the public schools, the influences upon both the Indians and whites for amalgam-

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mating the interests of the two races would be rapid.

When I began here the appropriations for the Indian Service
were a little over four million of dollars, now it is a little over
eight million of dollars; of this two million have been added on
account of schools, but the rest has been added in the way of sup-
port. In other words, we have educated our pauper Indians into
a refinement that calls for greater support, and done almost noth-
ing in the way of throwing them out among the people to depend
upon their own resources.

The best results of the tribal system, notably in New York and
the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, Michigan and
Wisconsin, Maine, N. Carolina and elsewhere, all condemn tribaliz-
ing.

I am most grateful to you, my dear Bishop, for your cordial
attention to my dear Nana. A long letter from her last night show-
ed your kind attention had given her one of the happiest experiences
of her life.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in loving remembrances to you and Mrs.
Mc Cabe, and great sympathy for the sorrow that seems coming upon
you.

(Dictated)
Mc

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Carlisle Pa., Aug. 7th, 1897.

Col. J. Roe Young,
Pima Agency,
Sacaton, Arz.

My dear Col.

You knock the wind out of my sails quite entirely by your resignation. I feel assured that you would not have been disturbed until the expiration of your *commission*, if then, but as you have gone and done it yourself, that of course ends it.

I am sorry that you are building such hopes on W.J.B., for I think you do not stand a ghost of a show. W.J.B. will never be President of these United States. Now, if it was Harry M. Teller, I could stand in with you a little, although I do not at all agree with his silver views.

Where are you going to locate, and what are you going to do? Your Pimas are all in good health and doing well. One of them was just in the office with a note, and says that the Pimas are all well, and that they like it here. They are certainly good material, so for as work and conduct are concerned. What they will prove to be intellectually, is yet to be determined pretty largely, though most of them appear to be right there.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Young.

Faithfully yours.

J. M. T.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 7th, 1897.

Rachel A. Brewer,

Flora Dale,

Adams Co., Pa.

Dear Rachel:

I have been intending to get over to see you and the other girls in your vicinity, but I have been so busy that I have been unable to do so. I hope I may get there some time next week. not
though I am feeling very well, and it may be that I shall not be able to do that, but shall have to go off some place to get away from the cares of the school.

I am sorry to hear that the little one is not doing well, and
that you have much worry. Keep a brave heart.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 7th, 1907.

James Stewart,
Stewart, Idaho:

Dear James:

The conditions that you write me of seem almost insur-
able, but, my dear James, if things are as you state, you are cor-
tainly far better off without her.

I have made some inquiries here in regard to what you say
about an Omaha boy, and I do not think there is a word of trust in
it. So far as I can find out, except that she tried to boss the
girls into going home, her conduct here was entirely proper. I am
sure that all you say about her good home, and your kind treatment
of her is true. I greatly sympathize with you and wish with
all my heart that I could help you. Be brave and true yourself,
my dear friend, and to some way it will all come out right for
you.

(Distated, Inc)

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Frank Twiss,

Porcupine, , Pine Ridge Agency,
S. Dakota.

My dear Frank:

I think that Rachel should have told you about her
affair, herself, and she promised me that she would. From her
statement, she accompanied the lady she was with to a musical en-
tertainment in a park near Philadelphia, and was so much pleased with
one of the musicians that she entered into correspondence with him
which led to bad results.

We are doing the best we can for her, and I hope she will tell
you all about it as she ought to.

(Disted) Mc

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George W. Means,
Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dak.

My dear George:

I thank you for your letter and am glad you are determined to pull things together and make a go of it. I was talking with one of the late Commissioners and Editor of the Star in Washington a few days ago about you, and he spoke of your valuable service to the Commission in a way that gave me pleasure,

While you doubtless have discouragements, at times, and always some, these are the natural things in life and it is occurring them that makes men. The more a man overcome his difficulties, the stronger he is as a man.

I hope you will write to me and tell me about yourself and the other Carlisle students. Capt. Clapp had a long article in an Omaha paper not many days ago, in which he denounced all education outside of reservation, and stated that he had statistics of returned pupils which showed that they were practically all failures. Certainly he ought not to be able to say that of you, Clarence. Robert Americanhorse, Edgar, and a dozen of others at Pine Ridge whom I might name. I wish you would make me a list of the boys and girls returned from Carlisle who have been doing well, telling me just what they are doing, that I might use it in making a report. I hope so. I think of doing.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 9th, 1897.

A.J. Standing

The Clifton,

Atlantic City, N.J.

Dear Mr. Standing:

The trout arrived this morning in splendid shape,
and we shall have them today. I will tell the cook what you say
about having them well done. Thanks from all of us. I am sure
they will be nice. The herdick will be at the station in town
for you Monday night.

We got off our Property Returns yesterday. No money yet.
A letter from Smith informs me that the Department will refuse to
send me any money because I did not get my Returns in within the
20 days. He underscores the information, so he doubtless means it.
I shall wait a few days. Information from Washington informs us
that the Commissioner is not there yet, but is expected Monday. And
the authorities not in when you left are held back. It will be
useless for me to go to Washington until the Commissioner gets
there, and all will continue to be uncertain until that time.
I have no doubt.

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Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 9th.1897.

C.B.Wadeigh,
1420 N.Y.ave.
Washington, D.C.

My dear sir:-

I was commissioned a Captain in the 11th Indiana Cavalry on the first day of August, 1864, but owing to service in the field remote from the mustering officer I was not mustered until the first of Sept. and, therefore, as I understand the law I am entitled to the difference between a Lieutenant's and Captain's pay for August.

In addition to the above can you do anything for this?

When I joined the Regular Army my appointment was dated on the 7th of March. I was ordered to report for examination in Washington and did so report, and passed the examination on the 5th of April for which I have a certificate. I was then ordered to return to my home to await orders. I did so and abandoned my business and waited some weeks, until I received my commission on the 18th of May when I was ordered to report to Newport Barracks, Conn., which I immediately did. When I stated my case to Major Candee, now Adjut. Paymaster General, who gave me my first pay, at Fort Autbuckle, Ind. Ter., he said me from the day I accepted the appointment which ordered me to report for examination in Washington. A year or so afterward the amount paid to cover between the date of my appointment and the date of my commission was stopped against the amount to nearly $300.00. It has always seemed to me that it was an unjust action. I was clearly entitled to it for from that time it actually

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Hon. H.L.Daves,

Pittsfield, Mass.

My dear Senator Daves:

I thank you for yours of the 7th. The legacy has not yet reached me, and on account of the delays which the Catholic-Democratic Asst. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, now in charge of the Indian Office, has contrived to make in transmitting my Government funds the legacy would be peculiarly acceptable just now. Mr. Smith seems to be having his innings not only with me but with others, and to have peculiar license from those over him in so having them. No doubt all will come out all right eventually but it is not the way to do business. For any help you may be able to give, shall be greatly thankful.

Distributed B.W.

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Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 10th, 1927.

Dr. Geo. R. Westfall,

Chquenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Darlington, O.T.

My dear doctors:

I enclose you a letter from Mr. Moore who has
brought me quite a little about his daughter at this school.
I cannot think that you entered into any such arrangement as
the alleges. For his own good and the good of the daughter I must
insist that she remain at the school the required term.

I only send you this letter to get any information you
may have as to the character of the man which I shall treat cor-
fidentially if you so desire.

Disted D.W.

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Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 11th, 1897.

Mrs. Mary A. Tomlinson,
Rancocas, N.J.

Dear friend:

Miss Shaffner writes me of your desire to go to Oneida for a visit. The party of girls will return here just at the end of the month. Miss Shaffner has been away so long that I cannot see how I can spare her longer and I have accordingly written to one of our girls now at Oneida spending her vacation from teaching in Conn., and have asked her if she would not undertake to bring the party here. I hope to know in a day or two. If she should not undertake to do it I may have to reconsider and send Miss Shaffner. I enclose you an Indian rate ticket to Carlisle and can give you a ticket back, and will gladly give you the benefit of any lower rates we may have from here to Oneida. The last rate given us was $19.60 and went by way of the Niagara Falls which might be agreeable to you, and if they give me the same rate now I shall use the same route going and coming. That I will know by the time you reach Carlisle.

Dictated D.W.

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Aug. 16th, 1897.

Hon. H. B. Dawes,

Pittsfield, Mass.

My dear Senator Dawes:

I am indeed very grateful to you for your
trouble and interest in securing the payment of the legacy. Two
good things came together. The legacy, and Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Jones came up Saturday evening and spent Sunday with me and
left today. I am now sure of my ground and feel that things will
go again as of yore. Mr. Jones is chuck full of common sense and
that means a whole lot as you know. I have sent the receipt direct-
ly to Mary C. Clapp. General and Mrs. Eaton will be here tomor-
row, and in a few days Mrs. Pratt and I will leave for the west to
be gone a month. I am to take an examination for promotion to the
rank of Major at Levenworth, Kansas, and how I will come out is yet
a problem. I never did know much about Military and since I have
been engaged in the peaceful pursuit of "teachin' skule" I have
forgot all I did know.

With cordial greetings to you all as ever

Dianatad D. W.

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Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 16th. 1897.

Prof. O.H. Bakeless,
Milroy, Penn. 1.

My dear Bakeless:

I settled down to your judgement in the matter of
the two teachers for the Normal room when we had our last conference
and today I ask the Department to supply us a new teacher.

You will be glad to know that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs came over and spent Sunday with me and have now an understanding and that the wants of Carlisle will be attended to.

With love to John and Mrs. Bakeless,

Dictated D.W.

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BLEED THROUGH

Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 17th, 1897.

W. Phillips,
Principal Teacher Puyallup Indian School,
Box 135 Tacoma, Wash.

My dear Phillips:

There is no special significance in Mr. Leupp's
being asked to resign from the Civil Service Commission. He should
never have been on. He is not an "eminent philanthropist" as the
law requires, and is greatly addicted to abusing Congress and every-
body else through the newspapers.

I fear Mr. Belt will not take Commissioner. Though he is
the best man yet spoken of for the place and the best man I know.
My relations with Hailman are so strained that I would not say any-
thing to him about anybody. But he will have during the rest of
his term, until Jan. 1st., great deal less freedom in shipping
people from place to place and dismissing them than heretofore.
If Terry wants you I have not the slightest idea you will be dis-
turbed. Both Rakestraw and Hailman are under fire.

The Commissioner spent Sunday with me and I found him a very
common-sense, kind hearted man, and impressed me very strongly
that he intends to treat everybody fairly. I could and would
speak personally to him if I saw him again but hardly feel free to
write unless there is real need. I am to go west in a few days to
Leavenworth for my examination for promotion to the grade of Major
in the Army and it may be some weeks before I have a chance to see
him personally. With kindest regards to Mrs. Phillips.

Distantly, D.W.

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Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 17th. 1897.

Robert G. Marmon,
Laguna, N.Mex.

Dear Robert:

I heartily congratulate you on your appointment to
Grand Junction. You have a splendid chance to show what there is
in you. Beginning, and smaller successes, make after and bigger,
successes easier. Beginning failures breed after failures. I shall
hope to hear of your success and promotion.

Dictated D.W.

Mary C. Clapp,
Pittsfield, Mass.

Dear Miss Clapp:

I send you receipt signed in the same manner I
endorsed the check. Never did help come to us at a more opportune
time. For your part in the matter I am greatly obliged.

Dictated D.W.

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Personal.

Hon. W.A.Jones,

My dear Mr. Jones:

I find when I come to look carefully into it that
the blanket
we gave American Horse, and which is probably the same one Senator
Fettigrew had, was not of the purchase of '96 but of '95, that we
got no blankets in '96, keeping them off the Estimate because those
delivered in '95 were so poor. These blankets have all been issued
and have been used and mixed with the others so that I could not
affirm positively in regard to them. When American Horse was here
we had just a few left in the store house.

If you care to see them I will send you a blanket that we
know belongs to the issue of '94 or '95 and, also, one that we
know belongs to six or seven years ago and which has been in con-
stant use.

Dictated D.W.

197

Carlisle, Penna. Aug. 18th. 1897.

William H. Moore,

Deat, Oklahoma.

My dear William:

I am always glad to hear from pupils who have gone
home from this school, and it is always refreshing to know that
they are getting on nicely. It gives me pleasure to know what you
say of yourself. There is no time when a man may not do better, and
certainly no time when he himself does not receive the greatest
benefit from it. I hope you will continue to rise above yourself
and surroundings and be a man among men.

We are about through with our school vacation and soon the
farm boys and girls will be coming in for the winter's work. We
shall have about 650 pupils this year. New pupils are coming in
daily. For the news of the school I have to refer you to the
Helper.

Your friend,

D.W.

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Phillips White,

Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota.

My dear Phillip:

I have your letter of the 12th. inst. and am glad
to hear from you. We are about over with our school vacation and
are now preparing for the opening of regular work in September.
We expect to have about 850 students this winter and new pupils
are arriving daily from the western agencies. I sent Miss Nellie
Robertson, one of our old pupils now teacher, here, to Pine Ridge
to get children. Doubtless you have seen her. I hope you returned
boys and girls will help her as much as you can. We ought to have
a first-rate party from Pine Ridge. Nellie is from Sisseton but
perhaps you remember her. I am sorry to hear what you say of some of
our boys, but I am glad that you are still standing for what is
right and beat. Stick to it.

D.W.

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Aug. 20th, 1897.

To the Honorable,

The Auditor for the War Dept.,

U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I am just now informed by the record in the Pension Office of the War Department, that my date of muster as Captain in the 11th. Regt. Indiana Cavalry., is changed from Sept. 1st., 1864, to August 1st., 1864, and am directed to apply to you for any pay due under the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved Feb. 24th., 1897. I will thank you for instructions as to how to receive to secure this.

Very respectfully,

Dictated D.W.

P.S.

I am entitled to the difference in pay between 1st. Lieut.'s and Captain's for the month of August, 1864.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 23rd 1897.

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

Dear Sir:-

I am inconvenienced almost beyond endurance because of the
delay in getting my money here. I should have left for the west last
week in order to give myself a little time to book up for examina-
tion. What I need is to go to one of our cavalry posts and witness
and drill in order to cure the lapse of twenty-one years' service un-
der the Indian bureau and absence from military duties. A week or
ten days before my examination would make me all right. I ought to
have a couple of days after the money comes in order to straighten
out my indebtedness. I have handled all the expense of sending
about 150 children west and having my agents in the field to bring
in about 200 new pupils. But I am close to the end of my string. I
owe the railroads between six and seven thousand dollars for trans-
portation and other debts incurred under authorities from your
Department, as well as nearly $2000 debt on last year's obligations.

If on the grounds of not getting my returns in in time the
money is withheld, I can show it was the tricky behavior of those
managing affairs in the Department at Washington that caused the
Congress reimburse us
delay. My first request to have the $1600 on account of the damage
done by storm last fall was dated January 15th and more than four
months later, on the 22nd of May, I found the documents in the
hands of Mr. White, who is in charge of Indian Affairs in the

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Secretary's office. They had not been submitted to Congress and no
word in reply had come to me about the matter. It was only that
Assistant Secretary Ryan took the matter up and because I gave it
my personal attention that I succeeded in getting it into the
General Deficiency Bill, whereas it should and would have been in
the Indian Bill had it been allowed to go to Congress. That that
$1800, after having been allowed me by Congress for last year's
expenses, should have been withheld at all is, I think, clearly a
violation of every official propriety.

If you think by my coming to Washington I can hasten the money
matter, I will be glad to do so on telegraphic notice from you. I
know that within 24 hours a credit of funds can be managed, whereas
the notice that the money was to my credit was placed last Tuesday,
and I have not yet the authority to draw against it.

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Andrew W. Board,

Percupine, South Dakota.

My dear Andrew:-

I was glad to get your letter of August 13th and note with great interest what you say. I must say my own judgment is not in accord with yours and is entirely in unison with the action of the Indian Department. It seems as though every effort the Government makes to help the Indians is to make them a separate people to breed upon the Government. It makes them lose their manhood as individuals and pauperizes them. The habit of the Indians to hang together as tribes would be entirely broken up if the Government would at once withdraw its help for then the necessity would be upon every man to earn his living by the sweat of his brow. The habit of the Government to give supplies, provide an Agent and a great number of employes is not in the best interests of the Indians. This help to helplessness is all in the interests of the destruction of the Indians, for its violates the great law of self help. I did not know the Government had made the ruling you speak of, but I must say I believe in it. What you educated Indian boys need is wider experience. I am sorry to have one of my boys, that I think so much of, seem to be opposed to what I feel sure is right and best, but now and then that will happen.

With kindest remembrances and best wishes to all the Carlisleans,
(Dictated) N.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., August 24th 1897.

Mrs. Rumsport,
Huntingdon, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Rumsport:-

Mr. Kessler has handed me your note to him of the 23rd. We have depended upon your return to us at the end of this week, and I do not see well how we can arrange differently now. Miss Sharpe will not return to us, but Miss Stewart of Chambersburg will have charge of the Club, and I believe she will help you more than Miss Sharpe did. Miss Stewart comes to us on Friday, and as your month's vacation is out then and our present cook is not satisfactory, I trust you will not delay your return but be here on Friday. Our people are beginning to return and the health of all demands that we be served well at our table. Advise me on what train you will reach Carlisle and you will be met.

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Dr. L. Webster Fox,
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital,

18th & Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.

My dear Doctor:-

I have made an attempt to get authority from the Govern-
ment to pay the first of these two bills herewith, that of July 22nd
covering board of Lillie Schanandore, Mamie Mauehaup, Olive Larch,
but have failed. My only other resource is my charity fund, which
is below par. I write to know if there is not some way by which
these could be fixed. Please be very frank with me about it, and
we must stop letting our girls go to hospital to incur expenseslike
these. The claim is that we have a hospital of our own with doctor
and nurse and should not indulge in such luxuries in Philadelphia.
It has been invaluable to us, as all your kindness and skill in these
matters is and I feel as though I should respond. Couldn't you cut
it down a good deal? I would send you $100. from my charity, though
I really haven't it to spare.

(Distated)
N.

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Mrs. J. Chester Hadley,

Bringhurst Street,

Logansport, Indiana.

My dear Clara:--

I owe you more than an apology for neglecting to answer
your letter of the 7th. When it came I gave it to your Aunt for her
consideration and advice and it passed from my mind in the multitude
of other matters and only comes back to me now. Both your Aunt and
I are going to be away from home for six weeks or more and we are
not keeping house but boarding, and I do not see how it is possible
for us to undertake Dudley.

When I was thirteen years of age I left home and have practical
ly been scratching for myself ever since. I have always thought it
would be the making of Dudley to get away from your kindly sympathy
and meet for himself the difficulties and trials of life. I still
think so.

I congratulate you most heartily on the addition to your family
circle.

Your Aunt and I expect to start west tomorrow, going through to
St. Louis by way of Indianapolis.

We all join in love to you and yours,

Your uncle,

(Dictated)
N.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 24th 1997.

Miss Sallie B. Stewart,

307 East King Street,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Miss Stewart:-

I am very sorry that you are not coming over tomorrow for
I wanted to see you somewhat installed before I left for the west,
and I am now planning to get off tomorrow night. However, it will
be all right. I have a letter from Mrs. Rumsport asking for a month's
additional time and have written her that it is quite impossible. She
alleges that her grandchildren are sick and she must stay with them.
I have told her that you are to be here Friday and I shall expect
her. It occurs to me now that you may know of a cook that would
suit you. The salary for the place is $25.00 a month, and if you
know of a good woman, I should say white, that you wish to bring
along, I am sure Mrs. Rumsport would not care very much if she were
relieved. Perhaps you can answer this tomorrow.

(Dictated)
N.

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H. W. Spray,

Supt. Ft. Belknap Indian School,
Harlem, Montana.

My dear Spray:-

Thanks for yours of the 20th.

Are the Agency Schools any better or as good? Put that at
Hays. I have been unable to find that there is any material result
from the Agency schools in enabling the Indians to get above the
Agency conditions and go out from Agency supervision. Of course
if we are to cultivate Indianism they are all right.

Glad for what you say about Inspector McConnell. We want the
measure of the new officials as soon as we can get them.

Mrs. Pratt and I are off for the west in a day or two. I am
going to Leavenworth to be examined for promotion for major, which
may come sometime within the next two or three years.

Glad you find the wheel a help. Send me a check for it when
you can.

With kindest regards to all of you,

(Hictated)
N.

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Frank Twiss,

Porcupine, South Dakota.

Dear Frank:

I saw Rachel and her baby yesterday. Mrs. Pratt and I went over into Adams County where she is and was at the house several hours. Rachel looks fairly well, but the baby looks as though it wouldn't live.

I find it is possible for me to punish the man and make him support the child for a time, and I am taking steps to do that.

Will advise you of the result later.

(Diated)
N.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 26th 1897.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
Perris, California.

Dear Mrs. Cook:-

Your nice, manly student, Joseph Scholder, arrived safely and I am greatly pleased to have him.

I am sorry Brother Hall feels as he does, but you are entirely right about it. I never have, and would not for the world, stand in the way of any student of mine reaching out into higher life and more advanced opportunities. The trip across the continent is an education in itself. We will come to a better understanding, I think, about all these matters before a very great while. The commissioner spent part of two days with me recently and intends to come again, and I think the disposition against letting Indians get away from the control of not only the reservations but the schools will be somewhat thrown down before long. I shall be glad to meet the case should Mr. Hall desire to push it. If it militates against you in any way let me know.

(Dictated)
No.

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Dr. L. Webster Fox,

My dear Doctors:-

Your letter of the 25th is just before me. I am greatly
obliged to you for the favor of reduction in the bills, and enclose
herewith my check for $100.00 covering your suggestion. I am
still pressing the matter with the Government and if I succeed
in getting the authority from the Department I will send you
vouchers for signature. Please send memorandum receipt for the
$100.00 that I may use it for my Charity account.

I leave for the west this evening.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., September 1st, 1879.

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

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th, per 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, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

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

No

U. S. During the early part of September I shall be at
Leavenworth, Kansas, under orders of the War Department for
examination.

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10th U.S. Cavalry,

Fort Assimilatoire, Montana.

Sir:

Me

P. S. During the early part of September I shall be at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, under orders of the War Department for examination.

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Carlsbad, N. H., Sept. 15th, 1887.

Messrs. John Broe.,
307 Market St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Gentlemen:

Yours of the 6th inst. in regard to George Foulke comes,
in the absence of Capt. Pratt, to me for attention. I have to
say that I think the whole bill should have been paid before this,
but the present would not be a good time to push the matter as Mr.
Foulke has had a good deal of sickness to contend with and just now
has lost his wife, who now lies dead in his house.

When a reasonable opportunity comes I will speak to him in
regard to the matter.

(Disted) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 29th, 1897.

Mrs. Helen R. McComber,
33 Academy Street,
Watertown, N.J.

Dear Madam:

Your letter of Sept. 27th reached here in the absence of Capt. Pratt in the West, and comes to me for attention.

As I read your inquiries, it so happens that I am able to answer them, as I was at the time you speak of on duty in the same district as Capt. Pratt.

The causes of the Indian War of 1874 were several. The chief one being the inroads that white hunters were making on the herds of buffalo, which, as used by the Indians, probably maintain their numbers from year to year, the Indian requirements being to use the natural increase of the herds, but as the railroads were extended westward it was possible for parties of hunters with large outposts of wagons, etc., to follow the herds and shoot down large numbers of buffaloes, taking only the hides and a few of the choicest pieces of the meat for drying. In the course of one winter they could thus kill off very many thousands of them. The Indians could of that in a little while these herds, immense as they were and so valuable to them, would be exterminated.

The withdrawal elements of the several tribes joined together with the purpose of opposing this, and driving the whites from their territory.

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There were also among the Indians certain parties of turbulent
young men who had never been accustomed to discipline or order,
and who persistently led raids into Texas, western Kansas, and
Colorado, mainly for the purpose of horse stealing. These par-
ties were continually a disturbing element, and the course they
pursued led to reprisals on the part of the whites, so that there
was a continual condition of unrest among the tribes

During the year 1873-4, a new leader, or medicine man as he
was called, appeared among the Commandoes and encouraged the mali-
tants in their hostile intentions, stating that he could insure
their protection from the bullets of the white man's guns, etc.
The result was the War that followed, in which at one time eight or
nine thousand troops were campaigning against the Indians in dif-
ferent directions. Capt. Pratt had charge of friendly Indian
scouts as well as the regular soldiers. The end of it all was
that a large number of Indians were taken prisoners, and Capt.
Pratt, as you know, detailed to escort them to Florida, where his
work may be said to have commenced, from which time it is plainly
set forth in the printed matter I send you herewith.

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Cardiffle, Pa., October 1st, 1927.

Fred H. Davis.

Mng. Swift Provision Co.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir;

Your bill for beef and mutton delivered during the past
quarter has been received. The weight agrees exactly with our
corrd, but the amount due is $156.129 instead of $1560.87.

I enclose check for $52.71 in payment of 942 pounds. The balance of $150.88 will be paid to you through the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., to whom you should send your bill for 26987 pounds of net beef and mutton. I also enclose one industrial contract receipt, certificate of inspection and weigher's turn, all of which must accompany your bill to the Commissioner.

Please mail a receipt for the $52.71 and cash.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 18th, 1897.

Rev. J.J. Methvin,

Anadarko, O.T.

Copy of correspondence between you and Capt. Baldwin received. You made a clear statement of the case and there is nothing to go back on. It was explicit and right in every way, and you did right to send a copy to the Commissioner.

You and I have outlived several Baldwins, and I anticipate we will outlive several more. All the influences have one that put Baldwin where he is have passed out. That one is powerful enough to still hold him to his place.

That any man or any influence can stand in front of Indian progress and continue panther and jail methods very long with success is impossible. I hope you will stick to it until at least those who wish to come to Carlisle from your school are landed here. I will take care of all expenses.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 20th, 1897.

Col. Fred Ainsworth,

Charge of Record and Pension Office, War Dept.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Colonel Ainsworth:

My brother-in-law, Benjamin S. Pickard, of
Delphi, Ind., feels justly agrieved over a remark by the Paymaster
General on his discharge from Company M of the 11th Ind. Cavalry,
to the effect that rolls on 1st. enlistment report him "deserter"
and drop him from the rolls. I enclose you his discharge from
Co. C of the 46th Ind. covering his first enlistment; and his dis-
charge from the 11th Ind. Cavalry, covering his second enlistment.

I happen to know the facts in his case well. He was sent home
on furlough because of chronic diarrhea and was unable at the ex-
piration of his time to return. His Captain was home at the same
time and encouraged his remaining and go back to his Company with
him. They started back from Delphi, but when they reached Indiana-
polis the condition of Mr. Pickard was such as to lead the Captain
to have him examined by an Army surgeon. The result of that examina-
tion was an appeal to the military commander at Indianapolis by the
Captain and the securing of Mr. Pickard's discharge. He after-
wards to a certain extent regained his health and re-enlisted in
the 11th Ind. Cavalry in Company M. I was Capt. of Company C in
the same regiment, and my home was in Delphi the same as Mr. Pick-
ard's. Throughout his second enlistment he was bothered quite a

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little by the same disease, but was generally able to be on duty.
I know that he made in both cases a fair and honest attempt to do
his whole duty as a soldier and that he participated in several en-
gagements with both regiments. He has been an invalid ever since
from this difficulty, and his condition now is such as to make it
impracticable for him to be away from home at any time, and it is
only by the most constant care in his diet and treatment of himself
that he retains his power to get around.

The remark on his discharge makes him very bitter, and I do
not wonder. I wish you would have his muster rolls looked up and
see if there is not some way by which the record could be corrected.
The Captain of his company is dead; the 1st Lieut. and 1st. Sergeant
are still living, and if necessary I am sure some testimony can be
furnished that will correct the matter.

Please preserve the discharges carefully, and return them to
me with your advise as to what can be done, for which I shall be
under a personal obligation.

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

Philadelphia, Penna.

My dear Friend:

There are two members of the House that I very much want to visit Carlisle, the Hon. Chas. B. Landis, representing one of the Indiana districts and residing at Delphi, Ind., and the Hon. James H. Southard, who represents the Tolede district in Ohio.

Mr. Landis is a townsman of mine, and is on the Indian Committee of the House. I want very much that he should understand my work thoroughly. The wife of Mr. Southard is a cousin of mine, and Mr. Southard is in a position to forward Carlisle interests because of his being an Ohio man, and of some special relations to other government officials. Both of them would stop on their way to Washington and spend several days with me, which is most desirable, but I find both have the favors of the Baltimore & Ohio for themselves and families. Mr. Southard has a wife and three children. The size of Mr. Landis's family, I do not know, but I think a wife and one child. Mr. Landis is editor and proprietor of the Delphi, Ind., Journal. He stated to me that he advertised the Baltimore & Ohio Road and would be glad to advertise the Penna. Road.

Is it not practicable for you to arrange in some way that these members with their families may have accommodations over the Penna. Road with stop-over privileges at Carlisle? I am sure both

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Quartermaster General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Under the enclosed order I went to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, for
examination, leaving here on the 28th of August. After the exami-
nation I had a month's leave, and returned to Carlisle October 16th.

I was not aware of the change in regard to sleeping-car accom-
modations until I reached Ft. Leavenworth. I, therefore, paid for
sleeping-car Harrisburg to Ft. Leavenworth. At Ft. Leavenworth
I obtained the enclosed orders for sleeping-car on my return, but
having a leave of absence I went to Denver and started on my re-
turn from there. When I presented my order at the Mo. Pacific
office to let the order apply as part payment for sleeping-car ac-
commodations, the Company's agent refused to accept it, stating
that he could only receive money, and that if I wished to use the
order I should have to go to the Pullman Company. There was not
time to do that, and I, therefore, paid for my sleeping-car accom-
modations back to St. Louis. When returning from St. Louis, I was
compelled to deflect from the short route traveled and go via Dal-
phia, Ind., and Toledo, Ohio, on account of some family and busi-
ness matters. I was, therefore, unable to use the other order.

Please advise me how I can recover the amount allowed me by the
regulations for this service.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20th, 1897.

Maj. J.C. Muhlenberg,
Paymaster, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I send herewith vouchers for mileage Carlisle to Ft. Leav-
enworth and return, together with two copies of order for the same
and the original order for your endorsement thereon. Please re-
turn original order with check.

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Supt., Indian School,
Wyandotte, Ind. Ty.

Dear Sir!

Yours of the 16th received. I do not know sure, but
indications are strong that about Jan. 1st, when his commission ex-
pires, you and I will be relieved. If we are not, I do not see
how it will be possible for me to remain. Therefore, patience.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22nd, 1897.

Mrs. Will Wade:

Vinita, Ind. Ky.

My dear Ida:

Yours of the 13th with the photograph of my namesake Pratt Wade, finds me on my return from Washington last night. I happened to see a photograph of the young gentleman in the hands of Miss Corey at Delphi, Ind.

He is a handsome boy and I am very proud of him as you too must be. He has a fine head and you have a very responsible duty in connection with his growth and development. I am glad to feel that you have a large stock of commonsense and that the young man is in such good hands. I shall watch his future with much interest, and trust that if it comes in the way I may do something to help him into a higher and noble manhood.

It is a pleasure to me to know that my old pupils think so kindly of me and of the school which has grown up under my care. As I look back over the eighteen years of its history, I see much that might have been different and better, and feel a regret that my judgments were not in many cases wiser, but none of us are. Finite and it may be that Carlisle has been as much to the root in Indian education as it was at all practicable for it to be.

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trust, my dear Ida, that you may be one of these and bring with
you your husband and the young man. I can assure you of the warmest
possible greeting and the most cordial hospitality.

I am sorry that the ruling of the Department has thrown us
out of relations with your particular class of people, but so it is
and I am unable, therefore, to offer any suggestions in the line
of your requests.

I have no greater pleasure in life than the receipt of such
kindly letters as yours, and trust that while I live I may be fav-
ored in this way from you and from all the pupils.

Please give my love to the Payns girls and all the former
Carlisle students.

Believe me always

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Confidential.

Carlisle, Pa., October 25th, 1897.

My dear Sir:

My request for two teachers to fill vacancies at this school was made first on the 18th of August for one teacher at $500, and the other on the 20th of August to fill the place made vacant by Miss Cummins transferred from teacher to clerk and the promotion of Miss Bailey. In my absence, by your authority these two places were filled temporarily. Such service is always most unsatisfactory, and peculiarly so in our case for the reason that it is at the beginning of the school year and the best available teachers have all been selected and been given positions, and we are compelled to take the refuse.

I wish that my request for Civil Service appointments (as that is the only way we can have the places filled at all permanently) be granted at once.

It would seem as though the claimed excellencies of Civil Service ought to include the quality of promptness, lest for that very reason the claimed valuable system be wrecked. I shall be greatly obliged for any action that will give us these two teachers at once.

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tated; for Asst. Laundress in place of Annette Suisen, who had
been promoted to matron at Rosebud Agency, and for two Asst. Seam-
stresses, one in place of Mabel Buck, an Indian girl whose services
were not satisfactory, and the other in place of Mrs. C.R. Thomas
who had been transferred to the Department of Agriculture, and whose
resignation took effect the 31st of August. During my absence on
the application of my Asst. Superintendent, you permitted these
places of Asst. Laundress and Asst. Seamstresses to be filled
temporarily. I find that the Asst. Laundress selected is a most
acceptable person, but I doubt if she could pass very much of a mem-
tal examination. Miss Mabel Buck, not having been relieved, is
still on duty as Asst. Seamstress. The person selected in the
place of Mrs. Thomas proves to be an exceptionally well qualified
woman, and I should be glad to continue her. If there were any
means by which the present acting Asst. Laundress and the present
acting Asst. Seamstress could be arranged for, it would fill our
want satisfactorily; but we should have an Asst. Seamstress in
place of Miss Buck.

We must necessarily in all our places have people who are cap-
pable of accomplishing the work to be done, and it will not do for
us to cater to fads, whether Civil Service or the appointment of
young Indians. As stated in my official letter of October 16th,
we have in my judgment quite as many Indian employers as the charac-
ter of this school and the quality of our work will bear.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., October 23, 1897.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Sirs:

I am very greatly obliged for your personal letter of the 25th. On my return I wrote to the contractors, The Manhattan Supply Co., about the gingham and submitted a sample of what we wanted. They agreed to take their gingham back at the contract price 03-78/100, and deliver me what I wanted at 7 cents, sending me a sample of the goods. I secured the town and got the best wholesale price that our largest merchants pay and found that they were giving me a bargain, and accordingly ask the Manhattan Supply Co. to send me 4000 yds. of the gingham I wanted, and I would return an equal number of yards of the other and pay the difference and the transportation both ways. We are literally stuck for want of supplies. I have not the authority asked for in my last quarterly estimate although the money has been transmitted. I take it for granted the $500 is forthcoming and have gone to town and bought 1500 yds. of shifting, and an pressing matter to get our children clad.

Strictly confidential. I know that the Manhattan Supply Co., by their letter headings, is made up of Rowland A. Robbins, who has been a scavenger of the New York markets to dump into the Indian

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Department unsaleable goods ever since I have been here; Mr. Sladen
also a chronic contractor, and Mr. Seward, former clerk in the
Indian Office, now clerk for Mr. Sladen, and Mr. McClure, whom I
do not know. My personal experience here with the goods, and
operations in the Indian Department of the first three would lead
me to exceptional scrutiny of every transaction of theirs, and most
careful inspection of every article furnished. At one time our
wholesale leather supply had to be sent back from here to
Mr. Robbins, and I only secured that by the most energetic action
and urgent correspondence. However, in their transaction of the
gingham there is nothing out of gear. The goods they supplied
are worth the money and seem to be in the fullest compliance
with their bid. I keep 2000 yds. of the gingham which we can
use in the course of time for the sustaining of padding to coats.

My principal teacher complains almost daily about the disadvantage in regard to the two teachers. As the request for them was made in August, it would seem he has good grounds.

I am hoping that you will not postpone your visit to us until
Mrs. Jones and the children very long. There are quite a number
of things that I would like to canvass with you here on the grounds
things that are important to us, and as I think important to the
whole management of Indian Affairs, and which can be better ex-
plained by a conference here. Mrs. Pratt joins with me most cor-
dially in this invitation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 30th, 1897.

Gen. O.O. Howard,
Burlington, Vt.

Dear General:

During my absence there came from you a check for
$35.00, being the surplus from the proceeds of a lecture you gave
for the Sunday School Missionary Society at the First Presbyterian
Church at Morristown, N.J. It has been held for my action.

The conditions under which it is given make it quite impracticable for me to receive it. During my long service here, I have several times tried just this course with contributions and pupils and every time with disaster to the pupil. If I select a pupil and require that pupil to write two or three times a year to the Missionary Society as proposed, that pupil is degraded by it, in that he or she comes to regard such beneficence as one of the proper ways of receiving not only an education but other needs. I have had a good sterling boy utterly ruined by a missionary society undertaking his education. He was bright, and after a while there was correspondence, and then the boy must come and talk to the missionary society and then must talk to other societies. He grew to have a large acquaintance with people who were charitably inclined and found out by writing letters and representing what he wanted, books, articles of clothing or money, he could get them. The result was that he lost his manhood and his character entirely, and I have had other cases to such a number as to bring

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me to a resolution not to be a party to that sort of arrangement
any more. I feel, therefore, that I cannot accept the $35.00
upon the conditions named.

I do not allow myself to help my students here at the school
very much. I make them do something in return for what they get
I have five boys in College, several boys and girls in the High
School of Carlisle, in Metzger College, and in the various Normal
Schools of the State. In every case I work it so that they must
do something for what they are receiving. It is convenient for
me to have a limited amount of funds to help along in this line,
and I can always use money for the development of various fea-
tures of the school, adding to library, improving school facili-
ties, buildings, etc., but rather than receive the $35.00 for the
direct purpose named and placing the students under such influence
I think it best to return it, but wait to hear from you.

Trusting, my dear General, you will understand these matters,
and awaiting your judgment, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., October 30th, 1897.

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

My dear Doctor:

Yours of yesterday in regard to Marshall and Adams
gives me very great pleasure. My intention was to have Adams re-
ceive the free course, but the change required on account of his
health prevents that.

In regard to Marshall, I find him full of a manly independence
of character that I cannot help but honor, and I have my doubts
whether he would accept of the free course if offered to him. I
have been giving him some work to do here so that he would draw a
salary of $5.00 a month, and have been clothing and feeding him.
His account is not much behind, and he is a marvel of economy and
industry. I think it would be better for him if we let him strug-
gle and only come to his help when it becomes absolutely necessary.
He is fully determined to graduate from Dickinson, and I see no
reason either on account of health or ability why he should not
do so with honor. He is the only one we have at present who
could be a candidate for your offer.

This is the situation. Let it rest until we have an opportu-

nity to talk it over further.

Thanking you with all my heart, my dear Doctor, for your kind-
ness in this and other matters, I am

Cordially and gratefully yours,

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Hon. A. J. Draper,
President University of Illinois,
Champaign, Ill.

My dear Judge Draper:

Thank you for repeating your very cordial invitation of last year. We accent, and I intend to go with the party. It will be education for us all to be with you at least a part of the time in the interim between the games at Chicago and Cincinnati. It may be advisable to give a little more time to Chicago and see something of the city while we are there. If so, we can arrange that at the time of the game when we meet.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 1st, 1897.

Mrs. Maria Marmon,
Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Maria:

I have been intending for some days to thank you for
myself and Mrs. Pratt for the photograph of yourself. We were so
sorry to miss your visit, but our trip did both of us much good.

I wish you would let me know what you can about the Presbyterian
missionary at your place. How long has he been there? How
long has he been in the United States? Where is he from? Where
was he educated? etc. etc. Confidentially, I am thinking of making
a case against him before the Presbyterian Board.

Give my love to Robert and all other interested friends.

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Miss Rose Bourassa,

Ft. Hall, Idaho.

My dear Rose:

Your letter of Sept. 20th was held for my return, and since then I have been extremely busy and only now have taken the matter up. If your health admits of your return to Carlisle next year, I shall be very glad and you will be welcome by all of your former co-laborers here, and I shall hope that there may be an opening for you. Of course, if the teachers we have are satisfactory and none of them are quitting us, which would leave an open place, I should hesitate to discharge one just to make a place for you. The better way would be for you to keep me informed of your health and condition, and should they along in the after part of the year a vacancy occur, as is sometimes the case, then I should ask for your transfer and that would be granted at once, as the Commissioner has informed me that he intends to let me have whatever I want in this line.

I am glad to know that you are so well located for your health, and that the old Carlisleans drop into harness and double teams elsewhere, and find the fact that they were once at Carlisle a pleasant bond of union in the new fields.

Yes, the Commissioner has visited us and I have had very pleasant relations with him, and I believe we shall get on well. He promises to come up shortly and bring his wife and children and

Miss R. Bourassa.

spend several days with us.

Carlisle never looked better; never had as many pupils; never
was in better flow, than to day, and yet there seems much that
could be improved.

Mrs. Pratt and I had a delightful visit with Marion in Denver, and since our return we have had Mrs. Pratt's brother, Mr. Mason, his wife and grandson, Mrs. Allen of St. Louis, and Mrs. Mason's sister, Mrs. Twyman of Chicago. All except Mrs. Twyman are with us yet.

I have arranged for Joseph Adams to attend Colo. College at
Colo. Springs. He starts today; but I must leave the Helper to
tell you general news.

Give my love to Levi, and be assured of my warmest interest
in both of you always. Please remember me to Supt. Locke and say
to him that his party ranks equal to any we received this year.

Always cordially and faithfully your friend,

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Mr. Joseph Evans,

Browning, Mont.

My dear Joe:

I have yours of Oct. 21st, and am very sorry that it
is not practicable for me to aid you. The fact is, Joe, I have
not the money.

My trip to Colorado this past summer convinced me that there
is large money for those in the cattle business now, but I am so
situated that it is not possible for me to go into it either per-
sonally or by proxy.

I am glad to hear from you and rejoice in the good health of
yourself, wife and baby, and accept with gratitude and great pleas-
ure your good wishes, and all at Carlisle return to you the same.
We are still hammering away. Our school is pretty close up to 850.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 2nd, 1997.

Rev. S.A. Martin,
President of Wilson College,
Chambersburg, Penna.

My dear Doctor:

I enclose you my check for $190. covering the payment
for one year's board for Richenda, which is marked to be paid in
advance.

I take it from the catalogue that the music can be paid at the
close of each term, and if you will kindly send me a memorandum of
that and any other necessary payments to be made at the end of the
terms due, I will forward check at once.

Richenda is, herself, greatly pleased with her change and sur-
roundings, and we are also. I am very greatly obliged to you, my
dear Doctor, and to your Board of Trustees, for your kindness to ma
in this matter.

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Mr. J. Culbertson,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Culbertson:

When you proposed the 18th, I had forgotten entirely that on the 20th our foot-ball boys play the Illinois University in Chicago, and they will have to leave on Thursday. I am planning to go with them, and I do not like to have you come in my absence.

Could you not come before the 18th, or some time in the early part of December? The 16th or 17th would be all right, if you could come. Please let me hear at once about this.

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Mrs. S.T. Rorer,

Phil. Cooking School,

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Dear Mrs. Rorer:

I have been thinking I would like to send my school
cook, a colored man, to you for two or three weeks instruction; or
could you come up here a week, which would suit me better. Could
you do that, and what would be your price?

We have 600 pupils to cook for, and for such an institution
we have, I think, a good variety. We have a club of 40 odd employees.
the cook of which I would like to have you take in hand at the same
time.

I think you would enjoy a week here aside from the good you can
do us, for which I would be glad to pay if the price is not too
great.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4th, 1897.

Miss L.R. Shaffner,

Miss Carrie Corey,
Delphi, Ind.

Dear Miss Shaffner:

Your letter of the 23rd only reached me this
morning. Things are getting on comparatively well, and I think
you had better complete your vacation now.

I heard through the newspapers of the proposition to you and
Miss Ertesou, and it is known here.

We have had a delightful visit from Mr. Mason and party, who
would have left us yesterday, but that the little boy, Fred Hall,
was taken with croup and is only up today. They expect to go to-
row.

There is no special news here beyond what the Helper contains,
copy of which you probably have at Miss Corey's, but I enclose one.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4th, 1927.

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

Dear Sir:

Our football boys have expressed a desire that you and some of those connected with your Department could witness their game with the University of Pennsylvania on the Franklin Field, Philadelphia, at 5P.M. Saturday.

I, therefore, in accordance with their wish extend to you, and those you may care to include, a cordial invitation to be present on that occasion.

If this invitation is accepted, will you kindly wire me on receipt of this the number of tickets of admission, if any, which will be required, and the best seats possible will be at your command. I should be very glad, indeed, to meet you and any others from the Department, on arrival in Philadelphia, and feel assured that we shall not lower our records.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 4th 1897.

My dear Bishop McCabe:-

The Philadelphia evening paper of yesterday tells me that
you are in Philadelphia at the Convention of Bishops.

I want very much to see you. I shall leave here at eight
o'clock tomorrow morning with quite a party of our people who are
going down to witness the foot-ball struggle between our boys and
the boys of the University of Pennsylvania on Franklin Field tomorrow
afternoon. You will perhaps not entirely sympathize with this move-
ment, and, so be perfectly frank, neither do I; but this has been
one of the most potent influences to demonstrate Indian grit and
activity in competition with these qualities in the Anglo-Saxons, and
it is a feature of all our best colleges, so I not only permit but
encourage it. It is a great thing for our boys to be placed on an
equality with the University eleven. It represents vast multitudes of
people who are not reached along more general lines and continues
them. But I did not start to give you a dissertation on foot-ball.
I wish to say so that I do want to meet you and talk over matters.
I want especially to click an agreement that you shall be here at
Commencement, the first, second and third of March, and deliver
the lecture of that occasion. From what I hear about it I would be
inclined to give us "The Bright Side of Life in Liberty Prison."
These are lessons in that which would be most helpful to our boys and
us and we who lived in those days would especially enjoy those

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The lecture would be given on the First of March, and I can give you $100.00 for it. But I can talk this matter all over fully with you if I may see you any time between one o'clock and half past two, tomorrow, Saturday, or between six and eight o'clock. If you could only come up here and stop with us a while and take a rest, what a glorious opportunity that would be! You could not go anywhere, my dear Bishop, where you would be received with greater delight.

If you or any of the Bishops would honor us by witnessing the game of football, I would be glad to have you in our party and provide the seats. Send me a note in care of the Western Union Telegraph Operator, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, tomorrow and I will get it immediately upon my arrival at 11.53. Dr. Prince and Professor Morgan of McKinsey College and Judge Henderson of Carlisle will be in our party.

Mrs. Pratt and Mrs. Join me in love.

Yours faithfully, you're
R.H. Poust

(Dedicated)

C. C. McCabe,

Archbishop General Committee of Church Extension,
Arch Street Church, Broad and Arch Streets, Philadelphia.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 8th, 1897.

Rt. Rev. C.C. McCabe,
1616 Broad Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Bishop:

I find that it will suit very well, indeed, if we
can arrange for your lecture early in December; but I would want to
have a little leeway so as to avoid occupying the night that might
be taken by some other interest in the town, as I desire to get a
good attendance from there.

I leave Wednesday for five or six days on the New York Indian
reservations. On my return, probably Tuesday of next, I shall be
at home until Thursday. Then I go for a week to Chicago and other
points in Illinois.

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Rev. J.J. Methvin,

Anadarko, O.T.

My dear Mr. Methvin:

Your letter was entirely discreet and proper, and I know the Commissioner well enough to be perfectly sure he will be glad to have it. I therefore sent it to him this morning. I met him on Saturday and we were talking over these very matters. He leaves for the Southwest on Wednesday of this week, and expects to take in the Kiowa Agency if his visits. I trust you will make it your business to see him, and talk to him fully and frankly. Ask him for a private conference and he will readily grant it. I have told him about you.

I have asked the Gen. F.A. of the Rock Island road to instruct the agent at Chickasaw to deliver to you tickets as you may need, and if you will provide students with a lunch there, and give them a card to show to the railroad conductors, there will be no trouble even though they cannot speak English, which, of course, all of those you send can do.

I agree with all you say about what ought to be done.

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Mr. Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear Levant!

Mr. Standing is likely to be home tomorrow, in which
event I will leave for New York Wednesday afternoon reaching Salis-
mancea about 10 o'clock and will spend from that until Tuesday on
the Indian reservations.

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Rev. Geo. Edward Reed, L.L.D.,

My dear Doctor:

I just learned of a little interference with my
plan about Marshall.

I told my treasurer some weeks ago about your very kind permission and told her that I should use the scholarship for Adams, and gave her reasons why I did not use it for Marshall then. In talking about it afterwards when Adams was going away, I indicated to her that Marshall was the only one to receive the scholarship, on the strength of that she told Marshall of your kind offer and that he was to have the scholarship, and she supposed that I had negotiated to inform him. He is now in possession of the facts and expecting it. She also presents his account in such a way as to lead us to think perhaps it is just as well to let him have the scholarship, and let the $60. he can earn each year go for his books and clothing, in order that he may present a little letter appearance from this on.

In view of your letter I will take this course without further consultation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9th, 1929.

John Erisson Walker, Prop.

The Cosmopolitan Magazine,

Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York.

Dear Sirs:

I send you the enclosed to be receipted. On the 1st of October I sent you my personal check on the Carlisle Deposit Bank for one dollar, covering twelve months' subscription to your magazine.

Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9th, 1897.

Joseph Adams,

University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

My dear Joe.

Your postal telling of your safe arrival is received.
I suppose the Doctor did not arrange a place for you at once,
because he wanted to see you and size you up, so to speak.

I send you $15. to help along in getting books. This you need not hasten to return, but sometime in the future when you are through your course, or when it is perfectly convenient, you may return it.

As soon as you are located, I trust you will let me know all about it.

(Distributed) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9th, 1927.

My dear Levant:

I have a note from Mr. Standing saying he will not reach Carlisle until Wednesday evening. I cannot, therefore, start for Salamanca until Thursday.

I will leave here Thursday so as to take the 3:35 train at Harrisburg and reach Salamanca at 2 o'clock Friday morning. Our trip will probably cover Friday to Tuesday inclusive.

A message from Rev. Mr. Trippe, who will go with us over the reservations, says to bring you along, so that I trust nothing will prevent your joining me. There is a strong November wind now, and it may turn excessively cold, in which case I should probably think best to defer starting.

With love to all,

(Disted) Mc

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Miss Bessie H. Cummins,

Indian Office, Washington, D.C.

Dear Miss Cummins:

Yours enclosing resignation is received. Am
glad that you are dropping into your place without jar.
Your leaving us was a very serious loss. It is not easy to fill such places.

The Commissioner informs me that he has requested the Civil
Service to supply, and authorizes me to employ temporary help meantime
but this does not satisfy the situation.

Hoping I shall hear from you from time to time, and that I
shall see you whenever I come to Washington, I am