Carlisle, pa., Oct. 30, 1903.

Chas. W. Neeld,
609 Market St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Referring to your letter of the 29th instant, no girl bearing
the name of Olive Barret has ever been a student at this institution.
We had a girl named Maggie Johnijohn who deserted from her place near
Philadelphia some two weeks ago, since which time nothing has been
heard from her. It is barely possible that she has changed her name
to avoid being intercepted and has come to you as Olive Barret. Oth-
erwise I have no knowledge of the girl you mention.

Acting Supt.

TELEGRAM.

Oct. 30.

B. F. Owen,
C/o Gimbel Bros.,
Phila., Pa.

Band, 50 pieces, Monday noon to Saturday noon, one thousand dollars.
We bear all expenses.

Allen, Act. Supt.

Postal. 10:30 A.M.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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TELEGRAM.

Oct. 30/

B. F. Owens/o Gimbel Bros.,
Phila., Pa.

Will furnish band 46 pieces Monday noon to Saturday noon $800. Wire
answer.

Allen, Act. Supt.

Postal. 2:15 P.M.

TELEGRAM.

Oct. 30.

Col. Pratt,
C/o Col. Randlett, Indian Agent,
Anadarko, Okla.

Employes and students of Carlisle school send heartiest congratula-
tions on occasion of your reunion. May it be in every way a happy
as it is a noteworthy event.

W. U. 3:30 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1903.

Mr. B. F. Owen,
C/o Gi,bel Bros.,
Phila., Pa.

I am Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 30th instant, Mr. Wheelock and I
have gone over the situation very carefully and do not see that it is
possible to furnish the band for a less price than has been quoted
you. Last year, you will remember, we let it go at a very low price
for the reasons that at that time the students could be spared from
the school without very great detriment to themselves and that we
wished to become acquainted with you and the people of Philadelphia.
There were but forty men in the band then while now we propose to
furnish forty-six. Our regular rate is $100 per day and all expenses
which is more than we make at $800 for five days, not counting trans-
portation. After paying hotel expenses we shall have only $85 a day
for the forty-six pieces. The band is in good condition now and I
think can give you music that will satisfy you even better than before.
Since it has been with you we would be very glad to serve you again,
but as stated it seems impossible to make you a lower price than $800.

I shall be very glad to have your decision upon receipt of this
letter, as it is necessary for us to know soon in order to make our
plans.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1943.

My dear Miss McIntire :

I am extremely sorry that the examination of your lung proves
the trouble to be of so serious a nature. I have feared all along,
however, that you had incipient tuberculosis, and have felt it unwise
to remain the standpoint of your own interests for you to be connected
with the Indian service under the circumstances. If you can find it
possible to go west where conditions are more favorable for the cure
of such troubles I believe you would receive great benefit and prob-
ably permanent cure. Everyone at Carlisle, you may be sure, will
most earnestly hope to hear of such a favorable result.

Your work with us is greatly appreciated and it is a matter of
great regret that conditions are such that it would be unwise for
you to rejoin our force, at least for the present.

Miss Jessie L. McIntire,
2825 Sutherland Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31, 1903.

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

Sir :

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th
per S. O., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. O., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the In-
terior dated September 6th, all in 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Col. U.S.A. retired, & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 5, 1904.

Otto Wells,

Anadarko, Okla.

Dear Otto :

Your letter came this morning and I at once asked that three or
more tickets to Carlisle be delivered on Colonel Randlett's order
for yourself, Mary, and any pupils you may have to bring, by the agent
at Anadarke. I think better that you come via St. Louis, and asked
that tickets be routed that way.

In order that there may be no misunderstanding as to the pupils'
coming, Colonel Randlett's order for the tickets will be necessary.
We shall be glad to see you and Mary.

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Feb. 5, 1904.

Mr. O. A. Mitscher,
U. S. Indian Agent,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Major :

One of my Osage girls comes to me with a list
of the members of your delegation, urging that they
be invited to our commencement on the 17th and 18th.

Accordingly, I am sending a special invitation
to each. Walter Mathews, nephew of Judge Mathews,
is in the graduating class.

You can leave Washington at 7:50 Wednesday
morning, the 17th, and be here shortly after noon,
the car for our guests running up on our siding so
that the whole party unloads right at the school.
We can entertain them here. Returning, they can
leave at 5:48 Thursday afternoon from the school
siding and be in Washington by 10:55. We can arrange
a half rate for all who will come, so that round trip
tickets will cost only about $4.00 epiece.

I hope you can come. Please advise on receipt
of this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 6, 1904.

Benius Pierce,

Irving, New York.

My dear Benius :

We did not like to say anything in The Red Man about the New
Year's game in Los Angeles with Sherman for the reason that in order
to make a game we permitted the coach of Sherman to play in the game
and also permitted old Carlisle players and any champions they could
secure to help them out; so that it was not a fair contest between
the two institutions. As Sherman said nothing about that, but took
a great deal of praise in the local papers and even claimed a tie
where the officials gave 12 - 6, we thought it best to keep quiet and
let Sherman handle the case in its own way.

With regard to Mr. Warner; so far as I know, he is booked for
Carlisle, though there is some talk of his going to Cornell. Should
he stay here I would think well of having you for assistant coach,
provided we could depend upon your staying and particularly if you
could bring your big brothers and some other athletes, as you say,
who would come as bona fide students. It is probable I could make
you a comfortable salary. Think it over and let me know as soon as
you can whether it strikes you favorably and whether you would be
willing to come as assistant coach. Just what I would do if Mr. Warn
er went away is a question. We need someone who is competent to man-
age all our athletic correspondence, especially that with universi-
ties. These negotiations are matters of very great importance to us,

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Feb. 8, 1904.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor :

I have yours of Saturday and have sent invi-
tations as you request to Rev. A. Grant Evans,
President, Henry Kendall College, Muskogee, I.T.
and Prof. J. W. Chickering, The Portner, Washington,
D. C., the former in your care.

I trust you may succeed in getting Senators
Dillingham, Burnham and Heyburn with their families
to come. I shall cheerfully furnish transporta-
tion and entertainment. Why not see Senator Nel-
son also ? He would come if possible, I am sure,
and a word from you might enable him to see that
it is possible. What you say of Mr. Sherman's in-
tention to come is the first I have had. We are
always happy to see him. I will have railroad
tickets by Thursday of this week and would better
have an additional letter from you with regard to
the number wanted.

I shall arrange that while here you may have
an hour with the Alaskan children, as you propose.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 8, 1904.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear Professor :

On rereading your letter of the 4th instant with regard to An-
gela Rivera, and her letter also, and having my attention more di-
rectly called to the facts in the case, I feel sure that neither An-
gela nor Marie Santaelli are entitled to our diploma this year.

Angela was unable to enter the senior class last spring. To put a premium on that disability by giving her a diploma now when the class she did enter is just now passing on to the senior grade would be out of place. Neither of the girls has taken any considerable Carlisle training, especially in the industries, and for that reason I agree that it is not wholesome to thrust a Carlisle diploma upon them simply because they ask for it. If they could pass an examination and establish that they have the equivalent accomplishment of our curriculum of course I would have no hesitation in giving them diplomas. As both are to remain with you at Bloomsburg it is no detriment to them to feel that the Carlisle diploma is not so easily gained. You remember, our diploma states that certain studies have been accomplished. By your note and the evidences here the girls have not done this.

I therefore think it better to withhold our favor for this year.

Sincerely yours,

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feb. 8, 1904.

My dear Myron :

Your patience and kindly answers to unkind
remark will certainly make friends for you out
of the most rude and indifferent of your fellow-
sufferers. I doubt not you have already won some
of them. Miss Hilton had word about you the other
day and was kind enough to repeat it to us. We
are still hoping for better news.

Your expressions of gratitude touch me deep-
ly and your cheer is most inspiring. With many
loving thoughts for you from all of us, I am as
ever,

Faithfully yours,

Myron Moses,
Erie Co. Hospital,
Buffalo, New York.

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Feb. 8, 1904.

Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott,
C/O The Outlook,
287 Fourth Ave.,
New York City.

My dear Doctor :

You propose to transfer the Indians to the
War Department to take the agencies out of poli-
tics because you think the President would detail
officers on merit and that politics would not in-
fluence. Past experience indicates that such is
not more likely to be the case in the army than
in civil life. Presidents are generally suprem-
est politicians and very inclined to absorb influ-
ence. Members of Congress and prominent men have
individual army officers in whose careers they
are interested, and some army officers utilize
their friends. Army officers have local influ-
ence just as other men; and those local influences
influence members of Congress and other high offi-
cials. Some officers - in my experience a very
considerable proportion - are above using such
influence; but there is an ample number who are
not, and who work their influence,

A much higher order of capability would be

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secured, as you say; and the War Department would
have less interest in perpetuating the Bureau than
the civil department, to begin with. But would
not the handling of nine to ten millions of dollars
annually to take care of our few Indians continue
to be a tremendous slush fund and go on serving
interests greatly to the advantage of Indian local-
ities, which are usually well in touch with the
military ?

Conditions ought to be thoroughly exposed,
not in an ex parte way by the Bureau, but by means
right-minded enough to see and make known the wrong
so that the Bureau would be publicly held responsi-
ble instead of being allowed to slide out of the
responsibility by transfer without exposure.

You say you "have always been in sympathy with
my idea of breaking up Indian organizations and
scattering the Indians among the white people, but
think this idea must be carried out with a reason-
able regard to the rights and prejudices of the
Indian people and this necessity of regarding their
rights and prejudices makes the process at times
irritatingly slow." I have gone much over that
field and find that the alleged rights and preju-

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dices of the Indians originate not so much with the
Indians as with the agency and other influences we
ourselves have placed among them and which constant-
ly seek reasons against decreasing their control and
to cover lack of progress as well as to secure delay,
where continued gain is desired. The wild Indians
in my experience were even anxious to become like
the white race and did not want the agency and con-
tinuance of tribal conditions which have been thrust
upon them nearly as much as we ourselves wanted them.

The Indians are much like a lot of potatoes
in a bin in the cellar rotting. We can bring them
into the daylight, clean them, pick out the good and
eat, and so utilize and assimilate them; or we can
let them alone and all will soon rot.

Assimilation is surely the only hope, and
neither our people nor the Indians are prejudiced
against that now. If we keep on cultivating preju-
dice, the doors of opportunity will finally close
against the Indian the same as against the negro.

I did not see Seger's letter in The Outlook and
am glad of it. Until this fall I never knew Seger
in his work. My estimate of him was formed at long

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range, based largely on Bureau and agents' estimates and through meeting him at intervals. I was not entirely satisfied with my first visit to his agency in September last, and so on my return to Oklahoma I went back, having with me Mrs. Pratt and Miss Eurgess. Sager has been more absolute and longer continued in charge of a reservation boarding school and of one body of Indians than any other like Government official, and right results are woefully lacking.

I shall hope to meet you on your return from
the west.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 9, 1904.

Miss Bertha Jamison,

Red House, New York.

Dear School-daughter :

I have asked that the agent at Red House be instructed to deliver to you one Indian rate ticket to Carlisle. This should be ready for you by Saturday, but will be good to start later. You can pay for it here, and when ready to return a ticket will be provided by the agent in Carlisle.

We shall be glad to have you with us. On Tuesday evening we have a lecture by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, which I am sure you will enjoy if here in time.

With kind regards,

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Feb. 9, 1904.

Gen. Horatio C. King,
375 Fulton St.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear General :

I have no word from Dr. Hillis as to whether
he will bring Mrs. Hillis. Mrs. Pratt and I want to
have a few of our most distinguished townspeople and
the ministers of the town out to meet Dr. and Mrs.
Hillis, intending to include in the affair General
Howard who will be here and General King if he comes.
I wrote Dr. Hillis, but he may be away from home.
If you can won't you please find out and advise me
whether he will be here in time for that Tuesday
evening and whether Mrs. Hillis will accompany him ?
Our plan was to have a little reception in the after-
noon, ending with a dinner.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 9, 1904.

Luis F. Sulsona,
67 W. 97th St.,
New York City.

My dear Sir :

The Government has forbidden my taking any more Porto Ricans, so I am barred from helping you; but with the English you have already gained and the experience you have secured I see no reason why you could not go out away from New York and find a place where you could work for your board and attend public school, and so work out a solution yourself. It would be far better for you to do that than to fall back upon the Government for education.

Coriolally your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 9, 1904.

Frank E. Johnson,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Frank :

I have today asked that an Indian rate ticket to Carlisle be de-
livered you by the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Buffalo?
for which you can pay here. Go to the office of Mr. B. P. Fraser,
Ellicott Square Bldg., Buffalo, tell him who you are and receipt
for the ticket, then come.

I hope this time you will make a success of yourself. Your im-
portunity makes me expect you to do so.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 10, 1904.

Solomon Spring,
Bason, New York.

Dear Sir :

Mr. Allen brings me your letter to him concerning another party of children from your neighborhood. I enclose a number of application blanks. Use these and when carefully filled out and returned to me I can decide better. If all is right I can then place transportation for yourself and those who are to come, using Buffalo as the starting point as was arranged for you previously.

Your children are doing very well. Eleanor's name has been placed on the waiting list of music pupils and when there is room she will be given a chance. Only a limited number have this privilege at one time, and there are always many waiting.

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