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June 14, 1900.

Russell Whitebear,
Troop F., 5th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Russell :-

In settling up our Students' Accounts, I find a balance
against you of $25.52. While a pupil here, you remember you had
heavy hospital expenses amounting to nearly $40.00 which were
charged to you, as the government does not undertake to settle such
personal bills. This was reduced to $25.52 by your summer earning
We are now closing up all old accounts, and opening new books, and
want if possible to complete this work before the end of the month.
We cannot do this until all the money is in, and would be pleased
to receive payment from you before the month closes if convenient.
I trust this will cause you no hardship, as you receive your pay
monthly, and having few expenses, should have saved quite a lit-
tle sum. I will send you a receipt for the amount and your account
will then be closed.

The Carlisle representation in Porto Rico is gradually grow-
ing. Miss Weekley left us last month to take up work there, and
with so many who have gone out from our school to assist in the de-
velopment of the island, our interest is more than usually strong.

Hope you are getting on nicely. With kind regards,

as ever,

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NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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June 14, 1900,

Frank Beale,
Anacortes, Wash.

Dear Frank :-

In settling up our students' accounts, I find you are in
debt $1.50. If possible, we want to balance all accounts and open
new books before the end of the month, and would be pleased to
receive money order or registered letter for this amount as early
as practicable. A receipt will be sent you when payment is re-
ceived.

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June 14, 1900.

Miss Estelle Wilcox,
Wanwatosa, Wis.

Dear Miss Wilcox :-

Your letter of April 16th came to hand in my absence, and
by some mistakes only comes before me now. I regret the delay in
answering, and fear what material I can send will come too late to
help you. We do not publish a catalog, but I send you today a few-
eral of my last annual reports, together with some of my corresponden-
ses.
The latest account on Indian Schools is the Report of the Com-
missioner of Indian Affairs, published annually. This can be had
by application either direct to the Indian Office or through your
representative.

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June 14, 1900.

A. C. Woolworth,
Shelton, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

Replying to your postal request for a catalog of this
school, I have to say that we do not issue a catalog, but I send
you herewith my last annual report, which I trust will serve your
purposes.

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June 14, 1900.

Mr. Ed. Bowen,
Box 17,
Onoville, N. Y.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your inquiry of the 12th about Nicholas Row-
en, I give you his present address below. He went to the country
to earn money. As a rule our boys and girls consider it a great
privilege to be allowed to do this, and Nicholas went at his own
request. This spring he was on our dairy farm and received pay, but
before that was working with our coachmaker in the shop. He has
done well, and during the summer will earn $14.00 a month. Of
course, this money is for his own use entirely.

Yours truly,

(F)

Nicholas Bowen,
C/o Herbert J. Coleman,
Princeton, N. J.

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June 14, 1900.

Mr. H. S. Rice,
"The Cement News,
Siegfried, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your request for Indian names meaning 'cement', I give below all I have been able to get hold of, and trust you may be able to select something from them.

Oneida. Oh-sah-wate. (cement) Accented on last syllable.
Chippewa. Wab-a-bon-ing' (Region of cement stone.)
Miami. Suh-nee. (rock.)

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June 15, 1900.

Wm. Colombe,
Troop I., 4th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Manila, Philippine Is.

Dear William :-

In going over our students' accounts I find a balance against you of $1.83, the charge being 3 1/2 tickets to Harrisburg (round trip) at 55 cents each. I think you and one or two of the boys who enlisted at the same time, paid the fare of one who had no money, and there was an understanding to that effect at the time. So far as possible we want to close all old accounts by the end of the month and open new books for those now on our rolls. As your account cannot be closed until this payment is made, I trust we may receive the amount by registered letter or money order as soon as practicable.

How go affairs now in Manila ? It has been a tedious campaign for you fellows, and we are all happy that the end is not far off.

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June 15, 1900.

Timothy Henry,
Pekin, N. Y.

Dear Timothy :-

In settling up our students' accounts I find you are in
debt here $2.16. This may be a balance on tuition or books when
you were attending the high school in Carlisle. We wish to bal-
ance all accounts before the end of the month. Please send me as
soon as practicable registered letter or money order covering this.
and I will receipt.

Hope you are prospering. With kind regards,

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June 15, 1900.

Charles Butler,
U. S. S. "Dolphin",
Navy Yard,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Charles :-

When you went to Phila. to enlist in the Navy I advanced
the amount of your ticket, and this with another small item or two
stands against you on our books. We are closing up all old account
and opening new ones for students now on our rolls, and desire to
complete the work by the end of the month if possible. Trust you
are able by this time to settle the balance against you, $4.22.
Let me hear from you as soon as practicable.

I hope you find you find ship life agreeable. Have had sev-
eral good letters from our sailor boys, but none from you. What's
the reason ?

We are having delightful weather, and the general health of
the school is excellent. School closes in a few days. Farmers liv-
ing near the school have already been in to see about harvest hand
for next week. I suppose "The Helper" comes to you weekly and you
keep some track of our doings from it.

With kind regards to all,

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June 15, 1900.

Miss Sara Kennedy,
C/o Sept. H. P. Freer,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

Dear Sir :-

I received your postal written in San Francisco, but did
not acknowledge it because I thought it would not be long before
I should have a good long letter from you telling me about your
trip, yourself and your work. By this time I hope you are well
settled in your position and are getting on nicely. Would be
pleased to hear from you directly when you feel inclined to write.

With kind regards from all to yourself and all our Carlisle
people,

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June 15, 1900.

Miss Libbie Archiquette,
100 S. Church St.,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Libbie :-

Glad to get your good letter, to know of your good resolutions and of your desire to help others to do well. If my Indian boys and girls are with me in my efforts, everything will go all right and I sha'n't care very much what the papers say. If all do as well as they know, I am sure we will have the most successful summer outing we have ever known.

It is very pleasant at Carlisle just now, although the school is pretty well thinned out. On Thursday morning thirty-five of the girls from the higher grades left for the country, and this morning quits a party of boys. I am feeling much better after my long siege in the hospital.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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June 15, 1900.

Rev. R. Petter,
Cantonment, O. T.

Dear Sir :-

Immediately on receipt of your letter of June 4th I wrote
the Adjutant General of the Army about Joseph Flying. His report
received today is as follows :-

"Joseph Flying, Private, Troop C. 4th Cavalry, who enlisted
Oct. 3, '99 at Harrisburg, Pa., is shown present for duty at last
mustar, Apr. 30, 1900, and his name does not appear on the lists
of wounded or deaths from all causes in the Philippines, cabled to
this office to include the 10th inst.

(Signed)THOMAS WARD.

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June 16, 1900.

Hon. C. W. Starry,
Solicitor, etc.
Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear Judge Sterry :-

My boat has a spreader to stiffen it and I used it while fishing on the Williamson.

On thinking it over, I am sure for your personal use it would not do at all, and am sorry I suggested it. You ought to have a bigger stiffer boat. If you wrote to the King Folding Canvas Boat Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., telling them just what you need, I think they could fix you up.

Should you want my boat for the lighter members of your family I would be glad to send it to you and will reduce the price to $15.00 and check it through without cost to you, as before proposed.

Sincerely yours,

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June 16, 1900.

George Kable,
C/o Horace P. Jones,
Fort Sill, O. T.

My dear Sir :-

Your brother Neal flew the track the other day, went to town and got some whiskey and got drunk. He was court martialed by a court of the Indian boy officers, and among other things was sentenced to remain at Carlisle another year. Hoping to cure him of the habit, I have approved the sentence and will keep him here.

You're truly,

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June 16, 1900.

Louis N. Wilson, Sec.,
Clark University,
Worcester, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your postal request for latest catalog, etc.
I have to say that we do not publish a catalog, but I forward you
under separate cover today several of my last annual reports and
copies of several addresses.

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June 16, 1900.

Rebecca Broncho,
C/o Mrs. Wilmot Hansell,
Rougher,
Burlington Co., N. J.

Dear School-daughter :-

I enclose a letter from your sister which I have answered giving her your address and telling her that you would write promptly. How is it that you have neglected this so long? You know we require at least one home letter a month. It is not right to leave your family so long without some word from you. Hope you will write at once, and unless there is some special reason I shall expect your letters to be regular. Please return your sister's letter.

With kind regards,

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June 16, 1900.

Miss Susie Pappin,
C/o Mrs. Chas. Kuen,
Oak Lane, Phila., Pa.

Dear Susie :-

I thank you for the roses which came to me
the other day with your card and Mr. Kuen's. Mrs.
Pratt arranged them in a bouquet and placed them on my
table where I could enjoy their beauty and fragrance
while at work.

With kind regards to the family, I am as ever

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June 16, 1900.

Mr. Chas. Ebener, Supt.,
Educational Home,
4901 Greenway Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

George Peake arrived duly. Since writing you before
there is a prospect that sometime in July or August a vacancy will
occur which might satisfy you and I should be glad to have you come
up with the party of children to be transferred from the Education
al Home and Lincoln Institute. We can then talk the matter over.
I will pay your way here and back as assistant in charge of the
children.

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June 16, 1900.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Horton,
482 Mass. Ave.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Mrs. Horton :-

Replying to your letter asking for a boy and girl to be
sent to a grocer in your neighborhood, I have to say that we are
overborne with applications for our students and that they get
good wages. We have upwards of thirty boys who are getting from
fifteen to twenty dollars a month; upwards of fifty who are getting
thirteen or fourteen dollars, and nearly forty others who are re-
ceiving twelve dollars, and so on down. Our trouble is not to find
places, but to find the boys. The same is true of the girls, and
as Massachusetts is so far beyond the easy reach of my outing a-
gent without considerable expense, it seems best not to encourage
the hope that it can be done another year.

Eugene Fisher has already gone to the country. Thanking you
for your interest in the matter, I am

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June 16, 1900.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
214 First St., S.W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Fletcher :-

Jeannette Rice has run down quite a little in health of late, and my physician thinks she would better go home, at least for a while. I have therefore placed her name on the home list, and expect to send her to the agency sometime this month.

I believe you wanted to know something about it whenever that condition arose.

With kindest regards,

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June 16, 1900.

Avis E. Wells,
C/O Mrs. Anna M. Passmore,
Strickersville,
Chester Co., Pa.

Dear Avis :-

I am very very sorry for the trouble in your home, but
it would not be best for you to go home, even if I could allow you
to do so. You are too young to take care of yourself, and how
could you take care of your mother and grandmother? You are in
school, and have good opportunities, and must not think of leav-
ing them. When you have learned more you will be of much more
help to your mother than you could possibly be now. You came for
five years, and of course cannot go home until that time is up. I
know you will be glad I have kept you in school when you are a
little older. Write your mother that you cannot come.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 16, 1900.

Miss Susie M. Marsh,
21 Orleans St.,
Springfield, Mass.

Dear Miss Marsh :-

Replying to your letter of the 14th inst., I have to say
that this is a boarding school. Teachers and other employes have
furnished rooms, light and heat, and board at our Teachers' Club
at a cost of $2.50 per week. Teachers rarely board away from the
school, their duties being such as to make it undesirable.

We do not issue a catalog, but I send you my last annual report, which is all we publish in the way of information about the school aside from our monthly and weekly paper, which no doubt you have seen.

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June 16, 1900.

Mrs. Daisy E. Dixie,
Ross Park, Idaho.

Dear Madam :-

Your sister, Rebecca, is with Mrs. Wilmot Hansell at Bougher, Burlington Co., N. Jersey. We have reports from her every month. She seems to be getting on very well, is in good health and likes her place and the people like her. In the winter she went to school, as all our girls do who are out in homes. Why she does not write to you I cannot understand, but I will write to her and tell her to do so at once. My outing agent will visit her in a few weeks.

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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June 13, 1900

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois, N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

There has been such a bold attempt on the part of the Lincoln Institute authorities to ship every child home and pester the Office with applications that the Commissioner has issued an order that all whose times have not expired shall be sent here, and that I shall determine the equities in each case after arrival of the pupils.

In regard to Gertrude Gordon, I find she is with one of our best patrons, Mrs. Joel Conard, N. London, Pa.; that she is very happy in her life there and asked to remain during the summer, and the people are glad to have her remain with them. I doubt the statement that letters to her are opened and read by others, but have written Mrs. Conard about it. Occasionally, where there is a suspicion of deception in correspondence I exercise and authorize patrons to exercise supervision, just as Mrs. Gordon would do were her daughter at home. It is imperative that have a good deal of restriction in pupils' correspondence. I send you a copy of our cutting rules, by which you see the girls agree to neither write nor receive letters they are not willing to show patrons. You are entirely right as to the necessity that these people somehow get a thorough knowledge of and enthusiasm for the white man's ways That is the line upon which we are crowding. There has been and is now altogether too much pressure along purely intellectual lines and not enough along industrial lines in the education and training

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of Indian youth.

In regard to more children from your place, I would only be
willing to take a very limited number, and they would need to be
of the very best quality. When we have taken all the Lincoln chil
dren we shall be still more overcrowded with New York pupils, yet
I would not have that stand in the way of a small number in addition
if promising. We should base our judgment entirely upon the qual-
ity of the material instead of upon any previous in the asylum or
out of it.

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June 13, 1900.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
214 First St., S.E.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Fletcher :-

Jeannette Rice has not been well for some months, probably due largely to the condition of her mind. On talking it over it seems there ought to be a let up. You know we have held on to her, year in, year out, for twelve years, and I think better to let her go to her home.

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June 18, 1900.

Rev. Robert A. MacFadden.
Chelsea, Mass.

My dear Robert :-

Thank you for the information in regard to
the Tabor will. So far as I can see, nothing further
is to be done,

Wish I could take the ocean voyage. May be I
will, but first must clean up the fiscal year, 1900,
and open the fiscal year, 1901, which will take until
about the 30th of July.

 faithfully yours,

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June 18, 1900.

Mrs. Joel Conard,
New London, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Conard :-

Mrs. Castle Gordon complains that her daughter's letters
are opened and read and that she can have no correspondence with
her. I have entire confidence in your judgment as to Gertrude's
correspondence, and am convinced her letters are not opened un-
less you have cause for suspicion that they are not from proper
dSources. I have written that I would speak to you about the mat-
ter; hence this letter.

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June 19, 1900.

Rev. John Gansworth,
Sanborn, N. Y.
My dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of June 11th asking that Willard
be allowed to spend the summer at home on account of his health,
I have to advise you that on receiving your letter I ordered my
school physician to examine the boy and report to me. I enclose
his report, by which you will see that it is not necessary as a
health measure, and if I allow him to go home for any other reason
I have no excuse for not allowing all the others to go home whose
parents have written me.

June 19, 1900.

Fred P. Hall,
Prop. "Jamestown Journal",
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

I sent by express yesterday the plates for the proposed
Carlisle book. You may print them on both sides of the paper, so
as to make the cost as low as practicable in accordance with your
letter.

I trust you will be able to get better prints of many of them
than we have been able to make with our presses here. Would be
glad to have the thousand copies as early as possible.

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June 19, 1900.

Miss Luzeria Tibbetts,
Downingtown, Pa.

Dear Luzenia :--

Eugene has already gone to the country and it is therefore impracticable for him to visit you now. Fred is here and may be at the school all summer. I have no objections to his going to visit you a few days with Daisy's brother, but it would be better for them to both be with you at the same time. George Wasson is now in Philadelphia and it is arranged that he stop at Downingtown on his return. Just when that will be, I cannot tell. Daisy will know from him. When you know, write me and I will send Fred down.

Miss Edge is very kind to let you invite your brothers, and their visit ought to be at a time that suits her best.

With kind regards to Miss Edge and her household,

Eugene is with George R. Martindale, Trevose, Pa.

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June 19, 1900.

Mr. Harry Perris,
Orleans Bar, Cal.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter about your daughter, Lillie, who graduated with our last class, I have to advise you that she desires to take a brief course in stenography and typewriting in the great Prexel Institute in Philadelphia, and before receiving your letter I had already arranged for her to do that. The school gives me two scholarships each year. Lillie will live with Mrs. Shaffer)etnier, who formerly had charge of my girls at the school, but who has since married and will have her home not far from the Institute.

It seems to me that Lillie's judgment in the matter is a wise one, and I trust it will meet with your entire approval.

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June 19, 1905.

Mr. James Miller,
S. Milton, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

Your son James and daughter Nettie will remain at Car-
lisle and continue their education. John is to go home with the
other students about the last of the month, and will be ticketed
to Rapid City, as you wish. I do not know just when he will start
but will notify you in time so that you may meet him there.

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June 19, 1900,

Dr. M. W. Stryker, Pres.
Hamilton College,
Clinton, N. Y.

My dear Dr. Stryker :-

The young Indian, Mr. Ferris, will hang on
to Carlisle and build up if he can to entrance at
Hamilton, and I shall be glad to aid him in every way
possible. When he finishes with us, which is still
far below you, he may attend the Preparatory of Dick-
inson College and complete his preparation.

I thank you, my dear Doctor, for your very cor-
dial words. They do me "a heap o' good".

My family join in most cordial greeting.

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June 19, 1900.

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

My dear Doctor :-

The great Carlisle Indian School band is non-
come-atibus in swampo; in other words, non est. The
members who came from western schools for the special pur-
pose of joining the band to go to Paris have mostly re-
turned to their schools. A few still remain, but the
Paris matter is entirely out of the question, and Mr.
Brant-Sero's services are not needed. Taking all and all
I am not feeling so badly over the band's not going to
Paris. The aggravation of the responsibility and the de-
mands upon me because of the band have been a very wond-
siderable addition to my burden. Had I the money we
trip.
lost in the Washington to Boston I would have more than
the necessary funds to send the band to Paris for four
weeks; but the importunity to show before the country
was so great that I yielded to it and let Dennison se-
lect his managers, and except I did force an issue and
stop the payment of weekly salaries and expenses of two
or three traveling men. I did not in any way limit or
interfere with the carrying out of any plans except the
additional vaudevilles. The harm to Carlisle for that
which we did engage in is very much greater than the
benefits gained. Still, Carlisle is able to stand a lit-
tle defeat now and then. If not, it is not fit to live.
Dennison is asking leave of absence to end in the latter
part of July, when he expects an appointment in the West.
All join in love and cordial greeting to you.
# faithfully your friend,

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June 20, 1900.

Mr. J. E. Ross, Supt.
Indian School,
Genoa, Neb.

Dear Mr. Ross :-

The business of the closing year, the distance, and my own health do not permit of my attendance at your commencement, now in progress; but you have my best wishes for a glorious commencement and a prosperous new year. Regretting my inability to be present, I am

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June 20, 1900.

Rev. James A. O'Connor,
142 W. 21st St.,
New York.

Dear Friend O'Connor :--

I have not yet received the seven copies of "The Converted Catholic" for June, which I asked to be sent me, and I fear the three other copies I asked to have sent elsewhere have not been sent. Perhaps you would better send the whole ten to me.

Trusting it will not inconvenience your arrangements for the future to send these, I am as ever,

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June 20, 1900.

Miss Battle E. Rhodes,
P.O. Box 362,
Reno, Nevada.

Dear Miss Rhodes :-

Your letter of May 13th and my Assistant Superintendent
reply in regard to Raleigh James only now comes to my attention.

I am very very sorry we did not know where Raleigh's mother
was. On looking over our accounts I find there is a balance due
him of $5.12 and I enclose that amount by check made payable to
you. Please see that his mother gets the money, and assure her of
my very great sympathy. Raleigh seemed to prefer to remain here
where he had the best of care during his illness.

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David Jordan,

Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

June 20, 1900.

I have concluded to recall your daughter Ide from the country and send her home at the end of the month, although she is not now entitled to go. She should have remained at Carlisle; but entirely of her own motion she made a written application to go to the country for the summer, and by so doing declared her intention of staying at Carlisle another year.

I have heard nothing from your boy. He has probably reached home before this.

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June 20, 1900.

Miss Edith May Smith,

West Chester, Pa.

My dear Edith :-

Your invitation to the commencement exercises of the West Chester Normal is before me, and I would like very much to be present and witness your graduation. Business prevents that, but I congratulate you on the completion of your course, and trust it may not be long before your future location is settled. With best wishes from Mrs. Pratt and myself,

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June 19, 1900.

Miss Daisy M. Rickenbrode,
Ripley, N. Y.

Dear Miss Rickenbrode :—

Your letter of the 4th inst. from Ripley should have been answered before, but I wanted to consult with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and find out what opportunity there would be for me to overcome the civil service conditions. I am having an extra teacher this year who will be required to do just such work as may be necessary throughout the whole school, i.e., if a teacher is sick or for good reason must be absent a day or two, the extra teacher is to fill the gap. By our experience this would leave most of the time for special training. Our school is made up of all grades from beginners to half way between the grammar and high school grades of the public schools, that being our graduating point. The extra teacher should be able to fill any of these places. I am glad to say there is very little of this supply teaching to be done, but there seems to be an apprehension on the part of the principal that if we had an extra teacher it would tend to increase the need. However, I have concluded to try it.

The civil service examination would, I am sure, be easy to you, judging from your letters and what has come to me about you and the class of teachers who are able to pass examinations for the Indian school service. There is ample time to run over the ground after application is made, but at first you would not be required to take an examination. You would be appointed temporarily.

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2- Miss Rickenbrode.

In regard to working up a distinct department of oratory and
and physical culture, I am not sure about that. The utility of it
would have to be demonstrated to the Department and I could not
well do that until we had had quite a little experience. My own
judgment is that if you care to come you would better come with
the understanding that you are to fill the bill as we have it in
mind the best you can and trust to the future to work out your
line. Personally, I incline to favor it, and there is a good field.

As the time is now short, I would be glad to have a decision
as promptly as possible. You could come any time after the first
of July and your pay would begin from date of appointment. This
in connection with my former letter I think covers the ground.

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June 20, 1900.

American Horse,

Kyle, S. Dakota.

My dear Friend :-

It is far better that Alice and Sophia remain at Car-
lisle. I find them not very unwilling to do that and have there-
fore arranged for them during the summer, Alice to go to the coun-
try, and Sophia to remain at the school a while and then go for
a few weeks to the home of one of my employes to visit.

Both need to be put on the best footing possible for self sup-
port, and that condition they are constantly building up to.

As ever,

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June 20, 1900.

Rev. Jesse Kirk,

Klamath Agency, Ore.

My dear friend :-

We teach carpentry, blacksmithing, wagon-making, harness-making, painting, tinsmithing, printing, tailoring, steam faking, shoemaking, etc., and farming. I will place your boys in such place as you direct. During the two vacation months, July and August, we have a great deal of work to do in cleaning and fitting up our large number of buildings, taking care of our farm products, laying in the the next year's supplies, etc., and must take the boys out of the shops to help, so that it will be all right for you to determine during the summer what trade you want your son to take up.

I saw the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a few days ago in Washington, and he spoke of the condition of things at your agency and said he had letters from an inspecting officer in regard to the men you named, who had been interfering and objecting to children's going away. The Commissioner intimated to me that he intended to do something about it very soon.

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June 20, 1900.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

It now seems quite certain I can take a
trip of two or three weeks sometime in August or ear-
ly in September, and if you find you have time and
can go when I can, I want to take you with me to the
Pacific Coast and can see my way to take care of all
expenses.

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June 21, 1900.

Jackson, Seashore,
301 E. 30th, Lawrenceville, N.J.

Dear Jackson 3-

Your aunt, Mrs. Oliphant, who cares for you when
you are at home, complains to me that she has not heard from you
for two months. That means that you have not written a home letter
since you went to the country. She is anxious to know about you,
and I want you to write her a good letter immediately, and hereaf-
ter you should have a letter ready to send here with the monthly
report which Mr. Moore makes of you. I shall expect a letter every
time, and will forward it at once to your aunt.

Hope you are making a good farmer. With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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June 21, 1900.

Mrs. Ollie Saunooke,
Cherokee, N. Car.

Dear Mrs. Saunooke :-

Jackson should write you regularly, at least once a month. That is our rule. Pupils may write letters and whenever they please, but a monthly letter we require. I will write to him and I think hereafter you will have no trouble to complain of his neglect. He is away from home at the home of W. E. Moore, Lawrenceville, N. J. where he went for the summer. He is getting on well, and if you do not hear from him direct, let me know.

Major 40th Cavalry, Supt.

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Mrs. Rebecca Eastman,

Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

My dear School-daughter :-

June 21, 1900.

I was very glad to get your letter. It has been so long
since I heard from you that it seemed like someone coming to life
again. We all remember you so well here. Miss Burgess, Miss Ely,
Mr. Standing, Miss Cutter, and others are all glad to know that
you are getting on so well.

Very sorry to hear of the death of your little girl and sym-
pathize with you, and rejoice in your finding another little girl
to comfort you in your affliction.

In regard to what Amy Crow Dog says about the box of tinware;
I suppose that must come from the fact that every year the Indian
Bureau takes our extra tinware and sends it to the agencies to be
distributed among the Indians. This year we have so little that
we have said nothing about it, and will let it run over and accum-
ulate, so that next year there will be more. You know I do not
own the tinware. It belongs to the Government. The Government
buys the tinplate and pays the tinner who makes and teaches the
boys to make it up. Then it takes the articles and allows the
school what they are worth. It is the same way with the harness.
The Government also allows me to sell any Indian a set of harness
for $16.00, if he wants to buy it direct from us. That is the on-
ly way that I could send you harness.

We are all sorry to hear that Amy Crow Dog is so thin and
sickly. Please remember us to her.

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-2- Mrs. Eastman.

I often wish I could make a visit to Rosebud and see how all
our first pupils are getting on. Won't you write me again and
tell me about those who came in the same party with you who are
now living; where they are, what they are doing, and whether they
are getting on well or not.

I send you a picture of yourself and another where you appear
with four other little girls. These are all we can find of you, and
you may keep both.

With kind regards to your husband, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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June 21, 1900.

Truman Boxtater,

Mill Centre, Wis.

My dear Sir :-

I have your letter of June 18th about your daughter Abbie, and must inform you that our records do not show that your daughter came here for three years. It has been more than fifteen years since we took students for that period. Our term for every child is five years. We did not accept of the students who came at the same time from Wittenberg for a less period. Our records show that all came with this understanding. I am sorry to have you feel disappointed about it, but such is the case and we do not and cannot vary from the rule.

Abbie is getting on nicely, and is a bright girl.

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Chief Quannah Parker,
W. Cache,
Via Fort Sill, O.T.

June 21, 1900.

Friend Quannah :-

Harold has been looking badly for some time, and although a short time ago the doctor examined him and pronounced him all right I had him reexamined today. The doctor now informs me that it would be better for him to spend the summer in the open air, particularly in riding. I have therefore decided to send him home at our cost and let you set him to punching steers, herding ponies, etc., and when fall comes he may pick up a few young Comanches who want to come to Carlisle, and I will pay his way back too. If he does not make up a party I will pay his way returning anyhow. I want Harold to graduate, so that I can at last and at least turn out one Comanche who has finished our course. He plays tennis, which is a most active game, with a great deal of zest, and is a skillful player. The girls are all well and I shall keep them here, as you wrote me a short time ago.

Hoping that all goes well with you, that the cattle market is all you could wish for, and that my Comanche friends are becoming more prosperous, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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June 22, 1900.

Rev. J. S. Krehbiel,
George, C. T.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of June 18th in regard to Ella Romano,
your ward, I have to advise you that Ella came to see me about go-
ing home, and I told her it was better for her to stay here until
she finished the course. Under your care it would probably be dif-
ferent, but we never permit a student to go home and into camp
without regretting it. If they do return it takes months before
they can settle down to good work, and it is often impossible ever
to get them back to their original condition of interest. Ella's
health does not demand the trip and I know of no reason that would
warrant the expenditure. I would think it much better to invest
the money in cattle, hogs, or some other growing investment than
in railroad fare for her.

Ella is not yet grown and lacks quite a little of being on
a safe basis as to character and attainments; but she is getting on
well, and if we can hold on to her I am sure will become a good
and useful woman.

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June 22, 1900.

Mrs. Lizzie Alcott,
Mr. Holly, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Alcott :-

Betty Welsh has in her possession a ring with an
inscription in it, which she says you gave her, that
it belonged to your niece, and when she died you had
a number of her things from which you told Betty to
choose what she wanted, and she selected this ring.

I would be greatly obliged if you would confirm
these statements and give a description of the ring
if you can.

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June 22, 1900.

Mr. J. Q. Eaton,
527 Mississippi Ave.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Dear Quincy :-

I enclose you my check for $2.15, covering
ticket from Washington to Carlisle.

The band has been disbanded and the western boys
generally sent back to their schools. Mr. Wheelock
is arranging to go into the Indian Service elsewhere,
and we shall have to allow the great Carlisle band to
lapse into more modest proportions, so that there will
be no great public appearances again, at least for
some time.

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June 22, 1900.

Miss Harriet Eck,
Millville, Pa.

Dear Miss Eck :—

I would be glad to have you come down to see me next week if you can. I enclose you one of our special half rate tickets from Bloomington to Carlisle, and can give you one going back. If I enter into an arrangement with you I shall expect you to pay for the ticket; but if not, then I will bear the expense both ways. We can reach a more satisfactory conclusion by consultation than by correspondence.

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June 23, 1900.

Mrs. Louise Amore,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Amore :-

Your daughter, Jane Marie, has lately been transferred
from her former place in the country to the home of Dr. J. E. Pe-
ters at Jenkintown, Pa., where she is to do housework. Some time
ago she seemed to be running down a little in health, but has im-
proved again and seems to be all right. My visiting agent will soon
start out to see all the girls away from the school, and in a few
weeks I will have her report. There is no need whatever for un-
easiness on your part. We have had no complaints from Jane, and
she is earning money for herself.

In regard to her going home this year, it is entirely imprac-
ticable, as she has not been here five years. That is the time
for which all students come to Carlisle. When her time expires
and she is sent home it will be at Government expense.

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June 23, 1900.

Mr. Frank Gordon,
Crow Reserve, Mont.

Dear Sir :-

I am very very sorry indeed to hear of the
death of William Leighton. He was one of our good boys
for whom I had great hopes. I have shown his aunt, Cyn-
thia Cooper, your letter, as you asked.

All William's friends here join me in sympathy
for his family.

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June 23, 1900.

Dr. Perry Judson Welsh,
Prin. State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear Dr. Welsh :-

It will be impracticable for me to attend
the commencement exercises of the Bloomsburg Normal,
invitation to which you have kindly sent me. The press
of business at this season of the year makes it very
hard to get away.

Trusting you may have a successful and inspiring
season, and with kind regards to our boy, Simon Palm-
er who is with you, I am

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June 23, 1900.

Mr. John A. Moore,
El Reno, O. T.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of June 19th, your daughter Ellen
returned to the school a day or two ago, and I have called her to
the office; she states that she wrote the order you sent, and I
am sure she did. I return it herewith, and will write the agent
as you request. Ellen being here, has written a new order exact-
ly like the one you have forawrded, which is witnessed. I thought
best to have her do this as the former order was written in Marys-
ville. This order I enclose to the agent.

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June 23, 1900.

J. W. Brayton,
Poland,
Hook Co., New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your inquiry of June 19th, the word "wan-a-
hoo" is undoubtedly an Indian name, but as there are more than
eighty odd tribes in the United States, over seventy of which are
now extinct, each with a distinct language or dialect, un-
written, it would be impossible from any English spelling or pro-
mulation to detect the error in the word or trace its derivation
or meaning. Many of the tribes might have a word resembling this
in sound, but with a wide difference in meaning.

The pupils of this school learn to use English, and none of
the Indian languages are spoken or encouraged here.

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June 23, 1900.

Mr. Jno. W. Marshall,
100 W. Fayette St.,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Sir :

Our school closes today, but there will be a limited
number of students on the grounds on the 25th of July, possibly
250. The buildings and grounds are open to visitors at all times
Sundays excepted. If it suits your party to stop off, we shall be
very glad to show you our plant.

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June 25, 1900.

Miss Daisy Wasson,
C/O Miss Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

My dear Daisy :-

I have your letter of the 21st containing your appeal to quit Carlisle and go to work.

I appreciate all you say about the necessities and emergencies of your situation at present, you are so near to graduation from Carlisle, which Prof. Pakeless assures me is unquestioned in March next, that it seems to me well worth an extreme struggle to reach that point, and my thought for you is that you ought to continue that struggle a few months longer. Graduation from Carlisle gives you a standing in the Indian Service which it is impossible for you to get in any other way. Only graduates are having success now in getting appointments except they are given by local authorities. As a graduate, you are entitled to a higher rating of pay and service than you could possibly be as a non-graduate; so that as a money-making outlook graduation from Carlisle stands way ahead of non-graduation. While you say to me, "Do not refuse me, for I must go", I can conceive of hardly any condition where the necessities are so severe that they cannot be prolonged a few months more. If you settle down and determine to continue a few months longer, requiring your folks to settle down, the other can be accomplished. However, I am willing to hear from you again, as you seem to think the emergency great.

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-B- Miss Daisy Wasson.

I received a letter from Nancy Cornelius just before Miss Cut-
ter went down for a visit, and I told her to talk with Nancy and
let me know about it. From her report it seems Nancy has been ex-
pectimg to hear from Oneida about a place and was to write me when
she did hear. I shall be glad to do whatever she desires, but
question whether at long range she can secure an appointment at
Oneida, as there is already a great number of efficient young peo-
ple at Oneida who have returned from Carlisle and Hampton. I am
sure an appointment could be arranged for her in the Indian Ser-
vice elsewhere.

There is no objection to your brother's stopping with you a
few days on his return from the hospital, but he will have to pay
his way from Philadelphia to Downingtown; then use his ticket from
Downingtown to Carlisle. If you let me know when he will be there
Zenia's brother Fred can go down at the same time.

With kind regards to Miss Edge and the girls,

Faithfully your friend,

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Mrs. Miranda A. Allen,
120 Fourth Ave.,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

There are no boys here from Oklahoma by the name of Sorrell, and I know of none to come from there by that name, although we expect to receive quite a number of students from different points in the Territory between this and the end of September.

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June 25, 1900.

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June 25, 1900.

George Wasson,
Medico Chi Hospital,
17th & Cherry Sts.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear George :-

I am delighted to know you are under such good care and
getting on so well. If Dr. Gleason wants to take out a bone of
your nose, let him do so. If he says he can do it, it is all right
He sawed the bone in my nose and fixed it up and I am sure he is
as equal to anything in that line as any doctor I ever knew.

On your way home you can visit Daisy, but you will have to
buy a ticket from Phila. to Downingtown, and use your the ticket
you have now between Downingtown and Carlisle, as that does not al-
low stop over. If you let me know when you will be at Downing-
town I will let Fred Tibbetts go down to visit his sister at the
same time.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 22, 1900.

Rev. JohnGANARDT,
Hartford, N. Y.

My dearest Sir:

Sometime ago after the Doctor's decision that his health
was all right if offered Willard the option of going home under our
carry, and working for you the same as he would for someone else
or of going out on a farm, or of staying here. He then elected
so go on a farm. Since your letter of the 23rd with one from Miss
Brogue I have urged Willard to go home as I had before suggested.
He finally consented and leaves tonight with Alberta.

Bjornstad?

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Alois P. Swoboda,
34 Washington St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir :-

June 25, 1900.

I enclose my check for $10.00, preliminary payment for
 treatment under your system; also my measurements.

From the beginning of the war until the fall of 1879 I was in
active military service in the cavalry, but since September, 1879
I have been superintendent of this school. My general health was
excellent except that I have always since maturity been of a con-
stipated habit. My duties at this school have been so sedentary
and have grown so enormously office that my former difficulty has
been very greatly aggravated. For more than a year now I have been
bothered by a rheumatic and gouty condition in the left knee, which
has very materially hindered my exercise. Two and a half months
ago my digestive condition became so serious that I went to a hos-
pital in Philadelphia where I was under treatment for five weeks,
most of the time in bed.

It seems impossible for me to get on without taking salts or
appenta water in large doses every day. I am under an arrangement
to go to the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
for treatment sometime next month, but my duties are of such a na-
ture that I would gladly avoid it. I take horseback rides almost
daily with profit.

Do what you can for me. If your system will relieve me it
will be a great victory for you and no end of gratification to me.

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June 25, 1900.

Rev. F. W. Merrill,
Mission House,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Sir :-

I enclose to you a line to the President of Rush Medical
College in Chicago in Josiah Powlas' behalf, and trust it may add
some strength to your other endorsements.

In regard to the students to be transferred from Lincoln; the
instructions of the Commissioner were that we should take all whose
time had not expired, and continue them here at Carlisle until they
were entitled to return home. Those who were due to go home were
to be sent before the transfer to Carlisle was made. Our rule is
that when the expiration of the time of a student occurs after the
school opens in the fall, the student shall remain until the close
of that year in June following. This has always been the rule and
I should not want to receive any under other conditions than these
As I have to pay their way from Philadelphia here and their way
from here home, it would make a very great addition to my trans-
portation account if I had to send them so short a time after they
entered here and before they had really become identified with us.

I very much fear that my trip to Oneida or any other locality
where I have Indian interests, will be considerably postponed. My
physical condition requires attention and I shall have to give
weeks and it may be months to that. I have permission from the See-
retary of War to enter the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot
Springs, Ark. and am planning to go there about the 20th of July,

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June 25, 1900.

To The President,

Rush Medical College,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir :-

I take great pleasure in informing you that Josiah Pow-
las, of Oneida, Wisconsin, was a most acceptable, conscientious,
and promising student of this school from September 30th, 1885 to
July 3rd, 1892, in which time he completed our course and graduat-
ed. Ever since he left the school I have corresponded with him
and have received most gratifying accounts of his worthy career
from others. I can heartily commend him to your most favorable
consideration.

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June 25, 1900.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates,
Sec. Board of Indian Commissioners,
1420 New York Ave,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Doctor :-

I wrote you sometime ago that I would be unable to go to Charleston, and that I had written Miss Reel to that effect. In fact, I have been keeping her supplied with that information for several months.

My physical condition makes it quite impracticable for me to go. As soon as I can get rid of the fiscal year 1900 and get a good grip on the fiscal year 1901, I shall take up the matter of my health with all the energy I can command, and stick to it until I am in better shape.

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June 25, 1900.

Mr. Theo. G. Lemmon,
Supt. Indian School,
Grand Junction, Colo.

My dear Mr. Lemmon :-

As your invitation to the commencement exercises of the Grand Junction School only reached me today, the 25th, attendance on the 15th would have been impracticable, even had other conditions favored it.

Trusting the occasion was in every way successful, and wishing you all success the coming year,

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June 25, 1900.

R. E. Crow,

Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Elige :-

I have your letter about the balance due here, and shall be pleased to have you send it at your earliest convenience. I find since Miss Luckenbach went away a very large number of small accounts like yours, which have left me greatly behind, and I have been compelled to call on students to pay as promptly as possible.

We are all interested in your success and congratulate you on the outlook.

With kind regards to Sarah,

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June 26, 1900.

Mr. E. H. Funk,
Ada, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 20th, I think best to send Rae
to Detroit with Dennison Wheelock, who leaves here on Thursday, the
28th, and will take charge of him.

Rae has had a difficulty about his ankles, which my school
physician reports is of a tubercular origin. Under these circum-
stances it seems better that he be under his mother's care. The
doctor recommends a great deal of open air.

He is plenty young and if he dropped out of school for a time
it would be quite as well. However, if his health is all right he
can return at any time you and Mrs. Funk desire to send him.

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June 25, 1900.

Richard Davis,
Stout,
Washita Co., O. T.

Dear Richard :-

I have your letter of the 20th and have forwarded it to
Dr. Gates to stimulate him in his attempts along the same lines.
He did all he could last winter to secure some action, but nothing
came of it.

I am something of an invalid and it is not at all probable I
shall get down to Charleston. Have had rheumatism in my left knee
for more than a year and although I have kept on the go most of
the time, it is becoming more and more inconvenient to do so, and
my general health is so affected I shall have to give myself over
to getting well. I had planned to go to Hot Springs, Ark. for
some weeks, perhaps months in the interest of my health, but there
is so much to look after that I have not been able to get off.

Your letter so plainly states all the points you make that it
seems to me there is no doing otherwise with propriety. I believe
all you urge could be attended to by the Indian Bureau and become
a matter of regulations without any Congressional action. These
views I expressed to Dr. Gates when I sent him your letter. I
write also to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, covering the same
ground.

With kindest regards to Nannie from us all, in which you are
included,

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June 26, 1900.

Mrs. Mary Pabo,
Horton Bay, Mich.

Dear Mrs. Pabo :-

I have your letter of the 20th asking that Basil Thomas be sent home to take care of your farm and stock. Before your letter came I had a talk with Basil about going home, and he decided himself to remain another year. He is in our Junior class and wants to go on and graduate. It would be of great advantage to him to do so, and I have arranged that he stay at the school this summer and continue his studies in the fall. He will be paid for his work here, and this is in accordance with his wishes and judgment.

I trust you may see the wisdom of Basil's decision, and manage to get along without him a year or so longer, for he is a bright promising boy and will profit much by completing our course.

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June 26, 1900.

Miss Edith L. Fout,
85 E. Second St.,
Frederick, Md.

Dear Miss Fout :)

Replying to your application for a position here, I have to advise you that unless you have passed the civil service examination for the position you wish to secure, it is impossible to obtain appointment. These rules are very rigid, and only in the most minor positions am I allowed to select my employees from outside, and at present there are no vacancies of this class.

If you care to take a civil service examination, write to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., and he will send you instructions and pamphlet of information as to how to proceed.

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June 26, 1900.

Simon Ferster,
Oneida,
Brown Co., Wis.

My dear Sir :-

I have your letter asking for the return of Lewis and
Delta. Lewis leaves this morning with the home party, and will be
with you before this letter reaches you. Delta has not been here
five years, but as she came in September, her time will expire at
this time next year. This is according to a rule we have followed for
many years, that where a student enters after the beginning of
school in the fall, his term does not end until the close of the
year in June following the five year period.

Lewis is getting on well, and it would be greatly to his ad-
vantage to return in the fall and graduate, and I trust you will
have him do so.

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Mr. R. G. Tibbetts,
Salway, Minn.

June 26, 1900.

My dear Mr. Tibbatts:-

I have your letter of June 15th. Your boys, Fred and Eugene are getting on so well here and are such bright and promising boys that it would be a serious matter to disturb their progress. I have therefore arranged that they remain, and with that understanding Eugene has gone to the country for the summer. Fred will remain here and work in the printing office, receiving pay for his services. I have promised him a visit to his sister who is at one of our best homes in the country, and who asks that he come. Fred is in our Junior class and it will take him only a short time to graduate. Zenia is in the Senior class and should graduate in March next. Appreciating the opportunities offered here for herself and brothers, she has been very anxious that they stay both are young and should be under the best influences in their growing years. I have their interests at heart and know this is best for them.

When you think the matter over again and consider what it means to the boys to receive a generous and practical education without a penny of expense to themselves or you, I am sure you will be willing to forego the pleasure of having them with you, and avoid the risk of their losing ground by a summer spent in visiting.

Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
Indian School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Mrs. Wright :-

Your letter of the 20th advising that Bulu had arrived
and of her poor outlook, etc., makes me feel a little sorry that
I sent her home. We can always care for our pupils to the end, you
know, and stand ready and willing to do so. It was only your in-
terest and desire in the matter that led me to take that course.
You said you wanted them sent home early if they were trending
downward.

Naomi has not attended to the business matter yet, although
you said she would do so next day.

We shall expect to see you here at Carlisle. I intend to
stay until I get rid of the business of the fiscal year 1900, which
will be about the 20th of July; then to go to Hot Springs, Ark.
unless in the meantime I get over my rheumatic condition. For sev-
eral days past I have been feeling much better, possibly due to
the dry weather. I shall not attend the M.E.C., not being physi-
cally in shape to do that. I take daily treatment and that requires
home or hospital. The Indian feature will probably not amount to
much. So far as I know, nearly all those who are on to speak, are
not going . Neither the Commissioner nor Assistant Commissioner
nor the president nor vice president of the Ind. Div. will be there.
I understand that Potter is going. Allen wrote me he thought he
would get there, and I hear of one here and there, but there will

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June 29, 1900.

Mr. Guy F. Stavick,
President Drummore College,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Guy :-

Yours of the 22nd and your proposed trip.
How I wish I could if I am sure it would be a jolly good
thing, but I can't. I can't leave here before the
8th and there's a persistency about my going to Hot
Springe which lends me to still tend that way. My knees
trouble seems to have improved somewhat within the
past few days, and I have not been nearly so uncom-
fortable in getting about as for a long time, but it
may be only a temporary improvement due to atmospheric
conditions. It is dreadfully warm here.

There is going to Martha's Vineyard Stutharda
must have the constant attention of someone. After I
have tried Hot Springs it is possible I will send for
her and her mother. Your trip is ideal and exceeding-
by tantalizing, but I must stick to the course that
promises permanent relief. Besides, I am president of
the Indian section of the N. A. at Charlestown, and it
would look very bad for me to be absent on a fishing
trip. See? No telling what I may do afterward if
Hot Springs puts me into condition to dance a fisher's
hornpipe.

We all join in love to you and I am sure everyone
would be delighted to take the trip were it practicable.
Yours faithfully, Charles

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1900.

Russell Whitebear,
Troop "F", Fifth Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Humasas, Porto Rico.

Dear Russell :-

It would not be at all right for me in any way to inter-
fere with your course of enlistment. You enlisted for a certain
number of years, and there is only one proper way to get out, and
that is by serving the full period for which you enlisted. I do
not know your troop commander, but I can see that he has very ser-
ious responsibility in maintaining good discipline among his men,
and if they have a disposition to shoot at the natives or to arouse
the natives to shoot at them, as seems to be the case, he necessar-
ily would feel much indignation and would take severe measures to
repress that disposition. You have shown yourself to be so dis-
posed by an overt act which would lead him very properly to put a
check upon you. The army is in Porto Rico to maintain peace, and
the honor of the United States is at stake in the behavior of ev-
ery soldier. You must have been out of place somehow to have a-
roused the native police against you. Those soldiers who quietly
attend to their proper duties are certainly not interfered with by
the police. That you escaped punishment does not entirely settle
the matter at issue, and you have no reason to feel proud in any
way. I know you will accept these thoughts from your old and long
tried friend and superintendent, and hope this will influence you
to become one of the best soldiers in the Fifth Cavalry. These men
have on many a field shown great manhood and have carried the

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June 26, 1900.

To Whom It May Concern :-

Miss Cornelia G. Thompson, instructor in music at Metzger College, Carlisle, has been known to me for the past three years as an accomplished musician and a lady of refinement, maintaining a high social position. Her success as a teacher of music in Metzger College warrants me in commending her in high terms to all who may need such services as she can render.

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June 26, 1900.

Ulan Jacobson,
19th U.S. Infantry,
Plattsburg Barracks, New York.

Dear Ulan :-

In looking over our students' accounts, I find a balance
against you of $4.34. We want it possible to close all old ac-
counts by the end of the month, and would be glad to have you set-
tle at once. You receive your pay regularly, and should be able
to do this. If you cannot, I shall expect prompt payment when you
have received your June pay. Please write me as early as possible

I see you have moved from your former camp, but you have not
kept us informed of your movements. We are always glad to hear
from you, and trust you are still enthusiastic in your duties, as
when you wrote last. All your friends here are interested in your
success.

With kind regards,

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June 26, 1900.

Mr. H. E. Staler,
Scotland, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 25th, I shall not need to employ specially the services of a band leader. There are in the Indian service quite a good many Indians competent to lead the band, many of them my own graduates, and I can arrange for a very satisfactory band leader among them, who would also perform other duties. It is the policy of the government to employ Indians where that is practicable.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1900.

Mrs. H. K. Evans,
Garfield Hospital,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Evans :-

We should be glad to have you come and fill one of the vacant places made by our teachers, practically all of whom will leave us within a few days to be absent through July and August. I see by the by-laws of the Teachers' Club that the rate of board for guests is $3.15 per week, and I should be glad to count you such. I can give you a furnished room with light without cost, and you can have an Indian girl as you propose. Whether you will be able to find among these young people many legends or not, is something I cannot say. Our constant effort is to pull them away from the Indian and into civilization, in order that they may be saved.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1900.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :—

The bearer, Edward Rogers, entered this school as a pupil in November, 1894 and graduated in the class of 1897; entered Dickinson College Preparatory School at once, and graduated from that last year, and is now a student in the college proper.

Throughout the whole of this period he has shown himself a most exemplary young man, and I commend him fully as such,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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June 22, 1900,

Rev. C. M. Offenderfer,

Pastor, First Lutheran Church,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Brother Offenderfer :—

I take pleasure in handing you my check for
Twenty Dollars covering your service as chaplain dur-
ing month of June. I thank you for your interest in
our work and the valuable lessons you have brought to-
fore our students in your Sunday afternoon services.

Please sign the accompanying receipt and return,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1900.

Mrs. M. A. Saxman,
Box 378,
Blairsville, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Saxman :-

Yours enclosing twenty dollars, not twenty-two as you state, for the bicycle, is received. I find my daughter had offered the bicycle for $15.00. I also find that I can check it through just as well as not by releasing it, and it will cost nothing to forward it. I therefore return you five dollars, and the check herewith will reclaim the wheel from the baggage man in Blairsville.

I will arrange to have Healy go to you Monday, July 2nd, as you desire. He should be at Blairsville Intersection at 5:13 P.M. and will be due at Blairsville at 7:00 P.M. His round trip ticket will cost $6.51.

Kendall Paull's indebtedness to the school is $5.74; to Dickinson College, $6.40, making a total of $12.14.

Dr. Norcross was much disappointed not to see you and if you come this way again I trust you will stop over and see the folks in both the First and Second churches where is a very considerable interest in your school work. Mrs. Pratt and my daughters join me in cordial greetings and hope you may have a very restful time.

Faithfully yours,

P.S. - I have concluded to keep the $5.00 toward Healy's ticket, which will leave a balance of $1.51 to be paid on that. He will bring the bicycle with him.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29, 1900.

Rose Foody,

Versailles, N. Y.

Dear Rose :--

From what is happening I am beginning to think that the
Indian Bureau is unwilling to fill up the service with employes
from the Indians of New York. I judge from what I know, that there
is an undue proportion already in the Indian service from your
state, and it is the habit in the Indian Office as well as in oth-
er departments of the government to apportion government appoin-
tees from the various states on the basis of population. It is
likely they are following this custom in the Indian Office. Those
employed by the government both in New York State and elsewhere
would be counted, and the state allowed its proper proportion, say
5000 out of 250000, about 2%; so that I fear you will be depend-
ant upon your own resources. You of course know that Indian stu-
dents from everywhere who have had the benefits of the advanced
schools and have graduated are seeking to enter the service. Scarce-
ly any of them look outside into the world at large, as other pab-
ple do. I foresaw years ago that this would be the result of the
system and I said that if it became the duty of the government to
provide employment for all who graduated from an Indian school,
there was little encouragement to graduates them.

I am glad to hear you are earning now. Sixty or eighty cents
is not such poor pay. Why not perfect yourself in what you are
engaged in, show by your faithfulness that you are entitled to the

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fullest confidence, and perhaps get an increase in your salary and
an advanced place as the reward for your efforts where you are?

With cordial remembrance to your mother and love to you from
all of us at Carlisle, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlirose, Pa., June 29, 1900.

Mrs. Lucinda George,

Onandaga Castle, N. Y.

My dear Mrs. George :-

Relying to your letter of the 28th about six children at Onandaga Castle who want to come to Carlirose, I am sorry to be obliged to tell you that in receiving the children from Lincoln Institution in Philadelphia, we have increased the number of our children from New York to about 200, which is a good many more than we ought to have in proportion to the number we can carry. This makes it imperative that I stop taking New York pupils, at least almost entirely so. If there were just a few that were exceptionally bright, healthy, and capable, and desirable in every way, I should consider them.

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Carliels, Pa., June 29, 1900,

Seichu Atsye,
Woman's Hospital,
H. College Ave. & 22nd St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Seichu: I have your letter and Cora's about bringing your friend, Miss Ellen Fox, who is also you say a friend of Dr. Seabrook's, with you when you come to visit us. The fact that Miss Fox is a friend of yours and Cora's makes it sufficient, but the additional fact that she is a friend of Dr. Seabrook's makes it entirely acceptable. I had heard of your intended visit and had given orders that you and Cora should be accommodated in the girls quarters, supposing of course that you did not want to be at any expense while here but would live with the students. Your friend can do the same, or she can have one of our teachers' rooms and board at the club, which will cost her $5.15 a week. The room will cost nothing.

Miss Barr is away and the hospital is something of a special care in consequence; so that I have made the arrangement referred to to relieve the hospital as much as possible. We shall be glad to see you and hope your contemplated visit may give you all the rest and recuperation you anticipate.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1900.

Mr. David P. Barrows,
2953 Fifth St.,
San Diego, Cal.

Dear Sir :--

Martin Costo, of whom you write, is certainly a desirable student for us, and I shall be only too glad to arrange transportation for him to Carlisle when notified that it is fully concluded that he will come here and the point of departure. But before you make up your mind that it is best to send him here, let me tell you that this is an Indian school pure and simple, and while it is perhaps entitled to something of the notoriety it enjoys, it is not, according to my idea, the best place for an ambitious, capable, young Indian unless he is barred by circumstances from something better. What Martin Costo has enjoyed with you in the public schools of San Diego is, in my judgment, far better than the advantages that can be given in any Indian school, and if possible that line of education should be pursued for him and he be educated entirely away from the fears and disabilities of the Indian race. This is not possible of its highest success in any purely Indian school. If Martin comes here, it will be my effort to place him in the public schools. If I can find a place where he can earn his keep and enjoy such privileges I shall feel that I am doing him much more good than I could by keeping him here at Carlisle. Last year we had upwards of 300 of our 1000 pupils so placed. If I can take care of so many, why can't you or some other good citizen continue Martin on these same best lines?

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If after reading this, you think the boy should come here, or
there is no better way open for him there, I will cheerfully ar-
range for his coming, and will be glad to receive him.

I notified Supt. Hall of the Ferris School that I would pro-
vide a substitute for the part of his leg which was taken off for
Ignacio Costo whenever Ignacio was ready to receive it.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa.,

June 30, 1900.

Mr. Philip C. Garrett,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Garrett :—

I have been bothered for some years with two girls, Ada Smith, aged 17 and Bertha Henry, aged 15, who came to us immoral and in spite of all I could do have continued immoral and become so coarse in their conduct that I ought not to reward them by sending them home, and they must quit the school. I was in yesterday to see Judge Henderson, one of my local board, about getting both of them into a reformatory at least for a time, and he suggested that you were connected with the state management and would know the best place and the modus operandi. Your long interest in Carlisle will, I feel sure, lead you to sympathize with me in this situation, and I ask your counsel. Even though the girls went to the reformatory for only a few months, it would be an advantage to the discipline of the school, and if it can go out to the reservations that bad and criminal characters are dealt with according to law when they come to Carlisle, it will restrain that sort from coming. As you know, I have a great deal of patience, and do not hesitate to use any measures that may seem able to accomplish a reformation. These two girls are so entirely incorrigible and have been so flagrant in their recent acts that I cannot allow them to go home after such conduct, and am not equipped with place or accommodations to keep them in perpetual confinement here.

Please let me hear from you at an early date.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1900.

Miss Para Gosten,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Gosten :-

I have your letter about your sister Alma, and my Mrs.
Dorsett who has charge of the girls, starts on her visiting tour
on Monday, and on Tuesday or Wednesday will make a thorough in-
vigation of the matter from our standpoint. Thank you for your
letter, and if conditions are anywhere near what you represent, Al-
ma will be changed at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1880.

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

My dear Brother Lawrence :--

Since getting the children from Lincoln who arrived on
the 28th I have just about (perhaps a little over) 200 New York
pupils in this school. This says to me not to receive any more
from your state unless they are very exceptionally bright, healthy
capable and desirable pupils, and then I could take only a very
ted. Those students of Lincoln who went home on leave, expecting
to come here in the fall, must be exceptionally good in quality to
make me accept them, and they must come for our regular five year
term, the five years to begin on their arrival here and terminate
at the end of the school year. We cannot send pupils home during
the school term, nor until the five years is actually completed, un-
less the graduate sooner.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

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

Sir -

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this School under provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 27th per S. C., No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A. G. C., 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.

Very respectfully,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

W. Perrier,
Bartlettsville, Ind. Ty.

Dear Mr. Perrier :-

I have your letter asking that your boys come home for the summer, and am sorry to disappoint you, but as they only came to Carlisle last fall, and for five years, they are not entitled to go home this summer, and therefore I cannot send them. Both are well and Eugene has gone to the country, where he will learn a good deal about farming, and earn some money for himself. This is far better for him than to be visiting. With the money it would cost to get your boys home you will be able to hire someone to help you with your crops, and thus give Thomas and Eugene a chance to keep on with their education without a break.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1900.

Mr. Edwin L. Chalcraft,
Supt. Indian School,
Shoshone Agency, Wyo.

My dear Chalcraft :--

I have yours of the 25th of June. The other day while
in Washington I had quite a talk with the Commissioner about sev-
eral matters and he told me it was on his mind to order Rakestraw
to take charge of the Shoshone school as Superintendent and promote
you to Supervisor in his place; that he believed in retribution and
thought that such a move would be excellent retribution. I told
him I thought so too, and while I had another suggestion to make
about a supervisor I would withdraw that in your favor. Whether
he will do that or not is perhaps something of a problem, for he
said he had never seen you but if he could see and talk with you
five minutes, he would know whether he could do that. The fact
that it was on his mind I thought would be some gratification to
you, and so I write it, of course confidentially.

It is my intention to go to Hot Springs, Arkansas soon after
I get rid of my fourth quarter's accounts; but if it is practica-
ble, sometime before a great while I wish to visit Shoshone Agency
if for no other purpose than to get a good chance at the trout fish-
ing which I have long known of there. Years ago General Sheridan
took President Arthur and Mr. Lincoln, Secretary of War, up there
on a fishing trip, and I knew a good deal about the place at the
time from both the President and Mr. Lincoln.

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