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Show 354 REPORTS CONCERNING INDIANS IN WA8EIINGITON. The emDlo~ees have all been faithfml and effioient. Excellent work has been done in even nc rtmenr. KqwrttoEoffieia~lsla ve O T C ~ ~ ~ IBI YV OM"P8 ~d Winfi the pl year. !think pur larmroxoPersllons will be 1arrlymvrl.sslul rbls year, unlem the warerrupply beenmra exnausreo. I have no reeommend~tittoatso make, except that something bedone to induce these people tosend their children to sohool. Very respectfully, JNO. M. COIUIONBT, eacher In Ckwge. The CoaranssIoX~%o r INDIANAF BAIRB. (Through H. P. Myton. United States Indian Agent.) REPORTS CONCERNING INDIANS IN WASHINGTON. REPORT OF AGENT FOR COLVILLE AGENCY. COLVILLAE QENCYM, iles, Wash., September 2, 1908. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following brief report concerning the a£hirs of this agency for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902: If I am able to judge correctly, most of the Indims under the jurisdiction of this agenc are making reasonable progress, su porting themselves fairly well, and grad-ually i;ecominx more intellieent and self-&ant. As a matter of fact. there are manv of them. hc \ i iwr , m 1*, \~.I~Oc?iF.~ lditi~ann d progres9 I know V Q ~ ?l itrlc., u I a& :;:i;rr.coldo m ahlr It1 zw either t l t rmnvl r~<~.r~t h~w r hon>ei. Then is tl l ave numhrr ellu ierohahlv bavr ilt.r csen seen nn aaencv farn?err.ru i,ljlivro~u.rI~nr in,r thc ~ ~ ~ ~~ - ~ past vear, an& this nimber includes some criGinds whom I have been endeavtrine Tor nionths to have apprehended. Chiefly because of 80me lawlessness on the pas of the few, which seriously hampers the progress of man others, it would be highly desirable for the agent to be in more effective touch wit% the more remote parts of the several reservations of this agencv. The territorv under the iurisdietion of t h i ~ |