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Show REPORT OF INDIANS IN FLORIDA. 13.5 and while eight hours constitutes a day's work? it runs from ten to twelve hours per diem here during the season, as the winter months permit of iittie in the way of work other t.han care of stock, repair of farm maohinery, buildings, mire stretching, and a general clean up. Game law.-The Utes have been thoroughly advised as to the provisions of the recent supreme court decision in the Wyoming-Bannock case.and as yet no viola-tion of the game laws has been reported by wardens. and but few Indians have solicited permits to hunt. The allotted Utes have been taught to recognize that they are now ractimlly under the provisions of the State laws, and obedience will be exactelor punishment visited. As the men about all wear boots or shoes and squaws are a secondary consideration, they do not miss the buckskin for footwenr or require it for other than "fancy dress." Ddennesa.-There have been several cases of quiet and one of noisy drunk; the latter occurring in Durango this month, where the Indians had been permitted to go and view the Pythian conolare. The drunken Indian was placed in jail and the bfexican who provided the whisky is in confinement, awaiting trial in the United States court. We now have one Mexican in penitentiary for selling whisky to Indians and proof of p i l t of present prisoner. There are others of this class who trafficin whisky constantly, hut the work of detection is difficult and tedious, as the Indians are reluctant to inform unless imprisoned. Conolosian.-In concluding what may prove my last annnal report to'present superiors, I would indeed he nngratefnl not to express gratitude and thanks for the kind, considerate, and courteous treatment extended by Commissioner Brown-ing and Assistant Commissioner Smith and theinspectorsandexecutive employees with whom I have come in business and social contact. In business they have hen rigid and exacting, yet considerate when passing upon error and courteous in desiguatingthe weakspots in agents. Itis theambition oE all who are endowed mith the finer feelings which should characterize the public official to succeed. or excel in every undertaking, and if the honorable commissioner and his assistant encounter unpleasant conditions they \rill not he at the Southern Ute Agency, as of the three tribes turned over by predecessors in the blanket, two of the three will be returned practically in the plow. The task of an Indian agent is a thankless one; he is labeled as s. "thief" when his bond is filed, and no matter how earnest his efforts, how sincere his aims, he is hounded and defamed in his immediate section from start to finish, and by a class whom hades would experience more or less trouble in duplicating. I remain, very respectfully, DAVID F. DAY, United States Indian Agent. The COBI~ISSIONEORF INDIANA FFAIRS. REPORT OF INDIANS IN FLORIDA. REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL TEACHER FOR THE SEMINOLES. SIR: I have tine honor of comolving with Indian Office instmctions, in forward-ing the f,,llowinl: relrort of tla.>fminolo t~rdiansin Vloridu fur l69ri. There is vrry litrlv ro IRpOrt ~lidcrt,~flrro m Id!?>; the 11ur111,ero f Indians and their location in nructicnllv thc iu~nv: the rare of hirrhs and death8 wa* illr,uL equal, with ~ e r h ia~ ~s1 i~hg"ati n. AB stated in mevious renorts, i t is im~ossible tci keel, a cI&e record on ncfomtt of their scarteir,d c-ol~ditidu. The whit.! nun's dinrases sceln to ha more ancl rnoro provailinl: among tbem-revere colds. fewr,, rl!r~~rnntisnnr.t c. Th~sa. nd rhrir mod* of 11vin-x. . nu clr,ubt. is tho cause of their slow increase. Camp work.-Their camps were visited a8 much as means and time would permit. There being only two employees allowed, and Cfoverpment property, etc., to look after, and no funds to hire extra labor, the most lmportilnt work among these Indians had to be limited. As there is no resen-ation, and the Indians are entirely independent of the agent in charge, we can not, make them come to us, though no doubt they would come if left to themselves; hut the ones who want them to remain Indians take advanh e of theirnntutoredminds, keep on prejudicing them against the Government, anf thus keep them away. While there is a constant |