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Show Education - 212 whether to return these children. Peterson also requested official approval that the area trader, Mr. Noland, be required to withhold credit from those Utes not sending their children to school; withholding of annuity payments has proved ineffective, as the Utes were being thus supplied. Dec. 9, 1904 Peterson, W. M., Supt., Ft. Lewis School Letter to Capt. A. S. Rowan, Vancouver Barracks, Wa. Peterson seeks information re: taking out of irrigation ditches at Ft. Lewis during the time Rowan was quartermaster. Information about the time of the first taking of the water from LaPlata River is relevant to the establishment of water rights for the school. Dec. 12, 1904 Peterson, W. M., Supt., Ft. Lewis School Letter to Capt. John McA. Webster, Mackinac Island, Mi. Peterson seeks from Webster, former quartermaster at Ft. Lewis, the date on ditch construction and first taking of water from LaPlata River in order to establish water rights for the school. 1905 Custer, Burton B., Supt. & Spl. Disb. Agent Annual Report of the Dept. of the Interior Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1905 Agent gives educational statistics for the Colorado Utes. S. S. # 4959 Jan. 6, 1905 Peterson, W. M., Supt., Ft. Lewis School Letter to Earl M. Cranston, Dist. Atty, Denver Peterson reports that he has assembled affidavits about the taking out of the Ft. Lewis ditch, with time and quantity of water taken specified. He requests assistance from Cranston in completing necessary preparation of evidence for water rights |