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Show 18 REPORT OF THE C O ~ S I O N E R OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The sum total of the reasons given were thus expressed by Superin- - tendent Peairs: The people sse willing to be taxed for the purpose of aiding general education, but I do not believe they would approve the expenditure of millions of dollars year after year, and then go meekly to ignorant, superstitious Indians and ask them whether they will send their cliildren to partake of the advantages provided and paid for. There is a feeling that Indian educational mrk should be only s. temporary one, which is certainly true. To this end we believe all Indian children of suitable age should be kept in school. Compulsory school laws have heen fully discnssed in previous reports of the Indian Department and action is again urged to the end that the final solution of t$ fate of the Indian may be hastened, the people relieved of heavy annual burdens for support of schools and adults, and the final disappearance of theIndian in the mass of white population. COURT DECISION AS TO RUNAWAY PUPILS. During the year 1900 an Indian boy, John Denomie, a son of John B. Denomie, a member of the Bad River tribe of Chippewa Indians, under the jurisdiction of the La Pointe Agency, in the State of Wis-consin, ran away from the Indian school at Flandreau, S. Dak., in which institution he had been regularly enrolled. Upon being gun-ished for some infraction of the rules of that institution, he left it and went back to the reservation. The superintendent of the Flandreau school sent word to the United States Indian agent for the La Pointe Agency, advising him of the disappearance of the boy and requesting his return if found, as provided by the rules for the Indian school . service. The United States Indian agent at Ashland, Wis., Mr. S. W. Campbell, directed Roger Patterson, the United States Government farmer at the Bad River Reservation, to ascertain if the boy was on the reservation, and if so to return him to the school. Patterson had the boy taken in charge by the police authorities of the reservation, and while on his way to the depot with the boy passed near the house occupied by the father of the boy, John E. Denomie. The boy's mother requested permission to say good-bye to her son, which request was granted. As soon, however, as the boy reached the door of the house the mother pulled him inside and locked the door, thus prevent-ing the entrance of the policemen or of Patterson. She persisted in .refusing to open the door after being informed by Patterson of the reasons why he had the boy in charge. Finally Patterson pushed the door open, thereby breaking the lock, again took the boy in custody, and returned him to the Indian school at Flandreau. A snit was instituted against Roger Patterson, as farmer at the Bad River Reservation, in the circuit court of Ashland County, Wis., by John B. Denomie. The United States district attorney for the western |