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Show COMWISSIONER OR INDIAN AFLFFAIFS. 9 public schools in certain localities where school districts were not financially prosperous, even though in some cases they were legally entitled to attend, as their parents were citizens of the State, though not necessarily taxpayers. Contracts for tuition have formerly been based upon quarterly enrollment and attendance, but it has been found more advantageous to provide that such payments to the school districts shall be made at a given rate per pupil per day of actual attendance. The larger number of children are being educated in the public schools of the several States where no payment is required. This . public-school training for the Indian children is a very valuable aid in their civilization. SOHOOL FACILITIES FOR PAPAQO INDIANS, ARIZONA. The Indian appropriation act of August 1,1914, pltovided the sum of $50,000 to be used to supply school facilities for the children of the Papago Tribe of Indians in Arizona. There are nearly 6,000 of these Indians, of Whom about 290 have received allotments on the San Xavier Reservation, but the larger number have been for more than 200 years scattered over the public domain in southern Arizona. Some of them have filed clsims thereon under the general laws re-lating to homesteads. They have been self-supporting in this very arid country and have indicated an unusual interest in and capacity for whatever educational opportunities the Government may offer. This appropriation has provided several day schools, each with a cnpacity of 30 pupils, which are located at the Indian villages of Indian Oasis, Santa Rosa, Gila Bend, Chiu Chuischu, and Cockle-burr, under the jurisdiction of the Pima and San Xavier Indian schools. These schobls will be opened in the fall of 1915. NAVAJO SCHOOL FACILITIES. To carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 8, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation there was provided in the Indian appropriation ad for the current year $100,000 for establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools for these people. A part of this appropriation has been used to in-crease the capacity of schools on these reservations: Navajo, 100 pupils; Western Navajo, 20 pupils; San Juan, 26 pupils; Pueblo Bonito, 60 pupils; total, 206 pupils. These figures represent largely boarding-school capacity, as day schools are available only to a limited extent by reason of the nomadic habits of this tribe. IXDUSTRIAL WORK FOB GIRLS. All that may be done to better the industrial condition of the In-dians will be largely wasted if the living conditions of the families are not right. The prospcrnus Indian farmer or stockman must have |