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Show 440 REPORT8 OF INDEPENDENT EICEOOLS REPORT OF SCHOOL AT M)RT LEWIS, COM. FORTLE WISS CHOOL, Breen, Colo., August 90, 1904. Sra: I have the honor to submit the following as my annual report of Fort Lewis School for the fiscal year 1904: The attendance at the beginning of the schuol year was small, as the parents of the children who went home during the vacation were slow about bringing them back. Nearly all were ultimately returfled, however, and new pupils were added till there were actually present 174. Of these all hut 17 were full-blood Indians. The discipline of the school has been excellent. The pupils are the most orderly of any Indian children with whom I have come in contact, and it is very seldom that regulations are deliberately broken. The health of the school has been generally ood An epidemic of chicken ox caused a great deal of inconvenience because of the number sick at one time, %os-pitalaccommodations being entirely inadequate. Three eases o f t phoid early in the fall, one case during the winter, and a case of pneumonia whicg seemed hkel to develop into consumption were the most serious ones during the year. The liL of the laat-named patient was saved by his being taken out of the hospital and put into a tent, where he immediately began to mend and where he continued to live until entirely recovered. The principal improvement made in the school plant during the.year was the extension of the sewer. As there was no school carpenter no request was made for material with which to make repairs, except such as could be done by the school force. The greater part of the industrial work of the boys has been in the line of farm-ing. Only asmallacreage was put into crop this spring, as there was no snow durin the winter and hence no water for irrigation. But the stock has been well care$ for, the fences have been kept up, fields have been cleared of rocks and brush, and what little water came down the river in the spring was used to the best advantage in irrigating the garden and the alfalfa. A good detail of ho s has been kept with the blacksmith and engineer, and the tailor and shoe shops Kave turned out a great deal of ver creditable work. With the girls there haa been little chance for speciaf instruction, except in the sewing room and the laundry. In these two departmeuts, however, the instruction has been as thorough as has been possible. Schoolroom work has been carried as far as the sixth grade, there having been no pupils that were further advanced. The greatest stress has been laid upon the teach-mg of the pupils to talk English, a very difficult matter where so neaily all are of one tribe. Very respectfully, W. M. PETERBONSu, perintendent. The C ~ M M I ~ ~ IOOP NINEDI~AN AFFAIRS. REPORT OF SCHOOL z& GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. GRANDJ UN~IGOONLO.. ,S eptember 91,1904. Sm: I hwe the honor to submit my fourteenth annual report of the Grand Junction Indian Trainine School. it beinn the rewrt for the fiml vear endine June 30. 1904. 0enersl.- SiGe my last rnporiu,r ha<ebuc c raddinrom~l c t in~s i~!t~r~~~ rov;~u?nta in theappenmnm,coftho plnutasran romefrotnafairetnnd of g m i l l the rfintrni lawn, a bodv oi larrd 1% feet dren arhl tilo lcer wide. Thia o~~i v e aas invitinu sonearxnn to ~ ~ ~ ~ - - ~ - - ~ - ~~ the dace and is marred odv hv the factthatthe trees on the old nart of the lawn are bet& grown and, in ameasbre;destroy the bilateral symmetry of the yard, and by a htrildinr: wlli#f, it ia my hop. and intriti<,nt <,rcvta,veh **.,c,n & i r id I,oi-ilolt~1 81 1101111e the rhola am1 pmprry tlierein. The rmtoval (of th, 1,silaling will take @.,me of rile arlrcuance uf wrilrhr ~ T C I I I It h9t sitlr 01 the nlnnr. n.llilc 1110 +lrertion c,f the new lnera h a 1 and emplovees' quarters and the new linndrv on the o ~ ~ o s isitdee will add mass tn rhnr in ~ & hi n nmb~~ansr to giw a hla~tcedf iniahrtl ai,i~rarn~rceaq ualld hy no plant in the aenfice that hns romo under lnv ohper\.ation. Indashis1 work.-This division has suffed Onauee ui inrffirienrv in aome d e w 6 ments and lack of ability to secure employees in others. The raiseif salaries fo; the |
