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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. IX 1 twelve girls at Asheville, and twelve boys eaoh at Weaversville and Trinity College. They are to receive training in industrial pursuits, as well as in the school-room, and it is hoped that they will thns become fitted to elevate their own people and 1ea.d them in the right direction. But the number who can he educated in Eastern schools is and al- 1 ways must be a small fraction of the Indian youth who are entitled to receive an education at the hands of the government, and the necessity I for agency schools is not done away with, but increases yearly. The expense of educating Indians away *om their homes will preclude the possibility of more than a limited number ever receiving the advantages which those schools afford. The largest results for the expenditure made will, therefore, be obtained by selecting from' the agency schools the best material to be found therein; at the same time the hope of being thus chosen to receive such special training, as a recognition of merit,, will operate upon the pupils attending agency schools as a powerful .stimulus to earnest and persistent study and work. INDIAN POLICIOB. \ The practicability of employing an Indian police to maintniu order upon an Indian reservation is no longer a matter of question. In less than three rears the system has been put in operation at 40 agencies, and the total force now numbers 162 officers and 653 prirates. Special reports as to the character and efficiency of the services rendered by the police have recently been called for from its agents by this bu-reau, and those reports bear uniform testimony to the value and relia-bility of the police service, and to the fact that it8 maintenance, which was at first undertaken as an experiment, is now looked upon as a'ne- -cessity. The duties performed by the police are as varied as they are impor-tant. Inthe Indian Territory they have done effective work in arrest-ing or turning hack unauthorized intruders, in removing squatters' stakes, and in driving out cattle, horse, and timber thieves, and other .. outlaws who infest the country. One of the Osage policemen lost his life at the hands of a supposed horse thief whom he had arrested and was bringing into the agency. Another horse tliief, however, was snc. -ces~fullyca ptured and was turned over to the State authorities of Ean-sas for punishment.. In Dakota, surveying parties have required no other escort than that furnished by detachments of police from the different agencies. In Arizona, the San Carlos police for six years past have rendered invalnable service as scouts; and, in general, at all agencies Indian policemen act as guards at annuity pagmeuts; render assistance and preserve order dnring ration issues; protect agency buildiugs and property; return truant pupils to achool; search for and return lost or stolen property, whether belonging to Indians or white men; prevent depredations on timber, and the introduction of whisky on the reserva-tion; bring whisky sellers to trial; make arrests for disorderly conduct, |
