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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER QF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXIII of the treaty. .With the right kind of teachers, who will, in addition to work in the school-room, look after the general interests of the bands in ' whose midst they are located, these schools will constitute four civiliz- 1 ing centers, and the influences going out therefrom will be felt in every part of the tribe. There is no doubt that a well-organized s ~ s t emof neighborhood day schools, carried on in connection with a central board-ing school, will at many agincies exert a more powerful and a more rapid inflnence over the whole tribe than if boarding schools alone were at-tempted, especially in view of the fact, already referred to, that the funds which can be applied to the support of boarding schools are utterly dis-proportioned to the number of children ready to be educated in them. The jealousy of factions, national conservatism, and a superab~~ndance of tribal funds (which took away the necessity. for labor) have conspired to keep the Osages farther down in the scale of civilization than other tribes which are less advantageously placed, and have received less attention from the government. Out of 1,600 full-blooded Osages only eight have yet adopted civilized dress. At the same time the new in- ' terest in honssbuilding, which has sprung i ~ dpu ring the year, and espe-cially the request of the Osages that all rations except the beef ration be discontinued, mark au important era in their tribal history, and rapid progress from this time forward may reasonably be expected. Their efforts at farming have been commendable, but owing to the drought but 20,000 bushels of corn have been harvested from 1,999 The cattle fever has also made serious inroads on their herds. The schools hare been better filled, and the attendance of the children has been more regular than ever before. Freight,ing has been taken hold of with en-ergy and zeal, and the only difficulty with which the agent has to con-tend is "to decide who shall have the preference in getting the bnsiness." Equal interest in freighting is shorn by the Kaws, and iu most re-spects their condition is similar to that of the Osages, except that they are still willu~g-to use an expression of the Osages-"to he fed like dogs," and manifest no desire to have any portion of the regular ration discontiui~ed. The 200 Quapaws who have gradually left their o m re-serve (where they had become thoroughly demoralized) and settled among the Osages, seem to have been benefited by t.he change, and begin to show a disposition to work. The few implements issued to them in t,he spring were so gratefully received and faithfully used as to encourage the office to make further efforts in their behalf. For the "wild tribes" in t.he Territory-the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, Comanches, and a fev Apaches-the year has been an espe-cially quiet and prosperous oue. Freighting has tamed into a healthy direction some of the surl>las energy of Indians, who, while they have decided to remain at agencies and draw rations, have yet fonnd in farm-ing and other civilized avonntioils no accephble substitnte fdr the free-dom of life on the plaius. The removal of the Kiowa and Comanche Agency from Fort Sill to |