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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN COLOBADO. SANITARY. D- urine tho most of the vear their sanitarv condition has been sood. For three ~ montltr i;a?t, llowever, the& has heeu an urt8tsual nmount of 6trkae';i. Snvc.ral cob-tilgion. d i ~ ~ i l i ~ d I ~ ~ ( - t ! p ~ dt~l ~~ edrteh~l ~~ r~~gahtrh ie~*:,u ,in: couertion with rypllu-ni; tl.ir~;lil; vcr.r. have be.ir~u -rv d:Srulf to rnnnmoa. Tltern llnve beon SIX hinh, 3nd eight deaths dhing the year. " u CIVILIZATION. Bnt for the curse of the rum traffic oivilieation with these Indhnswould be anac-complished hot. For nearly ei ht years I have been with this people. I know the oharacter and habits of erery fidian. During these years my mind has alternated v i t h hope and fear. For weeks and sometimes for months together there seemed to me but one object uppermost in all minds, that of advancement in the scale of eivili- :za,tion; and then perhaps just os I would indulge in the thought of realizing my desire, that of seeing n. temperate and prosperous people, my hopes would be dashed t h pieces by aoms vandal selling whisky to my Indians. I mas sucoessful last fall in ~proscoutiugt ~ ofo the se infamous characters and securing their conviction. They were ssoh fined one hundred dollars and sentenced to imprisonment for one year. My oourae was oommended by all good citizens, but the whisky element haa been harmsingme ever since. I am ~atisfiende arly allof the Indians desire to be temperate, but they cannot withstand the temptation to drink when one offers to treat them, .and after once tasting liquor they become an easy prey to the seducer, and then some .of my best Indians spend in a single honken epree the accumulated proceeds of months of industry. Whisky and civilieatian with Indians are antipodal. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient sorvant, C. G. BELKNAP, United States Indian Agent. Th e C O M ~ ~ I O N EOPR I NDIAN APBAIRS. ~~~ ~ The ~ t e asi e niturai herders, ss is ahown by the inorease of their herds. SIRI:n obedience to instruotions received I have the honor to submit my seoand annual reonrt of the condition of affairsat t&s mencv. rada, which is well adapted to grazing pnrposes. They number 968, composed of Mnnches. 2fiQ: Canotes. 208: Weeminuohes. 491. They have large bands of home$ which, from natural increase andpurchase, are inoreasing very fast. During the past year the Government purohesed 4,800 ewes, which were distributed among the I~ldiansa t this agency. They take to sheep very well' they &ave dipped and sold to the trader about 6,000 pounds of wool from the sheep issoed ta them leat M ~ F A(IR1CULTURE. mt Utes at this agency are not inolinedto agrioultural pnrsulta, although1 thi& rvi.th. w,~ n~e r e noouralrement they oould be induoed to till the soil to some extent. So far&^ imve bad nc?opl>o~itlni&o f seeing what rl.-y cot~ldd o in rltar dir~ctiooa, e ~ ~ ~xluair~ l31o.d it9 iu lltllr ilr~guti~)n!u~J, rannot ile culrivntcd witlour. l.x?t wi~,. t..r 1 I ~ T * u ~f i r~e I~ci 1~1.. Iudiand tu CoI~Inwn~iaer n,iul: ou 3 svnnl! s~.nlm. Tliia the) ugrrell ru do lnvvidell thby eo8tld bv iur!.irhcd will! implsnsl+.l.ts. dcd, &c. 1 asked fur and of the approval of ,300 TV 1~0e xp~nderli l . ihis way, but n3 ir wnR 1he7rh oi ~ n n aue kve I rtwlrcd the rtlonr-1, i t wa6 ruo lnrn ru make any USI, uf it this p a r . I EDUCATION. xus uLool*lmre been eetsblisltnl ar rltir agenrp. IJodcr i~ntrurrionf rom rhe hon-orshlc Sacrrrarg of tlbo InreriurI nlnde rhe artenlpr ro seeore 111" children to ntrand ael,o,,l od' of rhe n:iPr\.%tlou, tilth little httpea of enrr.eri, ss rltcea Indians lrarc nl- -\cays uppc,wd HUJ. ~ o \ . co n he part of tlwi~n xmt toward^ od!~cilrion. .It f i rx 1 !I161 wirh grwr oppu~~r i aimn m rlw chiefs and head nlrn, the1 ;tPnguan,n n.auy re..onn ~ ~ tlrhrr rlrruu ld nut allu\v f l ~ r rvh ilclrenro EO roarhool: bnt afrer csplainiuz ro tltcrn &,zbck'firi ;ires rol.lcl (lWi\.b fronl i t , ?nd < m ~ r , nrh~e in that 1 1 ~sh~o.ll ld h';ve goad ~ ~ w r t u Iu bqiar U ~ ~ S I I C SiCu sC~Ir lIl~r l~ngr w Cnt~-fouPb n y and tlrr(1 girls, whoitre ss,fo\ r lor~toda t the All,taou~raue;S.' \lcs.) Indin18 srhoul. Raporrr frout rlhr iwincipnl x j .i~cllo ul .illor Illat ihej'nre'grtting a l u ~ ~wgr y woll, coinderint, the short rlme +bey 11nr1b: ecu there. I cao9idar rhcuan unusttallj. bri ht lot oiohilgron, nud expvrt mriafactnr~ iesulta 8 thty stay two geare,ae 19 o~pect~fi. |