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Show REPORT OF SCHOOL AT GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. 349 / to 3.000 gallons, where the mnddy water of the Colorada could be settled before being used at t%e school. One of the boildings has been set apart and fitted up as a hospital, where the sick pupils and also many deserving cases from the teservmtion, and, in fact, fmm other tribes who come here to have an infiamed hut sightless eve, a cancer. or some other abnormal growth removed, can receive the proper &of&ional treatment and necesmry care till they me well euongh to be sent away rejoicing. Severml typhoid and many other eases requiring weeks of careful treatment and continual nursing have been inmates of the hospital during the past year, and the teachers have been obliged to neglect their regn-lar work to attend to the nursing absolutely necessary to the recovery of these patients. I would respectfully urge that a hospital stewardess, with the necessary hospital sup-plies estimated for, he granted ns, to render efficient the humane work of this depart-ment. To render more efficacious our only means to secure a full attendance, namely, our requests to tho Indians to send their children to soh001 instead of allowing them to spend theirtime in the streetsaf Yums. Iemestly recommand that the authority asked for in a pre~iousle tter to the Indian Office, toemploy three Indian polioemen tosee that the children of school age he kept out of town and in regular sttendance at the school. The Indian parent will not ask his child to do anything it does not choose willingly to do, hut when they .are thus given to understand that they must send them to sehwl, a. full attendance will he secured. It is with much plemure that I hereby record my appreoiation of the good moral ehitracter and sterlingqudities of the school employts, who have so faithfully co-operahi with me in ourevery effort to make thin school s, practical lasting success, and to extend its good results even to Lhe squalid homes of the Indians on the reservation. I am nnder many ohli@tions to the officers of the Department for the many eonrtasies and favors of the nsst Tear. Very regpe~tfulfy, The COXMIS~IONEORP INDIAANPE AIRS. MARY O'NEIL, Superintendent. REPOET OF SCHOOL AT GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. GRANDJ UNCTICOONLO,. , Sept emh 21, 1889. SIB: In complbncewith instructious from your office, I have the honor to submit the following report of this school for the fiscal year 1889: On May 81 I receipted to my predecessor, Thomee H. Breen, for all public property pertaining to this school, and the following day entered npon my duties as snperintend-ent. At that time there were in attendance 7 pupils, and, having been here s. long time, they had become dissati8fied; hence, theywere returned to their homes. Aa to the anc-a s s of this school during the past year, much can not be said. . Carelessness seems to have hem prevalent everywhere. In troth, so far aa advancement is concerned, the Ss-1 year 1889 has been near 5 complete failure. The farm attached to the school has not been diligently attended to, scarcelyl~nyvcg-etahles or grain having been raised. The snm total of products, so far as csn he ascer-tained, are as follows: 7,000 pounds of oats, 500 pounds beets, 100 pounds cabbage, and 50 pounds of cucumbers. My predecessor attributes this unaueoesaful result to laek of wsteterand the general nnfrnitfulness of the mil. Be that assertion as it may, I have ob-served nice crops growing in our immediateneighborhood, and, if Imistake not, thesoil is similitr to that of the industrial farm. I am credibly informed that the Indian boy8 were at all times perfectly willing to render sesistance in the farm work, in caring for tams, and general out-door labor. To sum up this lack of agricultural ssoocess in a few words, it seems that what nature did not contrive to rear the management managed to deatroy. It shall he my earnest endeavor to make the farm and the grounds a credit to the orwnt management. Id relatiou tu tit',? school proper no very oomplimentlrg allosions van be made. Aps thy am1 iodiferpxlco seem to have persslled t h i ~da partluenr, and a listless s i r appears to ksehovercd over the home communitg during the loootlx of uncertainty and in-qoletode. Tns eiforts of Ex-Superintendent Breeo to obtliu pupils doring the year were not at tended with mnclt sucres. The Uro tribes do not look very fasarahly opoo this ~chool' owing in part, probably, to the ULe rrooble during the f3II of 1837, and the vrtioos mis |
