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Show REPORTS OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. 559 The COMMI~SIONEORF INDI~ANFB AIRB. REPORT OF FORT HALL SCHOOL, IDAHO. FORT HALL BOARDING SCIIOOl, Blackfoot, Idaho, October 1,1891. SIR: I have the honor to forward my second annual report of the Fort Hall In-dustrial School for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. In our report of 1890 we geveae campletes. history of the school asd the buildings as the files of our office would afford. As the name indicates, the original buildings were oonstruoted by the War De-partment during the years 1870 and 1871, whioh mere transferred to tho Interior Depmtment by an act of Congeas in 1892 for Indian sahoul pUrpo8e6. 1 3 s build; ings are uniformly looated around a rectangle 260 by 500 feet. 8ohool.-At the opening of the school, September 1, vro experienced very little d i d culty in seaurinw the attendance of all the children our buildings would aocammo-date. On ~ o r e k h e r14 we had on our roll 105 industrious and oontented children. November 15 scarlet fever swept in u on us and st.rtlok donn 68 children in ten days. Eight Indian children diod in soffool and 30 diod on tlls reservation. Janu-ary 14, when the fwer had apparently vanished and me believed the morst to he over, our own little girl 4 years old, the pet of the Indian children and the idol of our home, took sick, and January 19 Cod oalled her from earth to heaven. The literary department 8f the school was closed from November 15 for four months. The children ware not in condition to study on account of weak epes for nearly two months after they were apparently well Ikom the fever. |