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Show 8 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. TABLE 2.-Nimber of Indian school8 and ava.age attendancafrom 1877 to 1898. Totals. Year. -4s the above tables indicate, thepast year has kept pace with its predecessors in showing s, steady increase in the enrollment of pupils, with a slightly increased percentage in regularity of attendance. Any advance in average attendance is a reliable indication of improved schools, earnest work on the part of agents, and growing appreciation of eancation by Indians. Among the best records are thefollowing: ar.e.n..s.o.n.. ......................................................................................................... .. ieger Colony.. ...................................................... 'ineRidge.. ........................................... ila>oarh.. .......................................... NONRESERVATION SCHOOLS. Since the date of the last annual report sis new trailling schools have been opened, as was then anticipated, at Pipestone, Minn. ; Mount Pleasant, 3lich.; Flandreau, S. Dak.; Tomah, Wis.; Perris, Oal., and Fort Sham, Mont. , The first four originated with Oongress. Perris is the only boarding school ever furnished for the Mission Indians in Cal-ifornia, and within two months from the date of opening, the school had nearly all the pupils which the buildings would accommodate. The Fort Sham school mas opened December 27,1892, in a military post vacated the previous year. |