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Show 22 REPORT OF THE CO3CMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. well-made cabinets, a miniatwe harrow and road scraper and a model of a ship. The decorative effects were g~ven by Chippewa rush mats, Navajo blankets, Pueblo pottery, fmined photographs of Indian school build-ings and p n p ~ la~r,t work by Carlisle students, and, in the windows, transparencies of scenes from Indian life. High over all hung a birch-bark canoe. Mnchinterest was manifested in the exhibit, and though of course it was not entered for competition, it received the award of a gold medal. Most of the articles were returned to the respective schools, but the school-room work and enough azticles to fill two of the four large eases, which were made by the Carlisle school for the exposition, have been retained in this Bureau for a permanent exhibit of what is being done in the way of praotical Indian education. INDIAN SCHOOL SITES. In the annual report of this office for 1898 (pp. 879-897) there was given a history of the lands assigned to twenty-five Indian schools, with description of titles. S~milairn formation was given in the annual report for 1893 (pp. 469474) in regard to five other Indian schools. I have incorporated in the annual report for this year (pp. 496) similar information regarding the lands of the schools at Jicarilla, N. Mex.; Wichita, on Kiowa Reservation, Okla., and Stockbridge, Wis.; also additional information respecting the Fort Lewis Industrial School lands in Colorado. September 20,1894, Mrs. Mary J. Platt, a teacher in the Indian sew-ice in charge of the day school on the Temecula Reservation under the Mission Agency, Cal., was brutally murdered and the schoolhonse was burned over her body. Two Indians, Mateo 1% and Pranoisco Guavis, were arrested and tried in the United States district court, south en^ district of California. The latter made a confession of the crime, implicating Mateo Pa, and in his case a nolle prosequi was entered iu order that he might be used as a witness against Mateo Pa; but thejnry acquitted Mateo Pa and he was released. February 14,1896, a confession was made by one Ventura Molido, an Indian, declaring that the murder of Mrs. Platt was committed by Francisco Guavis, Francisco Rodreqniez, Daco, and himself (all Indi-ans), after all had assaulted her. The details of the crime as stated by Molido were most revolting and showed that Gnavis instigated and directed the horrible affair. An indictment was returned by the grand jury of fros Angeles County against Guavis, Rodrequiez, and Daco, and they were tried in the criminal conrt of that county in May,,l896. At this trial the jury failed to agree and they were again tried in June. At this trial Molido |