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Show less weakening than the plunge. At the Oheyenne school, at the Chey-enne and Arapaho Agency, Okla., this system of bathing has been in vogue for a year or more, and its excellent results have justified its universal adoption in Indian schools. R~ SOMP NEW WORK. The most elaborate of the new work of the past year has been under. taken for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies, to which are attached the largest of the Sionx reservations. Their school plants are the largest and most wmpletely appointed of any recently established on reservations. They have a rated capacity of 200 pupils each, and are intended to supply the needed boarding-school accommodations for the Indians of those agencies. Planned in mwrdance with modern idea€ of school architecture, adapted to their especial nse and surroundings, supplied with modern systems of ventilation, heating, lighting, and sewerage, they are models of the kind, and are types of this class 01 schools. They will be open for the reception of pupils by the 1st 01 October. At Warm Springs, Oreg., the new school building, supplied with all wnveniences for 150 pupils, will be ready for the opening of school September 1. Contracts have been made for the nonreservation school for 100 pupils at Chamberlain, S. Dak., and for the Sac and Fox school at Tama, Iowa, and the buildings will soon be ready for the reception of pupils. At Red Moon Issue Station, Oheyenne and Arapaho Agency. Okla., a new school will soon open with a full corps of teachers. The school buildings at Santee, Nebr., and the dormitory at Yakima, Wash. were burned during the year, and new buildings have been erected in their stead. A burned dormitory and a mess hall at Lemhi, Idaho hiwe been replaced. Xaterial additions to the school plants at Flan dreau, 8. Dak., and Mount Pleasant, Mich., so aa largely to increasc their capacity, are now under way and will doubtless be completed a1 an early date j a180 a new school building at Cherokee, N. 0. The old dormitory at Greenville, Cal., burned down and a new one has beer contracted for. Fort Bidwell, in the northeastern corner of California, having beer abandoned by the military, has been turned over to this oflice. At small expense it has been converted into an Indian school. The fol lowing contract schools have been purchased or leased and are nos being conducted as Government schools; Catholic boarding schools a1 Morris and Clontarf, Minn., and day schools at Taos, Santo Domingo San Felipe, Acoma, Isleta, and San Jnan, N. Mex.; Presbyterian daj schools at Jemez and Zuni, N. Mex.; and the Grace Mission Boarding School, Crow Creek Reservation, 8. Dak. An old wool factory at Wil liam's ranch, i'doeneopi Wash, Arizona, has been pnrchased, and wil be remodeled for Indian school purposes. After wnsiderable delay a new quasi-boarding school is to be erected for the Navajo Indiana a |