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Show 416 REPOBT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN 80E00LB. useful trades are taught the boys, and the girls are instructed in gar-dening, woodwork, sewing, cooking, and laundering. Pnyallnp, Wash.-The Indians on this reservation are fairly well-civilized and own excellent tracts of land. The literary work is unusually good and the school is well-equipped for industrial train-ing. Several churches have been erected near the school and are doing good work. At the Chehalis day school the attendance is about twenty. The land belonging to the school consists of 471 acres, some of which is under cultivation. The pasture for cattle is especially good. At Skokomish very few Indian children attend the Government school. The district school is more aecessiblc, and the county includes the Indian children in it.s school enrollment, drawing a per capita for each child so included. AR there are only 113 Indians on this reser-vation, the children should be urged to attend the white schools. Neah Bey, Wash.-The Neah Bay day school employs two teachers and is doing satisfactory work. Tnldi~W, ash.-A .g .o od mission school was formerlv in oneration here, akl lllr GoveI'n~~~ltte~s rt~~tu rre cently taken (:heric. l.he pt.tSp. arelion fw flw work of the 0vh001 for the pre~cnt yeav isw~fisfart~ry. At 1'01'1 Madison, under the T u ~ HA~-g e~ucDv. n dav school in also in ", operation. The Indians of the State of Washington own fine tracts of land and are uossessed of considerable numbers of cattle and horses. They are very yrogrrsxi\.r, and pracfically 011 a lcvel with the whitrs, and sl~onldb e ler~uirrcda nd encouraged td lnanagc their o\vrl affei1.s without looking to the Government for support. Oneida, Wig.-This is among the best schools I have visited. The buildings are modern and in good repair, and the surroundings well kept. The work in the literary and industrial departments is good, but the facilities in the latter department are inadequate. The man-agement of the school is satisfactory. The moral and religious welfare of the children is carefully looked after at all of these schools. Besides the schools enumerated, there are a number conducted by charitable organizations which are doing commendable work. Statementsin detail concerning the oondition, requirements, and defects of the various schools inspected have been placed in the hands of the honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs. REFURNED STUDENTS. The student who has ~eturned from school continues to exercise a potent influence for good upon the reservation Indians, and statistics show that a large percentage of returned student,^ (at least 76 per cent) make good average citizens. The lack of system in the transfer of pupils should be remedied and some plan devised whereby the reservation and nonreservation schools will be filled systematically by pupils advanced from day schools, just as our high schools are filled with recruits from the grammar grades. Each year the day school teachers should make a list of those children who have completed the'day-school course, and a strong effort should be made to induce the parents to oonsent to the |