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Show ago, and included the school wamnts then unpaid, iesud between Octotier 1, 1901, and March 31, 1902, and amounted to more than '8100,000. Some warrants issued during this time and not included in this list had been previously paid; and it wris stated that probably $50,000 more still remained unpaid. This extravagant sum, however, does not represent the entire expenditure for the period indicated, aa a considerable amount of similar warrants had been already paid from other funds besides the royalties on coal and asphalt. The supervisor says: That much unjuat favoritism exists in the payment of these warranta is very evi-dent, as a few persons who are "near the crib," as one of them expr~medit , obtained prompt payment from any funds coming into the Chickasaw treasury, while others must wait two or three years for payment upon warrants of similar datc. One of the boarding school contractara claims, I am informed, that his warrants are piid np to date, and he has more than once told me that he makes more money on the purchase of warrants than from his school, and I know him to he a heavy dealer in warrants beaides his own. Another contractor informed me that it was only by becoming a stockholder in a bank which, till its recent failure, was the depository of the funds of the Chickasaw Nation, that he could obtain payments upon his warrants, and that by so doing he received considerable more than parties not thus favored. All efforts to get the Chickasaw authorities to admit noncitizeus has proven a failure. Statistics from the schools are fragmentary, incomplete, and proba-bly inaccurate. Such as they are, however, they are presented in the following table: Name of sohyl. I I I I I sNo report. Seminole Bation.-The schools of this nation are conducted without any supervision by the Gene131 Government and therefore statistics are not available. Denod&atibnil in8 privatk school$.-These institutions are conducted under the auspices of various religious bodies and by private individ-uals. Their work in the main is good and productive of valuable results in the e&ucatiooal advancemeiit of the Iddiah youth. |