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Show 400 RXPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. INDIAN STUDENT8 WHO ARE HELPING THEMSELVES. At most of the large schools the career of the pupils after leaving school is watched with interest, and reports are received from time to time. These show in general that the returned student is eudeavor-ing to overcome his environment and to prove himself worthy of the education he has received. The instances of useful and successful lives led hy Indians who have had the advantages of school training are numerous, many being successful and even expert mechanics-car enters, househuilders, blacksmiths, shoemakers, etc. TPhe followin is an extract from a report of the superintendent of the Carlisle 1n8an School, Pennsylvania: With the large number to be kept track of I can gire no accurate or detailed information, nor e v eng i~ea fair estimate of the number of graduates and nongradu-ates employed in the d~fferenpt ursuits of the country, but they are to be found in every capacity, as teachers clerks, trained nurses, housekeepers, dressmakers, farm-ers and stockraisers, two d inspectors of e m on the railroads, some assection bosses and hands in railroad repair shops and other mechanical establishments, and as enlisted men imthe Army andiiavy. One is in the realestate businessin Oklahoma, and is vice-president of a hank there. Another is bookkeeper in one of the large banks of l'ittsburg, Pa. Quite a number are living on their allotments. There were 100 of our graduates and nongraduates engaged in the Indian school service in 1902, filling positions as teacher, clerk, farmer, blacksmith, etc. The superintendent of the Oneida School, Wisconsin, reports that the majority of the students from this school are doing well, and that quite a number of them are engaged in farming. Out of 102 reported on from the Santa Fe School, New Mexico, 17 are rated excellent, 40 good, 31 fair, and 14 poor, showing that at least 85 per cent of the returned students from this school are doing fairly well. It was found here that the children of returned students were better cared for, their houses neater and more abundantly supplied with light and air, and that they have more personal tidiness. The career of Thomaa W. Alford as teacher, surveyor, farmer, and departmental clerk has had an important influence for good upon the Shawnee Indians of Oklahoma. He was graduated from Hampton a number of years ago, and his son, also a graduate of this institution, took a post-graduate course in agriculture this year. The mayor of Pender, Nebr., is Thomas L. Sloan, a Hampton graduate, who is a lawyer of rominence, havin recent1 been admitted to practice before the 8upreme Court of &e ~ n i t e f ~ t a t e s . The Big Horn Irri ting Canal, on the Crow Reservation, Mont., has been built by Inp an labor. This work haa been specially bene-ficial to the Crow Indians; it has furnished them remunerative labor; has taught them how to work, and has also shown them the necessity of having better horses. The Moquis at Keanis Canyon, Ariz., are all industrious. Their earnings last year amounted to over $8,000. A number of the young Indians have been encouraged to start little stores, and have been very successful. There are seven such stores now on the reservation. In New Mexico 42 oungmen from the Indian school at Santa Fe worked last yearon the Janta Fe Central Railway. The Mescalero Apaches clipped last year 15,500 pounds of wool from their own flocks, which brought them 13 cents per ound The 2,000 Indians on the Oneida Reservation are all racticafy self-supporting. The Indians of the Northwest and the ~ a c i gcco ast sup ort themselves by working in the canning factories and in the hop fie f ds. These are |