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Show 34 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE IXTERIOR. the circuit court to the First National Bank of Sisseton, depositary of funds in which Titus White, an Indian, is interested as benefici-ary, to show cause why an order should not be made by the court for the bank to turn over and deliver to the sheriff of Roberts County, S. Dak., the certificate of deposit covering the proceeds derived from the sale of the Titus White heirship land. The case came on for hearing before the court on July 18, 1905, United States Attorney J. D. Elliott appearing on behalf of the bank and moving the dismis-sal of the order to show cause. The motion was granted and the order was accordingly dismissed. Notice was served by the board of equalization of Thurston County, Nebr., upon the Omaha and Winnebago Indians interested in deposits in the Security National Bank, of Sioux City, Iowa, of the proceeds of sales of inherited lands, to show cause why such funds should not be assessed for taxation. The O5ce is advised by the Acting Attor-ney- General, through the Department, that a bill in equity has been filed in the United States circuit court for Nebraska by the United States attorney at Omaha to enjoin and restrain Thurston County, its county treasurer and county clerk, from enforcing the assessments and collecting the taxes. A restraining order to show cause why an injunction should not issue was granted by the court and the case was set for hearing on August 28, 1905. The action of the court has not been reported to this Office, but there appeared in the press dis-patches of September 14 a telegram from Omaha to the effect that Judge Munger had that day handed down a decision which declares that the Indian trust funds or heirship lands to which Congress has given a regular title are taxable the same as the property of any other citizen. This decision was brought to the attention of the Department on September 15, and by Department letter of Septem-ber 18 the Office was informed that the Attorney-General had been requested to instruct the United States attorney to take immediab action to perfect an appeal from the decision. INDLAN EDUCATION AT LARGE. TEE 8ECTABIAN CORTEACT SCEWL QUELITIOR. The education of Indian children was practically in the hands of religious associations alone during the first hundred years of our national history. These associations had planted missionary churches throughout the Indian country, and the instruction of the younger generation in secular as well as religious learning was a natural out- . growth of this. When the Government began to take an interest in educational work on its own sccount, it consulted its convenience as well as the welfare of its wards by entering into contract with |