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Show I OOMMIHSIONEIL OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 105 elsewhere, leavi the old and infirm to shift for themselves. The total number of 3 ampos is said to be 28. I could find only 15 all told. The La Postas are sad to number 18 persons, but I could find only 7. The Manzanitas are said to number 62, but so far as. I could learn there are only about 25 ?ow living upon their reservation. The fact that most of those remallung are elther very old or very young seems to be further proof that the middle-aged have one out of the moun-tains, where the o portunities are greater for staining a livelihood. Growing out o P the agitation over the condition of the Campo and other Indians of this group, Miss Mamie Roblnson was stationed at Campo as field matron, and was given as assistant ,Miss Frances Lachappa, a Mesa Grande Indian. A building was hired for their accommodation and the Sequoyah League also employed and sta-tioned with them Miss Rosal~eN ejo, also a Mesa Grande Indlan to assist them; but I am not informed precisely as to what she considers her duties to be. A od air of horses and a wagon were purchased by Superintendent gel1 for their use, and they are thus enabled to visit the Indian families and inform themselves as to their condition. Considerable clothing was supplied bi l chantable persons through the Sequoyah League and this and ot er articles, such as blankets, etc., have been distributed. The building occupied is rented at $5 per I month. Miss Lachappa voluntarily opened a school in this budding and at the time of my visit there were 11 pupils in attendance, I although they have no school furniture exceptln a such as has been improvised by converting boxes into seats and t e coustruct~on of a table. The superintendent allows $5 per month to provide a noqn-day lunch for the children, which is cooked and served by the ladles in charge. About 1 mile from the matron's headquarters, Mr. E. H. Weegar, the location agent of the Sequoyah League, has a store, and he informed me that the league had placed $300 in his hands, with which to furnish supplies to the needy, and of that amount he had a balance on hand of $118. Mr. Weegar is very anxious that the Government should purchase more land for the Indians, which might be a good thing for those who are able to cultivate it, but. unfortunately the most of the adults left upon the reservations are either too old or too feeble to make use of very much land if expected to cultivate it them-selves. Most of the land is worthless and the Ind/ans are so few in number and so remote from white population that it is apparent that UI the past they have been overlooked and perhaps somewhat neglected, and their suffering has been widely commented upon by the press. Still Su erintendent Shell states that he believes that $1,000 would be a sugcient sum to provide for the destitute for the next year to come. This report serves to confirm the views of the Office that the desti-tution among these Indians was not widespread, and that the maga-zine statements were calculated to mislead the public and were unjust to the Office. HOBIE~SS CALIFORNIA INDIANS. The wrongs of the landless Indians of central and northern Cali-forina, parties to unratified treaties, have been before the Office for a |