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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIO~ER OF INDIAN AFPAIRS. 125 ranks, but not enough to encourage ahope of their general dissolu-tion. The problem. presents some most unusual phases. The Office bas been embarrassed by other necessities of the Service which have prevented its sending to Oraibi the particular inspecting officers most competent to cope with conditions like those described. ' This has delayed proceedings considerably, but I have felt that it would be better to go slow and make fewer mistakes than to plunge in and attempt to straighten out a. tangle which might only be made worse thru an error of hasty judgment. All that I can do, therefore, for this report is to rehearse the preliminaries as I have been able to make then1 out from the testimony now before the Office, without venturing to ma.ke public the alternative plans which I have under coisideration, to be pursued according to the way the situation develops on closer scrutiny and more'satisfactory analysis. PAPAQO INDIANS. In my last a ~ n arlep ort .I directed attention to the need of secur-ing lands for about 150 families of Papago Indians in Pima County, southwestern Arizona. During the last year the Office has been endeavoring to gain more specific infoimation concerning these In-dians, with a view to allotting them lands under the general law, but up to the present time nothing tangible has been accomplished. BEE CULTURE FOR THE CABIP W'DOWELL INDIANS. Last February a resident missionary of the National Indian Asso-ciation and the superintendent of the Phoenix Indian School united in rewmmendig.that authority be granted George H. Gebby, of Phoenix, Ariz., to take about two hundred colonies of bees into the . Camp McDowell Indian Reservation in Arizona and teach the In-dians there how to keep k s . After due consideration the Office, on May 21, recommended to the Department that Mr. Gebby be given the necassarg permit with the distinct understanding- 1. That he is to remain during proper behavior, andsubject to the Department, for not less than three years, and for such1 additional time as the Department may see fit to grant. 2. That he is to instruct the Indians of the reservation in bee cnl-ture and to requeen their klonies at least every two years. 3. That he is to teach the Indians how to use. his machine for making cone foundations, and is to give them free use of it. 4. That he is to acquire no vested right whatever in or to any land on the lgservation, and he may be removed without prior notice. The recommendation was approved on May 24, and the superin-tendent was directed to advise Mr. Gebby accordingly. A smaller experiment in bee keeping had already been started there by the missionary. She reported on September 25 that she took eight colonies of bees with her to the reservation, bought patent hives and |