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Show 50 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The request for a contract on behalf of the mission scl~ool on the Quapaw Reservation was submitted to the national council of the tribe and was approved by it. Contracts for fisod year 1908.-The table below shows these con-tracts for the fiscal year 1908: Pwf~iZs contracted for and attendtng contract schools during the year ended June SO, 1908. St Jase h's lnduahlsl Menominee ............ st. LO% .... : ......... : owe ................... St. JOhn'8 ................... do .................. St. Man's .............. Quapaw ................ St. Francis' ............ Rosebud Sioux ......... a01 ROS&TY Pine Ridge sioux ...... st2%babrrss..::::::::::: Northern Cheyenne, Ton eRiver +=.oulate coneep- crow PL....I ... ..... uon. Do ................. Lower BmM ............ 482. W TOW ....................................... 876 .......... 96,988 81, 882.1s An appeal was taken by Reuben Quickbear and his colleagues to the Supreme Court of the United States, which on May 18, 1908, a b e d the decree of the lower court, Chief Justice Fuller saying: We Concur in the decree of the court of appeals of the District and the rea-soning by which its conelusion is supported, as set forth in the opinion of Wright, J., speaking for the court Contvact8 for jiscal year 1909.-On July 1, 1908, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions requested contracts for the fiscal year 1909 for St. Joseph's Industrial School on the Medominee Reservation, 150 pupils; St. Mary's, Quapaw Reservation, 9 pupils; St. Labre's, Tongue River Reservation, 60 pupils; Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge Res-ervation, 200 pupils; St. Francis Mission, Rosebud Reservation, 250 pupils; Immaculate Conception, Crow Creek Reservation, 50 pupils; and for 6 pupils from Lower Brd6 Eeservation, 25 puGil~ from Cheyenne River Reservation and 7 pupils from Yankton Reservation to attend the Immaculate Conception School on the Crow Creek Res-ervation; all of the foregoing contracts to be at the rate of $108 per capita per annum; also for St. Louis, Osage Agency, 75 pupils, and St. John's, Osage Agency, 65 pupils, both at $125 per capita. There being no trust or treaty funds of the Yanktons for making a contract as requested, the bureau was so advised. Supplemental petitions were sent to the Menominee, Tongue River, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Crow Creek and Lower Bml4 agencies, for the addition and elimination of signatures, as provided in the original five-year petition presented laxt year to these Indians. An original petition is now before the Sioux Indians of the Cheyenne River Reservation, on the request of the bureau for a con- |