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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 131 believed. however. that eventuallv all diseased children in the North-west can be enrolled. Day schools.-Four day schools had beeu established just rior to my visit, as follows: No. 1, in Three Mountain district; go. 2, in Lott's district; No. 3, at Nespelem subagency; No. 4, in Barnaby district. Many chldren were not in school, for want of accommoda-tions, ,but completion of the additional day schools authorized will materially remedy this condition. The Indians on this reservation own fertile tracts of land, keep good horses and vehicles, and are in a position to earn a cpmfortable Iivine. Some of them are doin-s well. but whiskv is a decided draw- back70 their success. Puualhv (reservation) SchooZ. at Tacoma.-Some of the build-ings it t6e Loarding school are 'in good condition; others are old and should be replaced. Good work was bemg done in the class rooms, and upon completion of the course several upils entered the local high school and made creditable records. &though the boys receive practical training in gardening, little other industrial in-struction is given, there being practically no shoP fac.ilitie s. The sur- rounding economic conditions mak0 it an ideal ocation for a manual training school. and vour new nolicv m ree-a rd to this school wlll nndoubTedly create a h e institAion." Day schools.-There are five day schools under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of the Puyallup boarding school, viz, Chehalis, Quinaielt, Skokomish, Port Gamble, and Dungeness The Quinaielt school is situated near the homes of the pupils, and the housekeeper was interested in the welfare of, the puplls and visited their homes, teaching the parents bread malung and general housekeeping. The Skokomish school has beeu moved to a point more accessible to the Indian homes. TUIALE' (RESERVATIONS)O H001.. There are about 1,425 Indians under this school, and a frqir proportion speak sufficient English to be understood. Each ,year more homes are made and allotments cleared, and they are beginning .to realize that industry is repald by good crops. All fnarnages are solemnized under state law. Government rations are issued only, to the aged, sick, and incapacitated. Since the monopoly of the fishing industry by white immigrants the Indians have turned to lumbering and agriculture as a means of livelihood. The whisky traffic has proven a menace to the advancement of many. The general condition of the boardmg-school plant is good, and the sanitary arrangements the best I have seen at any school in the service. The superintendent, who at the time of my visit was also a physician, watched closely the health of pupils. The class-room work was good and, as far as local. conditions would permit, was correlated with the industrial trainmg. The pupils were making progress, and the interest parents took in the school was rtiemg. About 10 acres of land had been cleared, fenced, and a ded to the school farm, and an orchard set out. The school garden promised |