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Show BEPORT OX COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 137 , Bmployed at agencies: Aeene~v" internreters--------------.--..---.---..---------.---------- 6 Agency clerks----------.--.----.----------------------------- 10 Agency police---.---------------..-.--.----.---.---.---------.----- 8 Agency s o. . 3.5 Agency farmers .................................................... 4 Professions: Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Anthropologists .................................................... 2 L w e ........................................................... 1 Editor ............................................................ 1 Army and navy 8 r es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Clerks in r e.... ................................................ 7 Railroad employees ................................................. 8 k i n g at a ................................................. 22 Miscellsneous employments ---------------.--------------------r.--- 11 Postmaster ........................................................ 1 Laborers--.-------------.-------------.-.-----.---.---.--.-------- 30 Loggers 10 S e ns . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Owning farms, ranches, and stack ----------_----18.7 .-----.---.-.----.- Girls married, and in good homes .-.-------..--.--1G-4 -------------.--.- Girls at home. .....................................................- 26 Total ......................................................... 648 The following extracts are taken at random from some of the re-ports concerning the lives of Indian boys and girls who were formerly students at various schools: Thomas \Tiidcat Alford, an Absentee Shawnee Indian, now residilrg at Yhnw-nee, Okla., w.18 graduated from nirmpton Insrltulte in 1882: taugllt in rhe Indian whml Rersice: bernme rlxman in a Covemnrent surrev mrty and rose to Com-nassman. ~ e ' a e t e da s allotment s<iveyor for the sh<wne&, Kickapoos, and iauk and Fox; was county surveyor for one year; in 1894 was appointed chairman of the Absentee Shawnee Committee. He is now secretary of the Shawnee general council, which decides questions of importance to the Shawnee Nation. He has sent his three sons to eovernment schools. one of whom has already graduated. Besides his other duiies he maintains a model farm. ~ a v i d ~ r e w ear ,f ull-blood Puyallup Indian, was educated at Forest Grove Indian School, Chemawa, Oreg. He secured an appointment in the Indian rho01 .service s-n-d- w.....a.....s..... . later a s s-i-d~ a-s disciolinnrian. at Chemawa Indian ~~~ ~~ School, Oregon. He faithfully performed his d&a theie nritii his death in the early Dart oY 1908. He married an educated full-blwd Indian, educded his children, and besides bequeathing them the heritage of a good name, and a well-spent life in the service of his Indian brothers, he left them a large, well-improved farm. Barney Howard, a Sacaton Indian, zraduate of Phoenix Indian School, Ari-zona, is now proprietor of a model bak& at Sacaton, Ariz. Antonito Aznl, SQn of the present chief of the Pima Indians, at the age of 30 "v e.n-r.s -rn me East to school. hrineine with him his own son. his nenhew. and ~~ ~~~~~ , ~- ~ -~ several of the leading young peop'ie zf his tribe. He entered ~ a m p t oiin stitute with his young tribesmen, graduated, and returned to his tribe, and has since been devoting-his life to the betterment of his people. The improvement in house construction of the Pimas may be attributed in a goodly measure to the trainine this little band reeeived at Hamoton. ~~ ~ e o r&w. ~l i iot t a, former Haskell 1nhtut e pupil, is now employed by the Santa Be Railroad as agent at Jansen, Cal., and is giving satisfaction in his work. IIe Is marrid, and leading an honest, uwful ilfc. Ella Alderete, a graduate of Unskell Insticure, is head nurse st Lenvenworth lKsnn.\ nosoital. with severnl trnlllcd llurses under her charce. She recelved 7ier eleinentaiy training in nursing at Haskell. Many of the returned students are doing fairly well. There are, of mum, exoeptions reported, but the influenees for good predomi- |