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Show 12 COM~tISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFALW. The Navajo blankets obtained through a contest at the San Juan Indian Fair last year are on exhibition at the San Franc+ Panama-. Pacific Exposition, and as the public is manifesting considerable interest in these specimens of native handiwork their real worth will become better known. LACE MAKING. Superintendents have been directed td cooperate with asseeia- +ps engaged in the teaching of lace making, and to take advantage &every means and opportunity to advance this important and re- &ring industry among those Indian women and children whose physical condition warrants their engagement therein. The mis- Bion reservations in California have been divided into districts, and two lace teachers have been employed to teach lace making, one of whom is located at the Pala School and the other at Sobobm The Sybil Carter Association maintains teachers of lace making at a number of the Indian reservations, paying their salaries, furnishiig the supplies, and marketing the hished product. Mrs. Cocdelia S. Sterling, of Redlands, Cal., is also ghing the Indian Bureau gen-erous and intelligent cooperation. THE MENACING USE OF LIQUOR. The destructive form of intoxicants to the mental, moral, and physical fiber of a great race has for many years been the greatest obstacle in the way of the advancement of, the Indians. Natural impulses and the greed of surrounding whites were rapidly bringing destruction to this proud race. Through the influence of the be-elements of the tribes and an awakaning sense of the moral respon-sibility of the country, I have been able to break the power of the liquor interests in its unholy traffic. With substantial appropriations by C o q p s ~a,, sincere cooperation on the part of the field force, and intalligent enforcement by the officers specially engaged in this work, marked progress is apparant throughout the Indian country. Thew results have been aceom-plished through persistent efforts physically and in the courts. In the discharge of their duties several officers were killed and others wounded by malefactors they were attempting to arrest. Unfortu-nately, in some cases local sentiment failed to respond and the per-petrators of the crimes against the Indians and the dignity of the , k law's enforcement were unpunished by the courts and juries. The sale by licensed traders of lemon and vanilla extracts and proprietary medicines with alcoholic content, on which Indians were becoming intoxicated, has been discontinued and traders warned that repetition of such sales will cause a revocation of their license and prosecution. |