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Show Searetary-2 and in fact the Agent places scarcely any reliance on them for this purpose, I am now in receipt of a report on the schools of this reservation made by United States Supervisor of Indian School.' A. 0. flight. He says that the general conditions on the agency seriously affget the schools and they cannot fairly be Judged without understanding such conditions; that the Ute Indians are the most backward in the EJnlted States, that it is only twenty years ago, or la the memory of many of them, when the White River Utes (now the most troublesome at th© agency) killed their agent and other white persons and made concubines of his daughters; that they were n^ver thoroughly whipped for this but the Government compromised with them in the usual way, hesitating between philanthropy and revenge, that they were forced out of Colorado into t'tah9 which was then a territory, and were paid a large sum for their lands; that they no-* receive rations and annuities and lease money, so that they are altogether too rich for thoir own good; that he has no doubt one reason for their objecting to send their children to school is because the children's rations are given to tho schools and it is evident that the reason they have concealed tho deaths cf children during the recent epidemic is in order that, they may continue to &r&* annuities for the dead. The Supervisor says they are the firet full blood Indians he has seen who will lie about plain natters of fact; that, after having had two meetings with their chiefs twe different years, at the request of the Agent, he is satisfied they have a regular system of falsifying for the purpose of deceiving tho white men; that this IK kept up by the power of the chiefs and medi- |