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Show fl Gem. -2- been able to supplement the check with any additional resources resulting from their own exertions. They have ah account of *_6 .00 at Mr. Millards store. There are deferred payments due each year on a land sale of Tumqua1 s of about ;ol77.C0 with interest, and it is likely that this will last him as long as he will live, if it i3 economically used. There are three payments yet due, counting the one paid in this year. Though Tumqua is to receive a check every month, and knows it, still he would never come in to the office for it. The checks for such a3 he^must be carried to them by the Farmers. 'They will then go to the 3tore and spend the maey but they expect the farmer to deliver it at their door. The thing which was no doubt worrying Mr. Millard wa3 that one of T'imcua's checks was delayed for nearly a month before the Farmer made it around with it; and Millard no doubt feared it would not t>^ forthcoming. A3 soon as Tumqua received his last two checks he went to Mr. Millard'3 store and spent them, and there i3 only a balance of six dollars left due lir. Millard. Tumqua had only been receiving a monthly check of 310.00 until three months ago, when the farmer recommended an increase to !|pl5.oo Wapsock is an old blind man who lives about 45 miles from his allotment, living with one of his daughters some 40 miles from the agency. When it i3 possible to do so, rations are sent to him though no one is available to take them to him as a rule and it is. out of the question for him to come for the food, a3 he is blind and about helpless. Last autumn, the issue clerk, Mr. Donnin, knowing Wapsocks distance away and his condition, sent |
