OCR Text |
Show 1-19386 Mducati on-Industries 12587-14 12864-14 HJ.S Destitute Indians. y D FEB -6 13!* Mr.-Jewell D. Martin.. Supr. in Chg., Uintah & Ouray School. My dear Mr* Martin: Office telegram of this date confirmed as follows; "Your letter Janus277 thirtieth. Yurther complaint received from Wallace Colder, of Terns!, Utah, alleging one hundred twenty-t-,70 Indiana. Uintah County, suffering account of Insufficient rations having been received. Sake every possible precaution to prevent actual suffering and destitution. Letter follows." For your information, Mr. Caller's letter and the petition a igned by Indians, addressed 00 o-on. ^0Sd. ..moot, are transmitted herewith. Mr. Colder':* letter shows that t ho practice of the able bodied Indians living off the old and indigent members ia the cause of the present destitute conditions and no t through any shortage of supplies being Issued. Can not you devise some plan to change the present monthly a issue to/bi .-monthly issue? If thia could be done, you might be able to break up the above praotice somewhat. J F'i\ y mifiHuni, {.ijpj -.FOB FILE. |