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■lean ef Ihe Work Bn__Mll-Milu (I lUUl rueAgent Edwin Edls has just b on his quarterly trip roond tbs tions, paying off the employees and ae-curing supplies for the aohools. The following facts of interest to the general public were elicited in oonrenation. At Tulalip, where the agent and clerk have headquarters doing businees for all the Indians on the Sound, there are but lew employees. Everywhere the aohools are the chief oonoern, and at Tulalip the six Siatera oonduot the school under a contract arranged at the East, on the basis of $100 per scholar, which is paid to the Bishop, and fora no part of the agent’s fund. The boys and girls are taught in separate rooms by two of the Sisters, while another serves as oook, a fourth as seamstress, the fifth being musio teacher and assist ant matron, while the “Mother Superior” has full obarge of everything, fromthe purchase of supplies and HkpuwiBg the same to the oontrol of the boys when the bent-up Frenchman of an industrial teacher can’t secure obedienoe. This matron has marked business qualities, excels os nurse, prescribes from her own apothecary, shows thrift in housekeeping, and yet does not secure the educational advancement desired. Four and a half sacks of floor are used daily, and at the time of visitation 400 salmonwere being cleaned and salted by theschoolboys. The enrollment ofis nearly equally of boys and girls.Unites farther nortth.From Lwnmi, 110 thirty childrensingle steamer to Tulalip. The pay for ' ’ has, however, beena school at Lummi increased to 1500 per year, as at Mnok-leshoot and Madison, at each of which points schools are to be established.At Puyallup there are sixty school children cared for by a teacher, ant teaoher, industrial teacher, matron, assistant matron, seamstress, and oook, with aggregate salaries of $3780. The school buildiug is large, with creeks in the rustic and uncomfortable, but wellseated v itb patent desks, while in 80x20-ft.......end of the 80x20-ft. building io a recitation room, and in the; story above are evoral large and email sleeping rooms, the boys occupying one end and the associate teacher watching them from the other. A feature at this school is the march to meals, when companies of with officers, form in line and pe-between the bells till at lengththey march through the long poroh of school and boarding bouse to the dining-room, where the captains land the pile of tin plates at the bead of the seven tables. Here and at nmnii. school is held four hours in the fore-In the afternoon the assistant teacher gathers the primaries while the older hoys are instructed by the industrial teacher—the girls by the sea leaving the teaoher time for a ivereight as|rab-agent, court with the Indians.Tne Chehaiis school has a pretty location, twenty-five miles from Olympia out through the wood upon a drv. orav-elly prairie. Here the industria er haa charge of the .boarding with his wife and daughter asand as oook. Under supervi_____girls make the boys* beds, sad am remunerated by a fund arisin^frcimposed when the boys talk in Indian to their teachers. Hen la the beat farm of all. The pastJyeaPs raising was 400 its and 700 buaham of tar-thoogh Skokomiah raises the meathay and frail. Here)agent found the holiday vacation just dosed, the children being sent off after a good treat Christmas day. A steamer load of fifty barrels of floor and ooam of merchant ‘ come the day before the agent,Books, indu Clothes, etc.Salaries of aohoolampioyem 190 00Entire oost.....................AM 76Here the school is in ssmion dx hsnis daily, and at Dungensm it is the while other aeboofi Ihe dder mattend only in the forenoon. Out of iwJuw childrenthe 200 Indian children upon the SoundPuyallup has the belle whose bounty brings her numereus gifts. Indeed all dress tbs beet st Payaitap. where they dd surplus produce to buy rib-ud gloves, rubber boots and ovor-At Tulalip the children are moat , at Chehaiis the fattsetandatSkokomish are three girla who play on the organ for ohureh, them besngtha only anas of the whole draoit having this accomplishment. At Bkofcom— one year ago tharn waaaaari—a scarlet fever; last winter mnallpox broke up the aebooi at PuyaUnp and at present 26 boys a! Tulalip am on their beaks with mesntse. Ttue Is not explained by any immediate eaom hot rather on the ground of the weak oaswtitsMan of Indians as ai make gooJXihealthy not-are a quick ms tapnklM. There is onepart very unhealthy ithdsm them loads tif thrown opmitoi onempoet of this on which the qobl imatkm srhieh willI refer toihepwmnt etataaof pat—la tee Indian lands. Under the treaties by Prsrid—t Boehaaan all India— ad—ttag atri-Used costoms and edtt-E— their lands ware at Issmthts aaami—epas-seanonof fromWto 640 aemaof lead according to the das af tiri Huffy. And the Pmaid-t was am—mrnud to iane patents after the India— hadoe-eopiedtiudused the v—naH— landa which for twenty years had ha——dm nt regulation, but new —odd ........ Hence inof Oongra,coil theirpermitting the Indiana to soil their unde. Under these provisions omtam tribes cam of the Boehm ebtal—d an-
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Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Fri, Jan 12, 1883
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