Show The Indian Census Washington ISTho work of taking tak-ing the census of the Indians of the United States will be commenced on October let under the supervision of Major John W Powell director of the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian Smith-sonian Institution audited by Col Garrick Mallory R L Packard H W Henshaw H D Hinmau and Clay Macauley The country has been subdivided into four divisions and a special agent assigned to superintend super-intend the work in each of them Clay Macauley has been assigned the task of taking the census of all the i scattered Indians tribes located in in the state east of the Mississippi River Louisiana and Texas Packard has been aligned the division which includes the Indian Territory New Mexico and Arizona Heushaw the states of California Nevada Oregon Colorado and Wyoming Montana Idaho Utah and Washington Territories Terri-tories Hinman all of Dakota and the Sioux Indians found in the elates or Minnesota and Nebraska and Montana Territory Mallory will remain at Washington and superintend superin-tend the work of the special agents The census will include the enumeration enumera-tion of Indians by approximate ages The vital statistics will be collected by the United States surgeons located ont on-t o different reservations Educe tional statistics will be collected by government teachers and the industrial indus-trial statistics will be gathered by the special agents It ia intended to have the Indian agents at the sixty different agencies throughout through-out the country take a census under the immediate supervision of the epecial agents Powell estimates esti-mates that more than threefifths of the Indians are on the reservations engaged in industrial pursuits and with success he apprehends no trouble in taking the census Nearly twofifths of the Indiana do not habitually habit-ually remaiu on the reservations but moat of them report periodically at the agencies GO that eventually an accurate enumeration of thee roaming roam-ing tribes can be obtained In tbe case of the few Indians who do not report to the agencies men will be selected to visit them in their camps and obtain the desired information The work will necessarily be slow and six months will probably elapse before it is completed |