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Show WARDS OF THE NATION. Besume of Year's Work Among the Indians. LAKE MOHONK, N. Y., Oct. 19. At the twenty-second annual Indian conferenco hero today Gen. E. Whittlesey of the Board of Indian Commissioners gave a resumo of tho year's work among tho Indians. In-dians. He said: "Nearly 4500 leases of allotted al-lotted land havo been mado within the year, aggregating two million acres, at rates varying from 3 cents to $3 an acre. Under the law authorizing tho sale of Inherited In-herited landa, tho Indlun Is parting with his estate at the rate of about S000 acres a month. Over 1CC.000 acres were disposed of In flftoen months ending la,st June at an averago of nearly $17 per acre. The lands are bought by speculators rather than by those seeking homes. While tho prices secured se-cured are reasonable, the purohus; money, by one wile or another. Is rapidly transferred trans-ferred to the whlto man's pockets ;uid more often than any other way by the. route of dissipation "The enrollment of Indians In all schools has been brought up to 4S.-173, an Increase Of 1007 pupils over last year. The average attendance Is 1S.101, an Increase of 723 over last year. The tlvo civilized tribes are not Included In the above figures." |