Show INDIAN Arr AIRS A few days ago the Commiss commissioner ioDer of indian affairs completed his annual report showing the operations of the indian bureau for tb the 0 last fiscal year referring to the attempts tein lits of the boomers to encroach upon their reservation the ai report ra says it ie not reasonable to expect that he the government will never tire of menacing Us own people with its cwi army array therefore it becomes vastly important that these five civilized tribes who have among amon them men competent to be representatives and Ser senators in congress Con peee governors of states and mind judges on the bench should shoula co operate cooperate ppe rate with the government in estal bishing apace and quiet within their borders sett settling linz existing agitations as to their rights and interests and disposing of disquieting questions which will surely prow grow out of the present alarming condition of things in the whole indian territory at present the rich indians who cultivate tribal lands pay no rent to the poorer members of their tribe v althou gli they are aret equal owners of or the soli the ri rich ch men man have too large tall 1 and id control man many a times meb we the tri e anu inelow me permit these evils to exist and asks are these the he sacred rights secured by treaty which the united states are pledged to respect and defend 7 it so the e united states are pledged to uphold a stupendous land monopoly and aristocracy that finds no parallel ia in this country except in two or three localities in the far west auer after speaking of the failure of indians to sympathize with the theo 0 9 o cr ie verneen t in its effort to promote the tt up of allotments of land comm commissioner 1 missioner iss ioner atkins says that it would be beat for the indians to divide their land in several if allowing acres to each head of a family and 80 acres to each minor child the large urge surplus re 40 brainin should be sold to actual sett settlers lert at a AL just price and the proceeds would enable the poorer indians to improve their allotments and nd put up school buildings saya says the oner let these indians once assume all of the responsibilities of citizens of the th united states with its laws extended as a protecting agis over them and the day of their fears and sp ampro re bens aen sioni loni of maraud marauding i 1 whites WN will be b forever ended wh when this is done the five civilized tribes and perhaps other tribes of the indian territory will be ready to form a territorial 9 government 0 v and pass as other territories t r ies under the protect protection ion of out constitution and laws and ba be represented in congles Con gres wk by their own delegate the th 0 commissioner dwella at length h upon the surplus land in tb the oe indian territory and saye were nil all th Indians of the united states to be uprooted booted and transplanted to territory there would th then enbe including those now resident rei ident there 2561 acrea acres for each living indian this is cati estimating mating the whole indian population of the united state states excluding alaska at he ad suggests augg ests that the corn com inches aches a Wi chitas an and d oes the only tribes in the territory west of longitude 98 de grees bo be removed to lands east of that line if unoccupied lands east of 98 degrees were divided equally among all indians now living west of vf 9 98 degrees each sch indian could have acres cfall if all lands east of 93 degrees were divided equally among the indians now in indian territory each indian could have acres he expresses his conviction that the proposition to throw open Okal to white settle ment would be an experiment dangerous to all concerned and aspeci especially lally would tho the indians west of oklahoma be abraded and andl eventually obliterated by the argin waves of white population upon them from frow all cireo 1 s MiM leie ion lion it is is therefore I 1 recommended as a preliminary step that Coli congreso grees authorize the department to ftp ap point a commission commie sinn who shall visit the an and d Arapah oes the Wi wichita chitas and the klowas co man gauches clies and apaches in the in dian territory and ascertain their bews with reference to the subject of removal to land j in vaid territory east cast of 98 I 1 di degrees grees the difficulties in the way of a fair administration of justice in the territory and the evils of the present system are fully set forth and the report ays says that the immediate nece necessity sity fur for the establishment of a united states district court within the heart of the territory of the five civilia civilized ed nations at some convenient point accessible by railroad eay musko gee or fort gibson no longer admits in its of a doubt the commissioner in treating of indian schools speaks of the dim culty cully experienced in freeing the pupils from adverse and after some discussion discus slon of the ibe matter cn atter says at this time however I 1 would not advise ad vise dimi diminution notion of aid and support to any of the different kinds of or schools now fostered by the go vern ment all are fire doing excellent and efficient r ervice in their lar spheres and all are performing a good part in the work of educating civilizing indians the attend anceal all of the schools nas has largely indrea increased sed this year and the percent per cent of increase is larger in the boarding board ilig and day r chooks under agency virion than in the others ae As an I 1 incentive cen ive to make the best use oatlie of the educational advantages advant acee afforded pupils t of both sexes I 1 think it would be wise fur fr congress to make an appropriation from which every youth who shall graduate rod aate from school audian who and marry an indian maiden has also graduated may be assisted in settling upon a homestead of acres purchasing a team breaking and fet fencing icing land wid and building a house if the homestead is not an an indian reservation the man airo alpo have the privilege of citizenship including the right of suffrage frape suf such 4 a law would greatly encourage indian youths and maidens in their resist ance to the evil find savage influence ll of their untutored friends and would success successfully rully prevent them from a return to savage life lire of the necessity for an app appropriation to defray the expense of taking a census of the indian In diane the commissioner cays says I 1 do not doubt that an accurate census us would ebow a decrease in the number of indians throughout eliout the country or at at several of the agencies the outlay for taking th the census jis is inconsiderable inconis I 1 demable when cornman co in a awn slid ild the pine cidre will amount to a large irge sum annually |