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INDIANA. 



INDIAN EDUCATION. 



of management selected. A subject of com- 

 plaint at both institutions is the necessity of 

 placing young criminals in daily intercourse 

 with older and more hardened convicts. There 

 seems to be no remedy for this state of affairs 

 without some provision by the Legislature. 



The Insane. Two investigations were had 

 during the year, one by the Senate and one by 

 the House, into the management of the Insane 

 Asylum. The House Committee reported mis- 

 management and cruel treatment to patients, 

 while the Senate Committee found little to 

 censure. The effect of the investigations was 

 such, however, that Gov. Gray deemed it 

 advisable to supersede Drs. Harrison and Ga- 

 pen, two of the Board of Directors. They re- 

 fused to yield the office to their successors, and 

 a legal contest ensued, the outcome of which 

 is not yet determined. 



Normal School. The annual report of this in- 

 stitution for 1887 shows it to be in a flourish- 

 ing condition. There were 1,343 students 

 enrolled during the year. The necessary ex- 

 pense of a year's course is estimated at $132.- 

 50. The total receipts in the tuition fund for 

 the year were $27,628.82. The disbursements 

 were $22,005, leaving a balance in the treasury 

 of $5,623.82. The incidental fund shows a 

 balance from last year and receipts of $11,- 

 748.28 ; balance on hand, $4,716.48. 



Live-Stock. For the year ending in June, the 

 following returns are made of the live-stock in 

 the State by the Bureau of Statistics: Total 

 number of horses, 533,257, an increase of 20,- 

 287 over 1886; number of mules, 56,989, a 

 decrease of 294 ; number of cattle, 1,779,351, 

 an increase of 81,601 ; number of sheep, 1,- 

 394,045, a decrease of 7,567. The estimated 

 wool-clip was 4,197,000 pounds. In the sum- 

 mer and autumn of 1886, hog cholera prevailed 

 in 72 counties, causing great destruction, the 

 number dying of this disease during the year 

 being 553,692. There were slaughtered for 

 food, 1,245,596. The total number in the State 

 reported for the year was 3,801,248. 



Natural Gas. Great progress was made during 

 the year in utilizing the discoveries of natural 

 gas.in many places in the State. The first natural 

 gas company was incorporated March 5, 1886, 

 and from that date till May, 1887, 118 com- 

 panies had been formed. There were nearly 

 200 companies by the end of the year. 



Election Frauds. The trial of Simeon Coy 

 and others for altering election-returns at In- 

 dianapolis in the congressional election of 

 1886, by which the result of the election was 

 said to be changed, was held during the year. 

 An indictment was found against them in the 

 United States Court, and the question of the 

 court's jurisdiction was then raised. Justice 

 Harlan decided that in all Congressional elec- 

 tions the United States Courts had the right to 

 review and enforce all rules of procedure, 

 whether made by Congress or by the State 

 law, and to punish any violation of those rules. 

 At the trial upon the merits of the case the 



prisoners were discharged, sufficient evidence 

 to convict not being offered. 



INDIAN EDUCATION. The Indian schools of 

 the United States may be classified as follow : 

 Day-schools: 1, established and supported by 

 the Government; 2, supported by contracts 

 with religious societies ; 3, mission-schools es- 

 tablished and supported by religious societies. 

 Boarding-schools: 1, located on reservations 

 and controlled by agents; 2, independent 

 schools; 3, mission-schools established and 

 chiefly supported by religious associations. 

 State and tribal schools : 1, Indian schools of 

 New York State ; 2, tribal schools of Indian 

 Territory. 



For the subsistence of these schools there 

 are five different sources of revenue : 1, appro- 

 priations made under the educational provis- 

 ions of existing treaties; 2, funds, investments 

 of bonds, and other securities held by the 

 Government ; 3, proceeds of sales of lands of 

 certain Indian tribes ; 4, accumulations of 

 money in the treasury resulting from the sale 

 of lands; and 5, annual appropriations by 

 Congress for Indian school purposes. 



The day-schools, established generally at 

 points remote from the agencies, are frequent- 

 ly due to the benevolent efforts of missionaries 

 or the wives of the army officers stationed at 

 the military reservations in the Indian coun- 

 try. These are the primary efforts toward 

 Indian education, and are followed by the 

 boarding schools, in which the Indian children 

 can be more entirely isolated from their savage 

 life, and where also the facilities for instruction 

 can be made greatly superior. The five Indian 

 schools supported by special appropriations are 

 as follow : Carlisle School, Carlisle, Pa. ; Chi- 

 locco School, Chilocco, Indian Territory; Ge- 

 noa School, Genoa, Neb. ; Haskell Institute, 

 Lawrence, Kan. ; and Salem School, Chemawa, 

 Ore. The three schools that are next best 

 known to these, and are under appropria- 

 tions providing for the education of a cer- 

 tain number of pupils at a specified rate per 

 annum, are Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., 

 Lincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pa., and St. 

 Ignatius Mission, Flat Head Reservation, Mon. 

 The table on next page is a general summary 

 of the statistics of the Indian schools from the 

 latest report, that for 1886. 



The statistics of all the Indian schools, sup- 

 ported in whole or in part by the Government 

 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, 

 the latest report made, show the following fig- 

 ures, a portion being a recapitulation of the 

 table just given: School population, 38,981; 

 capacity of schools, boarding, 10,021; day, 

 5,270 ; number of employes, 703 ; largest 

 monthly attendance, 12,316; average attend- 

 ance, boarding, 7,260; day, 2,370; total cost 

 to Government, $997,899.80. 



These schools are divided in number among 

 the States and Territories as follow : Alaska, 

 1; Arizona, 4; California, 15; Colorado, 2; 

 Dakota, 49 ; Idaho, 3 ; Illinois, 1 ; Indiana, 2 ; 



