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governor of Oklahoma, and with the State commissioner of health, Dr. A. R. Lewis, and both are in accord with me on this subject. They are fully awake to the necessity of providing remedial health measures for the Indians of the State, and are ready at any moment to lend whatever assistance they can to whatever effort the Federal Government may make in this regard. Respectfully submitted,

WILLIAM H. KETCHAM,

Member, Board of Indian Commissioners.

APPENDIX S.

REPORT ON LIQUOR SUPPRESSION OFFICE, INDIAN SERVICE, DENVER, COLO., BY WILLIAM H. KETCHAM.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., January 1, 1919.

SIR: On October 1, 1918, I visited the office of Mr. Henry L. Larson, chief special officer, liquor suppression, Indian Service, Denver, Colo. No department of the Indian Service is doing more beneficial and effective work than the liquor suppression under Mr. Larson, as I discovered in looking over the records of his office. The following items for the fiscal year 1918 will give some idea of the manner in which Mr. Larson and his deputies are doing their share for the betterment of conditions among the Indians:

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Fines assessed against offenders, which include only part of confiscated wagons and automobiles, aggregated $120,007.

The States in which the greatest number of arrests were made and convictions obtained were Oklahoma and Minnesota, with Oklahoma well in the lead, which does not make a good showing for the efficacy of its "bone-dry" law. It is a fact, however, that in 12 of the prohibition States there is a gradual, steady decrease in the violations of the liquor laws.

The seizure of liquor during the fiscal year 1918 totaled 36,564 gallons.

In these statistics no note is taken of cases pending nor of the many activities involved in the prosecution of the work. The scope of these activities may be inferred from the fact that 2,100 new cases were instituted and 1,522 were disposed of during the year.

I venture to suggest that few departments of the Government can make a better showing as to effective work.

I wish to commend in a special manner the efficient efforts recently initiated by this department on the Blackfeet Reservation, Mont., and on the Couer d'Alene Reservation, Idaho, for the ferreting out and the prosecuting of law breakers.

Respectfully submitted,

WILLIAM H. KETCHAM, Member, Board of Indian Commissioners.

Hon. GEORGE VAUX, Jr.,

Chairman, Board of Indian Commissioners.

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE

FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT, FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES,

Muskogee, Okla., July 23, 1919. SIR: There is transmitted herewith my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, accompanied by the annual reports of the supervisor of Indian schools for the Five Civilized Tribes and the mining trustees of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

INTRODUCTION.

Notwithstanding the interruption by war conditions and exigencies of the routine work incident to administering the tribal and individual affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes under laws and regulations in force, definite and substantial progress has been made during the fiscal year 1919. No additional legislation seems necessary to terminate Cherokee tribal affairs.

The coal and asphalt minerals in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations under the act of February 8, 1918, were offered for sale last December. There were 54 tracts, containing 42,103 acres, sold for $1,363,645.17, leaving 463 tracts, containing 399,004 acres, appraised at $13,198,901.56. Only 13,509 acres of tribal lands, 2,404 town lots, and 12 buildings remain to be sold. The coal and asphalt, and practically all remaining tribal property, except school buildings, will be reoffered for sale next fall. The last parcel of 10 acres of land in the Cherokee Nation is advertised to sell July 24, 1919.

Especial emphasis has been laid upon agriculture and stock raising, putting under cultivation additional acreage, building and equipping farm homes among the restricted Indians. They have responded even beyond expectations, and gratifying progress has been made. It is encouraging to know that many are finding themselves under the changed and more intensively competitive conditions, and by their efforts are maintaining themselves in greater comfort and convenience. One full-blood Indian, really primitive in his life, raised, killed, and properly cured 19 hogs, sufficient meat for his family for the year, and some to sell. He sent me a ham. I have never eaten a more delicious meat, not excepting the famous Virginia luxury. I take more pride and see far greater hope in such examples of individual effort and accomplishment, entirely unos tentatious, than in the vast fortunes because of oil and gas. To my mind, when man is willing to get between the plow handles or to do the thing at hand cheerfully, he is safely on the road to success.

As farmers, knitters, nurses, soldiers, purchasers of war securities, and sacrificers for the common cause in the war, the Indians of the

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