THE INDIANS.
—The Indian School at Carlisle has 137 acres of wheat, from which about 600 barrels of flour will be made for the use of the boarding department.
—There are Indian girls in the Indian Territory University who are studying German, French, Latin, and Greek, geology, moral philosophy, political economy and other branches of the College course.
—The Indian Mission of the Methodists in the Indian Territory is organized into a conference with four presiding elder’s districts and twenty-nine pastoral charges. There are 112 local preachers, 1,100 white members, 30 colored members, 5,107 Indian members, 58 Sunday Schools with 1,602 scholars.
—The Presbyterians have arranged to establish next September a boarding school among the Creek Indians where they have never been reached by Christian influences.
—The capacity of Indian children for learning English is shown by the fact that at Carlisle quite a number who came in August without knowing the language were able to converse in it the next May.
—It is said that the Indians of Alaska do not belong to the same race as the North American Indians, but they are probably an offshoot from Japanese Coreans. The missionaries who have been laboring among them say that in many respects their conceptions of moral law are better than those of civilized nations.