Student Travel to Enroll

Cover letter for three enclosures sent by Lewis Johnson, Acting U.S. Indian agent for the San Carlos Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. The enclosures provide names of the students returned to the agency, a copy of the descriptive statement of two students sent to the Bowie Station en route to Carlisle, and the descriptive statement of…

Richard Henry Pratt requests $2,000 additional funding to return students to their homes as well as bringing students to Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt requests assistance from W. N. Hailmann to arrange with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to have William P. Campbell bring a group of children to the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt requests an additional $3000 for transportation students to and from their homes.

Peter Oscar requests a railroad ticket from Buffalo to Carlisle from Richard Henry Pratt. Oscar notes that he will pay his own way to Buffalo and then reimburse Pratt for the Buffalo ticket.

Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, denies the request of Richard Henry Pratt for an increase in transportation budget and requests additional requests include statements on the need for the funds.

Richard Henry Pratt replies to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding his application to spend an additional $3000 on transportation.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the W. N. Hailmann that he has directed the Superintendent of the Klamath Agency to send the party of students as quickly as possible in order to fit them on the current fiscal year appropriation. Pratt requests Hailmann's help in furthering this transfer.

Sadie M. Johnson informs W. N. Hailmann that she is going to escort a group of children to the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $2,500 on transportation of students to and from the Carlisle Indian School for the remainder of the 1896 fiscal year.

Alfred John Standing requests authority to spend $7000 during the current fiscal year in transporting students to and from Carlisle.

Alfred John Standing requests authority to pay for an overage in the accounts of transporting students to and from Carlisle for the 1896 fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests W. N. Hailmann transfer Lizzie M. Lampson to the Carlisle Indian School. He further requests meeting with Hailmann to discuss taking the teachers from the Civil Service.

Joseph Clements from the Santee Agency in Nebraska forwards field matron Nellie Lindsay's request for a 10-day leave of absence to escort ten pupils to the Carlisle School. 

Captain Richard H. Pratt forwards the approval letter for March 1897 irregular employees report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Pratt also submits a statement showing the ages of students whose transportation was paid for during the third quarter of 1897.

Note: The actual approval letter and statement were missing when this file…

Richard Henry Pratt forwards two coupons covering two half tickets for travel of students Sara K. Smith and Addie R. George to the Carlisle Indian School from different points.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle during the 1898 fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards government request for transportation on account of the Carlisle Indian School for Hosea Locke and ten students from Blackfoot, Idaho to Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students transported to the school under Government request #2226, escorted by Hosea Locke.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a breakdown of the cost per capita of transporting students from West of the Mississippi River. Additional cost numbers are also provided. 

Alfred John Standing informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Quanah Parker's daughters will be arriving in Washington D.C. on March 18, 1898.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards correspondence regarding a sub-voucher of Augusta C. Stouch who brought a party of students to the Carlisle Indian School from the Crow Agency as an escort.

Joseph C. Hart, Superintendent of the Cherokee Training School, informs the Office of Indian School that 17 students have departed for the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $10,000 during the 1899 fiscal year in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt requests an additional $3,000 for the transportation of a party of students from Perris, California.