Noble's Report

A YE.VR'1 PKOSSKM. Washington, Not. 30. - The secretary of the interior has submitted his animal report to the president. In a summary of its contente hf g-iv.vs this resume: The general land office is nearly abr-ast of it3work; the ludían buroau U aecomnlishing the rapitl disiuVjgration oí the Inuiuu reservatious, the severance of tribal relations and the edneatton ol the Indlan youth, The pension office is rapidly eompiéting the allowanee of all pensions legally possible under tao laws, movlug at the rate of about 30,000 a month: the eenini has twen taken and its publications rapidly poing on; the geologioal survey U .seUoting the reservoirs for the uri.l unns of the far west and Southwest; the railroud bureau is niuking ready ior the maturity of the debts dne Trom the subsidtzed railroada, the, Union Paciflc and others; the bureau oí eduottlon, bcstdps lmvlngdistrinuted tlie vast fund allowed the agricultural colleges for white, and colored pupils ia the different States, is engaged 1n new plans for the accumtüation and dlstnbutlon of inforrnution useful for the schools and their better management; and the patent office having colebrated Hs cemennial, is stlll advanclng in the volume and varicty of its investtgations and patenta. The report note: "Tho years of tl present adminlstration have tieen marked to a notable degree by the expansión of the public domaiu Tor private settlements." The history is given of the opening of the new Indi ato purcuases in Oklahoina under the prochimation of September 32, when cearly 1.000.000 acres were taken by settlers between noon and dark; whlle 3,718 Indlans were clcvated to citlzensLüp by taking allotments of 1G0 aeres caoh. It is a significant fact that ;i shijnnent, by special train, of a cargo of wheat from the Oklaboma lands, flrst opened by pruclamation on April 83, 1889, was received in August last at one of the Armour elevators in Chicago, and the populatlon has already rcached 80,000. Over 16,000 Indiana have airead; become citizens of the United States, and about 4.000 more by taktng thelr a'.lotments bave sigtilfled their desire to bocome citlzcns. To these numbers sliould be added the 7,619 Indlans in Oklaboma. who havy taken or agrood to talto allotments. A total of 2r,ei!) Indians naturalUed, and total ol &ores aoqulred fur settlement of about 13.000 0! durin the present administra tion alone. The Indtan populatiori is reported as 200,000, exolusivtj of nath ka The number of Indian youth cnvoilud and tho average itttendance in the schools has inoreased. In 18SS the appropriation for support of Indlan .school was il. 179,91. In 1891 1,843. TTO, and for 1803 it is K,fWl,50 The Indlans, as a rule, have consented so readlly to send thelr children lo school that it was not found nceessary immraliatoly to enforce attendance. The secretary retan to the relief aiforded by the act oí June 37. 1800, to thousands of dis abled veterans and their dependent relativos, who through lase oí timo are not able to prove the ori-in of dlsability in the line of duty as required by pri r euactmonts. It Is ahown that first paymcnlR have greatly deoreased in amounts, that the aüowance of original pen-i. is wül soon all be made, that there will Uien a greut decline In the sum nece8Sary to pay pensions, and the lists will rapidly decline from death and other causes. There as -J.VJ.ñil first payments made during the riscal year, requirin $38,552,314.31, being les.s in amount by Í69,í93 than the 130,514 first payments of the prevtous year required. The average value of flrst payments in the öseal ycar of 1890 was $485.71j while the average value in 1-S91 of firat payments in all claims was ÏVSQ.ÜS, and first payments tt cla'i::s under the act of June 37, 1890, was oníy R1.36. The present issue of certifleates is ahout L0,000 per month, and it i thought that tlic i.cTision bureau will be ablo to can fully adjndtoate SS0.0C8 claims during the pro&eüt ycar. The work at tuis rate will alluw all luwful pension claims within the next thirty months, and of course all flrst pajrmentn will then have been disposed of. Ttiis alone will cause u drop of 130,000,000 in the nppropriaiion, and the Hst will thence .n constantly diminish by natural cauces, it is predicted that the pensions wtu when tin hitihest point i reachcd not exoecd very grtatly the present sum, and bq subject to a great decrease immediately after. The estímate for 1899 ts H44.9S6.000. The secretary expresses the belief that th eleventh census will stand as znuch fair and honost critictsm as any work of the same magnitude heretofore done either at home or abroad. The atinounccmeJit of tho population, November 28., 18S0, as r,-3,633,3M, has not been Ohanged, and upen that announecment the apportionment law was passcd nearly two years sooner that at prior census periodi. It is estimated that to complete the work will require a further appropriation of about 11,000,000. The work of the patent oiT.cc shows a slight falling off as compared with thr? previous fiscal year. The number of applications received was 43,t!16 as ogainsi 4S,?10 in 1890. A surplus of recelpts over expendieres omountiníf to H57.391.69 was turned into the treasury to the credit of the i atent fund. In oonsidering the territories the report says there has been an tncrease of 10,000 in the population of Arizona, making it about 70,000. In New Mexico it is claimed there are 153,076 persons, and the governor appeals ior an enabling act to become a state. In Utah the population is estimated by the governor to be 215.000. The total assessed value of property, real and personal ín 1891, was 1131,146 648.37, an increase over the year befors of I16,!S87,S98. 37, or 16.! per cent. The secretary concurs in the recommendation of the government of Alaska that revisión of the laws be made. The population of tho trritory is 30,000.