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ing a part of the 1/4 section on which the
house stands; one, a woman Marie, has grit
and has stood Mexican and every one else
off, and holds on to her five acres of it. I am
trying to get it adjusted and have the Indian
file on it and save it.
There are only 160 acres on the Pala
Reserve; and about 55 acres of this fit for
anything; that is less than two acres to
each of the thirty Indians on it. 70 There are
several little nooks of public land that can be
filed upon, near, and in some cases, adjoining
it. It needs very greatly a man of sense
and honesty to go in, hand-picking, to settle
these people.
But I must close, for I am used up with
this long sitting.
The Agent here has received notification
that all the schools among this people, not
counting Father Automo’s [Antonio Ubach’s]
boarding school at San Diego, excepting
four, must be closed at the end of the year. 71
The four to be maintained are, San Jacinto,
[Soboba], Coahuila [Cahuilla], Rincon and
La Peche, or La Jolla (these are the same).
The reason assigned is the small attendance. 72 The order is simply infernal and
worthy of the contemptible scrubs
who are running the Bureau.
You gather the situation;
The Agent forced by contemptible
treatment because of his opposition to
a protege of Upshaw’s whom he sent
out to teach, and who attempted to
run the Agency, to resign just when a
man who knows the country is especially
needed here. (This little woman
who always boasted that Upshaw
visited her house, begged a special
Agent sent out here, to allow her to
put on breeches and go with him on a
two week tour over the Agency--.)
The San[ta] Ysabel Indians fenced
out of their lands, and the case determined
against them by violence,
unless we find some way to reinstate
them and get the case in Court on its
Chief Ciñon Duro ©SDHS #OP 12550-56. Photo by E.H.
Davis.
Indian Woman ©SDHS #86: 15900-1480. Photo
by E.H. Davis.
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The Ocean Side Water Co., threat-
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