acquisition of the English language and rudiments of education. Several of the adults remaining at the agency had also learned to read during the summer.
In a formal talk, for which every member of the band, male and female, assembled, on the morning of the 23d of September, the expression of satisfaction in their present location and prospects, and of their determination to go to work
Some of the Modoc prisoners' children attending the day school at Quapaw Agency.
In the rear, standing to the left: Bert Hood, living. Alva Denny, dead. Willie Stand, Pawnee.
Sitting down, left to right: Jim Kirk, dead. Stella Hood, living. Francis Denny, dead. Edith Johnson, dead. Hazel Clinton, dead.
In the front: James Rhodes Charley, son of Scar Face Charley, dead at the age of 15.
This photo taken about 20 years ago.
immediately on their new reservation, and become like white men as rapidly as possible, was hearty and unanimous by the chiefs, and assented to by the entire band.
On learning of my intended visit to Oregon, and that I might possibly see the remaining portion of the tribe, great solicitude was expressed for the removal of their Oregon brethren to this Territory, and a large number of individual
