November 4, 1893

Capt. H. G. Brown, U. S. A.
Acting U. S. Indian Agent
Kiowa &c Agency, Oklahoma.

Sir:

I am in receipt, by your reference (without date), of a com-
munication dated October 23rd last from the Superintendent of the
Fort Sill Indian boarding school, requesting that "a new range, com-
plete, be sent to his school at once", and that "the school be fur-
nished with six more bath-tubs", it being set forth in said letter
that the cooking range is burnt out so that the water cannot be
heated, but that it can be used in the school laundry to heat sad
irons; further that one hundred pupils are in attendance, and
there are only four bath-tubs, - all in the girls' quarters, - and
that the number asked for is needed for use of male pupils.

In reply thereto you are advised that the range, which is now
reported burnt out, was shipped to the Fort Sill school less than
two years ago, and I am surprised at the statement made by the Su-
perintendent, that it cannot be used for heating water, &c.

It is very probable that all that is needed to place said
range in good order, is a set of water backs and a new grate. It
is also possible that the employes of the kitchen do not clean the
range properly from time to time. This range cost in the