Idaho State University

Scope and Content

The collection includes a correspondence file (1887-1904) of approx. 5,000 items in letterbooks and folders. Tribal census information, lists of supplies, medical reports, personnel reports and miscellaneous agency reports comprise the balance of the materials. (ca.1885-1907)

Series I : Reports to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Box 1 Reports to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Folder		Description
1		Employees in Service, 1904.
2		...farmer 1903-1904.
3		Changes...Police Service, 1903, 1904.
4		Changes in School Employees, 1904.
5		Quarterly School 1904.
6		Employees in Service 1905.
7		...farmer 1905.
8		Changes in...Police Service, 1905.
9		Changes in School Employees, 1905.
10		Quarterly and Monthly School, 1904.
11		Employees in Service, 1906.
12		...farmer, 1906.
13		Changes in...Police Service, 1906.
14		Hibbs, Geo. C. Memoranda concerning the Indian population at Fort Lemhi Indian Reservation.

Series II : Census Reports

Box 2 Census of the Indians at Lemhi Indian Agency, Idaho

Folder		Date(s)
		Census...[title may vary slightly]
1		...July 1886.
2		...1896.
3		...June 30, 1898.
4		...June 30, 1899.
5		...June 30, 1901.
6		...June 30, 1903.
7		...June 30, 1905.
8		...June 30, 1906.
9		...June 30, 1907.

Series III : Correspondence

Outgoing Correspondence, 1887 - 1904

Box		Date(s)
3		Apr. 05, 1893 - Oct. 24, 1894.
4		Oct. 20, 1894 - Dec. 31, 1895. (Bd. vol.)
5		Apr. 01, 1887 - Oct. 24, 1888. (Bd. vol.)
6		Jul. 02, 1897 - Dec. 28, 1897. (Bd. vol.)
7		May 22, 1899 - Mar. 14, 1900. (Bd. vol.)
8		Mar. 15, 1900 - Feb. 07, 1901.
9		Feb. 05, 1901 - Jan. 09, 1902.
10		Jan. 08, 1902 - Nov. 18, 1902.
11		Nov. 05, 1903 - Oct. 12, 1904.
12		Mar. 11, 1892 - Oct. 05, 1900.

Incoming Correspondence, 1886 - 1907

Box		Date(s)
13		Mar. 21, 1892 - Jun. 25, 1894.
14		Jun. 25, 1894 - Oct. 06, 1894.
15		1886 - 1904.

Folder		Date(s)
1		...1886 - 1897.
2		...1898.
3		...1899.
4		...1900.
5		...1901.
6		...1902.
7		...1903, Jan. - Jul.
8		...1903, Aug. - Dec.
9		...1904, Jan. - Apr.
10		...1904, May - Jul.
11		...1904, Aug. - Oct.
12		...1904, Nov. - Dec.

Box 16 Incoming Correspondence, 1905 - 1907

Folder		Date(s)
1		...1905, Jan. - Apr.
2		...1905, Apr. - Jun.
3		...1905, Jul. - Aug.
4		...1905, Sep. - Dec.
5		...1906.
6		...1907.
7		Fragments.
8		Telegrams, 1898 - 1906.

Series IV : Business/Financial Records

Box 17 Abstracts of Property, 1898 - 1906

Folder		Date(s)
1		1898 - 1902.
2		1904.
3		1904.
4		1904.
5		1905.
6		1905.
7		1905.
8		1906.
9		1906.

Box 18 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Weekly statements of public funds.
2		Estimate of funds 1906.
3		Receipts for government property, 1901.
4		Vouchers for receipt roll, 1905.
5		Vouchers for traveling expenses, 1904 - 1906.
6		Vouchers for open-market purchase, 1903 - 1906.
7		Articles of agreement for delivery of goods and supplies, 1897 - 1906.
8		Articles of agreement for construction at the school, 1903.
9		Statement of cost on account of Lemhi School, 1906.
10		Statements of receipts on account current in 1905 and 1906.
11		Requisitions of stationery, 1903 - 1905.
12		Abstracts of disbursements, 1905 - 1906.
13		Employees' salary lists, 1900 - 1904.

Box 19 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Certificates of inspection of beef cattle in 1903 - 1905.
2		Articles of agreement for the delivery of beef cattle 1892 - 1900.
3		Receipts for beef & beef cattle 1903.
4		Training School employees' salary lists, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905 & 1906.
5		Lists of school children.
6		List of musical instruments.
7		Return of medical property, 1907.
8		List of Indian supplies at Redrock, Montana, 1903.
9		List of Indian supplies at Redrock, Montana, 1904 - 1906.
10		List of Indian freighters and supplies at Redrock, Montana.
11		Invoice of property of Agency and School in 1905.
12		Invoice of government supplies shipped to the superintendent of the Fort Hall Agency on May 10, 1907.
13		Invoices of goods, shipped to the Agency in 1889, 1903, 1904 & 1905.
14		Bill of lading.
15		Lists of delivered goods and supplies, 1907.
16		Lists of delivered goods and supplies.
17		List of branding marks.
18		Certificates for day laborers.
19		Used and unused ration cards, 1907.
20		Wood contracts, 1903 - 1904.
21		List of various professional functionaries among the Indians.

Box 20 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Notes on labor performed by Indians drawing rations.
2		Notes on issues of material to Indians. (3 Bd. vols.)
3		Lists of goods. (4 Bd. vols.)
4		Mess accounts, 1905. (Bd. vol.)
5		Stenographer's notebook.
6		Pocket calendar.
7		Invoices.

Box 21 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Duclos, Aug. F. Notice on laws and regulations governing Indian reservations.
2		Sweet, Adrian. Petition from Lewiston Commercial Club concerning protection of white settlers.
3		To the Ardmore Bar Assn. of Ardmore, Indian Territory. Memorandum concerning restrictions on the alienation of lands (copy formerly in the possession of the Lemhi Indian Agency).
4		Rees, John E.(Engineer). Map and survey of proposed telephone line on the Lemhi Indian Reservation, April, 1905.
5		Various certificates.
6		List of ration tickets issued during the second quarter of 1906.
7		List of supplies shipped to Ross Fork, October 2, 1906.
8		Quarterly return of public property 1904, 1905.
9		Quarterly return of public property (Inventory).
10		Bank receipts, 1887 - 1906.
11		Varia.

Box 22 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Estimate of supplies, 1900 - 1906.
2		Estimate of schoolbooks and supplies, 1900 - 1907.
3		Estimate of medical supplies.
4		Lists of property inventory.
5		Checkbooks.
6		Checkbooks.
7		Empty forms.

Box 23 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Department of Interior, U. S. Land Office's surveying of coal lands. (Bd. vol.)
2		Notebook used for various purposes. (Bd. vol.)
3		Postmaster's account and record book (1898 - 1901). [E. A. Yearian]
4		Money order cash book of the Post Office (April 4, 1893 - March 31, 1907).
5		Post Office records: Registration book for registered and dispatched matters (03/04/1898 - 12/31/1901).
6		Post Office records: Registration book for register and dispatched matters (07/19/1898 - 11/02/1900).
7		Post Office records: Registration book for registered and dispatched matters (11/02/1900 - 11/14/1900).
8		Post Office records: Registration book for registered and dispatched matters (11/15/1900 - 08/07/1902).
9		Post Office records: Registration book for registered and dispatched matters (08/11/1902 - 08/12/1904).

Box 24 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Estimate of goods, 1888 - 1892.
2		Estimate of goods, 1892 - 1894.
3		Estimate of goods, 1900.
4		Estimate of goods, 1901.
5		Estimate of goods, 1902.
6		Estimate of goods, 1903.
7		Estimate of goods, 1904.
8		Estimate of goods, ca. 1902.
9		Estimate of goods, 1906.
10		Estimate of goods, 1907.

Box 25 Business/Financial Records

Folder		Description
1		Estimate of clothing required from school, 1904.
2		Statement of disbursing account, 1886, 1894 - 1906.
3		Sanitary record of sick, injured, births, deaths, etc. (Feb. 1896 - Mar. 14, 1919)
4		Sanitary record of sick, wounded, births, deaths, etc. (Oct. 1885 - Dec. 1895)