Present conditions look favorable for the California Indians. In Southern California the most harassing troubles have been settled, and water is being supplied wherever possible. Southern California is over-schooled. The Government schools have a capacity for about 1200 pupils and there are about 800 Indian children of school age in that district. In Northern California seven-eighths of the Indians have been supplied with minute amounts of land. The California white people seem aroused to the need for other forms of assistance and it seems unlikely that matters will ever revert to former conditions. The new appropriation will take care of a part of the Indians still homeless. More has been accomplished in this “spurt” than all others put together. This may be attributed to the fact that the external influences lasted longer. That is, an outsider from the Indian Association was in charge of the work for some eight years. The last one hundred years tend to show that the Indian Office has not within itself the power to initiate any movement for the relief of Indians. The spirit that compels redress has not resided in the Indian Office. The Indian Office has received at all times sufficient reports from the field and may be presumed to have had knowledge of conditions at all times and yet every movement for relief has come from the outside, from individuals, or more often from associations who have compelled an unwilling bureau to act, or, often an unwilling Congress to act. This is doubtless always the case with bureaucracy. I am inclined to think this results largely from the manner of organization. As it is, the authority to decide questions lies with persons who seldom or never see the field and are without personal knowledge of that they are doing. The men who know the field have no power and the men who have the power do not know the field. Bureaucracy has one curious result and I am inclined to think more so in the Indian Service than in others. The employees seem to lose all power of initiative and all sense of individuality. They soon learn to resent any but routine work. This is probably why the reports of conditions in California and elsewhere have fallen into deaf pigeonholes. My Brother’s Keeper.—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1899. Land of Sunshine. Vol. XI, pp. 139, 207, 263, 333. My Brother’s Keeper.—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1900. Land of Sunshine. Vol. XII, pp. 28, 90. The Story of Cyrus Hawk.—_C. J. Crandall_, 1900. Land of Sunshine. Vol. XII, pp. 352. The Pity of It.—_Bertha S. Wilkins_, 1900. Land of Sunshine. Vol. XII, pp. 244. The Sequoya League.—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1903. Out West. Vol. XVIII, pp. 81, 213, 355. Turning a New Leaf. The Warner Ranch Indians, Out West, 1903. Vol. XVIII, pp. 441; Out West, Part II, Vol. XVIII, pp. 589. The Sequoya League.—_Charles F. Lummis_, 1903. Out West. Vol. XVIII, pp. 477, 625.