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was ended and my force of employes were resting. I commenced the trying labors of office work etc, and for several months labored very late at night. The first freight train that left this agency I assisted in breaking the trains and harnessing same to the wagons. I have so conducted myself in intercourse with the Indians, that their respect and confidence has been gained. I have refused absolutely every present offered to me either robes or trinkets, and my purse has been ever open to their sick and needy. Mr Earle who inspected this agency in 1879 gave me honorable mention in his report published in the Report of the Board of Commissioners for 1879. And last year I unclear honorable mention in the agents report of affairs at this agency, published in the Commissioners Report for 1884. The agent does not however state the facts as he credits me with only 100 Indians taught to farm separate pieces of ground that season, whereas I actually had one hundred and fifty heads of families. (Indians the majority of whom had never touched a plow unclear or hoe previous to that season) working as industriously as beavers and as the agent states at the close of the season their different gardens were as clear of weeds as any garden need be. A New England farm was not more clear of weeds, this is no exaggeration. We worked very hard and had I not been favored with a fair lot of men the work could not have been accomplished as I had but half the force of labour under my control.) Another point I can make is this that we have managed to employ the best men obtainable regardless of politics and it is a fact that there are now employed as unclear Agency, Ten Democrats actually appointed by Republican officers, and two Democrats appointed by the present Commissioner making unclear (12) democrats in our Rolls today and only 5 Republicans including the agent. The politics of the Matron I do not know. None of these Democrats mentioned has been discharged by the agent without good cause. He appointed them because they were good men. Surely at this agency