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Friday Feb. 24 - 1899 Met Mr. Winter, Gen. Man. B. & N.M. Ry on the train - also Mr. P.H. McGary of Walker. - Dr. Hart and the Supt of the Schools at sub agencies of Leech Lake, called on me at the hotel. Mr. Episcopal minister in charge of the church at the agency and a Chippewa Indian. word crossed out had been to Washington with the Chippewa delegation, and who had just returned from that place, was on the train from Brainerd to Walker. He was invited by Mr. McGary to meet Capt Mercer, the new agent, but he declined - saying "I will meet him soon enough." "I put in some hot shot against Mercer while in Washington". It appears that the Indians are very much opposed to my coming here as