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a drunken Indian The only people I have seen drunk were the white employees. The Agent fortunately is a temperance man but his clerk and physician sometimes get on a spree very much to the disgust of the Agent, lady employees and Indians. If you have the "commissioners report of Indian Affairs for 1887" read our physicians report on page 3 where he says "a reasonable am't of wines & liquors should be allowed to successfully heal these Indians," I imagine your school would think it absurd to use alcoholic liquors for the class of diseases that are found here. Well the wines and liquors did not come for this year & if it had the Indian would never have seen any of it The Dr.? would drink up most of the alcoholic? sent for medicinal purposes if the Agent did not make such a fuss about it that he didn't dare drink very much of it. Oh! if