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From what I saw on that reservation I think it has been debauched through a series of years; I imagine that Mr. Robberts is the last one in a line of bad ones. In my experience on reservations I have never before met such a reservation. I am happy to say it. Only one in about a dozen; but here things are bad. The influence is felt all over the reservations.

McConville, the school Supt. has had nothing to do with Robbins & had managed the school well, but it is a tough fight. Men in Lewiston who have fattened off the Government, the man Caldwell who is on the reservation & who has defied the Government for years & the man who has the Stage Station & uses it to herd cattle to his own profit, with others, are leagued together to keep an Agent on that reservation whom they can use. I would make a clean sweep and show to the poor Indians there, & to the world, that truth and righteousness, though long delayed, had arrived last. I had no prejudices when I learned there, didn't even know that there was such a man as Robbins, therefore I was an unbiased judge when I began the investigation. 

Excuse my length. I have embodied this in my report to you, --in a better form-- which will be sent next week.

Very respectfully
Darwin R. James, of
Board Indian Commissioners

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