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[[preprinted]] [[left]] [[image - corner of large building with people and carriages on the street, description below image]] August Gast Bank Note Co. St. Louis. [[/left]] [[center]] [[text surrounded by flourishes]] HOTEL CAREY [[/text surrounded by flourishes]] ELEVATOR STEAM HEAT BATH ROOMS ELECTRIC BELLS, FIRE ALARM AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS B.L. EATON, PROP. WICHITA, KANS. Wichita, Kans. ________ 190__ [[/center]] [[/preprinted]] us to take this step. I will, however, outline briefly the reasons. (1) I became profoundly interested in the Skidis a year ago and as you at that time had not worked with them, and as I supposed your interest was concerned only with one of the other bands and was confined to one or two ceremonies I decided to devote my spare time to these for many years; (2) Murie asked me over a year ago, and repeatedly since, to employ him; (3) the man I had originally planned to work with I now find a physical wreck; (4) the Pawnees, and