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Ft. Lapwai Idaho.
May 12, 1892.

My dear Gen'l and Mrs Morgan

Here we are safely over the perils of "truth's-work" which has proved so fatal to many a traveler this year.  We arrived last week and found the Indians from all parts of the reservation camped here and every one in quite an excited state.  It was very pleasant to be greeted as warmly as we were by the progressive men, and the [[?Ind]] ran round, "We are safe, Miss F. has come".  I learned to my amusement that wagers were up, both off and on the reservation, concerning my being allowed to finish the allotment!  There was any amount of stir here and Mr Briggs said, "Its hotter than ever before among the Indians, there has been nothing but plotting & all the winter".  This cheerful announcement proved only too true and I began to wonder what Miss Gay and I were told.  I dispatched a letter to the Agent to call a Council on Monday.  He did, and the [[?search]] was that after I had finished my business in connections with the allotment work, and had expressed my willingness to answer any 

[[marginalia]]  Perhaps I ought to tell you that Mr Montieths letter which I saw in Washington proposing to leave & by 4 miles in the S.E. corner of reservation has excited unanimous opposition & no land can be leased for cattle purposes:  by the honest consent of the tribe, Jas. Grant, the Agency Judge says he & a few Indians will sign with the Agent leases & then the tribe will be powerless to prevent the cattle men.
Is the Spl. Agt. coming?  I don't want to be absent when he comes.  When Inspector Miller was here he met a packed Council and there was harm done.
Miss Gay bids me say, "we will hold the fort but we would like to see a prospect of reenforcements." [[/marginalia]]