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From Feb. 20, to April 17   I was engaged upon the tract-book  and certificates of allottments; and  preparing from field notes reports upon the timber lands and the application of Missionary Societies; when the appropriation being exhausted ^[[,]] I was ordered to stop work.

On Aug. 14, ^[[ ^1888]] I was ordered to resume work, and on Aug. 17, I was again in the field. The interregnum had wrought considerable trouble to the Indians. Several of those who had received allottments in 1887, had tried to break the land but had been driven away by the thousands of cattle which were being loosely herded on the Reservation. Three men, however, stood their ground, suffering severe loss  to their hardly earned crops; the cattle breaking over the wire fences about the fields and eating down the ^[[new]]ly ^[[s]]pr^[[u]]ng corn.  As a consequence of these disasters, many Indians threw up their allottments and refused to make any further effort to hold their own against the depredations of white men. This discouragement demoralized more or less, the entire tribe and but few could be induced to take lands westward , and  to believe that the U. S. Government would protect them against

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