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work with the surveyor during 1889.  He threatened the life of my interpreter James Stuart, and during all the season of 1889, sent messages to the Indian Police and other persons to [[?]] Indians as took allotments, telling them they should suffer for their compliance.  He and his followers have cost the government money in delaying my work here several months.  In November 1889, he and his party defied me in open council, making statements to the people that I had forced the Kamiah Indians at the point of the pistol, to take allotments and he would show me that the Lapwai Indians would not be so weak, etc.  I was forced to brand him publicly as a liar and when after doing all he could to cause the Indians against me, he failed, he came [[strikeout]] and [[/strikeout]] to me saying I "was hard upon him for he had to talk first on one side and then on the other."  He and his clique have controlled matters with a high hand, and the influence of this man is far more than ^[[that of]] the so called "wild Indians" of the