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were two small girls.)  Henry remonstrated, he claimed his right to his brother's land which was deserted, and he had lived and worked these seven years making valuable improvements.  Agent Norris told Henry he must leave the place and take up a new house.  The Agt. said, so several witnesses state, that the land belonged to the grandchildren of Lot, if these children should die, Fred Lot was the next heir, and after him the land would fall to the man Fred's mother had married after Lot's death.

Henry refused to leave the place where he had put in his crop, and had permitted Fred to plant for himself a small piece.  This he had wanted before Fred's appeal to the Agent.  Henry died suddenly in June or July 1888 and his childless widow went to visit friends at Kamiah.  She was gone about three weeks and returned to find her house occupied by Sam and his mother, her bedding & clothes put out of doors, and all the stock, implements and personal property of Henry in the possession