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Dr Dorchester that this story had reached the Department ^[[in a garbled form.]] Mr Eaves and his family were badly treated by Mr [[Six?]][[issets?]] when he came on the reservation & while he was [[visiting??]] a clerk for Special Agt. Welton. Mr Monteith accused young Mr Eaves of stealing from the warehouse and set the blacksmith [[missing]]a shop in the warehouse armed with a pistol.  But I do not care to repeat the story- exhibition of [[disdain]] which I saw at the Agency before I could get away. Mr Eaves & his family under insult, showed much forbearance. Whether Mr Eaves has as much executive ability as you need at Lapwai it would be hard to judge.  The man has never had a fair chance since he came here from all I can learn. The fight against him is upon party lines and because Mr Monteith cannot make the family his tool. 

Mr McConville and his wife are good people, interested in the work, faithful and honest, but they are weak, and fitted only for subordinate positions. Mr McConville was well spoken of to me by Dr. Coffin, under whom Mr McC. worked at Salem and from what I saw of Mr McC. I was inclined to think well of him, but when Mr Eaves was reappointed, Mr McConville wrote me a letter which showed me how weak a man he was, and was a great disappointment to me. I also learned of his lending himself to 1 [[sort?]]  of