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cabals, and the Monteithites were already working with the base [[strategies?]] and making the position of Mr Eaves and family [[?]] & more difficult. The ^[[School]] children have [[well?]] cause for at least as well as the circumstances would permit. I was at the Agency when the lad died, whose death has, I hear, been attributed to Mr Eaves cruelty. There is no truth in that statement. I saw the mother in the presence of her dead boy, and I talked with the step father. The boy died from the effect of drinking ice water when over heated.  Mr & Mrs Eaves were diligent in their care of him, and brought the mother to the boys bedside as soon as the illness seemed serious. The Mother and the boy were anxious to go into a tent desiring to be out of doors.  The doctor's permission was given for the removal & I saw the boy placed on a matress & carried on the only spring wagon at the Agency to the tent the mother had pitched nearby. In a day or so we had rain, and Mr Eaves fitted up an empty room in one of their buildings and again conveyed the boy and his parents to shelter, and it was in this room he died. The mother & stepfather perfectly satisfied as to the cause of the boy's death, and I heard no word to the contrary until the stories were started to try & prejudice the Indians against Mr Eaves, then it was remembered he was to be reappointed.  I have gone into detail because I learned from

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Eaves was superintendent of the schools at Lapwai accused of cruelty and violence towards children https://ntonkovich.wordpress.com/the-allotment-plot/cast-of-characters/