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from the Indian Terry, he and his wife claimed the place, and Agent Norris left the decision to the Indian Judges. "Jim Moses" seems to have been the one to decide the matter and he awarded the property to Archie Lawyer. Thereupon Frank and his wife Olive were forced to leave their home and improvements. About two years since the wife of Rev. Archie Lawyer, daughter of the former husband of Olive died, and altho. Archie Lawyer has married another wife and does not live on the Nez Perce Res. he still claims the land for a child by the dead wife. While Frank and his wife Olive maintain the place is rightfully theirs, Olive being the legal widow of the Indian who first improved the place and she having labored upon the land with her first husband, also during her widowhood & then with her second husband Frank. She asks that this tract be allotted to her. And it seems that her claim to the land is the rightful one. Approval of this decision is requested

Respectfully  
[[signature]] Alice C. Fletcher [[/signature]] 
Special Ind. Agt.