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Department of the Interior,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
Washington, ^[[Dec. 24]], 188^[[9]]

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Hon. Comm'r Indian Affairs

Sir:
The following case is respectfully submitted and approval of its decision requested.

Nine-pipes, an industrious Nez Perce, in 1879 took up a ranch in Township 31. Range 3. West, fenced & broke over 30 acres, built a house and sheds [[insert]] ^brought farming implements [[/insert]] and had gathered some 40 head of stock, cattle & horses. here he lived with his wife Ellen and their two children. While his wife was visiting her mother at Kamiah, in June 1885, Nine-pipes was shot and died soon after his wife reached him. She then returned to her mother's when in a month her daughter Ellen was born. While their child was very young and one of her other children quite sick, word was brought to the widow that the sister of Nine-pipes