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gone there, war has been declared, and strife is being stirred up in old feuds, and the opposition to allotments spread to urge those people to bad behavior. I do not anticipate much trouble beyond oceans of talk and futile threats. There are a few ringleaders, who have been Agency tools of late, but the number of them is quite limited.  These men aim to control and intimidate the Indians, as well as the Agency officials. They start with those men who had taken allotments at Kamiah and else where, that when I arrived here, it would be seen that the Lapwai Indians were the strong men & not to be dictated to by the Government. They have [[?]] their word by foolish boasting talk, couched with inferences, and by sending their medicine men to "look me down".  I have and shall have to use a firm hand with these men, and not allow dictation to me on to these Indians, and if these turbulent men are not fostered, I shall very soon win nearly all these Indians to compliance with the law regardless of these threatenings.

There are some serious difficulties here which I hope to clearly lay before you when I return to Washington. I refer to the practical ejectment of the families