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Bancroft Cummings Co Neb
July 15th 1885.

Commissionar of Indian Affairs
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir,

After a short conversation with the commissioners appointed to appraise the Omaha Indian lands, they both urged me to write a personal letter to you.

Some three months since I wrote to you, giving warning of the Indian outbreaks which have since occurred, but received no answer. The situation all along the