Yakama Indian Reservation   Sept 23d 1867 Gen G.J. McKenny Supt Ind Affairs W.T.   Sir:    I have to inform you of an attempt on the  part of a priest of the papist or Catholic order, to get up a  division, and dissatisfaction among the indians of this agency, and  the course I have persued with Said priest.  His name, (as I  understand him) is, St O   Teal. this may not be Strictly Correct. He Came upon this Reservation about four or five months ago  
        and Quartered himself with the  Indians of the reservation for ten or fifteen days: during this time he was having Secret Meetings with them, in which he was telling them that the teaching of Mr Wilbur was    good for Nothing    and that he had Come to tell them the truth, and what would be good for them for this world and the  world to Come. As soon as I learned he was upon the reservation, I went to the place where he had been holding meetings to See him, but he had left that morning. When I was away three weeks ago gathering the Indians, and getting in Annuities, the Same priest Came again among the Indians, and where he found  them, on the mountain or in the  
        valley, he was repeating the Same things that    Mr Wilbur   s teaching was good for nothing    and urging those who had been loyal to Such instruction to turn away from Me and  open their ears and hearts to what he was saying to them, and then they would not go down to the fire world. Having good evidence from my Interpreter and others that he had said these things to them, and that his teaching tended to evil, making  clues?  and divisions among them, I went down to see him and found he had gone from the reservation I left word that if he Came back among them, to have him Come up to the Agency that I might see him and know his plans. On the 21st I had an interview with him and learned from him  that he intended to Come upon the  
        reservation and teach the indians. that he had taken steps to build a mission house a mile or two  off the reservation, where he expected to have a school and instruct the indians young and old    I told him he could not be permitted to come upon the reserve as a teacher unless he had papers from the Supt or the Commissioner of Indians Affairs: that his Coming upon the Reservation from time to time and not reporting himself or his business at the Agency was highly censurable   that while he  had an undoubtable right to build a Mission for the whites off the reserve, he would not be permitted to take the indians away from their Reservation  My Knowledge of indian Character induces me unwaveringly to belive that two teachers upon an Indian Reservation differing as much as the Catholic  amp; Protestant Can never work any thing but evil Please instruct upon this subject  Yours truly James H. Wilbur    U.S. Ind Agent W.T.