Warm Springs Agency Dec 14th 1880 Hon William J Pollock U.S. Ind Inspector  Sir,   I have the honor to Submit the following for your Consideration.   On or about the 6th of Oct last 24 Piutes Indians Came to this Agency from the Simcoe Agency without the permission of Agent Wilbur. The principal Men have Come to Me, and wished me to State their Case and Condition in writing to you. Frank K Winnemuca the principal Spokesman Says,    I Speak in behalf of all the people. We have been at the Simcoe  Agency for a long two years, under the Care of  unmerciful ones. We have been kept down and abused in all manner of ways by the Indians principally and by the Agent we have been overlooked. We have lived in our wigwams among the rocks, among the bushes and in our tents Exposed to Storms. No human being has a desire  for Such a life. We work among the Indians, but hardly any of them have paid us, but Shove us away when we ask for pay: and our Comp- laint to the Agent about being wronged out of our pay brings No answer from him, but to tell us to go out. When the Indians went to buy our horses and we dont want to Sell them, they go out into the  prarie, and take them away. Then we go to Wilbur and tell him about our horses being taken away and he would Say, I dont know  anything about it I have So many things to look after I Cant tend to it. We have often wept to think we have been abused by the red Men as they are.  
        We have been Starving. Our Rations have been Short that we have got from the Government. We have often asked Wilbur for more, but his answer would be    You are not Mine yet, but I am looking for an answer    If you were Mine, I would give you half a beef More.    We have often asked him to have farms Made for us and houses, but he has always answered,    You are not Mine I Cannot give  you land nor houses,    And for our peacemakers we are lost, for we have no one to go to for Council. All that we have asked for we are Not able to get. There is Not Enough Room for farming lands No  how, for the farming land is all fenced in or  taken up. We are discouraged, disheartened for  we have been  Canned  beyond the reach of  Money  as we find it now. For our Morals, we have our women used by the Indians there. Even Wilbur   s Police Men have used our women, and where Can we find a friend that Can be a friend to the lost red Men. Only when the Seventh day Comes, we find rest, while the preacher Speaks to them. We have been tied down with great power and have not been permitted to look up. Nor ask. Now I ask for  Jesus Sake to have mercy on us, as you have the Authority. As you have Come to me in the name of Jesus in trouble and Sorrow and his love has Melted my very Soul. So I Came to you as you  Came to me in His name and ask for Mercy. I have a desire for the Seventh day; which brings peace to the whole world. My hope has been destroyed, our Children and friends dyeing off like Sheep and no Dr to Care for them: Not one. Our Native land that was once our foundation has been taken away from us; but in the Name of God  
        Warm Springs Agency Dec 14th 1880 Hon William J Pollock U.S. Ind Inspector  Sir,   I have the honor to Submit the following for your Consideration.   On or about the 6th of Oct last 24 Piutes Indians Came to this Agency from the Simcoe Agency without the permission of Agent Wilbur. The principal Men have Come to Me, and wished me to State their Case and Condition in writing to you. Frank K Winnemuca the principal Spokesman Says,    I Speak in behalf of all the people. We have been at the Simcoe  Agency for a long two years, under the Care of  unmerciful ones. We have been kept down and abused in all manner of ways by the Indians principally and by the Agent we have been overlooked. We have lived in our wigwams among the rocks, among the bushes and in our tents Exposed to Storms. No human being has a desire  for Such a life. We work among the Indians, but hardly any of them have paid us, but Shove us away when we ask for pay: and our Comp- laint to the Agent about being wronged out of our pay brings No answer from him, but to tell us to go out. When the Indians went to buy our horses and we dont want to Sell them, they go out into the  prarie, and take them away. Then we go to Wilbur and tell him about our horses being taken away and he would Say, I dont know  anything about it I have So many things to look after I Cant tend to it. We have often wept to think we have been abused by the red Men as they are.    We have been Starving. Our Rations have been Short that we have got from the Government. We have often asked Wilbur for more, but his answer would be    You are not Mine yet, but I am looking for an answer    If you were Mine, I would give you half a beef More.    We have often asked him to have farms Made for us and houses, but he has always answered,    You are not Mine I Cannot give  you land nor houses,    And for our peacemakers we are lost, for we have no one to go to for Council. All that we have asked for we are Not able to get. There is Not Enough Room for farming lands No  how, for the farming land is all fenced in or  taken up. We are discouraged, disheartened for  we have been  Canned  beyond the reach of  Money  as we find it now. For our Morals, we have our women used by the Indians there. Even Wilbur   s Police Men have used our women, and where Can we find a friend that Can be a friend to the lost red Men. Only when the Seventh day Comes, we find rest, while the preacher Speaks to them. We have been tied down with great power and have not been permitted to look up. Nor ask. Now I ask for  Jesus Sake to have mercy on us, as you have the Authority. As you have Come to me in the name of Jesus in trouble and Sorrow and his love has Melted my very Soul. So I Came to you as you  Came to me in His name and ask for Mercy. I have a desire for the Seventh day; which brings peace to the whole world. My hope has been destroyed, our Children and friends dyeing off like Sheep and no Dr to Care for them: Not one. Our Native land that was once our foundation has been taken away from us; but in the Name of God     we find Pollock our friend which to us is as dear as our Saveiur himself Now our desire is to Return if possible to our own land the Malheur Agency, but I leave it to the Government; let them Say. If we Cannot Return to us our own Country or Native land, let us go to the Warm  Springs, for I Cannot live over there at Simcoe. We find here the Agent and Clerk are willing to hear to our Cries,  amp; the Indians of warm Springs are Christians, and treat us as Men. I Came away unbeknown to Wilbur. I acknowledge I did wrong and am Sorry for it every day. I came off when I was descouraged and because I was Mad, but I am willing to Return if you Say go back. We will do it for your Sake and will live and die there   I have no desire to go off this Reservation any where. I dont intend any further without I get permission from the Agent or the Indians, to go off hunting with  them a week or So; but I will not go without their permission. We Came to you in the house of God My friend, Not in our own House; for Strength and Mercy. I am done with wars and blood Sheding. I wish to Remember them no more. But I Say we are not guilty as the Piutes are Charged, for we were not in the war with the rest of them. I Came to you not with lies, as the Creater Speaks of, but I Came to you in truth. I have distroyed the Seventh day through My days, but now I will rest and keep it. I remember all I have Said because it has been Said by a grieved and  mourning  heart. No one Knows how I have Cried that I might See life and peace in Jesus; and More I expect to give an account of Myself to God for what I have    done where He will fill from the East to  the Shining Sun with these whom he will judge. I Expect to Stand before Him that day. I hope on his right hand, when he will fill from the west to the Shining Sun with these He will judge. I expect to be there. Now I ask for  Mercy for myself and people, and ask for an answer, from you very Soon.   The above is Respectfully Submitted    Very Respectfully    Your obedient Servant     John Smith     U.S. Indian Agent.   written sideways   Copy of a Letter  
        done where He will fill from the East to  the Shining Sun with these whom he will judge. I Expect to Stand before Him that day. I hope on his right hand, when he will fill from the west to the Shining Sun with these He will judge. I expect to be there. Now I ask for  Mercy for myself and people, and ask for an answer, from you very Soon.   The above is Respectfully Submitted    Very Respectfully    Your obedient Servant     John Smith     U.S. Indian Agent.   written sideways   Copy of a Letter