Ft Simcoe Wash Terr   Jan. 6, 1881 Father Wilbur:  You will naturally be anxious to hear how we bear inspection. I wish I could tell you. So much has been said that it gives me the headache to think of it. Three councils have been held and you know that from 6 to 10 hours a day is time enough to tire the patience of even a  man of even Job-ian patience   especially  if he had to take down in writing all the lingo. The Inspector isn   t done with us yet and we don   t know our exact latitude and longitude. When the fray is over  amp; the smoke clears off we may be able to better count the killed and wounded. I can say now however none have run away.  I now believe this: His report will be the facts as he believes them to be colored or commented on as his prejudices may move him. How it will be I confess I am  at a loss to say. There are many notices that move men   policy   bitter prejudice    thirst for notoriety, on one hand, while candour and justice may be the moving principles on the other hand. Or these might be a  mixture. He ordered a count of all houses with description of kind  amp; whether occupied or not  
        Friday Morning. Jan 7.  After Prayer meeting last evening I had a conversation with Bro Fairchild at which time he expressed himself as having considerably modified his opinion of Pollock   ie in Pollock   s favour.  I can   t say that I have very much changed my views on the subject. The inspector has lost no opportunity so far as I know to prejudice the Indians against you. It will take He will have to make a frank and full explanation of all these things to the  Indians before I shall think the thing is square I still think he started in to besmirch the agency but getting balked in his cattle drive   then my going to him and giving him such a talk as I did about how he was giving the Indians plainly to understand that you had lied about issues   his having to correct that   then  finding that the Indians were beginning to suspicion the  the inspector himself   I think these things taken in connection with the fact that nothing covered up has since turned out to light, have caused him to a certain extent to change tactics. It may be I mistake if so I shall only be too glad to apologize for anything I may have written that would  
        in the least degree militate against  his perfect uprightness and honor.  We are hoping you will hold  still and say nothing whatever about the inspection business   not even to hint that you know it is going on until you shall hear Pollock   s report on the Agency.  We all are trying to do the best we can for the interests of the cause of right and  for the good of the Indians and for the good name of Yakama Agency.  Hoping this may find you both well I am   Yours Truly   GB Kuykendall  Bro Fairchild thinks I am mistaken as to Frank Olneys being doing any thing prejudicial to the agency or working with those who are. I say here and now that I hope you will not attach get any unjust suspicion against Frank for because of what I have written. Possibly I an too suspicious   I would wrong no no man.  G.B.K.  
        Also a count of all Indians faming name of precinct in which they reside    giving name of Indians, Charley Olneys census report will form a basis of part of his statistical report.  So far as I am able to judge a fair effort has been made to get the houses and farms. We have asked him for written instructions for all that he askes requires us to do, in that line. There can be no doubt of the accuracy of his list   as all hands admitted it. I have greatly feared equal fairness might not characterize his other proceedings figures These suspicions are only founded on the evident attempt he made to create the impression that there is a great deal of rottenness here.  He may clear up some of these matters before going away more to our satisfaction.  Bro Fairchild has been writing to you from time to time and has probably kept you in- formed.  Pollock has said to the Indians that the government cattle will all be issued next summer. That    it is not the thing    to keep such a government herd.  He says the selling of goods for money will be stopped and all goods now on the   
        books charged against the Indians shall be counted as issued and not paid for.  Further he said all work done for the agent hereafter shall be paid in cash.  By that he means that if you hire men to plow the government fields or to cut and haul logs or do any kidn of teaming they can be paid in cash only. Further goods shall be issued only and not sold under any circumstances. This is to cut off what has here been styled    issues in lieu of work    He has said repeatedly to the Indians  that the Department has no idea of the way business is done here   that it is not known and never has been known at Was- hington that you took in money for goods  If I understand matters rightly this must be stupidly false. If it be as he says then I am in the fog.  Of course only one result can pos- sibly follow this arrangement.   ie the machine will run slow if at all. I have taken down most if not all his talk in councils and in one or two instances I find diametrically oppsite statements. When he comes back from the cattle ranch where he has now gone he I will bring these to bear on him to the best advantage I can.  Yesterdays council I  
        considered a ridiculous defeat for him It is my opinion now that he really con- cluded that everything was rotten here and acted on that basis from almost the beginning; but that he now thinks better of us  I am sorry that the statistics fall so far short of the commissr   s report of what shows. I see the Commissrs report shows 3300 Ind   s dressing as citizens   280 houses  occupied by Indians 37 new houses built this year  amp;c. How these things came in the Commissr   s report I am at a loss to explain A full count shows 108 Indian houses of all kinds   10 of these are nothing but shanties. without floors doors or windows. Charley Olney  reports only 74 houses on the reservation occupied by Indians. and declares on honor that is all for he has been to every one. I always thought as you remember that there was too big a count on houses   but an actual count goes a considerable below my ideas. But it is so and no more can be made of it. The number of Indians farming is found to be 148 I think At any rate whatever the number is it was  brought up in a large council representing every section of the reservation and all the Indians were called upon to give the  names of those they knew to be tilling the land  
        2 I think the statistical report is going to be the hardest on us.  I fear he has already written a pretty tough story on the Piute subject    I can only guess from certain hints or  intimations. That  Lewy  from Warm Springs was over and the Inspector with him visited the Piute camps and at an exceedingly unfavorable time on account of the weather.  He   Pollock has said openly that you have laid your self liable to prosecution by the U.S. attorney for selling goods to Indians on your own account. It seems to me there was a put up job in this whole thing from the beginning and I believe indeed I know Eneas has been working almost day and night against us. Frank Olney has been taken in here to work in the shop and has been agging the thing on in the background as I have learned while he has been all over honey while his face has been toward us.  I think we have done well under the circumstances and I am hoping that nothing very serious can result. Every employe    regular employe   has stood up manfully to the right. There has been no flinching or backing down through slavish fear. We all over and all out all the time have the most implicit faith that no place  
        will be found where a dollar has been wrongfully used or an Indian been wronged or cheated either by agent or employes.  Yesterday I felt gloomy indeed before the council   I confess the tears started while thinking of the way things were going. But after commend-  ing the whole thing to God a wonderful sense of relief came suddenly to me. I went to the talk joyous and certain that in some way the Lord would clear matters up. I was as sure as I was living that the inspector was expecting wonderful revelations. Eneas had given him to understand this I have good reason to know. the Indians seemed to be  turning agaisnt you all along from the start Between times of councils we had given Joe Stwire, Stick Joe, John Lundy  amp; others our opinions about the matter and they had begun to get their eyes open. To make the  Indians feel good just before the council I told them what I had written to you about starting a paper. I saw it    took    Before the council I had talked the thing up to Joe Eneas and sent him after his father  This I did not expect to amount to any- thing except to set the current off from  the way I was sure it was taking, and  get it if possible in our favour.  
        There was very little said against Mr Wilbur in that council and a great deal for him. We-all-ap and Skamiah with Lewy Simpson  amp; Eneas stood alone I sat close up to Pollock and when We-all-up had done gave a sketch of him as he figured in jail and how you took him out at  100.00 bail and fixed him up with clothes  amp; saved him from the Yakima  crowd Skamiahs speech made an un- favorable impression for himself  amp; Pollock gave him a punch before council was over Eneas was mortified at the poor figure he made I think. Before the thing wound up I am sure tha tif the Inspector was  looking for fraud he must have concluded it was chiefly with those who were on the  Eneas side.  I must not forget to say that  John Lumly made the best speech I ever heard from him. Among other things he  said.    You see Mr Miller up to his shoulders in mud at work   he   s sowing grain in the fields. He is talking to us all the  time. Tells the men to go to work and be somebody. I never expected the government to give me everything I want. We want help help to Bibles  amp; books. We have 3 churches our own work   they are for our children  
        I am not one of those who will stand up here and ay Mr Miller doesn   t help us. He does help us.  He said these Topnish people are clamouring for annuities  amp; talk against Mr Miller. They paint drum dance drink whiskey. When they get something for nothing they gamble it away. That kind don   t plow. They have no brains  Don   t send their children to school  amp;c amp;.  All this was aimed at the crowd who were trying to rake up something the Agent and employees.  Now to leave this all and come  to what is really of importance.  I can   t see that Pollock   s ruling in regard to disposal of annuity goods has any relevancy here. 1st The treaty has expired and any rules regulating this under the treaty would not apply now.  The government owes the Ind   s nothing in point of law, hence it has a perfect right to use all moneys in that way which may be deemed most to the Indians ad- vantage. If the Ind   s are to have cash for all work done then by all means cut down the am   t of goods and take that cash and let it be used for the good of  
        3 the agency work. Really according to strict justice the Indians had already paid for annuities before the treaty expired and in point of fact it was asking them to pay twice to ask them to work for them. No such moral claim can now be urged and it is clear to me that one of two things should be done   either strip no annuity goods at all, or else make the Indians work for them. It would won- derfully simplify the business if the whole thing at agencies where the treaty is expired to make all transactions cash, and It  would obviate all this buying inspecting  amp; shipping goods. and would give better general satisfaction and would take no more   indeed less   cash from the  U.S. Treasury.  It is clear to me that some new legislation is needed on this subject and were I there in Washington, it seems to me now, I should urge the passage of a bill by congress covering the ground of the whole management of Indian matters at Agencies where the treaty is dead.  If Secretary Shurz succeeds in getting everybody turned around as com- pletely as he has revolved we may soon expect a revolution in Ind. Matters I suppose      however