The council was called for Monday in the afternoon   Inspector came with the  issue sheet   I said to him before the  Council that all responsibility for that Issue sheet belonged to the Clerk as the Agent had left before it was prepared and  had left memoranda AC for use of the Clerk and signed the sheet in blank    I further informed him that the large number of persons who had cattle issued  rendered it impossible to enter to every man just what he had got, but that in some instances cattle had been marked to one Indian which he did not get, but which some member of his family or band, for whose name there was no room on the sheet, had received them    Yesmowit   s name was called    Ques. Did you receive any cattle from the Agent  in July Aug or Sept?  Ans   No Ques. Are you sure  Ans   I am sure Note   Yesmowit   s name does not appear on the sheet  among those receiving cattle   Of course he  thinks the Agt has robbed him John Lunley called next Ques. Did you receive cattle from the Agent  in July Aug or Sept Ans no Ques   Are you sure   think well now    Ans I am sure Note   Neither does John Lunley   s name appear  
        on the sheet as having cattle issued him --Some were asked   if they knew why their names were on the paper for having had cattle given them when none were issued, and the impression among all the Indians was that Agt Wilbur had robbed them    Some of those to whom this question was asked, were not on the papers as having had cattle issued them   this to the best of my recollection   Not expecting such a depth of  meanness I had not prepared myself to take notes, and as the Inspector kept the Sheet in his possession, I could not verify my suspicions that he was acting unfairly, till next day when I obtained possession of the Sheet   In justice to the Inspector perhaps I should say, that next day after the Dr had called his attention to the impres- sion made on the Indians, he took occasion to say nothing of the kind was intended, but  it is my firm belief that he conveyed to the  Indians the very impression he intended  If he did not know that such an impression would be conveyed, he is too great a Fool with a capital F, for the Indian Service   The Inspector then told the Indians that the papers called  for 2100 cattle, but that he believed there  
        were a great many more, that the cattle all belonged to the Indians, and that it was well for them to know how many there were, and if their minds were that way, he proposed a drive of all the cattle   This  was agreed to   No word was spoken to the Actg Agt or any employee about the matter     During the examination the Indians were repeatedly asked if they knew why their names appeared on the issue paper for things they never got   He   the Inspector said repeatedly    I can not understand these papers      He has at  all times and under all circumstances listened to the disaffected   Eneas   Wachoukie   Frank Olney   and the Drummers, and in no instance has those friendly been heard   Even the Indians    Joe Stwire, Thos Pearn, Geo Waters, Jim Logz, and the leading men who are really respectable, bitterly denounce the Inspector for his unfairness to the Absent Agent     The next day after the drive was planned, the weather was very very stormy   Snow had falled to  the depth of probably 16 inches including that on the ground before   Mr Miller came to me  in great anxiety and said he feared for the result of the drive that many would be lost   Storned hard all day   In the evening Homer James, belonging to one of the  driving parties came up after dark, saying that  
        the drive would certainly result in the loss of many cattle   I told the Inspector what  he said   The Inspector said there was great influence used to discourage the drive, and insinuated that the Employees were doing all in their power to prevent it   I told  him no employee would throw a straw in the way of a fair and candid examination of matters here   He made an effort then to induce me to take the responsibility of the drive which I declined positively   He then told Homer to stop the drive and send word as far as possible to the Indians not to carry it any further   This morning with the snow 18 inches deep, he turned over all responsibility for the cattle to Mr Miller, who is trying to do the best he can    This statement the Dr tells me is not  strong enough   I am sure that Dr Kuy- kendall  amp; K Miller John Hadley, Joe Stwire Geo Waters Thos Pearn FC Olney   Homer Hoffer   Homer James   Clarley Blum, and all the Indians present at the Council will swear to its correctness   JH Fairchild This has been prepared in great haste and  only embraces those things I now think of    Every thing has gone to show that Inspector Pollock came here in the absence of the Agt with the determination to find some- thing wrong   He told me there was not an Agency in the US in which he could not find enough to remove the Agt   ie   technical violations of rules   I think he will cost us  3000 in loss of cattle from what others say   The Det have been informed on all points