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OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS,
NORTHERN DISTRIT, CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, 186
fifty sick Indians that had been left scaterred alone the trail
for fifty miles back over the mountains and was dieing at the
rate of from two to three a day from the want of attention and
the hogs eating them as soon as they did die if not commencing
before afidavits of which Capt Douglass took last Oct and
forwarded to the President in a report that he made of the
transaction of two or three disinterested persons testifying
to the facts in the case I want accompanyed by the hospital
stuard from the Fort with medicines and food for them taking
twenty pack mules and an ox team and wagon was engaged
thirteen days defraying the expense myself the Supervisor [illegible]
by those Indians as he went out on his urgent business of
seeing the new superintendant but Steel considered it the
unpardonable sin to relieve those sick Indians so mutch [much]
so that he said he could not reinstate me until he would
corespond with the department on the subject and could not
allow me anything for my services or for the expences of the
trip my impression is that the wrong man has got the
appointment again I suppose there is very little doubt
but that he is a copperheadwhen I landed in Sacramento
last Sept on my return from Washington I noticed an
article in the Sacramento bee on Steels appointment
and stating that he had voted the copperhand ticket at
the late election and answering Senator Conness for
the appointment having so [illegile] knowledge on the subject
as I supposed and from what had [passed?] between you
and myself on the 8th of August last in your office on that