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Show "fl the [iidians to keep the grazing ground for the Indians. Mr. Murdock wrote to somebody in Washington, some senator, and had them go down to the Indian Offioe and talk to the officials in Washington about that lease. The Indian Office wrote a letter to the senator there in Washington, and sent a carbon copy of the letter to me so that I nisrht know what they had said to the senator, and they told hiia that it was not their intention to lease the grazing -round to this-man unless the Indians wanted then to lease it. Mr. Murdock got a copy of that letter and came into the offioe and asked me what I thought about his going among the Indians and getting them to sign a paper, giving their consent to tlie leasing of this land, and I said.Shat I did not like that way of doing.' He said, 'That he and Henry Harris would go and get the ""Indians to sign a paper,' and I told him not to do that. I told him that I did not believe the Indians ought to lease that grazing ground, but they should keep it for their own stock, and increase their stock and use it all. I offered to call the Indians to council and let them vote on the matter, but he wanted to take-his interpreter and go and get the Indians to sign a- paper, I told Mr- Murdock this, ,iust as I am telling you, I said, 'I do not v/ant you to go among these Indian and get them to sign something that they have got ,away. ' I have nothing to r-ive you to got you to sign any naper, but I want to find out what you want to do about this ratter; whether you want to keep it all, or |
