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Refer in reply to the following:
Departmeut of the Interior,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, January 29, 1902.
The Honorable
The Secretary of the Interior.
Sir:-
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt informally of a communica-
tion to the President from Mr. Charles F. Lummis of Los Angeles, Cal.,
protesting against the abolishment of the Indian Agency in Southern
California.
Charges have been filed in this Office on several occasions,
against the present incumbent, stating that he was selling liquor to
Indians from his drugestore at San Jacinto, Cal., and that he was
neglecting his duties as Agent and devoting practically his entire time
to the management of his store.
The matter has been investigated on several occasions and
the reports have been somewhat conflicting. However, that has nothing
to do with the continuance or discontinuance of the Agency.
As will be seen from the memoranda submitted by Mr. .Lummis, the
reservations of the Mission Agency are 34 in number and are very much
scattered in the southern portion of the State - one of them as far as
320 miles from the Agency. It will be readily seen that it would be
a physical impossibility for the Agent to visit these reservations
even once a year, which ought to be done in order that the Indians
may derive any benefit from an agency. As a matter of fact, he does
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