The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.52-53

Another inspection revealed Joe Kipp, the licensed trader had been using the agency sawmill for 18 months while constructing the new Jesuit mission school, “Holy Family Mission” on Two Medicine Creek while the favored Fort Benton contractor T.C. Power’s business associate Alex Johnson had been competing against Joe Kipp for the construction contract to build the new agency boarding school. Kipp had underbid Johnson, who was cashier of the bank Power owned and headed as president, but as it turned out T.C. Power had more powerful friends in Washington City than Catlin.

The law firm of Clum and Dingman had examined T.C. Power’s contracts for years, and recommended that Kipp’s bid be rejected though it was lower than Johnsons and Agent Catlin had recommended and approved Kipp’s contract bid. Another inspection of agency beef contracts led to Catlin’s resignation, who had also allowed Kipp’s personal use of the agency sawmill and had let the survey crews of the Great Northern Railroad on the reservation without reporting it to the Indian Office.

Bear Chief complained that white men were cutting hay and selling it to the railroad crew for their work horses, while Mr. Clough, Second Vice-President of the Great Northern Railroad informed the Indian Office that right-of-way maps were being prepared and that the railroad would be glad to cooperate with the government in agreeing upon compensation to the Indians. He urged the progress of the railroad not be hampered by “any disturbance of the Indians.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.52-53