The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.105

Lipps also found that Clara McFatridge interfered in the agency administration and had told Dr. Harrison, the eye specialist, that if he wanted alcohol for disinfecting school children’s eyes for trachoma treatment, she could not allow him to bring it on the reservation as it was outlawed, and she told school administrators that children with trachoma would not be allowed to attend schools.

 Lipps continued, “I have met her a number of times and many of his friends believe she is the cause of many of his problems, but he does not believe it. Some of the comments are mere gossip that merit no serious consideration.” Lipps noted that Clara McFatridge was the source of many of the superintendent’s problems, and that McFatridge was still trying to fill agency vacancies with his wife and son and was making satisfactory progress in managing agency affairs, and he closed with his observation that “Arthur McFatridge is a disorganized but well meaning man.”

Lipps had scathing criticism for Robert Hamilton based on testimony gleaned from half-breeds who owned 97% of the tribal cattle herds, got by conspiracy with Superintendent McFatridge, the “agency ring” and the trespassing Texas cattlemen, in starving the full blood cattle ranchers into eating their cattle herds or selling their cattle cheap to the prosperous mixed-bloods and agency traders to obtain cash for purchase of food at the agency stores. The eight mixed-blood cattle ranchers enjoyed a lucrative relationship with McFatridge. The squaw men and commercial clubs promoted the sale of “surplus irrigated lands” of the reservation for a Congressional appropriation to purchase more cattle, which they planned to steal. They had already impoverished the full bloods.

Lipps reported, “I am told there is no more reliable and progressive Indian on the reservation than Buck. I have visited him in his home. He has a good home, a nice family and a good farm. He is a graduate of Carlisle, and he has also attended the Valpairaso Formal School for one year, taking a business course there. He is a splendid example of what an Indian boy can do if he takes advantage of his opportunities. I regard his statements as reliable in every respect.”
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.105