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Yelm, Wash. June 26 - 1900. Dear Mr. Muir: You will see by the enclosed sheets of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that
I am still pegging away at the Sheepmen and incidentally serving the legislators over whose eyes the former have succeeded
in pulling the wool . As I sorely need the position I hold (P.M.), it is doubtless bad policy to antagonize the Senator who
controls the federal appointments in the state, but, I am first of all such an enthusiastic mountaineer, such a friend of
the national park and such a lover of nature, that I can not remain mute (feeble though my uttered voice be) when such outrages
are attempted. I have been very much concerned at seeing no organized effort on the part of the Sierra Club and 02654