The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-04-28

This began 10 look like business. He OK
ahmed lis books all his loose papers, bu
found no minute Of the beef contract
went 10 the Second Comptroller Of thu
COrn.BcCf Division. lie examined hi
books and his loose papers, but with NJ
SUCCESS. I was encouraged. During tina
week ! got rs fur rs the Sixth COmntrol
Ter in that division; the next week go
through the Claims Department; the tllirt
week began ind completed tue Slislait
Contracts Departments, and got q tOotlOlC
in the Dead Reckoning Department.
finished tint in three days. There was
only one placG lelf for il now. ] laid sicgt
to the Commission Of Odds ind Ends Tt
his clerk r.tlIcr-hC was not there himself
There were sixteen beautiful young ladies
In the room, writing in books, and there
were seven well.lavored young clerks
showing them how. The young women
smiled up oyer their shoulders, md the
clerks smiled back ut them, md all went
merry MS a marriage he'll. Two or three
clerks that were rCading tho newspapers
looked ut me-rathcr hlrtl, but went on
reading, and nobody said anything. How
ever, ! had been used to this kind Of llac-
rity from FOurth.Assistant.Junior Clerks
AlI through my cvGnttul career, from the
very day entered the first Office Of the
Corn. Beef Bureau clear I'll passed out
OF the last ono in the Dead. Reckoning d.
vision. I had gOtsO accomplished by this
time TINT could stand on ono foot from
the moment entered III Office till Il clerk
spoke TO Inc, without changing more thHn
two, or may bc three times.
So l stood there till had changed four
different times. Then ! said to one OF the
clerks who was reading:
: Industrious VNgrnnt where is the Grand
Trky'
"What do yGu mean, siry Whom Ito
you mcany If you mean the Chief Of
the Bureau, he is out" ...
"WilI he visit tile harcm to-day"
The young man glared upon me u while,
and then went on reading his paper. But
l knew the ways Of those clerks. KNEW
l was safe If no got through before anoth-
or New York mil arrived. Flo only had
two moro papers left. Atlcr a while he
finished them, and then he Yawned, and
asked mo wh0t l wanted.
"Renowned and honored 1mbecllC: On
or about"
"You are the bccEcontraCt man. Give
me your papers"
He took them, and for u long time he
ransacked his Olds aud ends. Finally lie
found the Northwest Passage, us re:
gardcd 1.-The found the lOng.lOst record
Of that beef contract-he found the rock
upon which so many Of my ancestors had
split before they ever got TO it l was
deeply moved. Aud yet | rGjoiccl-tor l
had survived. 1said with emotion: "Gtvc
1t me. The Government will settle now"
IIU waved mo back, ind said there was
something yet 10 be done first.
"Where Is this John Wilson Mackcn-
zicY" said he.
dead"
"WhCn did he diC!"
ale didn't die nj all-ho was killed"
"uOw?" ...
"TOmallawketl."
"Who tomahawke1 him"
"Why, I'm Indian, Of course. You didn't
suppose II was a superintendent Of Sun
uuy sCuoVI, Ilu yOuE
mo. An Gmli1n, WIS it!'
"The same" .......
'!.Name Of the Indian?"
s'IIis name don't know his name"
"IuuSt have his name. Who saw the
tOmahawking doncT
~ don't know" =,
"You were not present yourself then"
(Which you can see by my hair. | was
absent"
"Then how do you know that NEackcn-
zie is dead !"
because he certainly died ut that time,
and ! have every reason to believe that
he hus been dead ever since. l kROD he
has, in fact"
awe must have proofs. Have you got
the Indian!"
"Of course not"
We'll, you must get him. Have you got
tho tOmahawkY
~ never thought Of such thing"
"YOu must get tho tomAhawG. You
must produce the Indian and the toIna'
hawk. If Mackenzic's death can be
proven by these, you can then 80 before
the commission appointed to audit claims
with some show Of getting your bill under
such Roadway that your children may
possibly live to receive the money and en-
10y It. But that mans death must bC
proven. However, may US well tell you
TINT the government will never pay that
transportation and those travelling en-
pcnses OF the lHnlentcd Mackenzie. II
may possibly pay for tho barrel Of bcel
that Shcrman's soldiers captured, II yOI
Can get relief bill through Congress ma
king an appropriation for that purpose
but It will not pay for the twCnty-ntnr
barrels the Indians ate"
"ThGn there Is only hundred dollarE
duo inc, and atHt isn't certain!, After nj
MaCkCnzie's travels in Europe, Asia, and
America with that beef; after all his trials
and tribulatiOns md transportation; aItCI
the slaughter OfAll those inMOcentS thai
tried to collect tint bill! Young man
why didn't the First Comptroller OF thu
Corn. Beet Division tell me this?"
ale didn't know anything about thu
gcnuincneSs Of your claim"
"Why didn't tho Second tell me? why
didn't the Thirdly Why didn't all thcst
divisions and departments tell meg"
Nme OfthCm.knew. We do things by
routine here. You have followed TIL
routine ind found out what you wanted
to know. 1t Is the hest way. 1t is tn
only way. It is very regular, and very
slow, hut II Is very certain"
ayes, certain death. II has been TO TIN
most Of our tribe begin to feel that
too, nm called. Young man, you lOvotlr
. bright creature yOndcr with tho gentl'
blue eyes aud The steel pens behind he
clrs-I SEQ II in your soft glNncGs; 20,
wish to marry her-but you arc poor
ITcrC, hold out your hand-here Is tn
bcet-cOntrlct; go, take her and be happy
Heaven bless you, my children"
This Is all that know about the grca
beef contract that hNs created 80 nluCl
talk In tho community. The clerk Il
whnn hpnuenthcd il died. know moth