Arizona weekly miner., 1874-03-20
STARTLING REVELATIONS.

- STARTLING REVELATIONS. 2
 The most venerable ring about Washington is the Indi. an ring The Indian ring covered with moss m the days of Jaeksau Its antiquity is oss like t2t of Rome. n-the fogmis,ical obscues of the past Nome of our famlesthe most arisocratic, we meantrace their
 sligree back Indian buread thieves In the days of JeersoR IL is the ouest ring of them al for lis stolen money is stained with blood stained with the blood Of Indians blood Of settlers blood of soldiers and every
 body except the thief Some of these last named, but very few have been claimed by the Penifentinry No one has been hanged This is very eStr"rdinary for part of the ring operates on the Ontie where trees have strange fruit sometimes, 4 .
 The ring is made up of the head and tail of the Iudisn Bureau sometimes and indeed most general y the secfeary of the Interior, Indian agents contract ors and shyesef lawyers They make treaties o get p prorrations and then make to escape paving then They rob the Government one side, the Indians on the other; they rob both ends and murder n the mid de They the most nfmous seoundrels m insera- bIe Providence permits to exist We have changes or administration peace and flush times and panics but through all changes and under R circumstances We nave the Indian ring is in great force just ncw being pat rouzed and sustained by all christian denominations and watched over by Coldmbus Deano. When Columbus Deano discovers and exposes any fraud, he will do wonderful thing than bis great namesake Columbus wlieu he discovered the New World Delanos neighbors say of him that he win pick his own pockets from force of habit; t' .+'' .-e.f = :.
 The irrepressible red man npon whom the ring feeds and ttcns isup ot dfsesseR again. as be h periodca iy Aggravated the frontier by escaped consicts, swndled and cheated by Indian agents set upon and robbed settlers he most unnanageabie ana unfea sonabe creature Every ninety days we are threatened with Indian and frantic cries come upon the wes' tern winds for soldiers to protect the settlers his of thing has to be, Mark Twain says, n-d and there is general demand for reforua tion in the Indian bureau We know bu one and thai Is reform ii of existence by transferring the business the War Department where propery belongs There is general belief that whether the management under that change would he marked with intelligence or not it would be honest We nave found that the Quaker agents will cheat the Methodist agents steal and the Presbyter' predestinators defrHui The army officer although stupid honest He would not be army officer were he otherwise.
 The blonde Shanks of Indiana has done the country in his late report made by the Committee Indian Affairs in the House. on Indian frauds The blonde Shanks did not tell the whole truth because he had time but he has given us enough to sink sew 1 eBty- -fUIr.
 Is blot civilization and dsg1se Co our nation The report informs that of the large amount of money an nAy appropriated foF this service not ten per cent eyer
 In treating of the wussei use of these moneys in '66 the committee say If the Commissioners of Indian Ar fairs at the time the treaties made was not ineres- ted u these wrongs and frauds the Indians he must necessy have been incompetent public 0ficsr the result being the to the Indians" And the same is true O the present panagenent E we can believe the committee and inclined to give fl our entire conf dence the agents of the Government appointed by this department f the rost worthless and disrepaabe They say the characters In the Indian territo " duty deputy United ststes narshalh ahd say the rsscaty at that end IS well balanced y | tho scoundreiisrn at thls. ss..s.- ......
 The .es, instance and the most aaxing is that of the Teton Sioax steal Of six hundred thousand dollars This appropriation recommended by one Simmons, Indian agent tribes nbous the Milk river agency and sp proved by Vial Superintendent for the Montana lnd The whole inside business conducted by Duree and Peck, iWge Indian traders and eontractors end known generally the most uscrupuous roguec on the Missouri rser This recommendation for an hrpsTssa of six hundred thousand dolst approved by the
 Secretary of the ipferor, and on hs arroba,iou weu through to s law. -
 Now, fhe Secretary did not know that there WAS no such tribe of indans in existence he unfit through ignorance, @ fill his pare; and If he did Know and yet approved he was--we, he was Columbus Delano This is precisely what the committee eid of the Secreary of the Interior in 66 and il s equally applicable now. The Teton Sioux had never been heard of in the departments the frontier aniil this heavy appropriation made for their benefit II s said that the idea originated iR
 itte band of about forty warriors headed by Sitting Ball wh0 had lo and extremely disagreeabe Co their neghbors. Ont of this created the great trhe of Teton Sioux They cst the Goyernment-this h,tle hani of Sitting Bull saboui fifteen thousand dollars each; aad Sitting BuI is ready to make affidavit to-day if alvend if dead bis heirs and assignsthat the tribe never received a cent of the money.
 The bids for the contracts to feed and pension these im agnHry wards of the nation advertised o be let in Montana three thousand miles away and eight hun dred ni of i; y,stsgc Through this device all tractors except tose of the ring were thrown out few men not assured of success would hazard such under taking uncerttx Tbe number of bidders by this strategy of tle departpept were reince to small ber. Tho ceairci was nnally awarded Co from lOwa-aiways doubthi ld5ity where Indian affairs concerned The decSbu not based upon the fsct that it was the lowest bid as there n that far of region iferIFsng bdder, who fell below the Iowa man But it decided upon the quality Of the four sanrie oi which brought by the Iowa in bag from the States and was of the unrest and whest brand The sagle presented by the lowest bidder quality and maie upos the hOutig. When the fact is considered that four sarscy dealt out Co these people asd sAe used of the very quality, this dodge of tribex flour taking large n1ian contract oH b the ears is very snnr to the contractors This contract under immediate courol of Assistant Secretary Cowan, xho spent the not tn search of Teton Sioux but in manipulating the contract; and Se have story couueag this high official and John Delano with the transaction thu calls further investigation
 This whole business of Teton Sioux seli under stood and commented ureu in Montana the time this conirars made, It fslkci ef the biggest steal yet also il in the Indian department Sim the agent of these Indians wen, into the agency p debi sahry of q, 800 year, He has paid of his debts in Montana and is known have invested high sl0 0O0 in business enterprises He to Wash ing'on journey costing than his yearly stipend,
 yes al the rate of ten dollars dny while here. and orally o be ia acurishing Jscunary condition.
 Prominent oaias of the Indian department have been publicly ehoegct in this city by person holding high e9risi ro~ifsSn Montana with arcepng one saO 00 and ssosher Si0oo0 of this Teton business. We shculd be inclined to doubt the correctness of this state mcnt hut kt the fact that this sent hT s the de partmeut and promised indian agency himself when The facts oi his statements known the department This glisicrRg prize to tempting and he le for the land of flt and Indian siealings Bu, we have slid this requires confirmation We expect to rcf it.
 is well understood in inc mountains that the Indians all the agtnce< greatly oyerestinted for the pr pose S making up large accounts for surpes and anu sis. The elohing alsa used and when given ou, io e,n is immediately picked up by tine merrilc co-x,ss-sia msasners who are on hand give few frinkeis little whisky in return. We told by ojs,r Fort Ellis close and careful could only mussT SO Mountain Crows, while nsuch larger nlr annually provided for in the appropriation bill both and anuues When the that DOT fC of the yer they ont hunting and do not get the
 tio0s f all as taken in connection with the that they greatly sssxestimsted in numbers, the is plain why the Ixiee paid by the Indian bureau r beef and eth spiss asrch less tlian that paid by amy off tg sse fact used by the Daily Republican ssr days ago Co shsr that the Indian bureau should ns
 go back ine inc War Department the of Army offfsers make honest eoairacts pay for what they get and oIy get what they use, Every pound of beef supplied the army is weighed and accounted for
 Where tlse vouchers For the $500 000 that por fon os fl that used for t Teton SouNs Who sfsnt the noney, and what is there to show how when, 9 wherr it expended Who is the responsible financial agent for the disr~emcnt of the millions annually spent