The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1875-08-21
THE INDIAN RING


much continent ard some very neat
little games are being shown up.
Many of those who are high in au-
thority arc now being implicated in
the matter, md undoubtedly others
have hand i'll it, whose names as
yet are unknown. Even the great
uiyssus s. Grant anu his family have
some little to Ito with this ring bust
ness, II wo may be permitted to be-
licvo what comes to us on the best of
authority. Prof. Marsh was among
the hrst to implicnto high officials.
and thereby called the attention of
tho press to tho matter, tho New
York San being among tho foremost
IN rentilating tho charges, and has
since been very bitter i'll dcnouncinp
the President lor his completely in
them. The latest, and probably the
most pointed, cases in which the eel
ebrated President has been mixed I'D
Is that brought ont by tho Journal of
Syracuse, N. Y. in which lie is
charged with having given his broth
err, Q. l.. Grant, exclusive privilege
to trade i'll certain portions Of Dnko.
tn, and was founded orr the following
letter from bismarck, in that Terri
tory:
.. l.. Grant receives $500 per
month for his trading privileges at
Fort Pock; Cheyenne Agency and
Standing Rock aro worth MS much
more; Rcrthold phys $3.50 per
month, and Fort Stevenson 500 :;
Forts \. Lincoln and Buford are
each worth $500 per month. The
profits Mt each OF these posts will reach
S1, UU0 per annum. Tho sale of
whisky alone, Mt twenty-five cents n
drink, for II week after pay day will
average $500 per day. aud sometimes
reach 5000. Forts Rice, SuIly and
ltanGall, tho latter very important
post. Hro nlso controlled by tho ring ::
and tako it NIL in all, 0. l.. Grant
has about rs good thing rs tho Pres
ldent in tho way OF mn income"
Such charges MS these must be pref.
~ well founded, or paper of the
standing of the Journal could not be
induced TO give them plnce in it's col
umns. 1t has for years past been n
we'll known fact, particularly on the
Pacific coast, that. the Indians were
being annually swindled ont of thou.
sands of dollars. and the matter llns
from time to time been thoroughly
shown up, but nothing of any sub
stantinl nature Inns been dono to pre-
vent occurrences Of tho robbery, and
1.-THE charges were forced too hard the
one committing the nets was removed
to another locality. This has been
the practice over AMI over again, I'M
til now it has become tho general
opinion that tho superiors share n
large portion Of tho amounts plum
dcrcd by tho subordinutcs.
Tho number of Indians in tho
UniIed States is not very lnrgb, but
look Mt the annual cost of caring for
them-somewhero in tho ncighbor.
hood Of thirty-sevcn millions of dol
lars fally rs mucE rs il cost to run
tho Government of the United states
half n century ago. Look ut the
amount expended in clring for this
helpless class Of people; then the
way in which they are cared for. and
We nre convinced that any impartial
mind will ngreo with us in saying
that something is wrong. Such
wholesale robbery certainly can not
be going OIL oil the time, and those
whose duty it IS to attend to such
matters remain in perfect ignorance
OF the fact. II Secretary Delnno, the
President and many others high III
authority aro not interested in these
awindling schemes, why don't they
expose them? Wo give NIL of those
gentlemen credit of being we'll post.
cd. and such being tho case, thcy
must certainly know whnt is going
on. Until they clear away tho evil
nni expose the ring thoy must aud
onght TO be held responsible for its
nets, and tho American people will
do it.