Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08

DO permitted to remain end chat their
case be represented AZ Warrington,
which was douc, but Without avail.
PROTEST CT TuE 1Nu1ANt.
They said: "Wo have aided the
whites to preserve peace ana pursuod
and hunted our people, a5 we'll 30 those
Of other ;riSc7, In orirr TO corpl
Thorn TO remain On ihsis reservation,
AID ell We ask is 10 be is. alono We
do not want any old from the uhlto
people. We have planted much ground
,ld now We must have cue c.ops,"
The writer krows that these Indians
from their turplus sold a largo mount
Of grain and h,y to thu quartermsster's
department.. Cho department com
mauder, referring to tho removal of
tho Indiaps, truly said: "rhe cause
is qoi,e apparent. The contractors
manage the agency. When the Iadisn
becomes self sustaiaiug there 10 moth.
ing for the contractor to supply, and
thore is no money In the bu,iuess."
The system CT concentration war
carried out ultil every Apache from
the Rio Gfanie to the Colorado be.
lepged properly 10 the San Carlos In.
dian reservatl Then 1t was that
the ring commenced sheir business in
earnest, and this Is the way they op.
crate:
When the number Of Indians is
known the method of fraud adopted
Is to issns Inferior articles, giving
fraudulent weights and measures and
returning for the whole namber of In.
disns. The following authentic 10.
stance, which happened at a Sioux
AGENCY on the Missouri river, will
illustrate one of the ways adopted for
cheating, a parallel case occurring Of
tho San Carlos agency: Ansfficer of
the army, while witnossiag the deliv-
cry of u quantity Of beef cattle to the
agent, has his suspicious excited by
observing that the weight of the c,ttle
was excessive. Noticing that the
hands of the employees who did the
Weighing were blackened by handling
the weights, he made ali examination,
which disclosed the fact that holes had
bean drilled into oil the iron weights
except one, filled In with cork and
blackened over.
FALSIFIED RoLL-cALLs.
But, as q matter of fact, the actual
number of Iadians present at an
agency Is never known to any one
except the agent, and while on paper
he may be feeding the entire number
he can get credited to his agency, moi
more than half the number Of rationt
reported Issued are actually issued,
The surplus goes Into the pockets o
the contractor, the agent and assist
ant thieves This following exsrac
from an official report that cannot b'
questioned speaks eloquently on thiI
subiec!: "As evidence Of the falls,
returns 1t Ia only necessary to com
pare tie figure given In the report o
the Indian commissioner for the yea
1S74-75 with ths year 1875 G.. 1
will be seen In the first report tina
the number Of Indians In the Chirics
hua reservation Is represented as 965
When the reservation was broken al
last year only 1875 We're moved to Sal
Carlos. The troops could find evi
/ dencc of but q small party that cs
capped. Az I have stated, the actin,
agent of the Warm Spring reservatio,
reported that $50 had come to tina
, reservation from the Chiricshua res
ervation at the time Of the removal
The number there prior to this In
crease Is stated in the report for 1877
at 2, 100. In spite of this increase
however, the number stated In tn
3 report for 1876 la given as l 600, an
when the Warm Spring reservation
was broken up the number remove
Q was only 454. A small number wa
claimed to be absent on q raid, TIL
two agencies, Warm Spring and CHR
ioahus, contained in 1876, before the
were broken up, according to the re
? port for that year, 965 aud 2,100-
: total SECS. The number remove
8 were 1926 and 454 total 779. Their
are, therefore, 1886 Indians unac
counted for since 1875 IL Is unne'
4 essary 10 comment IN these 1iscreI
ancies."
RESULTS OF BAD MANAGEME emf
l. wps considered not "a little n
markabls az the time of tho remov.
. of the Apaches to the San Carlo
agency, In Epite Of their romcnstrsnc'
s that trouble did not ensue, but the
o had not forgotten their whipping b
J. General CROOK, and the same trooI
{ were present, with which the ageI
and hia gang threatened them In cal
n they resisted. Shortly after the r
G moval had baen effected to the S,
o Carlos agency struggling parties of II
y dams were reported seen In differel
: parts of the territory. The manage
ment of the Ipdian department Wa
beginning to bear fruit. The d
: psrtment commander ordered an
kept out scouting parties all the tin
and to show that they were n,
d Idle, official reports of operations fro
Fort Verde alone shows that fro,
/. June 2, 1876, to June 80, 1877, tn
D. troops killed 70 Indians and capture
h 60. During the tame time scoutln
ID from Fort Apache resulted In the Kill
vs. Ing and capture of about an equ
he number. Ali Of these Indians wei
rsnegades from the San Carlos ageno
ID They said: "We were born and hay
rs lived In the mountains, where it
T. pcool and where deer and food al
~ plenty. At San Carlos 1t Is hot an
,g desert. Oar people sicken, star,
ID and die. We would rather die Ill
the coyote In our mountain home tn,
ne remain and die from starvation ar
ry disease at San Carlos" And so MAJ
s, of these poor wretohes did court dea
re and die like wild animals. Hunte
lis pursued, and finally surprised in son
20 almost Inaccessible fastness in q