New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-24
Mcf7ILLICUDDYS DISHONEST PRACTICES
AFFIpAvITs CHARGING HIM WITH FRAUDS AT TIE

journed.
McGILMCUDDY's DISHONEST PRACTICES.
AFFIpAvITs CHARGING HIM WITH FRAUDS AT TIE
PINE RIDGE AGENCY
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIRuSEl
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.-Red Cloud starts 1or
home to-day, having succeeded IN seiins
his claim for the ponies stolen from MS iIloe
by the Government favOrably recommehueu l"
Congress by the 'cretary of the lnterlor' 4i'
time another matter OF great importance ~ Wv
tribe and to the whites in the nelghborhood OF Fine
Ridge Agency, is still undecided-the question OF
the removal of Agent McGilliculdy, whose name
has become prominent In connection WIN heu Ni'uu'
This is urged upon the Secretary by large huihoo
OF residents at that agency on the eio"nu
that he has been guilty of dishonest practices.
man personally interested IN the matter says e'"'
there are on file in the Department forty or fifty
affidavits making 500 pages, charging HSuus anu
irregularities. One of these is an affidavit by
trader that McGillicuddy made proposition to him
that he should collect for him commission oil III
per cent ON purchases from merchants, and that ne
did so until he and McGillcJddy quarrclled because
fine agent was not wiling to share with him.
A great variety of pc ty' frauds are charged on
this and other alidavits, such as the fohowlhg'
When beef is delivered to the Indians on inc
bock"-that is to say, saUghtered-t IS entitled 10
the value of the hides in tickets, which are goou a'
the stores 1t is charged that the agent useu thrso
tickets himself getting goods OF cash Tor then' ITO
is charged with sending to the stores OF traders on
a number of occasions, coffee, corn, bacon, e'o''
which belonged to the Government, ana get
ting money for them. Two aihdavHs aIo
made by men who Were pau Wv
each for building two schoo-houses' Inc Iouono''
are said in each case to show payment OF $l'ooo'
a.. tba d
one occasion when an Indian brought In load OF
FREIGHT the clerk said that he had no room and told
him 70 take it to the traders store and store IL
there He afterwards saw the same boxes IN the
traders store When the time came to distribute
the annuity goods the clerk sald lie
WAS short 700 shawls and 1000 yards
of blue cloth, which is worth " yaru'
and that "they" must have been lost on the way
The goods in the store believed TO have been the
missing ones Each Indian was compelled, thrre-
fore. to take a smaller portion than he would DINER
wise have had. Harper was agency COOK ana
was told by the issue clerk, who calls hlmseli
Frank" Steward, but who 1t Is assfrteu 10
| "Frankr Stewart McGillicuddY, the brother Oh inc
agent employed under a false name 10 eVane tno
law against the employment OF relatives tha' NJ
must not tell the Inspector what nc had seen il "0
wanted to keep his place.
tribe finally i'll August last, signed letter saying
that if something was not done in sixty days they
would mt McGilicuddy Off the reservation. One
of the white residents fearing an outbreak II the
wrongs of the Indians were not needed by the De-
partmeut, wrote dispatch 10 the Commissioner o'
Indian Affairs asking that an inspector be sent 10
the reservation. McGil.icuddy would not allow
the dispatch to go the wire, and the man rode
sixty miles on horseback to telegraph station
and sent the telegram, which cost MN over TIOV
McCllhcuddy put under arrest the Chei "i ioIice
who had signed the letter, keeping HIM IN close con
fneneut for ten days. Inspector w. VI. Pollock
WAS sent out. After careful examination he iele-
rrspbed the Department that he would suspend
McGilliculdy. The reply was not to suspend him
but 10 turn the papers over to another agent. lie
te,erraphed back that he should suspend him nm
less he was removed himself lie di suspend Nc
Gillicaddy and was removed while McGiiiicuddy
was reinstated Immediately.
Pollock has finally been restored. The icense Of
the trader no made affidavit that hc had collected
commissions for McGllicuddy was revoked by the
Commissioner on III. ground that he was by ms own
| showing an unfit pei sOl to have III. -, g..
"Hank" Clifford, John Richmond, H. . CiH0II
| David COckrli john Bfldgenah ana Joan L. Nei-
| son The fact is recalled That AcDnhcuGdy was IN
ST. Louis recently aud was reported IN the ~ LOUIS
uapers as lua&iqg great cutlery one evening u one
! III the els because he lost his pocket-Do9k
containing he said PlC. 900 in bills, aud was ready
| TO offer several nunIISl dollars reward Tor H. ~
was restored to him by man VINO got no IeNi"
! Tins was coplUl IN the Washington pa 'erS. Inc
circumstance IS held to be suspicious ono ny per
| sons n:ricndly TO McGilicuddy Wh0 profess 10
lind tbe1r exclamation OF II the fac that ST Ions
Is the centre ol the cattle TactOrs and that tne
! scales at the agency were found by Inspector / Oh
| lock to be so deficient that he Govern
! IgrDt was losing per cent on al
| purchases Of cattle. They argue mat
Inc possession of snch amount OF cash, which
| cnnld nor have been Government funds, IS a suspi-
| Cons clrcumstauce-cOAsideri mat The agent
| Was "A Door man when ne took u SOD place Tour