Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-07
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| / AM pleased 10 Know THAT tie effort
ftha, has been nadein induce the govern.
flneni i, relieve the suffering Mile Laos
| Indians has not been ia vain, The gov
| eminent has ordered them q be paid at
1 once in money the Withholding OF
which 10 this late day IN the winter. has
caused much suffering among them. Il
| 'sQuite probable. that the excitement
! that was raised over tie affair will soon
| die cut. ] have thought some of review
| ing The whole matter, and demonstrating
! 10 the public the tact that the man c. P.
| l,Nse, of White Earth, ought not TO be
! called a Tar. as that word would but
family desert bt ljacharacter, but have
concluded 10 merely sketch the subject
bur slightly, which I would not do if
Major luse had net used such language
10 the St Paul Globe cores on&lent at
Detroit on the 9th Of February last AZ
ter reading my letter lis published in tie
| Globe, he says: II have been rather
amused at several other statements on
the same matter which have appeared il
the Press and other papers lately, but
this beats them all Az being incorrect
and foreign To- the truth, and right here
lst'me say that Idrplore he taste of
publishing such reports withoui first
making at least an honest effort to ar.
rive q The truth or fasi'y Of the same.
In regard to Mr.. Richardson letter, |
can only say that il is collection Of
false and incorrect Statements, due 10 7g-
uorance, perhaps, on ths part of Mr..
| Richardson bu, even this affords no ex-
cuse, aad q knowledge of the zeal facts
! in the case would reflect no little dis
credit upon him" Well, nearly month
has elapsed since Major Luss WAS re-
| ported to have made the above remark,
and he has said nothing more, and it is
altogether likely he would no, haye said
that much, or anything. ifthe Globe cor
respondent had not culnereu him there
in the hotel at Detroit, and finally after
| being pressed to the wall and asked to
defend himself from all HE charges that
| were made again him, he squeais and
| says: My friend, life is toe short: it
takes all ofmy time in attending to my
official duties"
In this last remark I must say that
there is some sembance Of truth
have no doubt but his end will come
before he explains away all the charges
that have bees preferred against him as
Indian agent, and it appears tina, Ike HAS
sense en- ugh not to try y hat is probably
impossible. AS to whether made any
false statements in my letter si4u ap,ar-
emily stirred up the re O Major ,Luse to
II great pi'ch / hav' lhis, 10 say, put
| nothing in us facts but what were either
founded upon the afiid.yits and state
mens sf rel able parties or what knew
from personal observation. to be tyue
The 'ogica 'durlious from these facts
which, unvailrd Mr. Luse's character is
what tortured him; especially on ac->
count of the fact that niucly-nine per
cent of the people besides the govern.
ment off, ials believe him TO lie first
class fraud, add that he wiIlfully and
maliciously made false report as to the
condition Of the Mile Lacs Indians that
he was officially called upon 10 visit, to
see if they were suffering for the neces-
| saries of life. The motive for his action
! Was no doubt to CRAFTY spirit of re
| venge !ecsuse they refused to accept one
half their annuity payment in supplies
| last fall, the profit of which he SAYS
would not went into his pocket We
shall, however, believe that to be the
cause for his treating them so unulan]y
as he did until we see some better rea-
son.
In view of all the facts we predict the
| Majors stay at While Earth will be a
brief one. SO / shall leave ut much rel-
able information that I have received
within the last month which shows that
the Mile Laos Indians are not the onIy
ones that he has neglected and abused,
although thy probably have the greatest
| cause to complain. Lam informed that
the Lscch Lake, Winnebrgosllislt and
Cass lake piI]ager bands who concluded
t" take one bali in supplies, have just
got them distributed among them, AL
though they were ready last October,
which has been the cause of very great
suffering among then. This action on
his part is attributed to gross negligence,
Then II is claimed that in making. re.
! mote pay menss from White Earth, he has
universally made a practice: of giving
but very brief notice OF the time and
place where the payments would lie
made, and in some instances made the
payment ina place quite distant from
the home ofthe Indians and hard, to be
reached by them, so that many would
fail to get there, and thai Major Luse
would report large number paid who
really We're not. and he would keep the
money himself, and that in a few in
stances he was hunted SD close by those