Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-02-07

cause trouble. That is untrue. / only
tried TO lend him my experience and
he refused to accept of II, and set up
some tenderfoot opinions of his own and
asked me to work on them with him.
| refused because | knew that il would
result in no good, The result was his
dislike Of me and the sending to
Washington Of some very nndigDifed
official dispatches asking that be re-
moved from the reservation"
What do you think Of Rogers at
tempt to be reinstated ?"
"Why, it is madness, perfect folly.
Royer is failure as an Indian agent
and every man in the Indian service
knows it He would have made an
average agent and probably would have
got along we'll on the reservation over
here in Dakota county, but you can t
take an inexperienced man out ofa drug
store or off a bull team freight wagon
and have him manage one of the big
Dakota agencies with any degree of sue
cess. Royers personal rights, OH which
he based his candidacy for reappoint-
ment, should have no force as against the
death of half hundred soldiers and six
times as many Indians. for which his
mistake in calling out the troops is TO
blame"
Had Roger no obstacle to overcome ?"
Certainly. His predecessor. Gallagher,
left things in very bad shape and when
the trouble started under his administr-
alton he knew that he had TO go soon
and he took no measures 10 stop it, leav-
ing il all to his successor to do"
rs there any preventive OF future
trouble that you known OFF"
Yes. A full restoration OF the Indian
police and detective system, which has
dwindled from q magnificent and per
feet system TO nothing during the past
five years and plenty to eat. With
these can answer for the Indians, but
not for the d-n fool break of some
white man."
Then there is politics among the In
dians ?"
Certainly there is. This thing was
merely portion of the great agriculture
al upheaval The farmers wanted less
taxes and the Indians wanted more to
eat, and the result was that both wanted
a change Of administration"
Win the settlers be safe from now
on ?''
Well, ! don't know. The settlers
made mistake IN taking hand IN the
fight and arousing the bitter animosity
of the Indians. The killing Of the inof
fensive and popular chief. Few Tails, by
them is a serious matter, and / am
afraid it will work to their injury in the
future for ,hc reaso. that mutual confid-
ence can never again exist between them
and the Indians"
How would the removal of the tribes
10 the Indian territory work as solution
Of the problem ?"
1t will never do. The Sioux are Bit
terly opposed TO a removal, and know
that an attempt TO carry snch plan in
to execution would precipitate terrible
and bloody struggle"
Tilsiti thf thaaahl hla rfSs baap.Va aglR2pd E" p,
place the politician in the postot.ices and
land Offices, while the men Of fexperience
will take the management Of the Indian
department. To show how poorly it has
been conducted in the past, can say
with no fear If contradiction that 10 per
cent of the officers in the service hereto
fore have been incompetent"
Mr.. Mctiillicuddy volunteered the in
formation that he was en- route to Pierre
TO take in the senatorial ghost dance,
and to make his report to Gov. Mellette
on the Indian situation.-Sioux City
Journal 81, ult.