St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-16

member of congress of the fact, at the
same time insisting that
minnesota is entitled to eight hun
! dred offices. while she has only two
I hundred. We want nothing but justice,
but we want that mighty bad"
why the Indians Were Starving.
Senator Jud La Moure, of North Da-
kOta, has been in Dakota so long that
he comes very near being part of the
country. The people of Minnesota, at
least the old settlers. will remember
! Clark w. Thompson, the Indian agent
at Crow Creek, whose management of
! the agency created such scandal dur
ing '63 and '64 that 1t was made the sub
! ject of an Investigation by congress
| ional committee in 1865. Well, Jud La
| Moure was in South Dakota then and
| appeared before the committee and teS-
| titled. His evidence is contained in
| report made to the Thirtyninth con-
gresS by COngreSSmen Hubbard, of
| Iowa, and Window, of Minnesota, and
in view Of the anxiety Of the Republican
senators to Investigate Senator Roach,
of North Dakota, it is interesting, be-
cause JUDI knew several things then
about the transactions of Thomas G.
Power, who is now senator from
Montana. "Jud' is always entertain
ing on occasions of this kind, but at
Crow Creek, Sept. 6, 1865, at an exam
Hubbard, he was too interesting entire
ly for Hon. Thomas G. Power. The
records read as follows:
La MOure Knows Power.
TERRITORY OF DAKOTA, CROW CREEK
AGENCY, Sept 6, 1S65.-EXamination as
to management of Indian affairs at
Crow Creek Agency before Hon. A. w.
hubbard, commissioner:
JudSOn La MOure, of lawful age, being
duly sworn, depOSed as follows:
First Question-State your name and
residence.
First Answer-Judson La Moure;
now residing at Crow Creek Agency.
Second Question - State what you
know of the sale or disposition of cattle
belonging to this agency by Thompson
superintendent and other.
Second Answer-ln the first place
Thompson let a contract to Choteau to
furnish cattle for this agency. and the
contract was sublet to Booze, and |
brought the cattle up 10 the agency for
Booze; there were ninety-three head,
mostly oxen for beef and work, and
some cows; they were weighed at Sioux
City; they received the cattle here and
returned to Sioux City, but Immediately
left there: on my return here with goods
for Supt. Thompson, and on reaching
Choteau creek | met siXty-seven head
of the same cattle | brought to the
agency as above stated, they having
Strayed from the agency. | drove them
back as far as Fort Randall, where |
met Thomas Powers and q Frenchman,
whom Thompson had sent after the cat
tie. We stopped at Fort Randall two
days, and while there train belonging
to Thomas Powers and +. ID. Pease
came along. The cattle in this train
were small and young and pretty we'll
worn out; | turned the siXty-seyen
head over to Powers; Powers and Pease
then turned theig~oXen i'll the train in
among the sixty-SeYen head and picked
the same number out of the SiXty-seven
head; the ones they picked out
were the largest and best and
yoke go headl were thus exchanged.
We then came up on the agency togeth
er, and when we arrived here L made
statement OF how | had found the cattle
and turned them over to Power, and
how Power and Pease had exchanged
cattle, and also made some statement to
Thompson's assistant, Adams. / Of
fered to snow Thompson the cattle eX-
changed, and he said he had not time to
at tend to it.
Slick Deal by Power.
Power and Pease then sold the fif-
teen yoke OF oxen they had picked out
of the siXty-seven head to Thompson,
the superintendent, aud they also sold
the fifteen yoke they had put into the
siXty-seven head. ] do not know what
Dumber Power reported to Thompson
that he had found. l told Thompson the
number | found and turned over to
Power. The cattle were all marked,