Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-10-11

bered that at the time the injunction case
was tried Patterson wRs in default for.
the remainder of his first payment for the
license.
A short time after the decision of the
court there appeared IN the Wlnona
Times, Patterson's newspaper, a notice
which purported to be proclamation. or
order, or firman. or ukase, from the new
Indian agent at Standing Rock, to the
effect that Patterson's boat and only
Patterson's boat--would be allowed to
ploW the raging pillows that are, so far,
allowed to touch the eastern shore of the
domain of the big white chief who lately
came to make medicine for the Si-ox
tribe, and that with him the interests of
the free and independent borough of EN-
mons were not t'in it, little bit--appeal
or no appeal.
About the same time there appeared
another command from the throne
which was also published in the agent s
Winona organ--to the effect that certain
parties. whose names were given, would
not be allowed to place their saerilegious
hoofs upon the sacred gumbo of the res
ervation. 1t does not appear that either
of the persons outlawed by the agent was,
before such outlawry, allowed to crawl
into the August Presence and make de-
fense the August Presence acting per-
emptorlly as Judge, jury and executioner
And so, ut the present time, condition
of affairs something like this prevails:
OF the citizens Of Emmons county
named as persona non grata to his Royal
Nibs on the farther shore, there is not
an individual of them who hasn't,a score
of friends to his protege's one, and there
isn't man of them whose word or bond
would not sbe Shore quickly taken than
the indiyAa5Fith whom there is pre-
sumptjAsa9ence Of a partnership of in
terests Nahe part of the agent. And yet
not 9Sd those outlawed, even if sick
Death, would, under the sweeping
kReriptlve order Of the agent, be per-
I}HNted to seek on the other side of the
Ffiver the only medical attention quickly
available.
According to this petty satrap of an
Indian agent, Emmons county has no
rights in the matter of ferries, even
though one Of the landings is within her
borders. A very peculiar condition of
affairs might result If any one objec-
tlonable to the agent should at some time
in the future obtain ferry license from
this county, he would be stopped from
landing at the reservation and his boat
would be confscatcd. Is it not likely that
the law officers of this county would
make it as uncomfortable for the agent g
unlicensed ferrYman, if he should attempt
to do public business other than crossing
the U. s. mail, as the agent could make II
for the eoupty's licensee1 The agent
would conf1scate the licensees boats and
the county would put the agents pet in
Jail.
1t seems very strange that new man
should, within few short months, dis.
cover that the policy for years pursued
by Major Mclaughlin was mistake. Out
In this country the settlers who came in
contact with him were so foolish as to
believe that the major was an ideal agent.
His rules were firm where frmness was
needed, but his methods under other cir.
cumstances were always conservative
and conciliatory. Everybody here was
his friend. No agent could have been
more alert than he in seeking the punish.
lshment of those whom 1t was believed
were funlshing intoxicants to his wards
but he believed that any man should be
considered innocent until found guilty.
Notwithstanding all this--as every rule
and every order so far issued has been
based on policy Numerically opposed
to the policy so long pursued by the man
who was called to higher position, as a
/ reward OF merritt must be that the good
opinion of Major Mclaughlin so long
held by the settlers was incorrect.
Notifications of the assertion that
''pride goeth before q falP happen every
day IN the ordinary affairs of life. We
do not believe that, when the Washington
authorities fully understand the nature of
the highhanded proceedings at Standing
Rock, they will lndorse them. And 1t IS
possible that the bumptious individual
who assumes to rule the whites as we'll as
the reds in these parts may learn that the
former as well as himself have friends in
! the shadow of the throne.