Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-12-07
A MOST SERIOUS CHARGE
Agent Budd Accused of immoral
Relations With HaIf-Breed.
AT THE TONASKET SCHOOL
1t Is Also Alleged That He Has Been De.
frauding the United States
Government.
Spokane, Wash, Dec. 2.

Spokane, Wash, Dee @
/ The statement In yesterdays Wash
ington dispatches to The Spokesman
Review that charges had been pre-
! ferred against Captain Bubb, Indian
| agent for the Colville and Occur d'Alene
reservation, did not come as a SURPRISE
| Several days ago The Spokesman-Re-
| view informed it's readers that Special
Agent Lane had returned from the Col
| vile reservation. where he had been
sent to investigate charges and counter
| charges. Colonel Lane declined to be
! interviewed in the matter, but it is
known that he spent several weeks at
the agency and at the Tonasket In
! dian school, where he took elaborate
testimony, returning with a big grip
| sack filled with the evidence there
| taken.
1t is said Captain Bubb is charged
with maintaining immoral relations
with half-breed gill now at the Ton
asket school. The charges were pre-
ferred by officers at the school. The
girl is named Francis Welsh, and she
is about 16, and is said to be quite hand
some. She came from Hawk creek,
near Fort Spokane, where she lived
with her sister, Sallie. It is alleged
that Captain Bubb took her to the
Tonasket school, on the Okanogan riv-
er, 20 miles this side of the interna-
tional boundary, and gave her employ
nent as assistant cook. 1t is said the
superintendent at the school preferred
the charges, which are fatty denied by
Captain Bubb.
1t is alleged that Captain Bubb has
been practicing dishonest methods in
his purchases Of supplies for the res
ervation, although it is understood
these charges have not yet been formal
ly preferred. 1t is said that he went
to the owners of a flour mill in a Pa
louise town and contracted for As bar
rels of flour for the Upper and Middle
bands of Spokane Indians on the Occur
d'Alene reservation. The millers quot
ed him price of 1925 per barrel, and
it is alleged that he made out the bill
for S3 per barrel and pocketed the DIFF |
ference himself. The Spokesman-Re-
view has information that the miller
in question has made affidavit to these |
charges. This affidavit, it is said, al |!
leges that Captain Bubb sent a check |
for $33.75 in excess Of the agreed price, |
and then asked for the return to him
self of the difference; the miller said |
he would give him check for the
amount, to which Captain Bubb is said
to have replied, 81 don't want the check
to go through the bank. You get the
money and bring it to me at my hotel"
1t is said this was done, and the agent
pocketed the money.
In June, 1894, the department gave
for the building of a black
smith shop on the Occur d'Alene reserv-
alton. 1t is charged that Captain Bubb
went to Hugh Mclaughlin, carpen-
ter at Tekoa, and employed him for 10
days at $3.50 per day. IT is said that
he called Mclaughlin aside, and said,
now, this is a little private matter be-
tween u.s." and that when the check
came 1t was for s52. so instead of s35.
Later, it is said, Captain Bubb went to
and asked for the return
Of the difference, and when the car
penter refused he is said to have be-
come exceedingly angry. It is said by
we'll informed persons that Mclaughlin
las made affidavit to these statements.
1t Is further said that Jonathan
gard to lumber deal, and that this
vas turned over to Special Agent New
nan.
Captain Bubb took charge of the
agencies August l, 1898, under an act
If congress authorizing the president
o appoint either army officers or civil
ans to the Indian agencies. It has been {
Known for a long while that matters ;
no ,,11r, oc |
night on the reservations. Captain
3ubb, it is said, had frequent disputes !
With officers under him. Some time
lgo he ordered the discharge Of Gov
Farmer Steele a the sub
agency at Nespelim. 1t is said that he
appealed to his brother, who is sub
agent at the DeSmet agency on the
Occur d'Alene reservation. The latter {
wired to the commissioner of Indian :
lffairs, and that official telegraphed Z
Jack that Agent Bubb had been direct {
ID to reinstate Steele within "a hours. /
This was done, but the incident is said !
O have left {. ranking on both Sides
A gentleman who came down from (
stevens county Saturday said that all /
orts of rumors are afloat around the t
aserva ton. Indian Inspector McCor- T
he interior department to make an in :
-estigation supplemental to that re-
emily made by Special Agent Lane. :
t is understood that he is now at Fort
spokane, and that Agent Bubb is also
It that place.
A we'll informed gentleman says that
captain Bubb denies these charges in t
oto, and expresses confidence in his ]
Lbility to disprove them. He is one 8
# the best known officers In the ser {
ice, and has always stood ltgh in the !.
stimation Of those who know him. !
lie has a cultivated and refined wife ,
nd daughters. When Sub-Agent Steele :
vas in the city a few days ago, he SAID I
hat he had never seen anything in {
captain Bulbs actions on the Occur {
rAlene reservation that would justify
suspicion of improper relations with {
he women on the reservation. This is
onsidered strong point in Captain
3ubbs favor, from the fact the re-
a tions between himself and Suh-Agent 9
steele have been Of an unpleasant ma !
ure. t
CLEVELAND HAS HAD HIS LAST TIE M f
o Jefferson Is Authority for II e State r