The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-10-31

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afInl 1904 James:H.. Clancy, u. q. Indian
Iuspeotor was makinR an inspection
of the Fort .Bsrthoad Indian Agency for
the sWashingtou authorities. He made q
lengthy report with accompanying exhib.
its. The sLEADEs prints the following
short extracts from this report which will
show the general tenor Of the whole:
"The fact Of Mccullough taking the
coffee and sugar was made so clear that
he had to acknowledge to it under oath.
He and D. E. Murphy both swear that
they put the one sack of sugar of coffee
and the two sacks of sugar back, and
Mccullough states that one sack of coffee
and two of sugar was all he got from the
Agency supplies.
On the 18th day of April I took an in
ventory of the sugar and cote. Oh hand.
On tho 5th day of April the supply re;
port show that there was ON hand, sugar,
8s421. On hand, Auril 18th by invoice,
ssz0,-short, e231.
Tho same report shows coffee on hsnd,
pounds, 2e14. On hand, April 18th by
invoice, 2147-short, 467.
And from the former report and the
memorandums they hal not
carried them forward to the April 6 re-
port, there should have been on hand At
that date, April s, beef net. pounds, 6249
and there was not a single pound on
hand, and there had been no issues from
April bth uutill April 12fh at the time I
took tho inventory of anything whatever.
suppose the Agent should have some
credit for ssR1NxAoE in beef, but it seems
to me 524s pounds be too much.
"As to the charge that there was 8
pair of blankets and four. .:aa,lta. kent
out 'of shs:sanussty yocs,s; :'as TO tho
ioisnksts tbs Agsut sadnBits that he did
did keep them ont. but he de-
nies at he directed Smith TO
take four quilts from the pile. See
Exhibits G, page, II, F, pages I, 2,s and
1. find ON the property return which
was returned from the Department after
the are that 100 pairs of blankets
and ts00 quilts have been tsken up
and dropped 50 they must all appear as
issued. As il will be seen the Agent tries
to stand behind Lieut.. Murry, of the q. q.
A. Who witnessed the issue. Now il is not
necessary for me to argue that Murry had
no power to authorize him to take out
out anything. believe from tho evidence
that he did tell Smith to take out four
quilts from the pile. Now all that ia in
this blanket :and quilt question is that
il was an ABSOLUTE STEAL from the
Indians.
II fnd at this Agency there is but little
attention paid TO an 1ndian'e signature.
None of them are required to sign the
issue roll. The slerk just starts at the
beginning Of the roll and goes to the end
of it making X WITHOUT AN INDIAN IN
s1aHr; and am informed BY the Agent
and clerk that they were not required to
sign the annuity rolls and that many of
them never seen tho rolla.
witnessed the issue of supplies and
the -four is NOT weighed. They dip it up
with scoop, that they claim holds six
and weighed one scoop full aud
its weight was less, than hvsapounds;
then Weighed two and they weighed
little less than tan pounds; then
weighed four SCOOP fulls and they weighed
Just twenty pounds, and the SIX pounds
for each fourteen days is charged up
when IN fact they do DO NOT 1xcErvs 10
ExoxED 5lvs POUNDS.
took an inventory Of the. Aour ON
hand At the Agency on the 5ih day Of
April, and there was 2s50o pounds, and
the supply report showed 1854 pounds.
aud the supply report showed 2sS42
rounds, surplus lsss.
= = =
Now tho fact 10 Agent John s. Murphy,
ls no business man, never had any ex-
perience in business and he never will
learn for no knows too much now in his
own mind.
In my opinion he is not ,ompetent to
his Agency, say nothing about
the irregularities, IT they can bs called:
such. and now most rsspectfully recon-
mend that John 9, Murphy. U. 8. Indian
Agent at Fort Bsrthold Agency DO 70
moved. Respectively submitted.
JANIS 81. CIsSxyy
q. 8. Indisn rnspsetor.
wss Murphy working for the Interests
Of the people when DO opposed Senator
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