Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-07
MADE ON THACHERY
 BY SENATORS
Are After Scalp of Superin- tendent Who Made kicka- poo Distribution at Doug- las Week or Two Ago.


 LaFoiIette and Henry N. Teller, mem bers of the subcommittee of the sen ate that has in charge the affairs of the Mexican kiekapoo Indians, have protested to Hon. J. R. Garfield, secre- tary of the interior, against Frank A. Thaekery, the superintendent of ln- dian affairs at Shawnee, Okla, being given any authority in connection with the governments relations with the kickapoos and have filed grave charges against him, growing out of the operations of the Chapman Grimes-Conine crowd Of grafters with whom Thackery is alleged to have been connected. It will be remem- bered that Thackery, accompanied by government agent, paid out in Doug las about $12,ooo lease money to the Kiekapoos over the lire just week ago.
 As soon as Thackery and Mark Goode. the Indian agent from Wash ington who accompanied him, ar rived in Douglas to pay out the mon ey to the Indians, it became evident that the old contentious about the Kickapoos had been brought to Doug las. Attorney w s. Field of Wash ton, reached Douglas about the same time that Thackery and Goode did It was evidence from the talk heard that there were no good feelings between the Oklahoma men and the Washington attorney. Field was accused of grating the In dians and Field said that the other fellows were grafters. E
 At present, however, the weight of the testimony in the case seems to be against Thackery, otherwise Sen ators LaFollette and Teller would not prefer with Secretary Garfield the charges which are now known to have been preferred.
 On March II these senators ad. dressed a communication to Secretary Garfield which generally and specifi- eally charges that Thackery was as sociated with the known grafters, the Chapman crowd, that he made him self very distasteful to the Kickapoos, and, furthermore, that he constantly deceived the government as to the number of Indians under his jurisdic- tion in Oklahoma. The records in the case are frequently referred to.
 As an introductory to verbatim ex- cerpts from the records in the case, the senators say:
 Tn relation to the propriety of sending Superintendent Frank A. Thackery of Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Douglas, Arizona, for the purpose of paying lease money to the Mexican Kckapoos now residing near that place, permit us to call your atten- tion to the following facts shown by the record:
 'On page 215S senate document 215, will be found copy of the order of the Mexican judge of the district of MuzquiZ, Mexico, where the Kicka- poos were located in May, 1906. This order discloses the friendly and pro- tective attitude of the Mexican gov ernment toward these Indians before the arrival of MT. Thackery and MT Outcelt. It will be observed, from this order, that the Indians had com plained that the Americans who ar rived in advance of Mir. Thackery and Mir. Outcelt, the Chapman-Grimes-Co CO nine people, were very distasteful to them, and were not wanted in their colony; that on their petition a po- liceman had been detailed to preserve order and to prevent these persons from further imposing upon them.
 "On the day of the execution of this order, May 30th, 1906, Mir Thack- cry and MT. Outcelt arrived at the Indian camp riding in the same coaches with the very persons of whom the Indians had complained as being undesirable, in that they brought whisky to their camp (pages 1071, 14S7 and SS, 1909 and 10, 1S44, 45 and 47), molested their women and therwise caused serious disturbance
 MT. Thackery's letter of June !, 1906, and his telegram to MT. Outcelt under date of June z, together with MT. Outcelt's answer thereto, show conclusively that from this time both Thackery and Outeelt concentrated their efforts in aiding the Grimes-Co- nine people to secure an entrance in to the Indian camp, and to assist in bringing the Indians out of Mexico so that the approved plan of purchasing a new home in Mexico (pages 1413, 1414 and 196S) might be more cer- tainly broken up."
 After citing the record at length the senators in their communication to Secretary Garfield conclude as fol- lows:
 "In view of all these facts it would appear that Mr. Thackery is not the 4a