Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-08-16

Gus Fl. Beaulieu, who was one Of
many Indians mentioned in the govern
ment Investigation into White Earth
land titles at Ashland, Wis.,, last week
before Thomas G.. Sherman, an attor-
ney Of the interior department, was in
Minneapolis yesterday at the Nicollet
hotel. Mr.. Beaulieu took exception to
the statements Of some Of the witnesses
who appeared before Mr.. Sherman,
and said there was another side to the
story.
"Forty years after the assassination
of Hole-in-the-day by band of Pilla
ger Chippewas, the Burch forces,
against whom I made charges over a
year ago for their methods in the in
vestigation Of White Earth land mat
ters, are now trying to fix the re-
sponsibility of the crime upon the
parents Of the mixed bloods who have
exposed them and their Methods" said
Mr.; Beaulieu yesterday, land also the
over $5,0oo,oo0 Of Chippewa tribal
funds for which it has failed to
make proper and detailed accounting,
is trying to have these mixed bloods
stricken from the rolls, so that they
can no longer have voice in Chippewa
tribal matters, and not be able to check
the big steal of tribal funds.
"After the Burch forces had been
upon the White Earth reservation
more than one year investigating the
sale of allotted lands, during which
time they accomplished nothing, the
reservation newspaper commenced to
attack their methods, and these at
tacks were echoed among the Indians
on every hand, and it was then the
force commenced to attack the mixed
bloods, and also commenced to circulate
the report concerning the assassination
Of Hole-in-the-day.
Immediately following the assas-
sination of. Hole-in-the-day, who always
stood by the rights Of mixed bloods, the
federal and state governments investi-
gated the matter thoroughly and the
State Historical society gives its YER
sion Of the matter in it's history Of
'The Aborigines of Minnesota and in
the History of the Ojibwas,' and these
do not bear out the Burch forces con-
the remotest manner responsible for the
crime. In fact, the testimony taken
before Mr.. Sherman shows conclusive
ly that ole-in-the-day was not only on
very friendly terms with all the mixed
bloods, but was very intimate with the
Beau]:eus and Fairbanks: ..ns='@'~
lit is true Cab ge- gay yaush, a
fullblood, testified last week at White
Earth that Major*C. A. Ruffee, now a
resident of Brainerd, and John G.. Nor
rison, ST., Of Red Lake were present
at meeting Of mixed bloods at Crow
Wing in 1866, who proposed to him and
three other fullbloods that they kill
Hole-in-the day, and for doing this they
would be paid $1,000 each; that he re-
fused to do so because he was not paid
half the amount Immediately. He
stated upon cross-examination that he
did not take the trouble to notify Hole
in-the-day Of the plot to kill him, al
though he was on close and intimate
terms of friendship with him, and that
he would have killed the latter. if half
the amount had been paid to him i'm
mediately. He also stated on cross-ex-
animation that he had never mentioned
the subject to anyone until Tom Har-
per, ex-cowboy and detective for
Burch, had APPROACH ed him last sum-
mer. He also stated that at the meet
ing of the mixed bIoods referred to they
told him they wished to get rid Of
Hole-in-the-day because he was a log in
their way to securing rights upon the
White Earth reservation.
"a number Of reputable full and
mixed blood witnesses, including two
prominent chiefs, testified az White
Earth that at the time of his assas-
sination Hole-in-the-day was on very
friendly terms with the mixed bloods,
and intended to start for Washington
the next day to have a reservation
set aside at Long Prairie for himself,
the fullbloeds who refused to remove to
White Earth and the mixed bloods who
also wished to remain in the vicinity
Of their old homes.
"Major G. A. Ruffee and John G.
Morrison both EN- phatically denied
Gah-ge-gay-yaush's statement.
the mixed bloods to show that there
was a strong feeling against Hole-in-
the-day among some of the Pillager
Chippewas, who assass1nated him, dat
ing back several years before he was
killed, and which i'll feeling was caused
principally by the establishment of the
Mississippi reservation on the shores
Of Leach lake, which they claimed to
own.
misunderstanding in his testimony
did not say [ was present when some
Pillager Indians wished to collect from
mixed bloods for the assassination of
Hole~in-the-day, but he did say that !