The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-12-05

The work of the federal grand jurysitting
at Pueblo, Colorado in investigating Indian
frauds prepetrated by the gang of politi-
ticians who have, until recently, held high
orgy in the Indian office at Washington,
has practically uncovered an abominable
mess. The grard jury indicted o. ]. Kel-
log and his wife Laura ]. Kellog for Indian
frauds. The alleged offenders were captu1-
ed at Tulsa, Okla. and held under heavy
bond to await the action of the federal
court at Pueblo.
Grin ]. Kellog not long since was in jail
at Green Bay, Wisconsin, for some crook
ed work but woman with a record who
claims some Indian blood, paid the fine inn
posed by the court upon Kellog and mar
ried him. The kellogg than ran a long
gamut of crooked transactions chiefly in the
way of borrowing money from Indians and
friends of the Indians under various alluring
pretenses. They always pretended to be
intensely Interested in the welfare of the In
dians and always wound up by borrowing
money under one pretext or another and
forgetting to return it. Mrs. Kellogg
claims to be an "Indian Princess and her
enticing manner was her chief capital stock
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Last March, she joined in with the no.
torious Richard c. Adams, of Washington,
whose career in milking the Indian has been
exposed. Adams appointed her Lecturer
and Press Representative for the Grand
Council of the North American Indians, y
the fake Indian organization gotten I'D by a
band of grafters, under the cover of which
they succeeded in landing some immensely
profitable Indian contracts. This, the gang
were able to do because of connivance in
side of the Indian Office.
The Kellog gang then joined forces with
Thomas L. Sloan. whiskey lawyer from
Fender, Nebraska, who is himself mixed
blood Indian of the Wirnebago tribe.
Sloan, who has been for years chronic de-
fender of bootleggers, has been mixed up in
many deals in which the Indians got the
worst of it. His record in grating on his
fellow Indians was exposed few months
ago.
Last spring, Sloan formed a combination
with F. H. Abbott, then Assistant Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, who was re-
Gently permitted to resign for the good of
the service. Abbott had been candidate
for appointment as commissioner but, ow-
ing to his lnalodorous record, the protests
OF the temperance people and the Indian
organization become so strong that his
chances were killed So Abbott formed an
alliance with Sloan, the booze lawyer,
whereby Sloan was to come out as a can
didate for the commissionership. Abott
was to throw his strength to Sloan and
Sloan was to retain Abbott as Assistant
Commissioner if appointed In the mean
time, Sloan took room at Abbott's home
in Washington and things looked like
"cinch. But the plot was so bald that it
failed to work. The Indians protested so
strongly that President Wilson refused to
carry out the program.
Sloan, in the meantime, had gotten him
self elected as vice president of the Society
of American Indians but at the last confer
ence of the Society, Sloan was eliminated
and thrown into scrap heap. He is no
longer vice president Of the society. AS
matter of fact, the leaders of the society BIT
terly fought the appointment Of Sloan as
commissioner and thus killed the Sloan
kellogg -Abbott-Adams combination.