The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-12-05
Indian Service
Being Over1auled
Commissioner Sells Aetivo 4 fiis Work.
Sloan and Abbot Gets Bad Slam
In Recent Issue Of the New IsspabIic Adams
Gets His Also.

While this was going on, one of the
gang, Charles II. Bates, government allott-
ing agent ofgtlc Indian office, was indicted
by the federal grand jury in South Dakota
for bootleggins. Abbott fought desperate
ly to save Rat make record, he
officially ortt I'd the prosecution of Bates
and then secretly tried his best to prevent
the same prosecution. After Bates was
convicted, Il SOFT induced President Taft
to pardon hinaso that he escaped panish-
ment after dii. Bates was eliminated from
the Indian serst;ce at the demand of the IN
dian Rights 'as.s ssociatidn which urged the
prosecution Of the bootleggel much to the
disgust of Bates pals in the Indian Office.
The next man to come into the game
was Perry H. Kinneaey, who was made an
attorney by the Grand Council of North
American I,sSlians. the fake organization de-
vised by R. e. Adams, one of the political
gang of grafgerS. When the record of Kin
neales was exposed showing that he was an
ex-convict, having spent most of his life i'll
the Montaft penitentiary, having been con-
victed Of forgery, horse stealing and other
crimes. Kinacaley had to be dropped from
the operations If the gang.
The "a y f54r drpna vas fhe ap-
preparation ly congress of funds to investi-
gate the whole Indian Office This work is
dow in progress aided by the present ad-
ministration of In Jan Affairs which is trying
to eliminate the crooks from the service
The first work of the committee was in the
Usage cduntrysand it began crossing the
trail of ex-Assisrant Commissioner F. H.
Abbott who was found to he involved in
some peculiar deals in connection with
Usage gas and oil cases.
Here Is where it was necessary for some
thing to be cone. So Sloan began haunting
the Office of the investigating committee de-
manding that Indian abuses be abated and
abated in hurry and fairly bursting his
suspepders in his efforts to help" He
was producing all sorts of information Of
and his pals were not personally involved
and for while made some headway in
worming himself into the confidence of the
committee. For while, the committee
thought they had struck a great Indian
patriot Sloan progressed so fal that he
came down here to s'uuearth frauds,'' os-
tensibly in the employ of zee committee,
Sloan brought with him the Kelloggs,
whom he employed as his assistants in un-
earthing frauds and things went along mer-
rily. Sloan went along dragging herrings
across the trail of former Commissioner
Abbott and did little business on his own
hook besides.
But that grand jury up in Colorado was
also at work and the first thing that Sloan
knew, United States deputy marshal ar
rested the Kegiog's for some Indian frauds
and there was pretty mix up. Sloan at
once gave bonds for the KellogS, qualifying
by making oath that he owned $40, 600
worth of real estate in the District of Col
umbia On this showing the bond was ac-
cepted and the Kellogs were aeleased-
The inspectors, as an afterthought, began
hunting the records at Washington to locate
that real estate that Sloan claims to own and
have been unable to find any not mortgaged
for its full value.
The congressional committee became
disgusted at the mess that they found and
have repudiated Sloan, announcing that he
was not in the employ of the committee at
all.