Year: 1875

contracts Mr. Sperry has equal outside Of the Indian
Department


THE SORT OF MEN WHO ADMINISTER INDIAN


AFFAIRs-A MODEL BOSS FARMER.


STANDING Rock AGENCY, Oak, Sept - 1875.


The Ring apologiss are bitter their denunciation
Of the HERALD for its exposures of the corrup-
tions at this agency. The agent has carried dark
countenance for the last two months, but his boss
farmer John Dillon, has kept his sorrows drowned
with Illicit whiskey. If disgraced posi-
tion this has done it, He is drunk least three
1ourhs of the and the example that he for the
tpoor red man. has long disgusted the intelligent
of the tribes He has repeatedly brought liquor to
the reservation against the rules Of the department and
against the laws of the country His last exploit to
carry it to Two Bears camp, where he danced
all night with the squaws in Indian fash
Some white men who were present
at the beginning of the revel became
frightened and left Don's orgies not confined to
any particular locality. Sometimes he goes up to Bis
marck and engages parlor for a Of wild de-
bauchery On several he destroyed hundreds
of dollars worth property saloons and other pub
lie places to the profound admiration of his friends
His avore amusement is to seat himself on kind OF
throne the Of the and receive alteration
from his followers though be real king worth
millions instead of being drunken assistant a rei-
gious Indian agent.


He began his frontier career with empty pockets and
little or education But with plenty OF assurance
and shrewdness of doubtful character he took contracts
and soon became power in the land.


When poor man wants make money in the West.
a rich wants to become a millionaire he fixes
his hungry eye Indian agency, and takes it
of until the Rev. Commissioner Smith other
friend of tho red man sends him an appointment.
tha with Iobp n,1lo
money in contracting he found trouble in getting
position boss farmer The salary insignificant but
the opportunities are unlimited. The modern boss
farmer is the agents right hand man. He does the
heavy work in the piratical department, and if by
chance there is an investigation without whewash-
ing, the boss farmer takes all the blame while the
agent who winked when he stole and chuckled when
the spos were divided comes with spotless robes
and alabaster reputation. There a few excep-
tons. At Berthold the model OF all model agencies(
the agent and post trader get away with all the baggage
leaving the clerk who does the legitimate work. and
the Indians to shift for themselves.


Brother Dillon allows nothing of this kind. He is
expert, and what he did learn under Palmer the
former agent, he evolves by intuition He knows all
about the business from landing steamboat at the
wrong place. to feeding the Indians quarter rations
Wherever he travels money is plenty; champagne
and whisSey flow like watergenerally into his throat
and all the other throats that hurrah for Dillon.


WERE DELAYED


The recent dispatches which cooked up by the
Indian Department had much TO say about the move
ments of the Indians toward the Black Hills Council
1t was repeatedly announced that those at Standing
Rock the way to meet the Commissioners at
Red Cloud. The truth is that they under the
leadership and charge Of Dillon, and Dillon drunk
When the trip was proposed Of the chiefs refused





Indians began tho Journey but they were ten days in
going eighty miles.


Black Eye one of Two Bears chiefs returned in dis
gust He said that Dillon was so drunk that it was
useless to proceed and Kill Eagle furious that his
braves should be forced to travel with such a man.
This is Of the why the heathen back
ward in embracing the gospel taught by those highly
civilized and virtuous missionaries-Smith, Deano &
Co. The savage who is to be converted cannot keep his
appointment with the brethren because their boss mis-
sionary drunk Dillon is a fair specimen Of the men
who impeach such witnesses as Professor Marsh and
Mr. Welsh Not only Dillon, but the agent himself
cheats the Indians by tho most contemplate means
He recently sold of their beef to the steamer
Silver Lake. and received his price and put it in his
pocket Having made entry of the transaction at
the time he will probably do reading this article
in the HERALD


1t is needless TO say that the owners Of the Silver
Lake steamboat arc wilder the Minnesota contractor
and friend Of Commissioner Smith, John H. Charles,
the Sioux City contractor and the great and good c. D.
Wooworth another contractor of the Ring This
steamboat not only bought Indian supplies on that
trip but she put Off 600 bushels of Indian gram be-
longing to Fort Peck Fort Lincoln for the military
and sold Fort Berthod -four at Bismarck, reported
at the time in the HERALD


The "good men'' whom Commissioner Smith has sent
70 evangeze the Indians the lot Of coundres
that cursed country. When they steal the in
spectors call 1t irreguarity when they starve the
Indians they say that the red has been taught to
lie by former agents. and not to be believed and
when their steamboats, land a cargo OF goods in the
woods for the Ring to steal they sag is done help
the boat over a sand bar.