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Show 2O8 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. was a better man than the one who had been appointed to superintend affairs ; so I told Mr. Dodge that I had concluded to say nothing more about the agent. He flew into a terrible rage, and said I would have to go ahead; that I could not back out as he had made a contract, with a Mr. Popper for several hundred beef cattle that were then being sent to the agency for the Indians ; and that unless the agent was prosecuted and turned out, the government would not sustain him in what he had done, and that if I did not go ahead, I would be prosecuted for libel. I asked him what he would make out of it, and told him if I had said anything against the agent I would apologize for it, and that I did not intend to interfere in the agent's business any more. I had learned enough to know that the Indians would get the cattle, but Charles Popper had quite a time getting his pay for them, but finally did. The superintendent was now down on me fully and completely. So when the commission met in his office, General Morrow being present ( I was watching all the moves continually), I walked in. Mr. Dodge ordered me out. I replied that I was an interested party; that I represented the Indians and did not intend to go out: that there was a sign ouside the door which allowed me, as an American citizen, to walk in, and that my business was such as warranted my coming in. General Morrow said he would like to have me stay, so permission was given me to remain. The question being considered was whether the Indians should be induced to return to the reservation by telling them they were to have plenty of provisions, or whether an order should be given the military com-mander to force them back with arms without any prom-ise being made them. I made the best fight I could in |
