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Show Indian who buys it. Although it can not be proven, it ia nndoubterlly true, in a great many inatancea, thmt the man who sells the whisky potifiea the deputy, who immediately goes after the Indian, it being an easy way to make fees. This statement discloses a very remarkable state of atfsirs, and it would be extremely discouraging to the Government in its efforts to pro-tect the Indians against the sale of intoxicating drinks, but for the fact that the authorities in Oklahoma have taken the matter in hand, and, at the date of Mr. Brewsterls report, indictments were pending against the deputy marshal, Wisby, on account of his connection with thecase. Moreover, the Department of Justice, having had this alleged conduct of the deputy marshals brought officially to its attention, can be relied, on to take steps to put a stop to such praotices. In the case of Wah-moh-kah-wah.she, the office recommended to the Department June 19, 1897, that, in view of the facts reported by Speoial Agent Brewster, the Department of Justice be requested to take steps to secure Executive clemency for him, and on July 13,1597, the President granted him a pardon. Another case investigated by Special Agent Brewster is that of the sale of liquor and opium to Indians in Nevada. April 20, 1897, Mr. Eugene Mead, superintendent of the Carson school and acting agent over the Walker River Reservation, reported a most deplorable state of demoralization among the Indians growing out of the sale to them of opium and whisky by the Chinese at Hawthorne and other small places near the reserve. May 24,1597, the Department of Justice was requested to direct Mr. Brewster to make an investigation. The result is shown by the following, taken from his report: Superintendent Mead'sdesoription ot'the state of affairs st Hawthorne, which was inclosed in your letter of instrootions to me, I found to be the case; if anything, worse, the Indians there being totally demoralized, the sele of liquor and opium by the Chinamen to the Indians being carried on without interruption, and the Indian girls ns young as 13 years of age fast beooming ruined, many of them being diseased. On the evidence of Mr. G. 8. Green and two Indians, Grant Pstteraon and Tom Brown, the former having been sent to Hswthorne by Mr. Mead, I caused the arrest of seven Chinamen. They were taken to Csrson City before Commissioner T. J. Edwards, and on the 14th ultimo, in dehnlt of $500 bail each, were committed to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury, which meets in October. As the evidence against these Chinamen ia conclusive, and Judge Hawley being severe with this class of offenders when brought before him, all will without doubt be sent to the penitentiary for long terma. There are about thirty Chinamen at Hawthorne, Chinatown being only a stone's throw from the village, and the seven Chinamen arrestad have for several pars made a business of selling liquor and opium to Indians, this being their only means of s"pport. There are t,wo Chinese merohsnts in this settlement, and they, at the lowest figure, use 15 barrels of whisky a year, this being equivalent to 30 barrels sa they halve it, making two out of one. This information I got from Mr. Lawq the freight agent. I found that the Indians not only drank whenever they emned a little money, hut some of them have become regular opium fiends, ant1 when they were deprived of their opium were loud in oheir denunciation of all concerned in the mest of the |
