| Show IJ HORRIBLE I j j The Traffic in Whiskymong 1 Sliuuesota Indians ITALYS AGBAE1AK TROUBLES J l JI An Jnifflrnl Machine More Earth ain Un w hiclf I On the JL iaiaoud Other Nutee j Too Horrible For Belief CT PAUL aeptember 26 Messrs Bright and Larabee the Indian commission i com-mission which had ben arranging treaties with the Indians of northern Minnesota are in the city for s few daY3 In addition to the facts already published about the treaties made i they report a most determined effort on the part of men interested m the sale ot flak whisky to Indians to prejud cc them FI against the commission Tae tneory is L kfl that so IsnK as the Indians can b kept j outside the reservations and open to i advances of whites they can be led to part with the money which they make J trom the aile of rio and blueberries for 1 whIsky The Indians of Leech Lake reserratiou sold this season 1010 i worth of bjrries and the c mmi jiOMers state th t n large put of this goes to buy whky At White Onk Pont the I Indians were found id a most deplorable I deplor-able condition In some instances tey tad brftm so completely demoralized and roobed of the means ot subsistence subsist-ence thai they would eat the dead bodies of diseased horses The men were in a revolting condition and se w inglj dead to moral sense while the women were made artfclVs ef mdrcuaudue The last scune that tue coinin33ioners witnessed as they pulled out to tueir canoes from Whte Oak Point was touchiug Upon the bank of tue lake iu the midst of a chilhu ram sat a poor Indian woman adding her tears to those that natun was shedding Her husband had just T sold one 01 the children a young girl no J u more thun io years of age to some lumberman tor a sack of flour It is said bv the commissioners that there are many many instances where girls are as good as sold to white men aad after being robbed of all they have moat dear they are turned adrift wit a babe in the r inns and another girl taken in their place The comm ssion will visit Mule Lacs reservaton and will go thence t for du Lac Bohe Ifort anSi Grand Portage to complete the work in Minnesota They will if it > be not too late also go to Dakota stopping at Fort JBerthoid and from there to Montana i thence to Washington Territory Oregon I Or-egon andldaho |
