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Show INDIAN AGENT IS I ACGOSEDiMUlI Forty-Two Charges of SonsnttaW? Character Are Filed Agalnat W Capt. Smead. MISSOULA, Mont., April 27.-H developed tonight that forty-two &'jgjtl sationai charges had been filed bj MJ soula parties against Indian AjstKjg Smead of the Flathead reserwttoMjp, with the Interior Department anVuVjBfe Ington and that Special Indian Taggart of Dubuque, la., had bn ;$K7 to the agency and is now In "mT; pending the examination he is majWL' The charges include connivance gr a Missoula attorney to secure ex0JC3BL . ant counsel fees from the Indians iai curing their enrollment prior J opening of the reservation. noM, many of the Indians are lrelJ)p.!(fc. rolled. Smead is also accused of FrjKf bllng and drunkenness, with usicf-reservation usicf-reservation for grazing largo nUfsLL, of his own cattle: with lcfit gaily with the Indians; with whiskey to the Indians through nlvance with his Chinese wvrJjMfci failure to Impose grazing tax UF Jl? ties with whom he is conneV:,-jBn farming projects and a score of n-charges. n-charges. ftx |