Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-02 | Page 1 | Indian Agent is Removed

Indian Agent Is Removed William H. Smead, at the Flathead Agency, Is Summarily Dismissed. WASHINGTON, July 1. The President Presi-dent today removed William II. Smead, agont hi charge of the Flathead agency In Montana, and appointed Capt. Samuel Bellow of Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont., as his successor. Smead has bcon In thc service seven years, and the removal Is because of alleged administrative admin-istrative Irregularities. H Is snld that tho agent gained no peraonsil profit out of tho transactions whloh led to hJa removal, but that tho acts wero serious breachos of the regulations. They Involved alleged misuse of tho ration allowance of the agency, thu construction of a telephone lino with th employment of Crook Indians, In-dians, paid, it ls alleKCd, by means of thc rations, although tho department repeated re-peated rofuaed authority therefor, and similar affairs.