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Show BLAMES HIS SUPERIOR, Warehouse Clerk Says He Was Told to Reinstate Men. 'NEW YORK. April 22. Frederick II. Wilson, flnnnclal clerk in charge of tho .United States Indian warehouse In New York, whoso dismissal, together with several sev-eral clerks, was ordered by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, has not yet received re-ceived official notice of his removal "During my recent absence In Washington," Wash-ington," ho said, "an inspector oamo to tho warehouse and started an investigation. investiga-tion. Ho found what ho claimed to be Irregularities Ir-regularities -in tho matter of tho payrolls, "From May to September is our busy season, getting In Huppllcs for the Indians, In-dians, and during tho winter thoro is so little doing that It Is practically one long holiday I had fourteen men under mo classed aa laborers and each received $75 a month. "When tho first dull season camo after I look charge, I discharged eight of the men simply because there was nothing noth-ing for thorn to do. I was told to reinstate rein-state them by my superior." |