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Show i:;:iaii ageijt is , SUntt APJLY. FIRED . , , WASHINGTON, D. C, July 2. The President yesterday removed William H. Smead, agent ' in charge of the Flathead agency In . Montana, and appointed Capt. Samuel Bellow of Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont, as his successor. Smead has been In the service seven years, and the removal is because of alleged administrative-Irregularities.,' It is said that the agent gained no personal proAt out of the transactions which led to his removal, but that the acts were serious breaches of the regulations. - They Involved 'alleged misuse of the ration allowance of the agency, the construction of a telephone line with the employment of Creek Indians, In-dians, paid, it Is alleged, by means of the rations, although the department re peated refused authority therefor, and similar affairs. |