Show Intimated Midwest st Company Caused Removal of f Kneale's Kneale ales ale s Predecessor It is the general belief bellef that the Midwest l Oil company had something to do with the tho removal of Evan W. W Estep superintendent of ot the San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan Navajo Indian reservation The report I is that Estep refused to be dictated to by the tho compa company lY If the the- officials of that concern hoped to get a man manin in Estep's place who would truckle t to them they certainly have havea a huge uge disappointment in store Albert Albert Albert Al Al- bert H. H Kneale who for nine years was the tho big arid and broad superintendent superintend superintend- ent at Fort Duchesne and who treated the Indian and white man manon manon manon on the he square re Is now on his way to lIe He will treat everybody down there on the square even the thereat great reat Midwest but that is Is' Is Isas as far as ashe ashe astie he tie will wUl go He cant can't be bullied controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled nor dictated to It H looks as if It there was some sinister sinister sin sin- ister influence at at work down there Estep Is said to be a fine man fair I honorable upright and capable Here is what a Durango Colorado dispatch dated July 6 6 says about the tho I affair Chief Hostein Yazo Begay judge of the Navajo court of Indian of offenses of- of tenses Censes at rock oil ott the Navajo I reservation in state of at New M Mexico and Arizona today sont sent a telegram to Charles H. H Burke Commissioner r of Indian affairs at Washington Va protesting the removal remal I if it Evan Eva l W W. Estep as superintendent of schools and government agent to the Navajos The chief charges that the tho Midwest Mid Mid- west st Oil company a subsidiary of Standard Oil desired to 0 o have I ve Estep removed l In part he the message said eald ld We Ve are t told ld l that you made a speech June 18 boasting that you would have Mr Estep removed because because because be be- cause he lie ordered his assistant to buy food and clothing enough to support of my children until his new now ap appropriation appropriation ap- ap was given him instead ad of putting all of the money he had back I In In the treasury and letting my children children chil chil- dren suffer for possibly three months In n your speech you yon say I h hold ld In my hand the message Bent sen t by a superintendent superintendent super super- of a big department and then you read only part of the mes mes- sage to your audience You withhold with with- hold from them that all that was spent at lug Ills direction was out of or something like Uke on hand and the whole balance turned back to the g government as your auditors now now nowhere here have just reported You withhold withhOld with with- hold the fact that Mr Estep Estev turned back more mor money b balance that year i than any other superintendent on the reservation You withhold the fact tact that this man whom all my ch children love lore and aDd call Daddy Estep has done more for tor formy forray tormy my ray people than any other white while man In recent years and has never had hada a black mark against him durIng during dur dur- ing the twenty years he has dwelt with tho the Indians You do not tell your white listeners listen listen- ers that the tho Navajos are In a bitter battle baUle with the tho Midwest Oil OU company a branch of tho the Standard Oil company company com pany which is trying to gain rast Tast wealth of the Navajos and that Mr Estep our counsellor and friend is the one man they desire removed from their path f You do not tell your white whit friends that the Navajo tribal council counci meets July 7 to act finally on th the matter of oil oU leases and that the removal removal re re- re-o re moval of Mr Estep at this time leaves the Navajos without a counsellor counsel counsel- lor br at this most important meeting These things are all true as you can cai easily find out Did you know them when you acted or did you act on 1 what someone told you who only told toU yoU rou part of the truth That is Js what wha I want to know Also I want to know wh who did tell you so the Navajos can place the blame where it belongs am and act accordingly Six thousand of my people are ready to go On n tho the warpath when they know but not the warpath o of our fathers Instead we will go on the white mans man's warpath hunting official scalps and lay our case be before before be- be fore our white hite friends all over the country with the aid ald of the editors of or the great great newspapers of the countr country country coun coun- tr try who so nobly came to the assistance assist assist- anco ance of the Pueblo Indians our On Last Pa e. e MIDWEST IID ES r CAUSES USES IOU Prom From Page Ono One neigh neighbors bors when the pending in congress last y j reu jwill will let Jet the editors use the these Ii knife while we chant our tidal here on the sands of our our ur dessi drs not delay deJay to answer me 1 Mr Estep back quick and if ya tell the truth we will hip I ba back k Of Washington July 6 Oi strength of a report that he held dered his assistants to 1 G cal cai year without a t eral oral funds in their J JI I Estep has lost his bis job as AI ent of the Navajo Shiprock N N. M. M An announcement today bl tenor department said as Estep Eslep had been separated ta ts government service for tor ess cau officials revealed at the SKI that he had been identified fiE e I eman man recently cited by 1 of the budget bureau as an and e d of or what a government official not be Director Lords Lord's recital of dent received the official wM sad d Harding and le led to toll mediate inquiry The inters inter it was said today |