Show INDIAN FRAUDS the frauds practiced by indian contractors and agents have been exposed and commented upon many times the public is familiar with the process by which as tribes of indians decrease in number the expense of feeding and clothing them is made to increase ac but still the republican party continues its grand mission of making fortunes for who hoid hold government positions and the shrewd indian agent manages to keep in advance of the information of the people by inventing new tricks as fast as aa the old oid ones are ate exposed A case in point is reported from arizona it appears that there are many mines on the borders of the indian reservation and the agent when he wants to make a strike makes make 8 a constructive extension of the boundaries of the he reservation so as to include such mines now how mining is prohibited bithia the reservation and as soon as the ext extension elision is made a friend of the agent informs tho the mine owner that his work is illegal and that his property is liable to confiscation then the mine owner pays the agent something handsome rather than stand a suit angl angi c continues orl oil his work the agent takes the money puts it in his pocket and forthwith writes a letter stating that the grand old republican 1 party must be sustained by the people pueblo col people |