Show pastor flays indian office head as weak fraud also 40 Is charged in complaint minister also ute agent fraud anc incompetence are charged charles 11 II burke tedi al commissioner of indian affairs was likened unto water because hi hb could not rise any higher than its ills source when tha th a rev sterling talbott ral bott episcopal minister whiterocks testified tid before senators Se natora lynn J frazier of north dakota V 13 pine of oklahoma and chief investigator louis R galvis calvis at al the federal building monday the rev mr also denounced il II N tidwell at the ute indian tion llon and george N shafer prin cipal of a government school his testimony came as th tb concluding episode in tle tae examina lion of nearly thirty to determine the forkla workings s of the governmental ern mental machinery on the reser when the rev mr talbott coitt cased commissioner burke he referred to the by corn commissioner burke of pred fred bruce half bred chippewa indian as disciplinarian at the govern government ment school the commissioner he det dared blared had discharged bruce on oil the basis of a letter sent him by officials on the reservation while those officials were biased and incompetent F mother of killed bo t weeps at hearin He arinE the halt breed Shipp chippewa ewa indian ai was informed at the time of his p Bi that he was incompetent f dodrill to drill and fifty five indian students despite the tact fact that he had served during the world under colonel frank young former governor of north dakota and was ranked as a top sargeant ac L ning to testimony entered in the records while the rev mr air talbott testified that the reservation edical m officer was subordinate to the superintend per intend int of the reservation causing using ta suffering because of needless akless delays and disregard tor for medical 1 supplies dulcia denver an IV in alaa mother of lapoint whose boi was killed at the school a year it ago 93 9 3 sat in the courtroom atwith i tear filled eyes t tibe the rev mr talbot than mentioned the death of the boy the death was resultant from carless careless and haphazard bapa azard methods in erecting e athletic equipment on the school grounds ha declared the voy toy was struck ty a piece of falling equip mont and died five days later the witness charged the vice principal of the school was responsible tor for the laxity in this otis case I 1 was he be discharged one of i the investigators asked A no the re rev Y talbot replied he was promoted to the ot of another school aged 9 indian pleads for r food for tribe ss the complaint received at the hearing covered ed a wide latitude pra ranging nging from rom the tae death of an in hilaa gitil child allegedly through med aleal ital neglect to the dissipation of a birthright bUU night of 0 the culinary waters are unclean vest d irrigation rights have been unlawfully seized school children child ran are it clothed and taught little and there Is trickery fraud anil elti canerY according to the sworn i I 1 testimony moly 0 of various witnesses a ute who does not know hla his exact age but claims it to be tween 70 and 80 gave one ot of the i most fervent ervent pleas for shelp isom the great white father ile he cesti fiad that the file old bucks and squaws squads ot of the tribe are facing starvation in an all eloquent manner he complained bained of 0 dissipation of the tribal herita heritage 9 e unlawful seizure of water eights 1 lack ot of employment for in deans on the reservation and other alleged wrongs jams james Ken told the investigators that the indians were de d alious of having their children receive wa an education edu catlon but that be hac had taken his children away front the school because he felt thy they were not being properly propel ly instructs instruct 4 ed eugee gave similar testimony dr george M hamilton of the indian service now stationed at the owahee owyhee e reservation in idalio idaho as to matters oc curing before his transfer ho he corroborated the testimony of others alleging needless suffering and told of the death of one child because 0 the lack of medical attention which he said eaid was due to laxity of 0 i ficiala to give him authority to take necessary action the investigators left monday evening for washington D C the evidence gathered will be present ed to the indian affairs committee ot f the senate |