Gold Hill Daily News

Letter from Prof. Marsh on Indian.

New York, May 28.—Professor O. C. Marsh writes to the Evening Post complaining of the great injustice done to him in a Washington dispatch, saying he had expressed great sorrow for having unwittingly caused criticism of the Indian management, which he considered generally good, and that he had not seen Indian supplies in bulk, but based his complaints on samples shown him by Red Cloud. The Professor adds that it would be difficult to condense a greater number of misstatements in the same space than this paragraph contains. "When it was written I had been at the Interior Department only twice, and mainly to correct misrepresentations such as the above. I had expressed no sorrow whatever at having caused criticism of the Indian management, but only regret that I had not done so before. I do not consider the management generally good, but as a whole, thoroughly bad. I did not acknowledge to the Commissioners that I based my complaints merely on the samples Red Cloud had shown, but I have an abundance of other evidence of fraud practiced on Red Cloud and his tribe that I stand ready to give before any proper tribunal. I do not consider your correspondent at all responsible for the errors in the dispatch, as he only repeated one of the many items sent out by the Indian Ring to weaken the force of the facts I laid before the President and Board of Indian Commissioners."