National Republican (Washington City

George W. Frost's Case.

Ex-Indian Agent Frost on Saturday addressed a letter to the interior department containing the following inquiry in relation to a dispatch which appeared in this and other papers, classing him with agents dismissed for fraud:

Will you please inform me what information was transmitted as to my removal? The dispatch was all the more surprising and unjust, as it is well known, and has been telegraphed by the Associated press, that I met the ring of Indian thieves and corrupt traders—who have demanded the removal of every agent who would not allow them to cheat and despoil the Indians—in court, and received a triumphant acquittal from their frivolous and malicious charges; that I compelled the military officer who seized my agency to retract over his own signature in the public press the charges that he had telegraphed over the country against me, and except as to technicalities come out of the Indian service with a clean record.

Very respectfully,

GEORGE W. FROST.

the department:

To which the following reply was returned by

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

WASHINGTON, May 17, 1880.

George W. Frost, esq., late Indian Agent:

SIR: Replying to your letter of this date I have to advise you that the official records of this office show that you were removed from your position of agent for Crow agency, M. T., November 13, 1878, 'for irregularities in presenting your accounts,' and this was the reason forwarded to the honorable secretary of the interior in office report of May 7, 1880, said report being in answer to a resolution of the house calling for information as to fraud and corrupt practices among Indian agents, etc., and whether any of said, etc., have been removed or otherwise punished. Respectfully,

R. E. TROWBRIDGE, Commissioner.