Memorandum from E. A. Hitchcock , Department of the Interior

This item includes a memorandum and attached correspondence from President Roosevelt and George Cortelyou concerning Captain Luther Kelley and the vacant Indian Agency in Montana.

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Personal. WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. May 5, 1902. To the Secretary of the Interior: I learn that Luther Sage Kelley, lately a captain in the army, formerly the famous scout in the Yellowstone, and now Treasurer of the Province of Surigao, Mindanao, might accept an Indian agency If so B he is the very man for us to get. No better appointment could be made. Theodore Rossevels