"I have examined the Indians of all the parties who Mr. Baker sold goods to and I can not find in those anything sold of an illicit character-yet one of the parties whom Mr. Baker sold goods to I am reliably informed had been trading whiskey more or less to the Indians this visit. If Mr. Baker has sold his liquor to different parties, the entry on his books might mention the sale of something else which I cannot discuss. I am very well aware however that in the early part of the winter Mr. Baker and Mr. Carroll and Mr. Stull-had a large quantity of liquor in bottles and barrels and were so anxious to show their honesty in not trading any themselves to the Indians or selling any during the Indian trade to white persons that they petitioned Colonel Reeve of the 13th Infantry to take possession of it and keep it until spring. He refused on the ground that if it was controlled (being on Indian land) he should destroy it and it was questionable with him whether parties at Benton had not the right of selling liquor to white persons, they paying a United States and Territorial Tax.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.20-21
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