Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-28
THE INDIANS.

CldlS TO Cno OeuVcr ITtOUNe lIOu
Los Pinos say: Ouray came up
yesterday afternoon and the Com
mission went promptly into session.
He had promised his colleagues at
the last meeting to send them word as
soon as Sowerwick arrived, but the
latter came up to the Agency and Was
here several hours before the news of
his arrival reached the Commission.
Upon the question being asked Ouray.
"Where are the prisoners ?" He af-
fected great surprise, aud said he bad
not understood that the Commission
wanted the Indians as prisoners of
war, and had not thought any of
them were to be tried, but had
thought all were to go to Washington
to have talk with the Great Father
on the subject of their wrongs. Now,
inasmuch as the principal difficulty
that the Com mission had been strug-
Cling with. was 10 induce the Indians
to give themselves mp for trial, and as
they had finally consented, upon the
condition that they should not be
tried in Colorado, this affection of the
misunderstanding of the wishes of
the Com mission was too much for
and for the second time since the
convening of the .CJm mission, he lost
his temper, and for the first time be
lost confidence in the final success Of
his efforts. Last night he expressed
himself to the effect that he did not
believe Oursy mad the power to en-
force the surrender of the Utes. He
has, 1 think finally given up the hope
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and making preparations to start out.
And Ouray was not reproached by
him for any displace of bad faith or
with direct lying, but was
told by Hatch tnat he would
start on the 20 h for AIamess,
and would remain one day at the
station on the canon, 25 miles dis
tant. Should he choose to deliver up
the Indians there upon the 29vh, they
would be received. Ouray then began
to entertain the Commission with
stories of men who had been frozen
and lost in an effort to get out at this
season-a childish plan to det-r Hatch
from leaving. He evidently fears the
consequences to his tribe should Hatch
leave without the prisoners, as he evil
IDENTIFY can not persuade or force the
Utes to deliver themselves up. The
last five days given Olray makes
a sum total of twenty.one
days time given TO the Utes. / make
no pred ctions as to the result this
time, seeing that Hatch is determined
and that the Utes may possibly decide
to give themselves up. But whether
they do or not. Hatch will leave On
Sunday, aud if he leaves without the
prisoners, there will be war. 1t has
been impossible to obtain, heretofore,
full list OF the names Of the twelve
Utes who are to be tried at Fort Leaven-
worth, from the Commissioners, and
it has been equally impossible to as
certain when these twelve are to be
tried, for the testimony of the Meekers,
as given to the press, convicts
only few of them of the crime.
This list is frequently referred
to by the Commissioners and attaches
in connection with certain Indians,
and al ways with the "Star" lists. What
this list is can not say positively, but
from hints dropped by me4nbers of the
Com mission and strong remarks made
by them when they imagined the re.
porters were not on the alert, l am
confident the "Sarn list contains the
names of those Indians who commit.
leu u WOIsO tudu
der or arson; crime which
is spoken of enly with Dated
breath, and which has not as
yet even been hinted at by the news
papers. 1t is well known that the
story of the women as given to the
public, and their testimony under
oath differ widely, and the crimes of
which they accuse the Indians in their
sworn testimony would suffice to
hang any man, of whatever color,
without formality OF trial, in the
twinkIirg of an eye, and that this list
contains the names of those Indians
who are accused of this nameless
crime toward defenseless women is
not a sudden conclusion, but one
which has been arrived at after
careful consideration, and which will
be fully supported when the trial of
the miscreants takes place. Douglas
and Persune are known to be two of
the names contained in the list, but
the other names can only be obtained
at the time of the trial.
A dispatch t3 the Tribune from
Santa Fe says eighty-four Apaches
have surrendered to the troops in
Arizona.
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