Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-05


The Utes Not Only Murdered
Agent Meeker. but Horribly ont.
ragged His Wife, Daughter and
Mrs. Price - Vengeance Justly
Called for.
CuErESSE. January Snow that the
Ute delegation under oursy and their
prisoners are en- route east through
southern Colorado. the following from
tho Cheyenne Leader Of this date will
explain whether they are liable TO reach
their destination II the people Of Col.
orado can intercept them. The letter Is
to the Pueblo C~hi.ftain:
GREELEY. Col. December 80. 1879.
To the editor OF the Chieftain-Dear
Sir I rise from o sick bed to state o
few facts which You and the people Of
Colorado demand. We three, oaptives
Of the Utes Mrs. Price, myself and
daughter), were all interviewed separate.
ly, being put under oath by officers Of
the government to tell the whole truth
OF our treatment by the Indians, and II
they had outraged our persons, and each
one OF us gave In our testimony In an.
wer in the affirmative against the In.
dams. I gave in my testimony for the
use OF the government, to do with II just
a. they should see 1t. There was moth.
ing said about Its being suppressed on
either side. I just simply gave my tes.
timony to the government officers, limo.
Gently supposing they knew their duty
and would do II. I also thought I had
done all that belongs to me to do By
telling these officers tho sickening and
most humiliating misfortune that can
beiall o woman, and II they and the
Interior Department have not done their
duty by the people OF Colorado. II 10
they who arc to blame and not I. On
arriving at my home in Greeley I found
myself completely broken down In mind
and body, and have had o long spell Of
severe sickness, from which I am just
recovering. Yours. truly.
This direct evidence from Mrs. N. O..
Mseker. that herself, daughter and Mrs.
Price were outraged by the hostile Utes.
has awakened the people to . proper
sense Of the enormous crimes commit.
ted by the hostiles. The people had
hoped and were prepared to believe that
the persons Of the female captives re-
manned unframed; but the truth Ii out
In full. and the indignation 10 strong
and widespread. It seems fortuitous
that Mrs. Meeker's letter was first pub.
lished in Pueblo, for the Government
designs transporting the Indians over
the Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe road,
in order to escape the fury Of Q prospeo.
tive mob in Denver. But We mistake
the temper OF the Southern Colorado
people IL they do not capture the hostiles
In the band under General Hatch and
kill them instantly. Il Is not improba-
BILE that the publication Of Mrs. Meeker's
letter in Pueblo at this time involves m
intention to post the people and bring
about the desired result. Newspaper
men here have long known OF the inside
history Of the captivity Of the women,
but refrained from using the Same In
Difference to the women themselves.
But now that Mrs. Meeker has made
public the story OF her terrible wrongs,
there can be no harm in telling It all.
Immediately after captivity the women
were forced, under threats OF torture and
slow death. to yield to the lost Of their
hideous captors. The women, suffering
untold agony on account OF the murder
OF their husbands and fathers, were
dazsd aud bswildered. and were power.
less to resist. Poor old Mrs. Mseker,
over sixty years Of age. and suffering
from q flesh wound In the rear portion
OF her thigh, became the victim Of
Douglass, who afterwards boosted OF his
protecting care. Josephine Meeker was
held by Persune, and Mrs. Price by
johnson. The unbearable indisnities
were simply augmented by other Utes,
friends Of the three mentioned. In the
hellish outrages the bucks were assisted
by squaws. These women savages seemed
to gloat over the horrors perpetrated upon
the white captives Of their own sex. Dur
ing their captivity tho sufferings Of the
three women were indescribably horrible.
The hellish Hends renewed their crimes
time aud time again. The poor women
feared they would never DO delivered
from n thraldom worse than death, for
death is Inconsistencies. while their
existence wa o living death and an
earthly hell every day. As II all this
were not sad enough, tho woes Of young
Josephine are increased by q condition
that Is believed to DO horrible in the OF.
treme. Female acquaintance say that
q knowledge thereof causes o shudder TO
rack the frame Of every one who hears
the sad tale. Under all these circum.
stances would not tho lynching Of the
guilty hostilss DO justihabls2 Would
men-men in whom pulsates the gen.
erous throb OF humanity-stop In the
work Of discriminating these beings, who
are worse than the brutes OF the jungle,
although OF 1.-THE human form divine2"
Judge Lynch has already sufficient evi.
dence to condemn the guilty ones with
General Hatch. and We hope to have the
extreme pleasure Of recording their
death at the hands Of indignant citizens.
Lynching Is bat their just due, and We
think il 10 their doom.