The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-01-29
AMONG THE UTES,
Reported Plan to Kill the Ute Prison.
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st. Louis Republican.


DR.. Samuel Rapp, of Lake City, COL,
was in the city yesterday on his way
east. AS he comes from a point-Lake
City-a sort of outpost, latterly quite
noted in connection with the Ute
troubles, Republican representative
called on him at the Lindell to get suca
information as he might be in posses
sion of and choose to impart., Lake
City ills ting terminus of the telegraph
lines IN the rs5tiOn Of the San Juan
country, and Lieut.. Gilfoyle, assistant
adjutant general in the field of the de-
partment Of New Mexico, has been sta
toned at that post some time, and it is
through him that all messages from Sec.
Schurz and to him are forwarded, relat-
ing to the recent Ute mission of Gems.
Adams and Hatch.
. DR.. Rapp said he left Lake City last
week, before which time all important
news had been anticipated by telegraph
from that quarter. He saw Gen. Ad-
ans two or three weeks ago, when he
left Lake City for Denver. The general
thought the mission had done its duty,
and he had no doubt but that the pris-
oners desired by the departure at Wash
ington would be delivered up. The at
tention of the doctor was called to the
dispatch in yesterday mornings Repub-
kcam, announcing the departure of Gen.
Hatch on Saturday morning with Gu.
ray, Sowarrah. Jolietta, Uncle Sam; and
nine other Utes, while it seems the pris.
oners Douglass, Buckskin, Charlie, and
another southern Ute were taking anoth-
er route. In relation to this the doctor
impaired the following startling infor-
nation. He said before he left that
country that some residents of two
prominent points, which he named, had
formed 6 secret combination to assassi-
nate all the prisoners whenever they
passed through, SO indignant was the
feeling against the murderers at the
White River agency. 49,
Lake City is sixty miles from the Los
Pinos agency, and the distance to Ouray
is twenty-six miles by the Indian trail,
but it is one hundred and ten miles by
the usual wagon road. When the doc
tor left last Sunday all was quiet at Lake
City. There was considerable excite
ment at first, when the, Ute troubles
broke out, but the excitement has now
died out entirely. The people say the
Utes must. g, and expect to have good
roundup" or fight yet. The Utes will
have to be removed from that country.
The whites are bound to go in there.
The U.es have the most fertile valley in
all that region rich in mineral lands :.
and our people will naturally crowd the
present occupants out. Lake City is in
the San Juan country, and has popu-
lation Of about two thousand. The town
is situated on the Lake fork of the Gun
nison river. From Lake City you 90
down the Gunnison to Indian creek,
where the road from Sagua che and Gu
ray forks, then the main route contin-
ues over small range to Los Pinos,
where the council was held. TIE Utes
come into Lake City to traffic off buck
skin, buffalo-robes, and ponies, and it
has been noticed all summer that they
preferred to take in exchange guns and
ammunition rather than money for
their articles. They are generally a
poor and filthy race. The doctor does
not think that Ouray's tribe were
concerned in the massacre at the White
River agency Ct eli. Ouray has very