The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-23
TELEGRAPHIC
INDIANS.
The Agreement with the Utes
-Retfcent Reds.

Washington, 21.-The exact features OF
the agreement as to the lands which the
! Colorado Indlsns are to be allowed to
occupy hereafter, have not yet been pub
| lIshed. They are as follows, the precise
! terms of the agreement ing quoted
| literally: The Southern Utes agree 10 re-
move to and settle upon the unOccupied
agricultural lands on the La Plata River.
/ in Colorado and New Mexico, snd such
unoecupied agricultural lands as may be
| found IL that vicinity The Uncom-
| pahgne Utes agree to remove to.and set
| tie upon agricultural lands on Grand
! River, near the mouth ofGuuDison River,
/ in Colorado, and such other unoceupied
agricultural lands as may be found 10
| that vicinity and in the Territory of
Utah. The White River Utes agree to
| remove to and settle upon agricultural
lands on Uintah Reservation, in Utsh.
Senator Teller opposes granting the un-
qualified options above set forth in regard
10 Southern and Uncompshgne Ute, be-
cause the agricultural lands in New Mex
leo and Utah, in the vicinity of the La
Plata and Grand Rivers, having long
been open to settlement. are, he says,
already occupied and the practicable
effect of granting these options will be to
allow the Utes TO absc.b nearly 100000
acres of agricultural land within the
boundaries of their present reservation,
which, in his opinion, will leave little or
no agricultural land within those boun
daries to support the anticipated settle
ments upon Its vast extent Of mineral
territory,
The House committee en- Indian |
affairs Is likely to have case of insubor-
dination to take care of, and it may be
thst the public will see the novel spectacle /
of party of Indians brought before the
House for refusing to answer questions
as white men have often been. The
of Chief Ouray has been
going on for several days and the COM
mittee have been immensely entertsined
by the statements of the famous Indian,
but when delicate subject was reached
the outrages that we're committed upon
the women of the Meeker agency-Ouray
began 10 show, for the first time, that
which hiss always been repre-
sented IS characteristic of the race. His
wife, who is a woman Of uncommon in
-elligence and ability, was tried but
found even7 more reticent than her hus-
band. Then Jack AID SOwerwick, two
Of the associated chiefs, were placed upon
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suaded to speak word in relation to the
trestment which the Meeker
family received from their tribe. The
committee were amused at first, at the
ingenious methods Of evasion, but after
it was agreed that this WIS
IN important branch of the inquiry and
he attitude OF the committee became
more serious. Chairman Scales ex-
planned to the indians that the commit
zee had been directed to ascertain the true
history of the whole affair, and told them
hat they would be expected to relate ell
hey knew about it. He dilated upon the
Of the questions and the effect
their answers might have upon legisla-
lion 10 be hereafter adopted by Congress.
The committee, he explsined, were in
possession of the statements Of the vic
Inns, and it was due to the Indians that
heir version Of the circumstances be
given. The committee should insist
upon full and accurate statement of all
their information and would detain them
in Washington until that statement was
given. Ouray and his companions lis
tened a'tentively as Mr. Scales remarks
were interpreted to them, and then left
the committee room. 1t Is learned that
they have had several councils over the
but their decision is not known.