Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-01
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. The Maine Fraud. No Material Change in the
 Situation. THE LEGAL CASE PREPARED For Submission to the Bu-
 preme Court. News from Gen. Hatch. Critical Position of the Peace Commission.
News from Gen. Hatch.
THE INDIANS.

TidingS from General Hatch-Indian
 Criminals Away on a Hunt-Danger
 of the OmmfsSf0n-A Medicine Man
 Advising their Capture Probability
 of an Indian War-Difficulties of
 Travelling.
 WAsH1NaToN, Dec. 31.-Secretary schurz to-day received dispatches from General Hatch. Secretary Schurz, in speaking of the telegrams. says he cannot understand why Hatch should permit the Indians to go after they had been surrendered. He says Douglass, Johnson, Pete and the other Indians men, tioned by Hatch are the principal guilty par ties and the very ones of all others that he wanted for trial He expects, however, in day or two to have 8 full explanation from General Hatch, as he has just telegraphed him to explain in detail. The dispatches received to-day are four in all, two dated the 2Sth and two the 3Oth, all from s'Cliners Ranch, " located somewhere on the Indian Greek. In ono of his telegrams Hatch says he notified the In dians that no more rations would be issued until all the guilty Utes had been surrendered, and that the Indians immediately left the at Cline's Ranch, where telegraphio commu- nication is within easier reach than at Los Pinos.
 Secretary Schurz, in his dispatch to Hatch, just sent countermands the permission given yesterday to send certain of the Ute chiefs to Washington. It is the intention of the Gov ernment not to recognize the Utes in any way except as hostiles, unless the guilty Utes are surrendered.
 The dispatches from Hatch are interpreted at the war office quite differently from the interpretation put upon them at the Indian bureau. Army officers are of the opinion that Hatch was compelled to let the Indians go in order to ward of an attack upon the agency and the commission, that the Indians are determined to fight rather than surrender one of their men, and that all the talk at the commission has simply been for the purpose of gaining time to send their women and children to place of safety and secure safe line of retreat for the war riors in case they should be hard pressed by 9he troops. It is considered that the question of peace or war will be decided during the present week. The Indian office takes a peaceful view of the situation, and believes that there is yet 8 chance for the success of the commission. It is safe to say that few outside of the Indian office hold the same opinion.
 LAKE CITY, Col, Dec. S1.-Ths White
 
 river on hunt, after being informed by Gen. eral Hatch that no rations would be issued until the prisoners demanded were delivered. Guerro, the war medicine man of the Uncom- pahgre tribe, advised the White River Utes not to surrender the marked twelve, but to leave for Grand river, taking the commis- sioners as prisoners.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-A dispatch from Gen. eral Pope says he has 8 telegram from Lieu tenant Payne dated AIamosa Col. Decamher 30, saying Colonel Hatch arrived at Cline's Ranch on the 25th. Ouray, Jack and several other chiefs met him there on the 27th. They were to start on the 3Oth for Indian Greek on horseback, the wagons having been abandoned on account of the snow. Quartermaster Cliff ford telegraphs from Rawlins that his wagon train in trying to reach White River, was six days in making twenty-two miles. Seventeen teamsters were frozen, and the animals dis abled. The snow is so deep and hard that they cannot cut through. He asks for bob sleighs to continue the journey.