The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-04
THE RED DEVILS
sx nogrE no 81. LfAyExwonrn
Gen. Hatch trying to Avoid Swif
Vengeance isy Talking the
Southern Trail-Time for
Active works.

l. Washington, Jan, n,-3--Ex-GoYe
Hunt. of Colorado has reeeiyedthe fol-
lowing telegram:
Alamosa, Col. Dan. .2utGen. Hatch
left Lake City, this morning, with Jack,
4Sowerick, ouray, Uncie SAM ana nine
other Uncompaghre Utes; also Douglas
and few prisoners; also Bpckskin
Charlie and one other Southern Ute,
coming in via Saguache. a I
lsiened. sz ALvA ADAMS.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Representative
Belford called at the interior depart
ment to-day to obtain an abstract of
the Official correspondence on the Ute
question. but Secretary Schurz thought
it would be better-to await its trans
mission to congress.
The conversation then drifted to the
present relations of the Indians to the
government and to the treaty.
=Belford called Sch urz' attention to a
case that occurred IN 1924. Ittappears
that certain Indians of the Chippewa
tribe had murdered four citizens of
Michigan. After committing the
murder they fled into the wilderness.
The government thereupcn Informed
the tribe that unless as a tribe. they de-
livered up the murderers, their treaty
| rights would be regarded as forfeited.
The secretary remarked that'he was
afraid that matters had become badly
complicated; that recent dispatches
from Hatch seemed. to Indicate that
some days ago certain of the White
River. Utes, including douglas, the
worst of all, had been delivered to
Hatch, and that after receiving them,
he had allowed them to go on a.hunt to
the Grand river, and it.would now take
"a month to find them. If this be true,
the secretary remarked, the White
river tribe might claim that they had
acceded to the demands ofthe govern
ment, and could nolonger be held CEN
surable. - Es
Belford asked if Persune, johnson
and the men who ravaged theJwomen
had been surrendered to Hatch5 The
secretary said that with the exception
OF. Douglas no prominent chief was
mentioned.s E =
Hatch telegraphss that he will be
compelled to take his horses and wag-
ons out of the country, there being no
feed for the horses and that if neces-
ssry he would go back to Los Pinos.
sSchurz etelegraphed Hatch that Gen.
Sherman, the secretary of war, Presi-
dent Hayes and himself were all of the
opinion that measures looking to the
procrastination would not be hurtful to
the government assit is impossible to
commence actiyeshostilities for two or
three months.
The. dispatches from Hatch are so
enigmatical that Schurz has been COM
PEELED to telegraph for specific informa-
tion. = - X
All that is know of Hatch is, that on
the 3lst OF December he was at Cline's
ranch. ,.
Belford says thar judging from the
various dispatches read to him the
whole thing is in such muddle that
nobody can understand the situation,
but he can't believe that Hatch ever
had those guilty parties in lis actual
custody, although his dispatches are SO
obscurely worded as to admit Of an in
depreciation of that kind. II seems
more probable that few prisoners
were offered him and decided he not to
take any unless d Il were surrendered.
Washington, Jan. Secretary
Schurz at a late hour tonight received
telegram from Gen Hatch, dated
Lake City, Jan. 8. 1t reports that he
has brough several Indian chiefs from
the reservation to Lake City with Elm;
that they are held by him for the pur-
pose of preventing any demonstration
by the young men of the tribe; that he
desires to take them to the military
camp at Garland, and, if deemed ad-
visable, to send one of them back, to
see whether the surrender cannot still
be effected. egissd s.-sd d siss lo7 =
He expresses the hope that this may
yet be accomplished. The dispatch
also refers .tothe subjectof rations that
does not clearap the uncertainty in
his former dispatches to this depart
ment. Secretary Schnrz Immediately
replied to the dispatch by, telegraph,
requesting Information upon the fol-
lowing points, Whether the White
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