The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1880-01-01
THE UTES,
fHE ULrnrAsuM-rAII On NON. !,
The Last UlR Talk Has Been HelA and IL
Sovaees Have IRE this Dstsrnined
what They are Gsing .
De About IL.


Fears q Anssaer Nassaere Nothing
Heard fren she Cennissaen.
DnvKR, Col, Dec. 30.-Up to this time
nothing has been head from the Conmis-
sion. Communication between Lake City
and Los PiDos has not yet been broken, hut
there has been no nsWs. official or unofficial,
since Friday night. Hatch vas to have
left for Ciine's rancho, thirty miles from
Los Pinos, yesterday morning but whsther
b. left or stayed Is not known. The anx-
iety - intense and there are fears of another
massacre.
TIE CONFUSION HEARD FROM.
Los Pmos, Dec. %, via LAKE CIR,
Col, Dec. 30.-The Commission adjourned
yesterday, to meet on the 10Th inst, 1t
Cline's rancho, on the Cimmaron river,
twenty-five miles southeast Of the agency,
there to await the arrival Of the prison
en-.
Gen. Hatch and escort left this morning
at four o'clock in . drilling rain.
The Eve day's extension expires on the
10Th inst, and If all the Indians demanded
BY the Commission are not surrendered By
thst date the peace negotiations will
end.
GALL Or NONE"
were the parting words of Gen. Hatch 10
Cursy - he lefs the Commission rooms
yesterday for his rancho to hold the final
Indian council, which ere this has decided
the fate of the Ute nation.
Ouray fully realizes the situatiou and
knows that the ultimatum of the Commis-
sion il the demand of the nation and if not
complied with the Uses must 20.
The surrender of the prisoners IL very
doubtful. Chief Guero, second to Ouray-
being . medicine man-has largo follow
ing and he has done more than all others
to hinder the Commission from accomplish.
ing it, work. He is
IN FAVOR OF WAR
and at the time of the White River
troubles wanted to massacre the people
living on the gunnison and was only re-
strained BY Ouray.
If the war department. take charge of
the Ctes and the troops are ordered in they
must come quickly or Los Pinos agency
may have . second White River affair.
When Ouray leaves for Washington there
will be no one left to
REFRAIN THE YOUNG BUCKS
and Guero il 90 hostile to the whites that
he is liable to cut loose At any moment
General Hatch has been very patient
and if successful will be the 6rst to have
effected the psaceabie surrender of the In.
dian prisoners and he certainly deserves
some recognition from the President and
Congress for his services a. president of the
Ute commission.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-At . cabinet
meeting this afternoon there was quite Q
discussion of the Ute affairs. Secretary
Schurz submitted several dispatches which
he received night before last. They con-
tanned no further details than have already
been given. The information in the poses
sion # the government, however, IL of
somewhat different character than that
received by the press. There il nothing in
this official information to show that the
Ute commission has been . failure and
nothing to indicate that General Hatch
and his party are In any danger from the
Indians. Steps have, however, been taken
to protect the party in case there should
be any attack upon them. 1t was sgreed
that the friendly southern Ute chiefs, about
whom General Hatch has telegraphed,
ahonld h. hrouohf nm IN Ws.h;n0xon