Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-15
COLORADO-UTE.
Meacham and Berry Fearing Mob Violence
and An Indian MISUNDERSTANDING
Schurz Appeals to Gov. Pitkin.

and An Indian Outbreak----Secretary
schurz Appeals to Gov. Pitkin.
WARRINGTON, OCT. 13.-Commissioner Mea-
cham telegrsphs the secretary of the interior
from Los Pinos that the warrantlfor the arrest
of Agent Berry, in connection with the jack
son affair, has been served on him at the
agency by a special constable, and adds: ''In
my opinion taking him away from the agency
jeopardizes everything. Can you send lawyer
who is not afraid of Colorado prejudice7
There is no such lawyer here" This dispatch
was referred to Attorney General Devens with
request that steps be taken Immediately to
protect Agent Berry by all proper legal means.
and the United States district attorney for
Colorado has been instructed accordingly. It
is raid at the interior department there is q
large class of persons around Ute reservation
endeavoring to bring about disturbance with
the Indians and to prevent at any cost the con-
summation of the settlement agreed upon
with the Utes last summer. The present
movement against Agent Berry is believed by
Secretary Schurz to be inspired by this pur-
pose.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-Secretary Schurz to-day
received the following dispatches from Com
missioner Meacham and Agent Berry. concern
ing the new phase Of the Colorado-Ute difficult
ty:
Los PINos, Oct. 12.-To the Secretary of
the Interior, Wsshington: The commissioner
and Berry have gone to the Indian camp to
quiet the Indians. The constable has called
for posse. Both the constable and military
are waiting'to know about Jurisdiction. If
Berry leaves the employees will leave. ! have
been summoned as witness for the State. The
military expect instructions this evening.
conflict between the State and government
seems probable. The Utes will doubtless
be involved. I think it impossible at this
time for the surveys to be attempted. Ex.
pect Major to-day.
(Signed) MEACHAM.
The surveys referred to are those required to
be made preliminary to opening up the Ute
reservation for settlement. Major is the
name of the surveyor.
Los PINos, Got. l3-To the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, Washington, D. c.: am COM
PEELED to leave for Gunnison City in charge of
the sheriff to answer for the killing of Jackson
by the Indians. The agency is in charge of
Miller. Matters are in perilous condition
owing to my absence. Can the attorney gen.
eral issue orders to suspend action IN the case
until safety is assured2
(Signed) BERRY, Agent.
Secretary Schurz sent the following telegram
to Gov. Pitkin, of Colorado:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASHINGTON,
Oct. IA. lSS0.-To Gov. Pitkin, Denver, Col. :
I consider it my duty to communicate to you
the information received at this department,
that the excitement growing out of the killing
of an Indian and the subsequent killing of the
whiSe man guilty of the act, on the Ute reser-
walton. threatens to disturb all the results of
our efforts, now on the point of consumation,
to settle the Indian troubles in Colorado in a
Just and peaceable manner. Mr.. Berry, agent
of the Uncompahgre Utes, telegraphs that he
has been arrested and is to be taken to Gunni-
son on q warrant issued by Justice of the
peace there. charging him with the murder of
the white man who killed the
Indian. Mr.. Meacham, one Of the Ute
ports that be has been summoned under sub
poena as witness. Thus the two officers who
probably more than others possess the conf
dence of the Indians, and can be best depended
upon to exercise upon them q wholesome in.
iuence, are removed from them at this critical
moment. At the same time it is rumored that
lawless persons are intending to seize upon snd
kill these officers of the government as soon az
they out of the reservation, while all the In
formation herei to the effect thot these Off.
GERS did all they could to save the life of the
white man reported killed, instead of putting
it in peril. Mob violence used against these
men will in all probability be followed
by other lawless acts, disturbing
the peace between the Indians and whites, and
there appears to be reason to fear that in this
way an Indian war may be brought on, sure to
result in the loss of hundreds of lives and
many millions in money and great disaster to
the industries of Colorado. The military, af
well as civil officers. on the reservation, have
been instructed to use every possible effort te
restrain the excitement of the Indians and to
prevent collision. Everything is being done
on our part to avert from Colorado the calami-
ties of an Indian war. Permit me to express the
hope that the State authorities of Colorado will
join their earnest efforts to ours by repressins
whatever lawless spirit that, according to cur
rent rumor in the newspapers, may bel exist
ing among the population on the borders Of
the Ute reservation.
(Signed) ScHURz Secretary.