New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-31
TIE UTE MASSACRE.
TESTIMONY OF GOVERNOR PiTKIN, OF coL"RAD"
BsFoRE THE HOUSE coMMITrEE-A Long sEhiE'
OF OUTRAGEs AND MUEDER+
GENERAL PRESS DIsPArCH.l

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BsFoRE THE HOUSE CoMMITrEE-A LON" shhiE'
OF oUTRAGEs AND MUEDER'
GENERAL PRESS DIsPATcHl
W,surxGTOy. Jan. 30.-For the pas, two
s f,overnor Pitkin Of Colorado, has been examined
,y rho Uouse Committee Indian Anars' ana ""
ven NJ len rth and in detail complete historS % wv
occurrences leading up TO the Ufe massacre
He stated that a baEd Of Utts, under Antelope en-
,ercd the North PARK, over NIFTY mics lrou 'c
uop last May, drove the miners iron' 'he'' "'"s'
hnes immense forests and destroyed large quantities
81 o,ue which tue state endeavoring to preserNec
.,r,ngent game laws; that the Ute ehef Coloro"'"
Jupe last drove miners and stockmen out OF tho Nor
Park which Is about sevcnty-ive miles hor'""e''"
| the Reservation .,
ust of names OF miners, stockmen ani GoVernineh'
srrvevors engaged In making Government survey '"ns
ore ven out was furnished the commute he s"" s
w., baa annually made raids through that se"ton OI
,be state during former years, and by m'maNon ""'
tent IL almost depopulated that the ihdiahs VI" o' "
main on their sergatOu, but wandered is 'h'' e
over the state and he read oincio4 "oc"h'"'' ' I'm
,,ont Meeker General Pope aud others, showing W"
W ,o,a we'll KNOWN and that General Pope has
80 comneIlea TO keep cavalry stationed there 'or the
protection of settlers ,, - ,..,o.
Governor Pitkin stated that warrants hao zee" S"oa
cronn the District Court last July lur INC "ie''
% Indians who had burned houses iorS "he'
,av from the Reservation. and that Chiei douglass
reservation that he had no authority 10 20 on '"s
pv.tiou and ne refused surrender the erlmiha~'
1h covcrnor referred the matter to Genera fope !"
command OF the Department lie presented 'n' eo''o
sropdcnee with Agent Mceker up 10 tue uns " ~"
dea,h showing how he had been turned out Vi i' "'
hv Chief Johnson three weeks before tue ~
,,s DANCER OF being killed ut that ime ana OF '"e e
| ,ov6s being shot at while they were pl.uSh'n
cr,or Pitkin described tho interview of captain
-, na three other chiefs with him In Denver shoruy
hoforo the outbreak, when they came " soo"'' 'p
' :, ,e,t Meeker He said that their complaints
i,s, Meeker we're that he was educating their ch'-
80" .,deavorng to induce tncm TO work, and was
,u ching the land They did not complain "i want Oh
od eucroachmens by the miners OF dishonesty ol '"o
-. The Governor gayo the names OF persons pres
an, aurin the entire interview and real the s'atemch'
Of A. l. Woodbury.. OF The DenreT Times VINO was asss
nresent taking notes for his paper lac sai" 'h's
Iack ned after leaving him 10 SET hr's "u" 's
no ala o and the Governor read letter from tue man
aa,ior who went on the route behind him describing
h res Governor Pitkn stated in ton to the alleged
Of miners upon the Reservation tha' thero
- ~, apv mining camp on the Reservation ana resd
Letters from two United States Mineral surveyors sho"
iog that Irwin the most westerly camp was me e"es
| ~ the boundary lue. and that the Indians always
claimed that the high mountain west OF IRWIN was ,no
d,v,ding line He said miners would not es'ap"sn
Gamma on the Reservation because they coud get no
ta ,o their mines so located and they would therefore
he valueless, and because they would not risk 'ne'
| nves He gave list OF fortyfve citizens Oh Cor
oraao who mad murdered by the Indians a"a 'no
times and places OF the murders ana si' ,n" Ao ~
-, ,erors had ever been punished He also said
ha he mad heard OF only one Ute being killed by Col
! orado citizen
The settlements near the Reservation were weak ana
o,tsrod and the people all knew tnat an indian was
vIed anywhere the Indians would sretaafc on any OF
tbe settlements He descrbed the -panlcstrekep con
don of settlers along INC horaer OF tne iess
-, ,aa rhornburgh massacre and gave lcug list OF
n,res that bad called Nun Tor troops aud arms ana
,ba even now the panic han supsided great sppre.
be- scns were felt by the exposed settlements anu 'hs