The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-20
WILL THEY FIGHT?
A Resident Of Moab Declares
War Against the Utes.
THE HOSTILITY MANIFESTED.
The Mormons Do not Object to the Re-
movaI Of the Southern Utes, but
Cattle Owners Do.

While our friends in Colorado are lash
ing themselves into white heat over the
Southern Ute question, the people of Utah
are taking things very quietly. Replying
TO the letter of Senator Wilson on the sub
iect, a correspondent at Moab writes a
Denver exchange as follows: l am obliged
to Mr. Adair Wilson for his fair and can
did article of May 10, on the subject of the
Southern Utes There are, doubtless, par
ticulars upon which he is better informed
than | am. He, however, gives the i'm
preston that my letter is a protest against
the treaty as 4 whole. thought, when l
headed it Article Seven,' that l had made
my meaning sufficiently clear. The paper
containing his reply lid not reach me until
this week, hence my delay in answering.
.tArticlc ;ieven' Goes affect 1.-THE few
small settlements" of Emery county. II
Mr.. Wilson will reread my letter, he will
see il is of and for them ] speak. l said l
did not know, positively, anything about
the Blue mountains. | am grateful to MIR.
Wilson for his statements about them. l
might otherwise have thought them worthy
of visit, which 1 may make after all
Granted, the people of Colorado are right
in wishing to export the Utes, can't a man
dump out his ashes without settng hre 10
his neighbours premises.
For five years the Colorado people have
been TRYING to get rid of the Indians. True.
And the first bill for their removal gave
them this group of valleys. Three years
AGO, drunken Utes, Piutes and Navajoes
raised such a scare in Moab that the people
fed to the old FORT which had been their
strong hold in the early days. Troops were
sent in and the scare passed away, not,
However. before the Indians had swept the
mountain game,
KILLING DEER FOR THEIR HIDES
and leaving immense piles of meat to rot on
the ground while the settlers, then very
poor were suffering for want OF enough
meat to eat Men have been killed and
abused. women frightened, by these rowing
bands since / came here, the Indians BOAST
ing that the whites were to be driven out
of the La Sal Our valley, at the north
end of the mountain, has never been visited
nv the reds, but that does not excuse US
from sympathizing with our color.
When the bill for the removal Of the
IJtes gave them the La Sal, people talked
of the 'sand dunes of the Colorado valley
lust as Mr.. Wilson does OF the Blue noun
tains.
rnent name for the group west Of the La
Sal. all from Fisher to Little Grand being
included under one name.
n, as Mr.. Wilson says, the Indians under
stand the boundaries OF their new resef-
walton, they know more than great many
white men do. If the lnalans ALREADY oS-
secs the right to hunt all over Utah, why
was il impossible to get their consent TO
the treaty until article seven had been IN
corporated in it, Why did Charley say be
wanted to 90 to the La Sal in time 10 Tx
him a home there! At the time Of the San
.Iuan purchase. the Utes were to have
sd. 600 yearly forever. where mas that
gone? Two million dollars, Mr.. wilson
.5eIIs ms. are placed at their credit in the
i-n;tnd States treasury. Why, then, did
the commission urge them to MAKE treaty
-because in three years their money sup
NV Uould cease and they be without
blanEetsl The report OF the COMMISSION
January >. 1889. TO Secretary Was IS my
authority. Can Mr.. Wilson deny that the
Ttes believe the La Sal and It's valleys
form Dart of the proposed reservation:
an he DENY that this false impression was
STRENGTHENED, If not thoughtlessly encour-
aged, by the
PUsILANIHoUs AND INJUDlciOJS
talk of the commission! / aimed to show
what this La Sal country was worth IN my
communication Are Colorado people no
account to Colorado as soon as theS cross |
the Utah linei ,-.o. :. r,o.,,,.,1 |
e,tansion of western Colorado business, |
oIvine, to geographical peculiarities. Colo |
RADIO has lust as much to make from TINS
1.a0inn in the future as she has from the
settlement of the old reservation.
The Mormons of the Blue mountains
NAV be willing to move for compensation;
That has nothing to do with the real eVlI
ef which | wrote-the giving by treaty to |
Indians of a right they cannot nave III
fact. unless they fight Tor IL.
If Mr. Wilson wants to know how people !
fool abo11t the matter, he can come to Titan
and interview the settlers. colorado can
RIM the whole OF the United States, even
if she has been the youngest Tor some tlne.
Indians can get whisky IN Moab, TOO. beg
Nh, Wilson to remember that if the treaty |
ie defeated it will not be by my newspaper
l only give the facts IN
the case. There are men deeply interested
IN ,,,o,,l,infr against ii. and il has received
its worst blow from its own friends. mat
article seven was an outrage. Inc Ulhe IS
nast for trembling over an Indian war IN
INV valley-thc railroad IS too near Tor any
danger. Others are less favored
am sure that if Mr.. Wilson realized the
possibilities lurking in the
treaty he defends. his own sense of justice
yvonId lead him TO spare any sentiment IN
the matter. He admits the wrong, but
claims that Utah has no way TO escape
from it. We will see.
IyJUR1NG THE COUNTRY.
don't think either peaches or grapes
GROW wild in Utah, any more than they dlt
in California. The settlement of Moab
simnIv shows what can be done in other
valleys where water is to be had. 1t Is not
rsIculated to foster much development of a
country to hang an Indian treaty over 1t
1--WE years. ..-.,...,.,,.,
TIE old reservation has timber and coal
M Wilson saws. Very well, so has the
+, Sal If he can guarantee that the Utes
will stay in the Blue mountains, he IS rlglt
in his p0sition, and / give up the subject.
VIZ did the commission say, IN passing
through Moab, This land the Indians Will
want" ---o.,s .to+ how'd ~
.o-agades inst because they were not the
,a+s IF the government. What can be
Lone with them when they, taken under its
ring. are protected by post and an agent,
don't know. Perhaps Mr.. Wilson as {
9TH enough in the Indian department to :
,neak for its management OF tLSm. We
,eTe not. under such an ambiguous
reety. ,.- :. Lido S
cription of the good land now held by the :
Ttee But, with the expenses connected :
,,;th this treaty, its acquisition will be :
;lely to cost far more that 1t is worth.