New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-04
PERSECUTION OF THE UTEs.
WHITES WHO HOPE TO SEIZE INDIAN FARM

WHITES WHO HOPE TO SEIZE INDIAN FARMS
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE IN COLORADO.
TO the Editor OF The TIL d. O.
Sir: In an Associated Press dispatch of October Il
is made the startling statement that there is about 70
be another Ute outbreak like that OF four yedrs ago.
that five companies Of United states troops have been
sent to the scene and that the citizens OF Colorado nave
determined to Kill ct sight every redskln OIL rcseT
walton.
",rhc outbreak Of the Utes four years ago. was an
unprovohed massacre of Indians by white citizens Of
Colorado General Crook says, in his official report
of this affair: In every instance the whites were the
aggressors and fired first; their horses tine lndansj
wore taken by State troops, and the names OF seVe'a
men who have possession Of Indian stock were known
IN C;overnor Adams Their stock or It's
equivalent should be restored to them even II It were
not justice, il would certainly be policy to DO So.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs says: "These
indians should be fully Unidentified for whatever
losses they sustained in the recent attack upon them
This was the outbreak of the Utes referred 10 four
yeafy ago, when men, purportng TO DO cVihzea' ho"
ored with tho title Of American citizens fell upon anu
numbered women children and old men because they
felt these were Indians whom no one would protect
People VINO will again hear Of trouble In COLORADO WIN
the tes shoud bear this outbreak Of four years since
in mild and remember that white citizens then de-
stroyed s3o 500 25 worth of Ute property comprised IN
their household effects for these white men OF COLO
rodo burned or stole the household goods.
At the time this made public in "The Forum
for January $780, the newspapers Of the country WIN
ono accord declared: "No outrages committed by the
Indians themselves are worse more dabolical than
th0,e perpetrated by the white brues OF Colorado
And now we are on the verge Of the same trouble
again. The reason is this: The people OF Colorado
want the land OF the Southern Ues because the INDIANS
have irrigated it, improved their farms. made COM
Portable homes. Some people Of Colorado want these
homes but these Indians are there to stay VIC hope.
Their chief says "The reason you say 1t is good
idea for the Ucs to 60 to the Blue Mountains is De-
causc IL is desert There you Will not nave 10 say
Get out OF here Utes you have too good land Peope
only who know the persistent. brave and Intelligent
fight he made for his home Says G. c. Painter) can
feel the patbos of this. Hunting privileges were given
these Indians of their reservations therefore In the
faII hunt they are permitted to be away from the
reservations and people who read the Associated
Press dispatch to which have called attention can
appreciate the meaning Of this paragraph, dated
october 21, 1901: "At the approach OF this fairs
made arrangements that II the Utcs invaded tner
territory they should collect and drive every Iluh,i
pony ont OF the country and should the indians persist
In being uClys-(what does that meant DOCS u mean
should the Indians take the privilege OF laying IN
supply OF game fhat lives only for Whlte people
does II mean that we, conglomerate mass Oh nen
people but ourselves q right to hunt here WHAT
ever Il means the announcement Is: war sinai pe
waged upon them with the rife, until every redsKln
VII trust the public press, which always represents
in lis editorials the best spirit Of American civilization
and always exerts the widest innuence ior .e t
break of 1887 GEORGE TRUMAN KERCHEVAL.
Detroit. Oct 81, 1901.