The indicator., 1894-12-29
THE UTES COME HOME
THEY RETURN IN PEACE.
The Omcials who Went After Them De
clare That They Did No Misehief But
Were Maligned by Interested Parties
in Etnh.

Durango. Colo, Dec. 25.-The Herald
says this morning: Colonel Lawton,
Agent Dave Day and Interpreter Joe
Smith returned from Governor Vests
Ute fizzle' on last nights delayed
Southern. Colonel Lawton is not ad-
dicted TO talking for publication until
nfter his official reports have been Civ
en- to the public and will necessarily
delay comment until his views of the
affair are given out by the war depart
ment, which will be some days, as all
military reports go through the regular
channel
Dave Day was 'rcd-hcadcd and his
| expressions regarding Governor Vests
course had to be modified materially
before press agents would handle them
without tougs
THE party had been out seventeen
days, six days ard part of three nights
being in the saddle in snow, mud and
rain. The party secuted the Indian
valley approaches. crossed Dry valley
from Church Rock to Indian Springs
and north from Carlisle's ranch TO the
Lisbon valley trail. They located tif-
teen lodges of renegade Indians at the
y.
eleven lodges had gone toward Dry
valley, and but two, Chief Mariani and
one other, had halted between the Colo
RADIO line and Monticello, Utah. There
Were but nineteen male Indians from
the southern Ute tribes in Utah, ex-
elusive of Bucnoa and Mancos JIM
who claim the county by right of
prior location. The eleven tcpees Were
trailcd over the cliffs and rocks into
the valley aud out of it, through snow
and mud by way of Piute Springs in
10 the sheltered canons leading 10 the
reserve. and all were in Colorado Sat
urduyi
"rhe Indians had not made Il threat
or committed depreciation beyond kill
ing one calf. With Chief Ignaclo Were
Quartdo. Nuavis. COlorow George Bent
and Dave Root, their families and the
few ponies and sheep they own, less
than 100 ponies and probably 300
sheep and goats. The entire affair was
concocted by Mormons and cowboys,
who jointly hold nearly three million
acres of the public domain by fencing
springs and water holes.
interpreter Joe Smith found it II
splendid field for detective work and as
a result Of joint effort some very COM
Cunningham of the Pittsburg Cattle
Company seems to have been leader
In The scare, but he weakened and went
out with Governor West OF Utah. leav-
ing Colonel Lawton, Day and Smith to
| lurc the saints into confession. The
reports that We're started and efforts
that We're made mislead the agent and
Colonel Iawton Were numerous and
varied. but they did not win. as the
traces made going and coming by the
tepecs, was evidence that could neither
be erased or contradicted with sue
cess.
'''The returning Indians were headed
by lgnacio and II was Il hard trip on
the little ones and herds. ms there was
no forage other than sage brush and
the mud was deep and weather divid-
ed between rain and snow. Chief IC-
nacio was greatly excited over the re-
ports sent out by Mormons and cow
boys. and declared all We're liars from
President Hammond down. He de
clared fnlse all stories as to depreda-
lions and cited the number of sheep
and goat pclts sold as evidence that
they were living upon their own herds
as they had been doing every winter
Interpreter Smith, who seemed more
communicative than the officials. pre-,
diets that Days official report aside
from facts brought out by investiga-
tlon. viii be n little arraignment of
Utah's executive who have been com
promised To an extent that merits in
vestigation. He will also personally
reply to the assaults made through the
Salt Lake Tribune by Editor Goodwin,
Bishop Peterson, Bishop Jones, DIR.
Seymour. B. Young and others, who
sought to magnify what has proven to
be criminal imposition upon the war
and interior departments"