The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-20

d, years ana kptssfss f71e Indian cllarac-
xAa. to- =, x70@ II IS. ~ s 3.
Gssss-; Ste commission IS acting under
szzle treaty Of 1880. and once it gets the
Indians in compla isant mood and allots
them their lands in seyera1ty, an i'm
eastern Utah and adjoining Colorado
VIII be thrown open to the settler The
Uncompahgre reservation atone en-
braces 1000, 600 acres, and the Teserya-
lions of the other two tribes nearly as
much. The work of Fl1 e commissioners
this winter will be to come to an under
standing with the Indians. it, possible,
and in the spring put serveying PARTIES
at work preliminary TO alloting the land
in severalty ito the Indians when this
will be actually accomplished and the
remaining lands thrown open to settle
n1ent is only a, matter Of conjecture.
How does it come was incidentally
asked Captain Davis last night, that
not until now does a. commission begin
work under the treaty made in 1881?
The Indians wouldn treat, that was
lands, they didn't want schools. We
couldn't get at 'enn.
Colonel Scott is the chairman of the
commission. He is a tall man, slender
smooth shaven and white haired. and
in speech Enthusiastically a CURLY south
j5erner Of the old-time school. He was
born in Huntsville, Ala, and at one
During the war he was Indian com
missioner of the confederate govern
ment.
The confederacy had no Indians to
deal with except some of the five civil
lied tribes" he says with a quizzical
smile. Il occupied snerely a civic posi-
ton. had nothing whatever to do
with the military
Colonel Scott was in the Alabama
legislature for two terms before the
war and two sessions since, represent
ing Russell county. He was member
of the constitutional convention OF 1876.
Under Cleveland's first administration
he spent two years in New Mexico adj
Indicating Indian claims. He is a
stanch Democrat In Alabama, he
says, Kolb's action in declaring him
whatever and the people generally
could hardly understand the sensations
al comments that were made upon it
by papers outside the state.
Alabama is Democratic to the
CORE he says, and will ever remain
So AS far as ] know no frauds in
elections are committed in Alabama.
My belief is that elections there are
conducted as fairly as in any other
state''
Captain Davis is white-haired man
with silver moustache and chin wfis-
kers, who for some fifty years has
made his home in Little Rock For
the past year he has been chief of the
bureau of accounts in the Indian bu-.
reau at Washington, and resigned to
accept the place on the Ute commits
sion. Like Colonel Scott he also has
been a newspaper man and away back
in 1886 had an interest in the Little
Rock Gazette. During the war he
served on Hardee's staff in the confed-
crate service for a time, and after
wards raised command iof 102 men
of his own. His was the only confed-
crate corps that ever got north of Bos-
ton mountain In Arkansas. There he
turned his men loose making saltpetre
for gunpoWder, and surviving to thank
his stars that he didn't blow the whole
confederacy to pieces with his product.
After the war he engaged in business
in Little Rock.
The Arkansan is not inclined to dis
cuss the silver question. Things are
so changed" he says, 'ithat don't
know where we'll land. I've always
been a silver man, but if we are still
an annex of Wall street L don't know
what the d. will come.
E'As to our treating with the Utes," y
he says, "there are two great ques-
tons. First, their willingness to con-
cede anything. Second, a concentrated
and persistent effort on our part to get
them to consent to the terms
The commissioners are armed with
full instructions from the interior de-
partment as to their dealing with the
Indians. but the character of these they
positively decline to make public. They
wish the Utes to learn exactly what is
proposed from their own lips, and they
are hoping that no reports may pre-