Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-19
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS
Will Hold a Meeting At Fort DuCtgIo
Immediately.
Something About tue Men who Arc
60 Treat win and Aiioi Lands
10 Utth Indians

AAAN AAlAl tNAAANAlhtlQutIu uIIUlhAtu
to treat with ami allot lands to tho
red mon on the Uncompahgre and
Uiniah reservations, Colonel s. s.
scott, Of Ucnur, Ala, Captain william
3. DaviB, Of Little Rock, Ark, and
Timothy A. ByTnos, Of Atlantic City
New Jersoy, will meet at Fort
Ducbesno on their arrival there,
which will be- Within the next day or
two. Thu two nbt nHmud commits.
siOncfo iuit Denver yesterday AZ an.
nounced Ia last EVENING" NEWS and
10 newspaper man Ia that city baiu:
This Utc commission 10 acting under
the treaty NJ 1850, and once Il gets the
Indians iu complainant mood nud allOis
them their lands In HuveTnlty, an Inn
menss domain OF public land In North.
eastern Utah aud adJgurning Colorado
viii be thrown open 10 tho settler. The
Unc1mpnhgfe reservation alone en-.
braces 800, COZ acres, and the rtscrvR-
tiOu VI tue other two tribes nearly nH
much. Tue work Of the commission
ere this wluter will be- 20 come 10 an
understanding with tho InGiAns, II
possible, anu In the spring put survey.
allotting the land In toyefalty ~ tho
Indians. When this will 10 actually
accomplished ana the remaining lands
thrown open 10 settlement - only a
matter OF conjecture.
"dov does Il come" was Incidental
y asked Captain DAvir. "taat not
until now does a commission begin
work under treaty made In lsS0.D
"rhe indinns wouldn't treat, that
was ALL" ho answered. "rhoy
wouldn't take lands, they didui. want
schools. We couldn't get ut 'em.n
Colonel Scott ~ the chairman of the
commission. He IL, snyn the Denver
NeiUs, tall man, slender, smooth
shayou and white haired, and In
speech unmistalgably courtly South.
eFner OF the 0ld.timu sch0O Ho was
born In Huntsville, Ala, and at One
time edited tho Huntsville Democrat
During the war he was Indian com.
missioner OF the confederate govern.
mont.
"The con'odeIauy had no Indians 10
deal with except uOme 0f tho i've civil.
lZsd Tribes" no says with qulzzicAl
smile. III occupied merely civic
position. / had nothing whatever 10
| 10 with the military"
Colonel Scott was IN the Alabama
legislature for two terms before the war
RuI two hrssiOnB since, representing
Russell county. lie was member NJ
tho constitutional convention OF 1875,
Under Cleveland's nrst administration
he spent two years In Now Mexico
adJudicating Indian claims. He 10 n
staunoh Democrat.
Captain Davis Is a whiln.haifed
man with silver mustRcho and chin
/ whiskeTu, who for some hty years has
made mis- home In Little Rock. For
the past year he has been chief OF the
bureau Of accounts In the Indian bu.
reAu AZ Washington and resigned ~
accept a plHce on the Ute commission.
Like Colonel Scott he also has been a
newspaper man, ana away back In
| $4,000 had an Interest In the Little
Rock Gd,sn6. During tho war he
served on HArdee's stan In the confed-
crate service for n time, and Afterwards
raised n command Of lO2 men OF his
own. His was the only confederate
corps that ever got north OF Boston
mountain IN ATkAns7g. There he
turned his men loose making saltpetre
for gunpowder, anu survived " thank
his stars that no didn't blow the whole
cOnfedetaoy 10 pieces with his product.
After the war ho engaged In business
In Little Rock.
The Arkansan Ia not inclined 20 dis.
cues the silver question. "rhings ATt
70 ohgngoi," no says, "ihat don'l
know whore Wen laud. I've Rlwnyi
been silver man, but II We are still M
annex OF Wall street 1 dOn't know
what VIII come.
"As to our treating with the Utes,'i
no enys, "theTo are two great questions.
First, their willingness 10 c5ncede any.
thing. Second, n concentrated and
persistent effort on our part TO get them
| TO consent to the termH.n
The commissioners are armed with
| full !natruCtlOnH from the Interior de.
partmcnt as 10 their dealing with the
| Indians, but the character Of these they
| p0silyely decline 10 make public. They
wish the Ules TO learn exactly what Ia
| proposed from their own Hips, anu are
| hoping that no reports may pIeoedo
them TO hamper the work,
The secretary u tho commission,
Colonel II. n. Edelin,, OF Maryland.
| Hewas an officer OF the Seventh United
states infantry under General Sidney
NJ. johnson Ia his expedition agninet
the Mormon8 In 1857, and was alta ohed
TO tho surveyor gunomPa Office In this
city M draughismau several years
ago. Nit. Byrnes, Of the oommissiOn, ID
| the one member familiar with the
Utes. 10 has been agent at Oursy lot
a number " years aud knows tue In.
dian character 10 dot.