The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-29
THERE IS DANGER AHEAD
Braves Are Very Liable to Re.
taliate on the Whites.
Winter Weather VIII Hasten the
Tragedy-Durango Board of Trade
Appeals to the United States at
Large in the Cause of Humanity
A Disgrace to Civilization.

DURANGO, Colo, Dec. 2S.-The Du-
range board of trade, at a meeting
last evening, issued the following
statement:
"Chief Ignacio, of the Southern Ute
Indians, and large part of his ma
ton have elected not to take allot-
ments of land in severalty, and for
several months have been in occupa-
ton of the west end of the present
reservation, which was set apart and
reserved for such Indians as would not
take land in se,veralty. This was done
under an act Of Congress approved
February 90, 1895. This law also states
that the government shall maintain an
agency at some suitable place on the
lands so reserved. This act of Con-
gress was explained to the Indians by
the Indian department. At the time a
majority of the male adult Indians &C
cepted and consented to it's provisions,
and Ignacio and his Ute Indians went
to this western part of the reservation,
expecting the Indian department would
keep faith with them.
NO agency was established, but in
the early fall Ignacio was promised
that if he and his Indians would go to
the agency on the eastern end of the
reservation, distance of seventy-five
miles, for their annuity money and
other moneys due them from the gov
eminent, an agency would be immedi-
ately established at Navajo Springs, at
which place thereafter rations would
be furnished them weekly, as is fur
n1Shed to the Indians on the eastern
end OF the reservation, and at which
place all their moneys would be paid to
them. Ignacio and his Indians believed
this promise and went after their
money and ~latfons and Immediately
returned to their home ON the western
end OF the reservation. But no agency
has been established at Navajo
Springs or at any other place on the
western end of the reservation. and
Chief 1gnacio and his Indians have re-
celVed no rations for months To keep
them from starving, members of the
Durango board OF trade have sent them
provisions from time to time and the
white settlers near them have fed
them from their scanty stock. These
Indians are now in starving contli-
ton and Chief Ignacio says he will
starVe to death before he will go to the
ola agency for rationS and we believe
that ne Will do so, as he never breaks
MS word. He is an Indian chief that
comes up to the ideal of a noble Indi-
an as pictured by Cooper in his novels
He says that he has kept his agreement
and wonders why Washington" does
not keep his part of the compact.
Chief Ig'nacio will not kill cattle on the
range to keep him from starvation,
but some of his followers may, and
this will result in bloodshed. The cow
boys bullet and starvation will thin
the ranks of the Ute Indians on the
western part of the reservation. The
Indian brave will retaliate on the
whites at the sight of his dead squaw
and pappooSe.
Winter weather now on us will has
ten this state of affairs. Indian Com
missioner Browning has turned a deaf
ear so far to the appeals of these starv-
ing Indians seeming to imply that he
believes a good Indian is dead In
diam Chief Ignacio has personally met
President Cleveland at the White
House and believes that he has not for
gotten him and will not let him and his
people starve. The board of trade ap-
peals to the United States at large in
the cause of humanity to make the
present cold-blooded Indian department
feed these starving Indians"