The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-14

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Chief Colorow and about thirty bucks and
squaws came to the White River country
| to hunt. The gamblers at Meeker won all
| their horses, and when the Indians were
gone it was claimed that two Of the ami
| mails were stolen property. The grand
| jury was in session, and indictments we're
| procured against the Indians. A drunken
! desperate of sheriff, at the head of the
posse attacked the camp Of Colorow, kill
| ing one squaw and papoose.
| ALARMING REPORT SENT OUT.
| The posse then rode back to Meeker
and circulated report that the Utes were
| swarming all over the White River coun-
| try; that the sheriff and his posse had
been attacked by Colorow and his band,
and that all settlers of the White River
country were in imminent danger OF mas
sacre. AS in the case of the Bannock
| trouble these reports spread with rapid
| ity, and there was general spirit of
alarm throughout the entire southwest
| ern portion of the state. Without any
adequate investigation on the part of the
| federal and state authorities the governor
| of Colorado ordered out the troops, and
his irresponsible adjutant general, with
ut knowing anything Of the circumstan-
| ces, sent this remarkable message to the
I SuSIlu dL MCChCIs G1tO GILL 1 LII
| coming"
While Colorow and his little band of
| sQuaws and children were trying to make
their way back to the Utah reservation
| by unfrequented routes the rufianly
whites were doing everything in their
| power to draw the Indians from the Uin-
! tab agency to the relief of ColorOw, so
| that by the time the state troops arrived
| there might be actual war as result of
| the invasion of the country by the Uintah
| Utes, but the whole thing proved fiasco.
and its results were an increased burden
! to the taxpayer and disgraceful chapter
added to the history of the state.
This was the last Ute war in Colorado,
and it is fair sample of the methods used
| to provoke outbreaks among the Indian
tribes
! SAVAGE APACHES ROBBED.
| Most savage of all the Western tribes
of Indians are the Apaches, whose reser-
vation is at San Carlos, Ariz. Almost
| every year they have been on the war
path, and from 1878 until within recent
years there was a series of outbreaks in
which hundreds of unoffending citizens
along the Gila River were murdered and
their property given to the flames. The
real cause of the series of outbreaks was
| Iuc IdDUcIy VI IuCSC lIuldIS VI IuClI
| nuities.
| They annually consume large quantities
| of beef and the men who had this contract
rarely delivered more than half the num-
| ber Of cattle for which they received pay.
| The method of defrauding the Indians was
! to drive, say, 1000 head of cattle to the
| agency, run them through a narrow
chute and keep them moving In a circle
until the agent had counted 1000. AS 1t
| required the full 1000 head to keep these
Indians supplied between periods of de-
livery, they were always short of meat
before the next supply was due. In like
manner they were rObbd of other sup
plies, until each summer and fall found
them both naked and hungry. The result
was that they took to the warpath.
The present conflict being waged be.
tween Capt. Beck, agent of the Winneba-
gos, and the Flournoy Land and Cattle
Company in Nebraska is good illustra
tion of the protection given the Indian:
by nonpolitical agents. These Indians
are in manner civilized and lease theil
lands to the whites. The Flournoy Com
pany is a lessee(of much of this land, but
it's herds range on Unbiased land, which
the agent will not permit. He has alst
refused to sanction leases alleged to have
been fraudulently obtained from the In
dians. The aggressive and offensive atti
tude Of the corporation has kept large
section Of Nebraska in a tumult, an(
only fortuitous circumstances have pre-
vented a}battle between the armed force:
on both sides.
EXCUSE TO ARREST INDIANS.
The visits of Indians to their old reser
vations, either to hunt or for sentimental
reasons, has always furnished an oppor
tunity to peace-disturbing whites tt
have the Indians arrested for alleged vic
lation of game laws or for trespass.
Many Of the Indians Of the northwes
and southwest tribes cherish a. tender, oft
en- pathetic sentiment, for their old homes
The average cowboy and border desper
ado never having had home, do not un
derstand or appreciate this fact. The ten
derest recollections of this class of white:
is the night they stood in the dance hal
or ginmill and shot out the lights of tht
lamps or human beings.
The visit of one tribe to another is Otter
the occasion to spring an alarm of an In
dian uprising.
The newspaper correspondent in the In
dian territory has made the Indian Kill
more white people than the Indian evel
able element who expect to benefit by ere
ating alarm and bringing on an Indian wal
saw. He is the mouthpiece of the disrept
ing alarm and bringing on an Indian war
Yet, he is not altogether to blame. TIL,
same influence that has induced the gov
ernment to procure the lands Of the In
dians, that has corrupted land Office Of