The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-11
SOLDIERS AFTER THE INDIANS
ORDERS TO CORRAL UTES OFF
THE RESERVATION.
Red Men Are Dissatisfied With Their
Treatment and the Settlers Who
Know Sympathize With Them.

patching Oh ~ tIOOpcFS anu ScNSi al LII
dian police to Colorado for the purpos
of bringing in any Utes found owe
the line, creates considerable interes
here, as it is the first time the boy
have been ordered to take the fell
since the Seventh cavalry arrived il
this section.
The new recruits, many of whom ar'
! from the far east, are particularly in
terested, and many are the conjecture:
as to the extent of the campaign anC
the number of troops necessary to quel
any uprising.
The authorities at both agencies say
that very few Indians are missing from
J the reservation, and it is believed here
| that the Colorado people are unduly
alarmed.
That the Indians are dissatisfied
| however, over the affair of last year
! when some of their number were killed
! on Snake river, is a we'll known fact
and there seems to be general i'm
preston at the agencies that the mat
/ ter is not settled by any means.
The sympathy here, as matter OF
course, is all with the Indians, and the
government is thought to be very lame
in its treatment of it's wards.
In the first place, it is contended that
the Uncompahgres and White Rivers
have the moral right to hunt game in
Colorado, inasmuch as the treaty stip-
ulates that they were to have that priv
ilege when they gave up their old
haunts for home in the gameless re-
gion they now inhabit.
Whether any of the sympathy which
is felt for the Indians reaches them di-
rect is, of course, doubtful, but it is
quite certain, nevertheless, that they
1iryn re vic net CO r1an
which tends to keep alive the feeling
of resentment and bitterness which has
been engendered in their disputes and
quarrels with the people across the
state line.
1t is realized also that the people of
Colorado are determined to resist any
invasion of the Utes into the game re-
gions of the state, and it is feared
that if some means is not devised by
which the Indians can be made to for
give and forget the past, that serious
trouble will come sooner or later.
There are some of the leading men
OF the different tribes, however, that
seem to realize the hopeleSSneSS of
pushing against the incoming tide, and
are drifting gradually with the stream,
adapting themselves in a measure to
the changed conditions, and advising
their people to do the same.
Charley .Alhandra, who went to
Washington last winter as interpreter,
is one of them, and today he told me
in fairly good English that he was go
ing into the chicken business on his
farm, a few miles below the post.
There are many fine farms up and
down the Uintah and Duchesne streams
that have been allotted and put into
good shape, but they are farmed, when
they are farmed at all, by White rent
ers, the great majority of the Indians
being very little removed from the con-
dition in which they were 40 years ago.
1t seems to be the general impress
sion among the authorities and those
who are in any way connected with
the administration of Indian affairs,
that the civilization of the adults of
the red race is well nigh hopeless, and
that their salvation lies in the educa-
ton and training of the children.
The training and teaching of the chill
dren is not all smooth sailing, either,
as every conceivable scheme is resorted
to to keep the papooses away from the
schools by the stupid parents.
1t is really amazing, too how little
time it takes for the old renegades to
undo what the pale face teacher has
done, and with what persistence they
do it. 49, q
There are five school buildings at
White Rocks, 10 miles UP the Uintah
from here, where the Uintahs
are initiated into the ways of
the pale face. Four miles be-
low here are the Ouray schools
built for the education of the Uncom-
oahgres. They stand as a monument
70 the good intentions of the Indian de-
oartment, put as real civilizing influ-
ence, | believe down deep in the hearts
If those connected with these institu-
IONS they are rated at a discount
To revert again to the Seventh cav
TRY stationed here. It seems there is a |
pretty general impression that they are |
)eing blacklisted by the head of the !
var department.
There is one thing that does look pc
'ulfar. and that is the fact that a great /
many men have been transferred from /
he Seventh to other regiments, and |
lew recruits sent to take their places i
hus getting the advantage of the
soldiers, without giving credit /
o the Seventh as an organization.
Many OF the new recruits feel sorely
disappointed over being sent to this
place, as they enlisted
Ilth the expectation of being sent to
he front on short notice
Many of them being from the eastern
nd middle states, find that frontier
ave been accustomed to at home. /
Drilling goes on mercilessly, and to
1atch some of the new men, whose
of a horse is far from ex-
ensive, is amusing to civilian of the
lid and wooily west, if not to the SOL
ier- A peep into the post hospital re-
eals several unfortunates with Grip
leo arms and legs.
Lieutenant Littebrandt, who recently
rrived from Fort Douglas, is out in the
cid in command of the detachment
yer in Colorado
A council of the Uintah .Utes is being
ED today at White Rocks to consider
leasing proposition of elaterite
round on Indian creek, one of the
'ibutaries of the upper Duchesne G.
Mcconnell is or appears to be the
romoter, with eastern capital behind
i'm. Their success is considered doubt
Il, as the history of such transactions
ere justify such conclusions.
HERBERT TYZACK