Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-13
LEMHI TREATY
STIRS UP STORM.
Senator Fred 7 Dubois Accused of Having Had Hand in
Very Unpopular Move Get Rid Of the Indians on the
Reservation Letter Bearing on the Seunenbers
Assassination Mailed in Boise
Special Corresnondence.

Special Correspondence.
~ OCATELLO, Ida. Jan, ia
u storm Of Indignation has been
aroused here as a result Of the
story published in one Of the To-
cal papers this week, to the effect thnt
the Lemhi Indians had ratified treaty
made by their forefathers 90 years ago.
and would give up their possessions on
the Lemhl reserve and take their allot-
ments on the Fort Hall reservation.
The blame for this action Is laid on
Senator Dubois. During his recent
visit here 1t will be remembered. a COM
mite OF representative citizens called
on the senator at his room I'm the Ban
passage OF the Hepburn bin which
provides for ihe allotment to the In
dams OF lands on the Fort Hall reserve,
and the opening of the balance OF the
land TO settlement. At that time Mr..
Dubois made the strange statement
that he could not support the measure,
failing however 10 give any reason for
his dissemination to do so, lie did,
however, make the statement that he
would like TO see the Lemhi reservation
opened, and that II would be settled
by white people intimatng go some
thought that the Fort Hall reserve I
thrown open might be settled by Nor
mons who, OF course, IN the opinion
of the senator, are not white people"
BE that as IL may. IT really seems
peculiar that decisive action should fol-
the senator's wish, as given IN the in
terview already mentioned
Maj. Mclaughlin is authority for
the statement that all work has been
stopped at the Lemhi agency, and that
the Indians have all agreed to move
I'm the spring. They Will be paid for
their ranches and improvements a sum
which will aggregate $4,000 Five dol
lars per acre will be paid for all land
they leave under fence The peculiar
phase Of the situation is that the white
people OF Lemhi county are very much
opposed TO the removal of the Indians,
as at present their presence insures the
distribution Of In the neighborhood
Of $4,000 per year which, Of course,
would be greatly missed, as it IL claim
ed that the land Is not capable OF yield
ing enough. under private ownership
government. So Lemhi county objects
10 the move, and Bannock county most
strenuously opposes It. but Senator Du-
bois is pleased. for has he not shown
that he can have measures that he sup
ports carried into execution? What
though 1t be displeasing to all directly
affected by II! And what though the
money thus spent would suffice TO place
water upon the thousands OF acres If
available land IN Bingham, Bannock
and Oneida counties, within the re-
servatlon, and thus add to the ma
terial wealth OF the state
is IT A CHASTITY JOKE?
Somewhat Of sensation was caused
here this week, by the receipt OF a
letter by Chief Smith, from the chief
Of police Of Boise. TO the effect that
the Boise chief had received threat
ening letter supposed TO have been
posted at Pocatello, and written by one
signing his name Guiseppi Barrattiand
intimating that the assassin of ex-Gov,
Steunenberg was now safe outside the
limits of the state. The letter is sup
posed TO have been written by an edu-