The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-03

In the underground adjacent 10 the
station VIC could see tie fires OF the
campers and the silhouttcd forms Oh ,r Hhe
whites and their dusky guardSi lhe
Indian agent impaired tne intelligence
that at dawn next day the prospeettorS
would be driven out OF tho rcser'ation
70 await the starting signal.
At IL clock we reached CtraVeI Iit}
from which place the launches Wouid
start. Here we got our boat ready
and loaded for the next day and then
turned in for a few hours sleep On
the 18th, at 10 clock. the agent came
through and instructed us that we must
retire TO the edge OF the reservation
until the hour of noon. Back into the
hills we went and waited on the sum
nit of one from which we could watch
all that transpired. The different start
ing places were clearly visible and IN
the drowsy air there hing a peculiar
fascination. There lay the lake ana
across on the other side we could trace
a great porphyry belt through the coun'
try which lured US to it AT about
Has. from near Thorne, came the
sound of repeated shots. Wonderlngly
we counted the shots in the fuslllads.
Was il Just an outburst of eIcttement
or had the trouble commencedi we
never heard. Exactly at noon on the
eastern slope of Mt Grant q puff OF
came to us the dull. heavy report of
the blast Simultaneously a trail OF
dust started from Cat Creek and traced
it's way along the west shore OF the
lake. PeIl nell we rushed to the shore
md, breaJhless from the long run, tum-
bled into our boat
With two men at the oars and our
sail catching the breeze, we fairly flew
across the lake. The distance which
had seemed at most about two miles.
heightened into at least eight. All the
way we could watch the rush along the
shore. We saw the autos pull away
from the field md the faster horses
dasbing Mt break-neck speed over the
rough shinglc following close behind.
As the shore came nearer II became
| apparent that, as rigid as had appeared
| the regulations, there hadI nevertheless,
been fraud and favoritism in the ar
rangemeut There, in the various
| gulches. were men making locations
who could have reached the spot by no
fair means. Seeing the futillty OF try
ing to reach Dutch Creek in time, we
trimmed our boat for Cottonwood
Creek, two miles above. The soon
ers, F." enragcd at the intrusion of the
boat into what had seemed their undis-
putcd domain, fred shot after shot over
our heads, the bullets singing across
into the water beyond us.
Landing at Cottonwood we dashed
away up the gulch only 10 find every
thing located TO the water s edge and
at least 400 men in the gulch. On all
sides were camps established, some of
them indicating that the campers had
| been for some time on the ground In
several cases we saw very substantial
couches of cut willows which had been
in use long enough to be dried and
| withered. One man camped by the
creek had a COW tethcred there and
the animal was grazing serenely and
uncosncious OF the hurley.burley around
her
II was clearly apparent that no one
but the sooners'' had a ghost of a
show here. and so. after brief pros
pect of the ground, we rowed some
two miles north TO Dry Creek. To this
point the shore is impossible and only
by water could the place be reached.
Here we secured some excellent loca-
tions and, leaving man on the ground,
rowed back to Dutch Creek