Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-28
SETTLERS WANT
TROOPS TO STAY.
Proposed Abandonment Of Fort
DuChesne is Creating Some
Alarm Among Newcomers.
INDIANS AND BAD WHISKY.
Fears that Inscriptions Liquor Deal.
ers VIII be the Cause of
Grave Trouble.

S. NJ, Barlow Is back from an ex-
tended business trip through the Tin
tab country When asked tho latest
as TO the proposed abandonment Of
Fort Duchesne, he doubted very much
II that would be done in view of present
condition existing there, MI. Barlow
said the whisky question had come to
be a serious one In that section OF tho
country.
There are many new people arriving
and locating on their allotments in the
reservation, and the local development
is at present rapid and promising. Now
II the troops are Withdrawn a much
need protection to these settlers VIII
be taken away. and with the number
OF INSCRIPTIONS liquor dealers on the
increage, the opportunities for the lnol-
ans 10 get whisky will be almost IN
limited. and old settlers there realize
full well what red skin and a bottle
OF red eye means.
SAMPLE CRAZY INDIAN.
An illustatlon occurred the other day
i'm one of the towns out
there where big buck
tanked up on Fusi oil and tnen pulling
a big IS revolver dashed up and down
the streets on his cayuse banging away
ut every house his blurred vision could
make out That no one was Killed was
considered miracle, Sheriu Pfeece
was after this bold bad ,njun, az last
accounts. but with little probability
Of finding him.
WRONG OK GORED.
Az the same time, II white man Kills
an Indian even IN the plainest case ~
self defense. the other Indians insist
mat the white man shall be brought TO
the spot OF the killing and shot. This
was what they wanted done with ne
man Muse at Myton, who, to save his
life from a drunken Indian who was az
him with a big knife, shot from the
hin. and the bullet went through the
red skins heart Muse was rescued
from the dead mans tribe. who We're
red hot lor his blood ana had TO De
hurried on to the military reservation
10 save his llfe The Indians are AFRAID
of soldiers. and Muse remained there
until he could be taken TO Heber lo'
trial. where, of course, he was aequl1-
ed. However. ne dare not return, MS
the Indians would murder him at the
first opportunity
SALE OF WHISKY
IN the village bf Myton there are Ave
stores and flye saloons, and The WHISKY
sellers have set IN tents for the SAFE oL
whisky to soldiers within few feet or
the military reservation In other WI
lagos the sale OF whisky IA the prlnci-
nal factor IN the local business. and
there are found plenty OF INSCRIPTIONS
men who do not hesitate 10 sell to the
Indians an the whisky they want ana
there is not an old nhabitant OF that
part OF the state but who VIII TESTIFY
from often sad experience that when an
Indian has liquor IN him, he Is Is tnll
of meanness as tarantula, ana JUST
about as discriminating as to whom ne
attacks and what he does generally.
With whisky IN hts hold he becomes a
muerderOus maniac and no one IS sale.
At present there does not appear 10 Do
nny way to grevent the sale OF whisky,
and Tho general feeling Il one o., great
uneaslness among the white citizens.
BAD FOR CURVES AND GRADES.
Mr.. Barlow found a great deal OF
snow in the Ulntah country, and the
people told him they were having a
long, hard winter. There are great
hopes for the completion, during the
coming spring, OF the railroad from
Dragon to Vernal. This will place that
center in direct connection with the
Denver Il Rio Grande road at Mack,
and leave Price out in the cold as q
shipping depot for the Ashley valley
But the railroad over the divld' Is a
terror for grades and curves. Mr..
Barlow says over 20 per cent OF the
line Is In curves. the angles Of some OF
these being, as Mr. Barlow Imagined,
| about $50 degrees The grades run as
/ high as per cent, requiring the use OF
Shea engines on the steepest sections
| OF the road.