Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-24
GEN. SCOTT EASILY
PACIFIES INDIANS
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in the evening and I Just asked them
how they were. l told them I did not
feel very well and did not want to
talk to them until the next day. They
helped us kill a beef. and we gave
them good meal. the first they had
had for weeks. They were poorly clad
| and we gave them some blankets. Po-
sey and his men did not have any
weapons, but l have reason to suspect
that they had hidden them in the rocks
nearby.
THE next day Polk and Hatch and
about twenty-five others came in to see
me. L asked them to tell me their
troubles. They said the cowboys had
come in the daylight on horseback and
surrounded them, shot their children
and wounded a squaw. They said they
didn't like the cowboys. 1t seemed
they had previously had troubles with
the cowboys.
Told His Troubles
Then I told them some of my trou-
bles. told them i didn't think they
would like to have their children chas-
ed by soldiers and cowboys all over the
mountains and killed. 1 told them
that / wouldn't like to have my chill
dren treated that way and that l wouli
be glad to do anything 1 could to stop
1t. | didn't try to push matters with
them. l told the agents TO see that
they had provisions and blankets for
the rest OF their people and for their
squaws and children. I told them that
after they had thought matters over l
wanted them to tell me what they
wanted to do about it. They talked
together and then said they wanted
to do just what I wanted them to do.
Then we sat down in circle and l
GO IA, 49, ,,I
you and you, indicating Posey, Polk,
Hatch and Posey's boy, to so with him
TO Salt Lake. The rest OF you can go
back 20 your people and so to the re-
servation with the agents. Is that all
right?' They said it was and fur
ther they said that if I said so they
would all come to Salt Lake.
Then we broke camp and all rode
ponies back into Bluff. We rode ahead
and let the Indians follow us. They
have never been ironed or shackled,
never even led to believe they are
prisoners. They never tried to get
away. Why, / don't believe we could
get rid of them If we tried. At night
they have slept together and nobody
has stood guard over them.
Indians are Satisfied
"They are perfectly harmless now.
All the Indians are satisfied. The
will be no more trouble from this
band of Indians. These Indians are
just children, easy to alarm and some
times hard to appease. They had
worked themselves up to pitch where
they were getting very dangerous.
They were attempting to get a large
band of Navajos to join them in an
outbreak. Where they were Camped
in the wild broken country near the
grand canyon, they would have been
mighty hard to dislodge. 1t would
have taken a large force of cavalry,
two regiments probably, TO subdue
them, and it would have cost the gov
ernment $4,000 Just to get the SOL
diers in here"
None of the four Indians talk Eng
lish. Through an interpreter Tse-Ne-
Cat or Hatch said he was not guilty
of any crime. When asked about the
Mexican he is accused of killing, he
said: The Mexican was my friend.
We camped together. ! did not kill
him. Why should / kill my friend?"
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