Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-25
INDIANS CALL SCOTT
GOOD White FATHER"
-Four Piutes Guests OF Army Officer
at Little Hotel In
ThOmpsonS.
SAYS THEY ARE NOT PRISONERS
Permitted to Wander About With
Perfect Freedom-See Train for
First Time-Interesting Story OF
Their paClflcation.

iiOMtSONS. UTAH. March "a
Brigadicr-General Hugh L. Scott. chief
or STAFF Of tho United States Army. to-
day entertained as his guests at the
little hotel 1T Thompsons four appar-
emily docilc and happy Indians. who,
after being pursued by a posse headed
by United States Marshal Nebeker for
two weeks, surrendered to General
Scott near Blum last week. -. In
cians We're Old Polk, chief OF one OF
the divisions OF the renegade Pivtes:
Tse-Ne-Gat. son of Old Polk who IS
charged with murder: Old Posey. chief
OF the other division q. rcnegades, and
Il son of pOsey.
All or the Indians referred To Cen
eral Scott in their Piute tongue as
their good white father" The gen
craI insists that the Indians were not
prisoners. but Just his boys The
Indians showed keen delight when the
general Insisted at meal time that he
ana they b" given a separate table
away from the white folks"
No shackles were used TO bind tn.
c"ptives. and none were needed; for
their tie of genuine regard for Cen
craI Scott was such that IL would prob
ably take a posse larger than that
which United States Marshal Nebeker
brought TO BLUM to drive them from
him. Supplied with cigarettes by Cen
eral scott, the Indians were permitted
TO wander about to-day with perfect
freedom. The generals only concern
was that they might be run over by
train. They never had seen rail-
way train before. and could hardly
resist tho temptation 10 get close to
the cars. They had their nrst auto
mobile ride coming from Moab yester-
day, and to-day were looking forward
with eagerness TO their first train ride.
which was to begin when they started
for Salt Lake CITY
SCOTT TELLS STORY
OF PACIrICATION
General Scott to-day told this story
Of the pacifcation of the Indians:
We left Washington 70 come out
here TO attempt to settle this little
misund on March g. With
IN were Lieutenant Colonel Robert e
l.. Niche, my aide-de- camp, and
Trooper +. r. Randolph. OF the Fifth
Cavalry. my orderly. We reached
Thompsons on March S, and went to
Bluff. going by automobile, wagon,
sleigh horseback and on foot. Al
Bluff We learned that Polk and Posey
and their Indians had gone to Navajo
Mountains. some l25 miles west Of
Blum. We stayed a day In Blun, and
then went 10 Mexican Hat, on the San
Juan River. twenty-eight miles west
OF Bluff
we sent friendly Pluto. called
Jiin's Boy. GU; TO tell the Piutes that
wanted to see them. Some OF them
came in near where we were camped,
but II was not until the third day that
any dared TO com. TO the camp.
''Posey and four other Indians then
came Into camp. w. talked a little.
through n Navajo interpreter 1t was
in the evening, and I just asked them
how they were. told them did not
feel very we'll 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
Posey and his men did not have any
weapons but have reason to suspect,
that they had hidden them in the
rocks nearby
The next day Polk and Patch and
about twenty-five others came in to
see me. ! 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. II seemed
they had previously had troubles with
the cowboys.
PROMISE TO DO WHATEVER
GENERAL SCOTT WANTS
''rhap told than, cow.
troubles. told them I didn't think
| they would like to have their children
| chased by soldiers and cowboys all