Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-30
Scott Tells How He
f. captured" BloodthirstyIndians
Chief of Staff of United States Army Knew How to Treat Indi
ans and They Came Along With Him Without a Mu1mulrrf
= Never Used q Handcuf or shackles On Them; scott,s Story

: Thompsons, Utah, March 29.-Seat-
ed at the head Of the table, Briga-
der General Hugh l.. Scott, chief of
staff, Of the United States army, at
the little hotel at Thompson's served
four docile ana apparently happy In
dams at dinner last night. A few
days ago these Indians were. account.
ed the blood thirsty leaders of a des-
perate banu of outlaws. The Indians
Were Old Polk, Chief Of one Of the
di !isions of the renegade Piutes; Use
ne-gat, son of Old Polk, who is ;charg-
ed with murder; Old Posey, chief Of
the other division Of .renegades, and
a. son Of Posey. All Of the Indians
referred to General Scott in their
Piute tongue as their Good White
Father. The general insisted that
the Indians were not prisoners but
lust his iboys.'s The Indians show.
ed keen delight when the general in.
sisted that he and the Indians be
given a separate table away from the
white folks"
No Handouts Used
Not a %handcuff, not a shackle, binds
these Indians, but the tie Of genuine
regard for General Scott is such that
it would probably take a posse lar
ger than that which United States
Marshal Nebeker brought to Bluff to
drive them frcm him.
After they had eaten, the Indians.
We're supplied with cigarets by Cen.
eral Scott and then permitted to wan.
der about with perfect freedom. The
generals only concern was that the
Indians might be run over by q train.
They had never seen a railway train
before and can hardly resist the temp
tati0n to get close to the, Cars. The
Indians had their first automobile
ride coming from Moab today, and
they are looking forward with eager
ness to- their first train ride, which
will begin when they start for Sal;
Lake.
General SCOTS story
General SCOTS story of the pacifca
ton of the Indians, told last night,
follows:
I'VE left Washington to come out
here to attempt to settle this little
misunderstanding on March 3. With
mere Lieutenant Colonel Robert
F.. l.. Niche. my aide de camp, and
trooper Randolph of the Fifth caval-|
ry. my orderly. We reached Thomp-
sons on March s and went to Bluff.
going to automobile. wagon, sleigh,
horseback and on foot. AT Bluff we
learned that Polk and Posey and
their Indians had gone to the Navajo
mountains, some 1875 miles west of
Bluff. We stayed a day in Bluff and
then went to Mexican Hat, on the
San Sam Juan zIEer' % miles west Of
We sennt = friendly Pilte. called
Inns hoEssnlt to TIL tire Piutes that
! worried ts5sSce them. Some of them
came in nea'' here we weer camp
81. hrt i was mt until the third day
thai "Nv dared f. come to the camp.
"pc1rv and fnur other Indians then
come into cam. We. talked q little
through a NaVain interpreter. 1t was
IN the evenirr AM 7 just asked them
how IVY e~e. til dthem l did
rot feel very vel and did not want
tn talk totlem until the next day.
they hclred us kill a beef, and we
rar" them a eord me'1. the first they
had had TO- weeks They We're poor
" clad and we ea"o them some blan-
kets. Pcsey and H. men did not
have any weapons but ! have reason
to suspect that t"ov had hidden them
in the rocks nearby.
"The next dav Polk and Hatch aud
about twenty-five others came In to
see me. 1 asked them to tell me