New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
SCOTT TELLS HOW
 HE PAC|f|ED INDIANS
brjQadicT General fntertainS Four
 Red Men at Dinner.
INSISTS INDIANS ARE NOT PRISONERS

Refers to Them as "Just His Boys Relates How He Brought Them to Thnnnsons. Utah. from Bluff With > out Irons or Shackles.
 Thompsons, Utah. March 24-Seatcd at the head of the table Brlgadlef General Hugh l.. Scott chief of stall of the United States army, at the little hotel at Thompsons, served TOUT docile and apparently happy Indians at dinner last night. The Indians, who had been pursued by a posse headed by United States Marshal Nepeker for two weeks, surrendered to General Scott near Bluff last week. The Indians were Old Polk, chief of one of the divisions of the renegade Flutes; Tse- Ne-Gat. son of Old Polk, who is charged with murder; Old Posey, { chief Of the other division of rene- gades, and a son of Old Posey." The general insisted that the Indians were not prisoners, but "just his boys" The Indians showed keen delight when the general insisted that he and the Indians be given a separate table away from the white folks"
 After they had eaten, the Indians were supplied with cigarettes by Gen. 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 train. They had never seen a railway train before, and can hardly resist the temptation to get close to the cars. They will start for Salt Lake City to-. day on board a railway train.
 Story of Modification.
 General Scott's story of the pacifica- ton of the Indians, told last night, follows:
 We left Washington to come out here to attempt to settle this little misunderstanding on March 3. With me were Lieut.. Col. Robert F. l.. Michie, my aide-de- scamp and Troop CT P. R. Randolph of the Fifth caval- 1'y, my orderly We reached Thomp- sons on March 8, and went to Bluff, going by automobile, wagon, sleigh. horseback and on foot At Bluff we learned that Polk and Posey and their Indians had gone to the NavaJoe mountains, some 125 miles west Of Bluff. We stayed a. day in Bluff and then went to Mexican Hat on the San Juan river, twenty eight miles west of Bluff. rrra
 We sent friendly piute, called Jim's Boy, out to tell the Flutes. that wanted to see them. Some of them came in near where we were camped, but it was not until the third day that any dared to come to the camp.
 Posey Comes Into Camp.
 "Posey and four other Indians then came into camp. We talked a little through a Navajo interpreter. It was in the evening and I told them I 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 a 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 I have reason to suspect that they had hidden them in the rocks nearby.
 'The next day Polk and Hatch and about twfnty-five others cam in to see me. i asked them to tell me their troubles. They said the cowboys had come in the daylight on horseback and sourrounded them, shot their children and wounded a squaw. They said they did not like the cowboys It seemed they had previously had troubles with the cowboys.
 Scott Offers Aid.
 Then I told them some of my fn1 they would like to have their children chased by soldiers and cowboys all over the mountains and killed I told them that I wouldn't like to have my children treated that way and I would be glad to do anything I could to stop it. l didn't try to push matters with them. I 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 I wanted them to tell me what they wanted to do about it. They talked together and then said they wanted to do just what l wanted them to do.
 Then we sat down in a circle and l said: The marshal wants YOU, and you, and you indicating Posey Polk, Hatch and Posey's boy, to go with him to Salt Lake. The rest of vou can go back to your people and go to the reservation 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.
 Never Been Ironed.
 Then we broke camp and all rode ponies back into Bluff. We rode ahead and let the Indians follow us