The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-24
PACIFIED indians
dine With scott
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through Navajo interpreter. 1t was
IN the evening and l just asked them
how they were. I told them l did not
feel very well and did not want to
talk to them until the next day. They
helped us kill 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 near by.
The next day Polk and Hatch and
about 25 others came in to see me. |
asked them to tell me their troubles.
They said the cowboys had come in the
day light on horseback and surrounded
them, shot their children and wounded
squaw. They said they didn't like
the cowboys. II seemed they had pre-
viously had troubles with the COWBOYS
Then / told them some of my
troubles. / told them | didn I think
they would like to have their children
chased by soldiers and COWBOYS all over
the mountains and killed. l told them
that l wouldn t like to have my chill
dren treated that way and that l would
be glad to do anything l could to stop
1T. l 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. l told them that
after they had thought matters over l
wanted them to tell me what they.
wanted to do about it. They talked to-
gether and then said they wanted to do
just what | wanted them to do.
"Then we sat down in circle and
L said: The marshal wants you and
you and you,' indicating Posey, Polk,
Hatch and Posey's boy, sto 90 with
him to Salt Lake. The rest of you can
go back to your people and go to the
reservation with the agents. Is that all
righta' They said it was and further
they said that if l said so thev WOULD
ell come to Salt Lake.
Perfectly Harmless Now
"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 pris-
oners. They never tried to get away.
Why, l 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.
''They are perfectly harmless now
All the Indians are satisfied. The
whites are over their scare and there
will be no more trouble from this band
of indians. These Indians are Just
easy to alarm and sometimes
hard to appease. They had worked
themselves up to pitch where they
were getting very dangerous. They
were attempting to get large band of
Navajos to join them in an outbreak.
Where they were eamped in the wild,
broken country near the grand can
yon 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 government $4,000 Just
to get the soldiers in here.,'
None of the four Indians talks 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 nv friend.
We eamped together. 1 did not kill
him. Why should kill my friend."