The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-03-25
INDIANS OFFER
NO RESISTANCE
VERY D0C|LE
RENEGADE PiUTE INDIANS New
Err GUARDED-FOLLOW GENER-
AL SCOTT ANYWHERE-DENY
MURDER CHARGE.


States civil authorities.
Col. r. L. l.. Niche, Orderly Paul
Randolph, United States Marshal
Aquila Nebeker, Indian Agent l.. ID.
Creel. Chief Bzoze, a Navajo inter-
prefer, and the Piutes composed the
party.
The Indians brought here are Old
Polk, Old Posey, Tse- Ne Cat Ever
EFT Hatch) and son of Old Posey.
They were locked in the county Jail
with four other members of their
tribe, who were captured in the first
days fight with the redskins
Thompsons, Utah, March 24.-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 Thompsons, served
four docile and happy Indians at din
ner last night. A few days ago
these Indians were accounted the
blood thirsty leaders of desperate
band of outlaws. The indians were
Old Polk, chief of one of the divis-
ions of the renegade Piutes: Tse- Ne
Cat, son of Old Polk, who is charged
with murder; Old Posey, chief of the
other division of renegades, and a
son of Posey.
All of the Indians referred to Cen
eral Scott in their Piute tongue as
their good white father" The gen.
eral 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"
Not a handcuff, not shackle binds
the Indians, but the tie of genuine
regard for General Scott is such that
it would probably take a posse larger
than that which United States Mar
shal Nebeker brought to Bluff, to
drive them from him.
Indians Given General Freedom.
After they had eaten, the Indians
were supplied with cigarets by Gen
eral Scott and then permitted to
wander about with perfect freedom
The generals only concern was
that the Indians might be run over
by train. They never had seen a
railway train before and can hardly
resist the temptation to get close to
the cars. The Indians had their first
automobile ride coming from Moab
and they are looking forward with
eagerness to their first train ride,
which will begin when they start for
Salt Lake.
General SCOTS story of the pacifi-
cation of the Indians, told last night,
follows:
1--WE left Washington to come out
here to settle this little misunder-
standing on March 3. With me we're
Lieutenant Colonel Robert f. Niche,
my aide de camp and Trooper p.
r. Randolph of the Fifth cavalry,
my orderly. We reached Thompson's
March s and went to Bluff, going by
automobile, wagon, sleigh, horse
back and on foot. At Bluff we
learned that Polk and Posey and
their Indians had gone to the Navajo
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.
I'VE sent a friendly Piute called
Jim's Boy out to tell the Piutes that
wanted to see them Some of
them came in near where we were
camped, but it was not until the
third day that they dared to come to
the camp.
"Posey and four other Indians then
came into camp. We talked a little
through a native interpreter 1t was
in the evening and just asked them
how they were. | told them | 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 poor
ly clad and we gave them some blan-
kets. Posey and his men dill not
have any weapons, but | have reason
TO suspect that they had hidden them
in the rocks nearby.
Cowboys Shot Children.
THE next Polk and Hatch and |
about twenty-five others came in to
see me. i asked them to tell me
their troubles. They said the cow
boys had come in the daylight on
horseback and surrounded them. shot
their children and wounded a squaw.