Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-04-14
REBEL LEADERS
ARE BROUGHT IN
Peaceful Settlement of the
Piute Indian Uprising
MANY OBSTACLES OVERCOME
General Scott AccompIishes Mission
After Federal Posse Had VainIy
Striven to Arrest AecaIcitrants-
Residents of Utah District Peace
fully Resting as Result

fully Resting as Result
The Piute uprising in Utah was end
ed when Brigadier General Scott,
chief of staff of the United States
army, returned to Bluff, Utah, with
Chief Old Polk, his son Hatch (Tse-
Ne-Gat), Chief Posey and Posey's
eldest son.
The capture of the ringleaders by
the army officer and his small party
OF personal escorts accomplished the
peaceful settlement of the Indian re-
belHon, which had resulted in the
deaths of six men and the Wounding
of many others in the early fighting
between a posse and the Indians.
The prisoners brought to Bluff were
sullen and uncommunicative. Scott
had assured them, however, that they
will receive fair play from the Great
White Father, who, through his
agents here and in Washington, will
deal with the recalcitrant Indians
speedily in the federal courts for their
parts in the uprising.
SCOTS party and the prisoners en-
from Douglas Mesa, where the In
dams were induced to surrender. The
entrance into this town of the strange
ly assorted band created intense in
| terest, and Bluff residents are having
their first peaceful rest in more than
month.
Scott overcame many obstacles in
adding this latest feat to his long list
of pacifcatiOns of rebellious Indians
His mission to Utah. ordered by Sec
rotary of War Garrison, was cOnsid-
cred the last step before the calling
out OF federal troops to combat the
Indians.
The outlaw Indians were encamped
about seventy five miles southwest OF
/ Bltff, in the washes and bad lands
Of Douglas Mesa. Scott waited at
Medicine Hat, Utah, an Indian trad
ing post run by John Wetherill, for
the reply of the renegades to his peace
proffers.
A posse of deputies, under United
/ States Marshal Nebeker of Salt Lake
| City, recently made an unsuccessful
|
battle between the posse and Piutes
member Of the posse and two In
dams were killed and several were
wounded Six Indians we're captured
and one of the number was later shot
and killed while attempting to escape.
The party rode in just ten days at
ter Scott, unarmed, and accom-
panied only by ain orderly and two
Navajo scouts, had started Off on q
snow covered mountain trail for the
distant hiding place Of the Piutes.
Some Of the older officers at the
war department at Washington shooE
| their heads gloomily and recalled har-
rowing experiences of their own il
the Indian country when Scott I'M.
dertOok this mission. Scott started
cheerfuIly, however, confident of sue
cess and scouting the idea that hi
was risking his life.
Throughout long and distin
guished career, the general has beer
noted for his success as a peacemak
er, both with the Indians in the ives
and with the fierce tribesmen of thu
Philippines.
This is only one of many times tina
he has gone unarmed to seek out AM
bring into camp a fugitive savage
who, though willing to fight to thu
death for liberty, against a troop o
cavalry, promptly succumbed to thu
persuasion of the eloquent Whit
Chief.