Show Ufff ARE DISSATISFIED = 4 WITH THEIR CONDITION t GREAT TRIBE TO T Or I a s EM pPEA4 TO PRE9IDENT agn Arr snj ollr to Go to Wash s planning II n ReQatton Spring to Talk Over 0 In r lepton Situation With Great ee Father e N remnant of tho once S I cTbe id nltlalle tribe of Ute Indians Is to what It Pi Tone last struggle against one Iptl sale consider athe enervating Influence Oef the spring a del Uo l man In wblte Bllo drowhiloro CU 01 their best speakers iwo of r I on Hofgo to Washington to talk Dr to go tithk president They are now olio tith the Meado South Dako at Fort ecent a0 tbItering the went after the recent al wbere which so excited and rising p Utah cia the people in ed domed 18 J1 tio r blood was shed during the ex Il t Indians The alarm was Jfll rf the 1110 odes v most part needless Herds the I ror Settlements on the plains were settlements ofvthe and molested The war hatchet of tho n n riM lot did not flourish as It flourished and the staid and common Ilie ate rare ago co ending of the threatened Indian pace fitting reminder of the no nr II a a that have come over the ch1nges nvl SOT of as brave a tribe of Indians jCO disputed with tho whIte man u erer ud the Indian the right to tho hunting ir hunt-ing grounds of the plains and tho 7 llounWns In the days of Red Cloud tho Ulntah lull in Utah were not occupied by thlte men as they are at present In ito d HSJ 1535 President McKInley opened the country where tho Indians had apthe 111 their reservation There was a tract ts nl SIOOW1 acres occupied In a short time by tho whites There was an er partitioning a year ago lire In I I dim were allotted small parcels of ud In two counties They had to cr reap their old tribal forms and take fa a some of the Incidents of civilization civiliza-tion Their lands were allotted to ma an tea In severally and thereby they tame freemen The supremo court I tt For of the United States has passed on I 0 that point So In the recent threatened threat-ened war tho United States soldiers au rood I have dealt not with an Indian r uprising but with a United States re Mton There were onco 25000 members of Ct the Ute family which numbered In the recent trouble not moro than 200 warriors When Gen John C Fremont th Fre-mont crossed the plains In 1811 the I For Lies numbered about 18000 In four b rears of war with the Comanches they tb al lost five times as many warriors m u teat on the recent march rln From 1860 to 1865 the United States tln Wfontlnual trouble with the Utos At the time of tho building of there the-re Union Pacific railroad In 18CC7 tho to massacred many white men In attempt to drive back civilization Hundreds of Utes I were killed Small pox spread among thelll and hy 187G I tho trIbe whIch hall trice the plains wIth the Conlanches contested and Apaches numbered about 8000 The nl conforenco of tho We 1Vhiton with n Great Whlto Father a short Occll1le 1 time ago It had to do with another opening of their reservation Appah led Call and other White river Utes would not consent to tho Plans of President Roosevelt I They l and their t followers remomb n ng the words of Red Cloud tool < their worn on children ponies and arms and started for Wyoming but tho Indian commissioner was not meMy about v m A aa l1 41 1tFf ht a 14 A Ute Chief the outcome of the exodus especially as tho lands which they sought In Wyoming were part of the national park system When tho Utes were persuaded a few weeks ago to go to tho South Dakota Da-kota fort pending a conference in Washington they were allowed to keep all their arms and ammunition Today they have incomparably better bet-ter arms and Immeasurably less land and power than their primitive ancestors an-cestors It Is as Chief Ignacio has said Uto Indian no more big and strong Ute all gone Byandby there bo no more Uto Indian White man got all Great White Bear Hunter do what ho I can for us |