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Show INDIAN CAUSING UPRISING IS DEAD MOAB, April 10 The young Plutl Tse-Xe-Gat, who resisted In 1912 ami I caused in uprising of the PiuteB, died several weeks ago in Allen cany on I near Bluff, according to Information received hero by tho U. S lores: sef-Vfce sef-Vfce office. His d.-ath resu.tcd fromj tuberculosis from which ho had long! suffered. Tse-ne-Gat was tho son ol uU T'olk,' one of the leaders of the PjUte band; Which lived In Allen canyon. In 1912. Tse-Na-Gat killed a Mexican sheap-h. sheap-h. Tiler and w hen officials atleiupted to arrest him the entire band assumed a ll.e-.lle aiuiuoe ami iic. iai.-u nm uf1" the white settlers of southern San Juan county. In a fight which ensued he-! tvve.-n th Indians and a posse headed l.v I S. Marshal Aquila Neboker one r of ihe posse wa.s killed and anoth.-r was wounded. Following tlia battle, the entire band, under the leadership of Old Polk and 1'osey, escaped es-caped into inaccessible territory near Bluff where thej defied the whites ;o get them. |