Show PASS THE HAT A correspondent of the new york 17 writing from tho white agency colorado predicts that abere will bo an of the indiana in the spring and if there should it would be ari child s play we presume not the history of indian wars reminds us that when they go on the war path their mission is blood but that signifies but liello and has a very light weight with the officers of the government they put on their kid gloves starched shirts and black boots when they come out on tho frontier to fight indians and it takes them sa long to prepare then toilets for the occasion that the indians have ample time to plunder and pillage over a territory before they are checked by the military but the said correspondent makes allusions that in justice to utah and some of her citizen swe cannot well permit to pass some litte comment ho says that the new agency which is miles down the white river is a very desolate place and the arc utes naturally veo tle selection of this worthless land was a pierc of jobbery being dono to favor a wealthy cattle man of utah named popper who is said to hwo bought up some of the commission how probable and what if charlie popper did buy some of the members of the commission it is only another straw added to tho many that will break the corruptive camels back sup pose mr popper s money no one can blame him for not wanting to drive his heida all over the continent to find glazing grounds for his stock can ho be blamed for looking out for his own interests the same as othar people of course not mr popper is not the only man who has stock lunning on ranges meistern mEi stern utah and othni stockmen stoc kmen are proportionately as much interested in thee teis as he senator hill says the correspondent 13 pushing a bill through congress to set aside foi tho indians the land in the beautiful valley of the umlah utah exactly if congress so wills it utah must surrender its fertile and lich grazing lands to the off and trash of colorado conr cattle men must dm e their herds hither and thither and abandon their ranches and pastures for the of bene fitting men and of colliado do senator hill and hia constituents to accomplish com their ends would not hesitate to lobby a bill through congress to con veit the fertile valley of salt lake into an indian reservation and thus nd her self of the cumbersome utes it may be that utah has no rights of privileges that colliado do and congress are bound to respect if so then the wealth of her stock men and miners must command that respect which honest legislation ought to give her in the matter of population we dont think utah is far behind colorado her mines are as rich and her soil more fruitful As a proof of these assertions we need only senator hill to the census reports tho products of our neb mines and he hundreds of car loads of vegetables tibits and produce shipped from this territory to supply the deficiency in colorado but abat of it if popper commissioners he does not want the indians to occupy oui fertie lands any more than do tho Celo radians utah wants every and mineral land and f the whole united states government can be bribed to keep colorados murderous whelps out of the Tern toi then pass the hat at once |