Show B ANDING ebann EP Ann B BIC INDIAN TREATY PROPOSED the local cattle and horse growers association and tho the commercial Comm cicia club after considerable correspondence and effort toward gathering of the proper authorities to the end of an amica amicable understanding with the navajo and ute indians as to range bound boundaries arfe s finally fini ily arranged with congressman dor doi D colton to be ba it at a meeting hero for the of going over the ground in question ard of making 1 compromise agreeable wall to nil concern conceio ed mr colton secured the attendance ance of all the necessary indian de pait part meri mert officials Mr trifan Farris is mr six air walker mr and others who made a caravan and toured over the piute strip south of the sat juan river and the country east of montezuma Mont zuma creek was also consi considered id ere d representative charles redd ana net numerous stock men of blanding went with the party alter after their return a banquet was gi giyen yen in the evening d at t the stevens confectionary at which some twenty guests were entertained by the commercial club A chicken dinner and cours courses es of delicacies were served between speeches A sp splendid lendia feeling of cooperation and good will prevailed and alter after numerous gumc ius points of view had been expressed by all the parties concerned congressman colton with eloquence and the wisdom of cf a veteran pointed the way to a NIPPY impy Eo lutien an and stressed tle the sity of a give and take spirit and of a hasty and friendly settlement the next day cay friday the party continued on to monticello and alit proposition was evidently evolved b by Y night that I 1 mr colton be authorized by alie delegates delf J git tes from this countr country y and those 1 irom the indian interests inter s ts east and aid west and south to present a bill in congress to the effect of their agree menti in short the as vc leave received it was wa that the strip should be taken into the reservation and used by the cavajos navajos Nava jos and utes both and that bluff he be purchased or part of it for the building of cf a winter home and in a hospital foi foi both the he aiutes lind and the navajos cavajos Nava jos that the pinte allotments allotments in allen alien canyon be used by them tem in in the summer time and that tie the navajos cavajos located on on the west vest of montezuma lonte Monte zuma zurna and north of the san juan river should be removed i in can con ef them kepping keeping their holdings on the east cast of Monte montezuma zunia freek creek that a fence should bo be proposed erected to designate thi this I 1 later ter bound dry so that tha indians na have no trouble in idia itil ving ane altre mr peature oi of the ut agencies eap exp expressed him hini elf relf as pleased with the cooperation of the people of blanding and that he expects to continue the school hero here until it really becomes an important asset to the community as well as the indian service |