Show WHITES ARE ARMING IN EXPECTATION OF ATTACK BY INDIANS INDIANS' Civil Authorities Endeavor r to Settle Ute We Trouble Without Calling for Troops CORTEZ Colo Cob Jan 20 20 ut v- v 4 leaving an any trace of or their whereabouts whereabouts where where- the band of ot fifty Uto Uta Indians Indian who left th the Ute reservation S Saturday rather than deliver one of or th their ir tribesmen tribes tribes- men nin Big BIg- Rabbit Babbit to the time civil chU authorIties authorities authorities author author- or the Indian agent left Jert their stronghold in the Ute mountains earl early arl this m morning John fc S. S Spears p ars the In In- In n- n lim agent declares s he do does 3 not Jut know 0 whether the Indians have hae gone gozie back to th the reservation or further Into tho time range rang If It the ns are on th the reservation reser r- r however they ther have not been l located and and are aro in n hl hiding So threatening has hal the time attitude of oC the tho Utes become that the white whito citizens of ot southwestern C Colorado lorado in iu the Immediate Immedi Immedi- ate Ste to vicinity of ot tho the reservation have luHe armed themselves ana une are arc looking for a desperate outbreak The Utes who have Ju J on the time reservation reservation reser reser- are re becoming ingo grea greatly ll e and it Is believed they arc arming t themselves h c in s elves Indian Agent Spears received a. a message message mes mes- sage e from the interior department ai at Washington toda today asking for detailed information concerning the uprising Xo o request l has hns yet been sent to either cither the thc government or state slate officials foi for troops tho the hero hoping to settle tho trouble amicably The disappearance of ot the Indians was discovered this morning when Sheriff aa with posse and Agent Spears r went to th tho thi I 1 ley tey further with ith tho the uto Utes s As thc they timey c cautiously approached the tho pass where the Indians had fortified them themselves elv s thc they wore met thet with the threat of t the tho 1 gleaming rifle barrels pointed at tJ them m. m One of ot tho the party part went tor forward ard and anc found that time the Indians had dl aJ- aJ The Tho Utes annc armed themselves and nd left I the J e re reservation er Saturday with Big BIb nab Rab I I bit lt when the they learned learnt Sheriff Gawith was on hi his wt way to capture their tribesman tribes tribes- man nami who is ha charged char ed with having ing as assaulted assaulted as- as Joseph a a. Mexican Ono One Indian was killed In the fight ht with the sheepherder in which was aM wounded IThe The uprising is similar to trouble wi with th Ute Indians in 1895 6 when Territorial Territorial Ter Ter- Governor West Vest wired President President dent ent Cleveland that Uto Ute Indians were o San Juan count county and that it would require thousands o of dollars and nd trOops to lo dislodge thorn thom from tb their I str stronghold David 1 F. F Da Day of ot Durango Duranso Du- Du ranso Colo Cob then timen Indian a agent took it issue sue with Governor West cst and the in interior interior in- in tenor department ordered him to drive his Indians back Into the time rc reservation er Day Da- with General Genera La Lawton ton and Joseph Smith scout succeeded in inducing the Indians to return to the reservation atlon Da Day and Smith have volunteered their services in fn quelling the present up up- rising It is said that the trouble between the Indians and tho whites Is more so- so erious e- e rious than the attack on the time sheep sheep- herders Tho The Indians have bc been n com corn i I I for tor some seine time Ume concerning the time way a their hunting h grounds have o been Invaded b by tho the white men DId Daily I H aro are said to have o led lell to a feeling of deep resentment on the part of the tho Utes which crystallized crystallised Saturday Satur Satur- da lay day when hen the thc fifty warriors carried Big Rabbit Into the mountains Late Lata this a afternoon Sheriff Ga Gawith ith was informed that tho Indians hal had re retreated retreated retreated re- re treated further into tho the mountains and were cre now guarding Big DIS' Rabbit In the of or a C canyon On Indian Agent ent Spears and tho time Indian police pollee left at once for forthe time the scene Sh Sheriff Gawith declares he lie as a a. civil il officer has no right to force a n fight I-ht I with tho the In Indians lans and will call for fot troops at once If Spears is not successful suc sue this time |