Show CLOSES CLOSS TREATY WITH WIT TU TIlE UTES Uintah Reservation R Lands ands to t a Be B e Divided ad Among Indians Ind r ansan and d Bal Ba Balance B i I ance T irown Open For Entry Eqi yon on Oc Oct Oct I 1904 1804 Major I I t o i I C h R AJOR JAMES TAMES has hasI I MAJOR I VI closed a treaty with th the Indians I of the and as asa a aa asa a result 1 50 COO acres will win be thrown I open to the public on Oct 1 19 lOOt M Major I who was sent by the Soy gov government to treat with the Indians ar fir arrived arrived I rived In the city from Fert Fort Duehesne Duch at I midnight He has hus been In conference I with the Indians almost every day since I Ih bd lid h arrived 1st at the agency He was more nore than pleased with the re result suit sult of his work wort wor He had it large attendance attend attendance ance anc of Indians at the conference and about twenty took part In rn th the discus discussions They were very much embittered I at first to learn that their lands were to tobe tobe tobe be taken away awa but he explained to them that it was an act of the greet great t father and after arguments lasting for days of them signed the treaty tresy tr They felt that they ought to have been be n consulted before action was taken by congress but they have gradually signed d the treaty treat more to sho their good Will wUl toward to ard the government than because they felt their signatures were necessary nece ry r I Major McLaughlin says that all would have signed had l ad he remained a sufficient nt length of time They came cam to the agency in groups and in ones twos and threes and signed They had hoped that they would always remain In undisputed pos poe possession possession session of the lands ot of 0 the reservation There are adults on the reservation and the heads of families wit will each re receive reCeive eighty acres of or land alons al the Du Duchesne DuChesne Duchesne chesne Strawberry White Whit Rock and a n d the theother theother other streams and their tributaries Those not heads of families wIl 11 each re receive receive receive forty acres acrs Besides this thi there will willbe j be reserved for them to be shared shar d in common acres of grazing land which is not suitable for agricultural I purposes I IThe The remainder of the land acres will wUl be thrown open for settlement for which w c the e government will rec receive ly I wf ci Inte t V 1 iS 26 fi an acre cr which will I be put into a reserve fund for fop the benefit of the In Indiana i I diana The Thc land will be thrown open to j the public in sixteen months from now I IThe The ne only thing that now sy remains to be Bedone bedone I Idone done is to put the land on tile file and to approve the treaty trtat at Washington I |