Show THE INDIAN DIFFICULTY Oil Poured on the Troubled V Waters CHESTER May 7 1881 Editors Herald I promised you more anon from Indianolo Thistle Valley and now report Up to Wednesday at 2 pm the prospect was not very flattering for a speedy and quiet termination of the law proceedings of the unfortunate un-fortunate Indian occurrence but during the evening of the day chiefs or principal men viz Tabby Sourette and Anthro came on a visit not knowing of this affair All night they labored and talked with the Indians of the burg of Indianolo in the interest of peace good order and the needed observance of the law Thursday morning Presidents Potcraon and Real arrived and in general conclave determined the course to pursue viz to induce the Indians to accept the alternative a quiet taking of the prisoner lrrcup to tho county jaiL Accordingly at 9 am on Thursday Thurs-day all convened at the schoolhouse The chiefs named and leading resident resi-dent Indians took the stand and addressed ad-dressed the dusky and palefaced ones assembled With all the eloquence elo-quence of proverbial Indian orators these Indian guests reasoned long strong and well for the supremacy of the law the bowing down to the inevitable of the results they had invoked in-voked as citizens of the United States and as Christians in name they must learn the new way to redress re-dress their wrongs Unusual and perhaps unheard of before these sons of the forest wept tears of conviction and compunction compunc-tion till all exclaimed by vote Let the law be honored though our hearts sink and are dead within us though our peace is broke and we cannot understand why Mr Law yours truly and his papers are needed to settle our Indian difficulties diffi-culties which we have heretofore settled in our way All things being thus adjusted and by their own voice and vote the prisoner then again spoke of his crime the causes regretting nothing but seeking seek-ing to implicate others as aiders and abettors of his crime There was much incoherency in his statement and from the known unworthiness of the stolid Irrcup his lazy habits etc no particular sympathy was expressed ex-pressed for him by the men but the squaws moaned their disapproval of going to Manti About CGO Thursday Thurs-day evening Irrcup went with Deputy Constable Salmon and one friendly Indian for the county jail At Mount Pleasant Irrcup took leg bail but the Indian escort followed fol-lowed in hot pursuit followed by Salmon who left his team in the road In cup thanks to the fleetness of Curly the Indian was captured and for aught I know reposeth in the cell at Manti I believe in mine of May 4th I said both the murdered man and his murderer Irrcup were citizens of the United States and homesteaders This I have subsequently subse-quently learned is not true as to lrrcup Kanosh and some Indians were expected on Friday evening the day I left Too much praise cannot be given to the presidency of the stake and Bishops Seel3 and Tucker for the oil poured on the waters The Indians have great respect for the bishop of Mount Pleasant the soundness of his counsels and fatherly care for them they have repeatedly re-peatedly experienced The whites breathe again Tabby and his friends hurried Away after some substantial aid such as beef and flour tonieot tins commissioner at Uintah They expect trouble there but the same doctrine they had so ably enjoined on the Thistle Valley Utes was enjoined ou them to do as the United States commissioner commis-sioner should advise the obedience to the law is the inevitable The whites and reds in Idianola are happy yet D C |