Show TJINTAH UTES V II IAn C V I-An Indian Murder at the Government Gov-ernment Farm VV CCC A Snide Indian Policy Some Pertinent Queries Editors Herald On the afternoon of the 2Uh Inst at the Indian farm some fie miles from Uintah agency one of the Indian In-dian police by the name of Pipe was shot and killed by a young Indian In-dian who was at the time of the shoaling intoxicated Pipe was said to have been sober and after being shot retaliated wounding his assailant in the shoulder by a revolver re-volver shot Two other Indians were wounded in the melee Pipe was shot In the leg and bled to death before the doctor from the agency could arrive The trouble was occasioned by the use of bad whlkey sold to the Indians In-dians at Ashley Every effort possible pos-sible Is being made by Col Davis the agent at Uintah to stop the illicit raffle So far for the want of proper official aid he has been thwarted In his purpose If there were a governor in the Territory who made it a part of his duty to see that the laws are enforced Colonel Davis would win in the struggle but operating without such support the contest is extremely doubtful It is no doubt due the public that a correct account of the Indian difficulty at Uintah agency should be published As far as the United States government is concerned however I do not think that there is a living man either white or black whose duty it Is to report the trouble whatever it may be to the same The United States has abandoned aban-doned both the Indian and the white man in this part of the country taking its police force to Salt Lake City where the soldiers can attend the theatre get drunk and have a good time generally If serious trouble should arise with the Indians I am quite sure that the soldiers could not reach the ecene of difficulty under one months time It will take any military force that haa been seen hereabouts that length of time to march from Bridger to Uin tab or Ouray agencies This is the grand strategy policy tnat has been adopted by tne government to control con-trol the Ute nation one of the most warlike and formidable in the United State And who Is responsible respon-sible for the same would be a natural inquiry That as Lord Dundreary remarked about the mineral In the ground is what no fellow has yet found out We must first ascertain whose business it is under the administration of the Republican Re-publican party to control the Indiana In-diana If the lamented Garfield had lived I think he might have settled the question but Arthur stands abashed before it and dumb ae Cheops No one from tbe President of the United States to the lonely soldier who patrols in front of the guard house at Fort Bridger can tell whether or not there should be soldiers stationed on the other side of the mountains in strlkng distance dis-tance of the Ute reservation What is worse nobody but the handful of whites whose Jives are endangered cares UINTAH Co CITIZEN Ashley Utah June 20th 1684 |