Show SOLDIERS J AFTER THE INDIANS ORDEBSTC CORRAL UTES OF THE RESERVATION Red Men Are Dissatisfied With Their j Treatment and the Settlers Who II I I Know Sympathize With Them Fort Duchesne Aug 5The dispatching dis-patching of 20 troopers and several Indian In-dian police to Colorado for the purpose of bringing in any Utes found over I the line creates considerable interest lne here a it is the first time the boys j have been ordered to take the field since the Seventh cavalry arrived in this section The new recruits many of whom are from the fa east are particularly interested in-terested and many are the conjectures as to the extent of the campaign and I the number of troops necessary to quell I any uprising The authorities at both agencies say that very few Indians are missing from the reservation and it is believed here I alarmed that the Colorado people are unduly I That the Indians are dissatisfied I however over the affair of last year when some of their number were killed on Snake river is a well known fact and there seems to be a general impression im-pression at the agencies that the matter mat-ter is not settled by any means The sympathy here as a matter of course is all with the Indians and the government is thought to be very lame in its treatment of its wards In the first place it is contended that the Uncompahgres and White Rivers have the moral right to hunt game in Colorado inasmuch as the treaty stipulates stip-ulates that they were to have that privilege priv-ilege when they gave up their old haunts for a home in the gameless region re-gion they now inhabit Whether any of the sympathy which is felt for the Indians reaches them direct di-rect is of cOurse doubtful but it is quite certain nevertheless that they realize its existence just the same which tends to keep alive the feeling of resentment and bitterness which has been engendered in their disputes and quarrels with the people across the state line lne I is realized also that the people of Colorado are determined to resist any invasion of the Utes into the game regions re-gions of the state and i is feared that if some means is not deised by I which the Indians can be made to forgive I for-give and forget the past that serious trouble will come sooner or later There are some of the leading men I of the different tribes however that seem to realize the hopelessness of pushing against the incoming tide and are drifting gradually with the stream adapting themselves in a measure to I the changed conditions and advising their people to do the same Charley Alhandra who went to Washington last winter as interpreter is one of them and today he told me in fairly good English that he was going go-ing into the chicken business on his farm a few miles below the post There are many fine farms up and down the Uintah and Duchesne streams that have been allotted and put into good shape but they are farmed When they are farmed at all by white renters rent-ers the great majority of the Indians being very little removed from the condition con-dition in which they were 40 years ago I seems to be the general impression impres-sion among the authorities and those who are in any way connected with 1 the administration ot Indian affairs that the cixilizationftof the adults of I iat9i tle the red race is welfTifgh hopeless and that their salvation ijes in the education I educa-tion and training of the children The training and teaching of the chil dren is not all smooth sailing either I as every conceivable scheme is resorted to to keep the papooses away from the I schdols by the stupid parents i I is really amazing too how little time it takes for the old tme i renegades to I undo what the pale face teacher has done and with what persistence they do i 4 There arefive school buildings at I White Rocks 1 mil jup the Uintah here sfrpm c where the Ulntahs are initiated into the ways of the pale face Four miles below be-low here are the Ouray schools built for the educatloV of the Uncom pahgres They stand as a monument to the good intentions the Indian department de-partment out as a real civilizing influence influ-ence I believe down deep in the hearts of those connected with these institutions institu-tions they are rated at a discount To revert again to the Seventh cavalry cav-alry stationed here I seems there is a pretty generalimpression that they are being blacklisted by the head of the war department There is one thing that does look peculiar pe-culiar and that is the fact that a great many men have been transferred from I the Seventh tn nthur rfflmpnts nnH new recruits sent to take their places nt thus getting the advantage of the trained soldiers without giving credit to the Seventh as an organization Many of the new recruits feel sorely disappointed over being sent to this outoftheway place as they enlisted with the expectation of being sent to the front on short notice notce Many of them being from the eastern and middle states find that frontier life is vastly different from what they have been accustomed to at home Drilling goes on mercilessly and to watch some of the new men whose knowledge of a hors is far from extensive ex-tensive amusing to a civilian of the wild and woolly west if not to the soldier sol-dier A peepinto the post hospital reveals re-veals several unfortunates with crippled crip-pled arms and legs Lieutenant Littebrandt who recently I arrived from Fort DoUglas is out in the field in command of the detachment over in Colorado A counqil of the UintahUtes is being held today at While Rocks to consider a leasing proposition of elaterite ground on Indian creek one of the tributaries of the upper Duchesne G T McConnell is or appears to be the promoter with eastern tapital behind him Their success is considered doubtful doubt-ful as the history of such transactions I here justify such conclusions I HERBERT TYZACK |