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Show IMUAX KKSKI; VATION i t'OLU V. I; IIiltrj tin I in;:ili Vom j. Iil rum' inn ln.i ami l. i It A rii ii Iroiii tliein. Aii Indi.tii Aiceul'v 1 iijuitl "Tithle Ci'Mi-ki'iy Ware." j, Jliirtl I.inen for iieil-. and 1 hi u s. tC.irr- I -i,- ,. f:.t. M ... IlKUKU CllV. U.T.. Aug. -7, lv E.i;!.,, li: .,': In rrsuiuhi:-' tie' n y.-ur c..n-s-pfiideiit ha no de-ire t-'a'ltach blame to the agents of the I:,di ui depart- meiit in tlii'ir i'!i;rt to carry out the policy of the department. T!ie best Imilders will fail to erect a substantial building upon a "sbal:y Ibund it ion. " The fault is in the ptili.y. if there can be said to be any policy eon- j nectcd with the deparCuent." On 1 Christmas Diy. 1m;.;, if mistake j not, Captain I todds, a. ut for I'intah, I acting under instructions from j Colonel Ib-ad. Superintendent lor j I'tah, arrivitl with a few wagon and 'aliout thirty Indians at the present ; site of the Tintah agency. IMlds, ' being a thoroughgoing man and well calculate! tor the position which lie heM, erected four large buildings of hewn itis. and jn a short time had them ready tor occupation. One of the buildings was intended for the employes, one for a blacksmith shop, one for commissary stores, and the other for the kitchen. No provisions , were made for the accommodation fit ' the Indians, and they were not ai-i ai-i lowed to enter the buildings except , oil special business, and required to t . withdraw as soon as it was transacted. t The Indians complained, and do vet, I that at the agency they are classed with the chickens and pigs. The following Spring a garden spot of potatoes, corn, etc., was planted, plan-ted, and in due time the potatoes grew to the size of quail's eggs, and the Indians, thinking that the i potatoes were for their own use, concluded con-cluded to appropriate a portion. Hut upon making the attempt they were met by the agent, who informed them, with gun in hand, that he would "make a hole through the first Indian that dared to dig a potato. The potatoes were for the whites." All this was right on the part of the agent, but the Indians fa i let! to see it. "Ang-kat-se-ab" (Ked Ant) harangu-i harangu-i ed the Indians, telling them that the ; whites were cutting the timber, "scratching" the ground and fencing in the ground for the white man's benefit, ami he wished it discontinued. discontinu-ed. He had been told the whites i were there to work for the Indians, j and if they were not intending to do j so he would leave. And lie went ' south, taking with him those of the Indians who adhered to him; and had it not been for the high expectations of the Fall distribution, the Indians would have then abandoned the reservation reser-vation entirely. At length the long-looked-for presents arrived. Upon examination by the Indians they did ! not fill the bill. They were not pre-i pre-i pared for so small a pile. The day l was set for the distribution, and "run-; "run-; ners" were sent in every direction to j call the Indians in. The entire force i assembled, with, also, a portion of the ! White River Indians, who did not hc-! hc-! long there, and when all were count-; count-; cd their number did not reach 300 men, women and children. Previous to the general distribution small presents were made to some of the leading men, by wav of "ticklers," and as these facts became circulated through the camp, other leading men, considering themselves ' slighted, grew jealous, niid on the day of tiie distribution, just as all the parties hnd taken their scats in the j grand circle, and the "pipe of peace" ' was being loaded, several leading In- I . dians rode into the centre of the cir-' clc, brandishing their weapons, and , yelled to the women and children to i ' "scatter for the brush." The English language is not equal to the las'k of describing a "stampede" of Indian women and children. Let it suffice : to say that the scare was hair-erecting. These Indians dec la ml they know the distribution) was only a trick of the whites to dispossess them of the 1 land, and it was only by the persua- j ( sivc eloquence of Todco-wah-nah, . combined uifl) the reverepce that all ' the Indians enlertaiucd for his de- j ceased lather, Sow-e-at, that the white ! men were not all massacred on the; 1 spot. The Indians consented that i ; the distribution should proceed only on condition that no papers were to be signed, nor any stipulations or '. acknowledgements of the receipt of I the goods to be made by the Indians. When the distribution was completed ; and each had received his, her or its quota: .cshirt, blanket, dress of1 blue drilling (seven van Is), knife or ' plug of tobacco, as the case mighL be. they retired lo the shade of a large lodge, erected especially for he ;ce;i-' ;ce;i-' sion, and there they piled the things on the ground and proceeded to gamble gam-ble for ihem. This was kept tip night npd day until both Indians and presents were wurn thread-hare the Indians by exertion, and the presents by being handled and trampled upon. Many an Indian . has been known to oiler his entire quota for a greenback dollar, and some have been seen to turn it over and look at it and then turn up their noses indignantly, and walk away and leave it. The great difficulty in distributing dis-tributing arises from the impossibility to do so uniformly. One receives something that is a "shade brighter, or . thicker, or wider, or of a more desirable desir-able color, and a thousand little cir-: cir-: etujietaiK-uS transpire lo breed dissatisfaction, dissatis-faction, a.4 cause jealousies and ill , feelings, which often lead to entire 1 alienations, not only of the friendship of the Indian fur the white man. but of the friendship and giod feeling which generally exist among them-. them-. selves. It is universally conceded by re-rleciing re-rleciing Indians that the distributions distribu-tions arc the cause of moral dissatisfaction dissatis-faction and uneasiness among the Indians In-dians than all othersources combined. Tabby and To-kowah-nah, and other influential Indians, have repeatedlv requested that n.i more oods be distributed, dis-tributed, but that they be put in a store al the reservation and paid out to the Indians for lKn; or lor furs . and skins to those who do not choose to labor at fanning, and by this mean- keep the principal L'ooil Thev Sav . there would be but" little needed to f pay for labor as Indians do not like to work. But. to return to the agency. Captain LVlds proved himself equal to every cmergeiiey. and was just i teimiy uie run oi uie innams. and I they had begun to respect him, when I ; an order came from headquarters for! , him to '"turn over" the entire agency to Lieut. G. W. Graillim. Tins was ! ' a new policy: an entire change in the j programme, at the "While Houje.'' When. Cmidam arrived tiie Indians . looked at him, ar.d asked if id-j id-j mother would not be uneasy al.out him. They called him 'Tpe-Mviiiee," j '.l-oy-fatiicr', and said. '-We nreverv J little now very poor our father ts i too young to take i:arc of t:.'' lv ' asked if they had any l-owlim; all.-vs or billiard salens in their vi.l.t-o : ; wished them to understand ilm' . was only an amamor at billiards, but . considered himself quite an expert: j i would be pleased to instruct them in ' ' the art. but he prefernd tiie k--t- ' ! !os table. do i.Icd'v: th.-.:gh: it would, j be advisable, ifih.y had u : ady I done so, lo t;udy II-,yl and a t ' , l.mi in ail general c.is.s: a:.l. a:-...1 ! wi-hed them to r.nd. r-L-O.d that in. : tiie East it was n. l cou-in-r-il u- j ! t-.vl to;.;tup...n tiie i::--and. ..-r to l-.. 1 to table without a n it. or !" at wit:. 1 , the iiat on, tXc, A c. P, :t tiny w. .uld . excii-c him. a- luisim iv.is p: -.-::!-'. , and he w.-uld s-.-e tia.ni a n. ii'- f'iv partlirj, liowcver, h'j vvy'.ilJ ;kl- .:-e th..:n, uhalcvt r they did. n- 't to! ndnl-je to cee-s in int"icatiiej Ivv-r.,j. Ivv-r.,j. -; th. v were' crv delet rious. i. which was interesting ill lc-.'ee lc-.'ee Indian-through, t : iC -.v-t;.cu!ati. ms. Mr. i u ;, ei .lirec'. to the Indian e-t il' .'ecl't and enqnind !..r.l.i:,,ai. -r 'er. Th.e trader dal a.-t ke.-p u. b.U had a N.ale of Old pH.uriH.,,. Mr. th wuld take the ''Uie to hi- o:'.h-..' if the trader had n jbe, ti, us. T'ue trader had none. l":ie nf xt dav toe team- arrival with -upph.-s. l'i:t. un.i ii innately. the ivr.iiii in w'nic'h the "crockery"' was -trd had been 'cajisized' ' oil the wav, and the "ci. -ckerv U .x" bur-t.d. and a live -ah-n kc- rolkd out of ill It spraii''a "'. of coin-se, and the l-iv'did tiie U-st ihcy could witii it. but bv the time the reservation v,i-reaelu'ii v,i-reaelu'ii it had nearlv all leaknl out. I.i.-ut. (.. W. GraflanVs "lable ware" biiuu' smashctl and exhausleel. hf was constrained, unavoidably, to mi to Fort Jh-idger. " He iulbmed the employ'- that p iv-sing duty calhd him to Hridger, and that bell re he returned it would be necessary neces-sary fbr him to draw his quarterly allowance al-lowance of Col. Tourtetle'tte, who had Mipplained Col. Head, as Superiuten-tlent. Superiuten-tlent. tirafliun could not tlr.iw the money without their voiiehei-s. and requested them lo sign them and lie would fill them out in Salt Lake City. They did as requeslnl. tirallam de-p.irttd, de-p.irttd, went to Salt Pake City, drew the men's waives. Wl-',lt trnin t'11-'1"0 to Ihid-er, and spent the winter and tlie Uiys' money in gambling, riot and lasciviousness, and the hoys have not. nor ever will receive their hard-earned hard-earned salaries. Grafiam lell no er-son er-son in charge of the Agency, nor b:ft any instructions for the employes to ! be '.'overued bv. 1 In the mean time Col. Touriellotte, 1 acting under instructions from the Department, employed parties par-ties to collect the Indians and take them to tho reservation, with written instructions to assure them that they would be amply provided for anil eoinlbrtnble homes made for them. These parties arrived at the reservation reserva-tion in mid-winter, with over 100 starved and nearly naked Indians, having traveletl over 200 miles, most of the way through snow and ice from (ineto'eight leet deep. The Indians In-dians anil their animals were drilled almost lo a shadow, and they were only sustained by the hope that they woukl get plenty to eat at the agency. Mark the sequel. They were told that there was no one there authorized to issue anything to any hotly not even to .white men and, if there was any one authorized to issue, there was nothing to issue; there was not sufiicient provisions pro-visions in the commissary to supply the few while men at the Agency until un-til such time as the snow woultl "admit "ad-mit of obtaining supplies from Salt Lake City, nearly liO'J mile's distant. Here was a dilemma. The Indians could not obtain supplies from the mountains the snow was too deep; there was no game around in the vicinity of the Agency. The whiles and Indians met in council of consideration, consid-eration, with Tabby (Ute chief) in the chair, and came to the conclusion conclu-sion (o go into cooperation in the commissary, and weather the winter through as best they could; "for," says one, "if Lieut, lira flam will go away and leave us in this 'fix.' he deserves to have everything used up, and should not complain il he finds nothing but the bare buildings when he returns.'' Father McKnight, the cook, a member of the Order of Goal Templars, Temp-lars, and an orthodox believer in the honesty of everybody, speaks: "Ah ; bovs, you talk of Sir. Graf lam ; he t ild me ho, would come if he had to conic through snow ten feet deep. Ah, boys, I fear his poor body is nowf while we are talking of him. buried in some dismal i snow-drift. Speak gently of him, . boys, his mother may never see him again. I know he was a gentleman and an honest man.-: lie would always touch his cap to me when he came lo the kitchen, and he would say kindly, "Mack, you need not wake me tiil nine in the morning. morn-ing. I prefer to breakfast alone. I do not appreciate the society of these rough ompIoye;s. Why did not my predecessor employ gentlemen when he was engaging men ! Ah, that was i the way he talked, boys." TIebetl d," says Old Mich. flI sincerely hope he is laid up in the snow. I'll not lose anything. I've overrun my account nt the store;" and so the council progressed until nil agreed that, come what might, the Indians must have some flour, and thev proceeded to the, commissary and distributed' three sacks of Hour to the Indians. Thus limp wore on in dull des'pair. The snow' was two feet deep around the building'; the Indians consumed their scant supply and demanded mure; the whites, with an eye to business, busi-ness, undertook to "shade" a few sacks of liuur; and the Indians suspected sus-pected and threatened extermination lu the whites if more supplies were not forthcoming. All the guns and ammunition were locked up in Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Grallam's office, ami he had the key with him. The whites consulted and proposed to burst open the office anel pivparc to defend themselves. Tl;;s was finally done, and the men carricel tlie guns and ! ammunition to their quarters under ' cover of the darkness, antl slept with one eye open, The Indians kept up a continuous ycllingduring the night, within hearing. In the morning they dispatched a messenger for the Interpreter Inter-preter to come to their camp. J It complied and found thai they had determined de-termined to "sack" the commissary, and wished him to join them. He declined, de-clined, but p-ofleml on condition ol their immediately brcakingeamp and scattering through the country in small squads, so as to subsist upon rabbits, buds and other small game which they might find, to endeavor lo obtain two and a half sacks of Hum for ihem. Thev rai.-.d camp and scattcr.il' ed in Vvery direction, and nothing more was heard of them until un-til spring was lairly opened, lint the whiles were ' reduced to n yeryshoit allowance of a very poor quality ol fo-jd. and had it not been for the timely aid of the energetic Captain l'odds, in breaking his way tiough the snow tu the bridge and back with I pack animals, the whites would have untle-ubtdly suffered severe ly. Just about this time some Indian women came to the agency and brought werd that .1 white man had been killed by tlii'l'tes about a month i previou., within fifteen miles of the 1 agency. JLU name was Haye3. I lie had seived live years as a i soldier5, and had nn honora1 lc discharge with him. No eftbri has been made by the department or Government to bring the murderers, to justice, But more of this aiyjn. lh :tui.i:i;. |