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Show THE t'TE WAR Lleai. Price In a Tlehi IMate The Causes of ihe Trouble Caeyecne, 1. The fallowing was received Irom Lieutenant Price, who is tweotynve milee tiack ot Thorn-burgh's Thorn-burgh's command: FoKTJFICATJOS CREIK, September 0, Via Kawiings, Wyo., 1. Major Thornburgh'a command was met by an overw helming force of Indians In-dians at'Miik Creek, eurrouoded, and Major Thornbursb killed at the outset, out-set, and lour oificers, iiicluditig Hie doctor, were wounded. Most of tne animate were killed. Reinforcements must use dispatch in order to aave the ; command. I am left at ihia point with thirty men, aod have just receded re-ceded order to entrench aud fortify wtil. (Signed,) Lieut. Price. I .vo treiyhters named Kinney and Gardm r, who recently engaged in hauliug Crtpiaiu Dodge's company's bags aye to Steamboat Springs, from Middle Park, arrived here Ircm North Park this evening. Toey report seeing see-ing a Iresh Indian nign through the Prttk, and of meeting a young Arra-pahoe Arra-pahoe buck, who told them tho Arr-pahoea Arr-pahoea had joined the Utes, for the purpose of driving the colored aol- iers (Captain Dodge'B company) out of the Park. They think tbe Imliana were about to proceed to Steamboat Spring to attack Dodge, when Thorn-burgb'ti Thorn-burgb'ti approach attracted their intention, in-tention, aud they attacked him instead in-stead New York, 2. Washington and other specials regarding the Ute outbreak out-break show long neglected treaty stipulations, unlulfilled government pledges and continued encroachraema on tne reservation &3 the primary cause. Tndiau otficials, unable to re sisl the pressure of western representatives, represent-atives, have been endeavoring to efJect their removal to Indian Territory; Terri-tory; ceuce tbo executive aod legislative legis-lative branches of government nave resorted to the Usual means to lorce upon them the surrender of their land. L.st winter a delegation ol Les Pinos Utea came to Washington to ask for payment for the territory out out of their part of the reservation in southwestern Colorado, and were impatient at the delay. Tne com-miEiiouer com-miEiiouer explained that until tbe great council made an appropriation they could not receive theaum proposed pro-posed by. the peace commission sent out last year. Congress was then in session but the recomenda-tiou recomenda-tiou of the payment of the sum specified by the commissioner was not heeded. To add aggravating causes, a number of speculators and prospectors, pros-pectors, who had been on the northern part of the reservation, came to persuade per-suade congress to disregard the treaty obligations and declare the reservation reserva-tion open to settlement, They brought with them fine specimens of rich gold and eilver ore, and argued that the sooner we had an Indian war aud the savagea were exterminated, the better it would be for the country and for frontiersmen particularly. Seeing that serious consequences would follow fol-low an invasion of their -domaiu, Scburz asked congress for authority to enter into negotiations for the cession tcr the United States of all the reservation reser-vation of the Utea, that it might be thrown open to eettlera and miners, and this request waa also disregarded. The Ecene ol Thornburgh's disaster is on the edge of the reservation, at Mill Creek, which runs into Painted Rock Creek. Thornburgh was formerly stationed sta-tioned in San Francisco and Alaska. Agens Meeker is a Colorado man. Morning and evening papers), without with-out exception, pi ace the responsibility of the Ute outbreak on the neglect of congress to indemnify the tfibe for their lands, and to authorize negotiations negotia-tions for a peaceablo removal. The Telegram says: Army officers entertain enter-tain their favoiito opinion that tbe outbreak is due to "the rascalities of Indian agents;" that the men and otHcers that Thornburgh had with niai were not the kind of aoldiera required to deal with the Indiana, |