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Show The Views of a Ute. Richard D. Komas, the young Ute Indian of this territory, who has during the last few years been at school in the east, at government expense, ex-pense, is preparing an elaborate statement state-ment of the wrongs of the Indians, as he understands them from an Indian standpoint. Kotnas is well versed in the English language, and has a full knowledge of, and claims to have a remedy for the evils which lave their rise in the management of the present Indian bureau. He will appear with his statement before both the house and senate committees on Indian affairs, several of the members mem-bers of both having invited him. He is in favor ol the partial transfer of the Indians to the supervision of the ! war department, and would like to see them governed, as they were formerly, by it. He intends to advo cate as a saving to the government the selection of a number of young men of each tribe, not civilized, who shall be taken in charge with the consent of their people and be educated edu-cated at the expense of the United States, to BCrve as interpreters and Indian agents. |