Show WHISKY QUESTION RElATING TO INDIANS MAY PREVENT ABANDONMENT OF FORT DUCHESNE S S M Barlow who has bas returned from troma froma a business trip through the Uintah country said yesterday he doubted that Fort Duchesne would be aban abandoned dosed In view ot of the present condi conditions there the tho whisky question bo be boing beIng ing a serIous one Many new people are locating their allotments on the reservation local development being large and rapid If the soldiers are taken away unscrupulous bus lous liquor dealers will allow the In Indians Indiana diana to have whIsky which the older settlers know Is a 11 very dangerous fu thing Only recen recently an Indian full tun ot of lire fire firewater water rode through a town firing his pistols In all directions Luckily no noone noone one was hurt but the Indian been ye yet Mr Barlow said that it If a white man Injured an Indian even In the tribe demands that he be shall be pun punIshed punIshed A man bY the name of Muse killed a drunken Indian In self defense at My Myton ton The soldiers had to rescue him the Indians and guard him for several days day Although he be was acquItted bYa jury at Heber City he dare darc to return because he fears the tho Indians will kill him at the first opportunity In My Myton ton there are five stores and five saloons Besides this some men menI I have set tents up near the military reservation and sell whIskY to the sol soldiers I diers The same conditions exist in inI I other towns In places they thoy sell it to the Indians now Mr Ir Barlow said that the residents are experiencing n a long hard winter there thore With much snow Efforts are be beIng being Ing mode made to finish the railroad from Dragon to Vernal this spring This will connect Vernal with the Rio Grande road at Mack and will wUl make Vernal the shipping point of Ashley velley velle Instead of oC Price Mr Ir Barlow says that man many difficulties are being encountered in building this line about 70 per cent ot of it being curves while the grade la Is as high as 7 per cent In Inthe Inthe the steepest parts Shea engines will be used |