| Show TROOPS UNDER ORDERS TO FIGHT UTAH INDIANS d Battle is Predicted Before the White River Red Men Blen Quit the Colorado Hunting Grounds Game Commissioner and Five Deputies Leave Rifle For she Scene of the Difficulties Denver Cob Colo Nov Noy 26 Adjutant I General today wired troop A cavalry at Gland Junction to be In readiness for an Immediate call caU in case Game Commissioner i ner Johnsons JohnS ns force should not be able to expel the Indian hunters from the White river coun cotta country country try The troop is known as us g rough riders and is made up of pio plo pioneers pioneers nears cowboys and crack shots of the western slope There are sixty men In Inthe Inthe Inthe the troop and General shipped forty saddles bridles cinches and ammunition for a n two weeks cam campaign campaign through the mountains This troop of cavalry is much closer to the scene of the Indian depredations than the Denver troops and could be beon beon on the ground within hours from receipt of notice to start Fear is expressed at the capitol ol that Commissioner Johnson will wm make the I attack upon the Indians against over i whelming helming w odds Governor Aroused By Hitchcock cock Governor Thomas received re a com corn communication communication from front Secretary Se of the Treasury Treasur Hitchcock at Washington this afternoon stating in substance that the department had sent its In Indian Indian dian Ulan agent to scour northwestern Colo Cole Colorado Colorado Colerado rado for marauding Indians but had failed to find one There was a hint in inthe inthe inthe the communication that this would of if officially f end the correspondence so far faras faras faras as the government was concerned Instead of pacifying the governor it ii had a tendency to make him more vig rig vigorous vigorous rigorous orous in his application of the state laws He claims to have a dozen dosen re reports reports reports ports from as many different men on file proving conclusively that the In Indians Indians Indians have slaughtered over deer deerin in Routt and Rio Blanco counties Indians Are White Rivers S From telegrams received it has ha de tie developed developed that it is not the and Utes that are making the trouble this year but the White Rivers RIvera who once occupied the territory which they have invaded In the past pt the Indian agents have kept the White Rivers Rivera on the She reservation become because of the bitter feeling of the tribe toward tod the whites who they claim took pos pee possession po poses session ses lon of lands belonging Ion nc to them without right or treaty trea y yIt It is reported that even a It larger burger number of Indians than the 68 50 5 t previously ou ly reported have left the reservation n nand and are slaughtering hundreds of ofIn f deer deerin in the vicinity of the Yuma and White rivers The fact that so no many of er the red redskins redskins redskins skins have left the reservation gives rise to the belief that they have planned to obtain revenge r for the Meeker man mas massacre seers sacre and the killing killin of squaws and bucks three years jears ago As soon as 8 the ranchmen are advised ed that trouble is brewing there will be a rush for Rifle and Meeker Commissioner Johnson John on will station pickets at the state line to prevent the passage of the Indian pack trains with their tons of ot plunder from the th state tat He Heis Heis Heis is determined to arrest some me of the In Indians diane with game in their possession OB if possible in order to have haye the t e laws lawa re regarding regarding regarding garding Indian raids tested s |
