Show INDIANS ARE PEACEABLE Agent at Moapa River PAver Discusses Killings illings To the Ute Salt Lake Herald HId HIdI I notice in some of the that there thee have been two prospectors killed In the neighborhood of Calientes and ud the murder is charred ed to Indians from froze the Moapa reservation I do not know kno as asto asto to tf the truth of the crime or who woo the guilty parties ma may be The dispatch She also o 1 states that the Indian from the Moapa reservation are roving about corn com committing depredations on ranches and camps of strangers and prospectors That Thata a uprising un is ia feared It Is 18 true there are quite QuitO a number of those these th Indi liMit Indians Indians ans an off the reservation at this time be because because cause of the necessity Of hunting work to make a living for themselves and fam tam families hits As for any uprising among the Indians India b bre Tf re the whites white I J think there the i is II no reasonable grounds for the state statement ment It is 18 said id that the th reason for the revolt a anat the whites is j the passing of the death ce uon upon Cochi hi Seg miller the Indian boy who killed d William Williams last lut August The Indians here were Merc ere somewhat what worked up over the affair at the time of or orthe I the boys boy arrest krest and imprisonment but have become reconciled to the de of the taw law The Indians Indian on the th r rna mation h hhope hav i hope death sentence nc wilt will be com em commuted commuted muted to imprisonment The citizens of the vallEY also hope hOJ for the same result It is 15 t tree they t did circulate a petition here which received about 1 44 nam names s to the pardoning board for a L commutation of death sentence The above VPS ts not circulated because e of any threats made by bv Indians against the whites white nor of an any fear ar of th tf whites of the valley alley of violence from the Indians Indian but because the citizens of this part rt of the country thought the punish i Mont me t for lor the crime committed under the was s in excess of oC just pun punishment punI I wish tah to say ea right here bere that the In dlan that are uton uon u n the are Ire very 7 quiet and inoffensive when hen sober tober t here are such that the th get g tt TOO much whis key at times and both bucks and squaws become W sc C SHARP I J Ta fa charge Charte of biceps Moapa River Indians indian Moapa Mca a Nev Ms W l I 8 I I I I |