| Show THE UTE BUSINESS I 1 so it seems by chief ignacios Ignac loB statement that ell his hla tribe except six or seven far families rilles are now in utah that shows show the truthfulness of our colorado neighbors at first there was only a little bend band of about one hundred and city people who had gone over with their ponies to do their annual hunting now kow it seems that they are all there except six or seven families an and d the tone ot of the press of colorado is that they ought to stay there it Is very difficult to escape the belief that the intention was to take possession 0 of that part of of I 1 utah without any noise rid colorado of the utes and make a savage wall between western colorado and eastern utah in all this business the men of southwestern colorado tor for years have been pursuing a most despicable policy they have tried by treaty they have tried by passing laws through congress and now they have actually tried to force those utes over from colorado soil upon utah soil and the poor settlers down there that have been living there for years are now having to teed those Colo colliado Coloia tado do indians not only them but their ponies of the six or seven families left jett in colorado we presume that it if the facts were known they are simply some old and feeble men and women and some he helpless ip children the strength of the tribe has leen been bodily transported to utah we believe by aid connivance permission and assistance of tho the indian agent and the most wonderful thing of all Is the demonstration of what marvelous liars the men of southwestern colorado are of course the savages will have to go back even it if they are there and even it if they have been taught by colorado men that they have a right to that country but it Is a shame to put this territory to all that expense eapen se it is a shame to put the honest settlers in this territory to the expense and anxiety which has been caused and the blame rests principally on those southwestern colorado liars and the circulation of the colorado press which from denver to the uttermost borders of the state stata has tried to make light of the matter as though utah and utah people were wholly to blame tor for hardly an article la 13 written that 11 t does docs not say that it if trouble comes it will be the fault of the white men in utah A morning or two since a dispatch from cleveland 0 0 said that a citizen had been killed by a burglar whom he had caught ransacking his house what will the colorado papers papera say it if in defense tho the burglar sets seta up that there would have been no possible chance tor for trouble it if the owner of the house had not gotten out of bed to interfere with his business that would be the colorado plea and ought to have just as touch much credence in cleveland as the colorado plea ought to have among decent people anywhere A special says the indians are to be returned to their old homed home now lot let congress fix the treaty and have done with this attempt to colonize the savages on utah |
