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Show REMOVAL OF THE UTES. Indian Commluioner Morgan Continue! In Hie Opposition to Their Removal. ' Washington, Oct. 22. Indian Com-missioner'Morgan, Com-missioner'Morgan, in his forthcoming annual report to the secretary of the interior, will persist In his opposition to the removal of the southern Utes. After reciting the fact that the agreement agree-ment with the southern Ute Indians of Colorado in the fall of 1888, which has excited groat popular interest throughout through-out the country, is still pending in Congress, Con-gress, the commissioner will say: "Friends of the Indians are loth to bclisve that it will be for the best interests in-terests of the Indians to take them from the fertile valleys of their present reservation reser-vation and settle them upon the barren unproductive lands of the proposed reservation in Utah. They believe they should bare lands alloted to them iu severalty on their present reservation, where it would be reasonable to expect they would eventually become self-supporting, self-supporting, law-abidmg citizens. ' The southern Utes are the only Indians In-dians now remaining in Colorado, and they number less than 2000. Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin each have over three times as many, Montana five and California six times as many. North Dakota and South Dakota four and ten times as many respectively, and the state of Washington five times as many, so that in the distribution of our Indian population to those who regard their presence as a detriment, Colorado seems to have been much more fortunate fortu-nate than many of her sister states." |