| Show INDIANS AGAIN GULLED V 1 A COLORADAN WHO PROMISES THEM GREAT THINGS For a Consideration of Coursrf and t r > t the Reds are Raising thepoin Fort Canteen Closed The Big Dam Corresnondencd Tribune While Rock Feb IS Therp another excitement on tho docket for tbe Indians of three rerva11on and Ifoub I likely to result from It In the near future Il Jg rtllably rcporlad here Umi the Indiana are lo nend for a man ostozighL all wrong from which they havoboon Ruf ffrlnfr and place the white man where he bflonjf at the bottom of the ladder wilh the Indian on top A short time ago two visiting Indians returned from a trip into New Mexico and Colorado At Durango Cob they met a man by the name of Dairy Sullivan Sulli-van who claimed to be a friend to the Indian and to have It In his l power to rwaore lo the White River Ule their old landa In Colorado and also to make the Government at Washington pay them for it and to allow them to hunt thero aa R much as they like in the future It I L claimed by the Indian that Sullivan has worked many miracle xmong the super aUtloun Indiana and Mexicans near Du rnnro and they came back here much T Merited over their Interview with him and fully convinced that ho can do all and mora than ho claims In order ID have his good modlclne work property ihee Indian must rxlso a certain amount of money to be transmitted trans-mitted to Sullivan anti helsto come hero aa tholr guest to IKS worshiped as their new Moanlah and to become their leader and the whiles are to be banLshod from the reservation and from ihiv part of the country and Poor Lo Is lo rule the hills and valleys of the Ulnlah as lie did long Yrs ago So far over a hundred dollars havo twcn contributed by the Indians hero as an offering to the new Menslah and the good work la going secretly on and i whrn approached on the subject they rufuso 10 talk with the exception of a feW > who are smart enough lo ifce that thr Indians are being worked for their cash and no prospect of a reward for tl elr trust In tho impostor There IH nn element of danger in the affair and tho mutter hax b on brought to the attention of the Department of thu Interior at Washington Sullivan Is said to have a companion who travels tvllli hIms Mexican whoso name cannot IK learned hdrc There la nothing that will oxclto the Indians so much as possibility of a chancu to regain their lost ascendancy and posiujwtlons and they are willing to take for granted any chance that offers and If Sullivan comes hero he will hu apt to sot a following strong enough lo make lot of trouble for the department and for the while people on the reservation CANTEEN CLOSED At noon on Friday the llb the can ten at Fort Duchosno was closed and the fort Is ns dry now UH a Nutlonlzcd Kansas town There are plenty of liquors on the strip however and at least one emporium forth for-th said of wet good will be open the coming week and the commanding officer will have bin hands full lo keep the HOldlers in the garrison about two miles away THE BIO DAM founty Surveyor Glonn of Vernal Is on White river at R point fifteen miles east of tho Ouray subagency whoro the new dam IH to 10 I constructed for lie big Irrigation Irri-gation schema mentioned In Tho Tribune oorronpondonco from Vornal some time nine Mr Glenn slated to your corrw pondent a few days since that the dam ID i lo raise the river thirty foot above UK natural course and will walr more good and tillable laud than is contained in the whole of the Ashley valley About KXO acre H of the allotted lands on the old Uncompahgro reservation will lx covered by tho new ditch and the pro jectors of tho enterprise will ask the r Government for assistance in carrying out this the biggest and best project of tbo kind over started in Utah United 8tato Indian Agent Myton is In favor of the project and will recommend list the Governmonl oxaat the promotion of tho project for U will give the Indians more assistance toward Irrigating the allotted lands than nnylhlnc that can bo done This land 1C over put under ditch will create one of the host farming district In the West and Is easy of access by Miner waoil or railroad Thero Is already al-ready a good wagon road from the Ashley valley lo thai land and a good country to build a railroad through from Crevasse on the Rio Grando Western railway Tito > largest beds of gllsonlto yet dls covered l In Utah aro all around the tract 1 to ho Irrigated and thoso will be opened Jn limn and create revenue and commerce for time community and the railroad that will naturally como lo a locallly as favored r fa-vored as this will bo when water Is put on the land |
