Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-07-13 | Page 4 | Officers Put Stop to Dance Festival

OFFICERS PUT STOP . TO DIOSTI1 Flathead Indians in- Western Montana Indulge in Too Much Firewater. MISSOULA, Mont., July 12. Charges that the annual dance festival of the Plathoad Indians, including' the famous sun dance, now in progress at Arlee, at the edgo of tho reservation, is a round of drunkenness, gambling and fighting, have been mado to County Attorney Mulrooney and that officer ordered the festival closed last night. Tho Indians, although angered by the interference, announced they would not resist. The business council of tho tribe was hold yesterday and a long petition signed by several hundred oi tho redskins red-skins was addressed to President Taft and tho chief of tho bureau of Indian affairs, asking that an acoounting of tho tribe's properties and money be made. It also asks the removal of certain officers now in charge at the reservation. reserva-tion. Hundreds of visitors from all parts of the country attended the dances, which have been in progress since Sunday. -