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Show FEDERAL OFFICERS ; HOLD CONFERENCE; SITUATION TENSE The receipt of a telegram yesterday was the cause of a hurried and secret conference between L. D. Creel, Indian agent for the scattered bands of Indians in Utah, and IX C. Cook, assistant United States district attorney. An extended ex-tended conference was held vosterdav inorniug between Mr. Creel, Nir. Cook and W. W. Ray, United States district attorney. Later a telegram was sent to Washington and it is believed that the wire received bv Mr. Creel in the afternoon was a reply from the department depart-ment of Indian affairs in Washington. The present uprising may result in tho depopulation of San Juan county, so far as Indians are concerned. L. D. Creel, Indian agent, for scattered banas of Indians in Utah, made a special trip to Washington in December, 1913, to lav the problem of the renegade Indians before the head of the office of Indian affairs. At that time, Mr. Creel recommended recom-mended that they be moved from their present haunt. Though Mr. Creel refuses re-fuses to give out information at the present time, it is known that he has kept the officials at Washington informed in-formed of recent developments. May Charge Conspiracy. Following the conference between Messrs. Bay, Creel and Cook information informa-tion as to the purpose of the meeting was refused, but it is said that action may be taken to bring charges of conspiracy con-spiracy against all the Indians of the tribe. ' Should it be found that they have boen given information by whites, warrants tor the persona responsible for the failure of tho secret plan ot Marshal Nebeker to take Hatch will bo issued. W. W. Ray, United States district attorney, refused to say anything any-thing about tho question last night, except ex-cept to the effect that no warrants had yet been issued. When Marshal Nebeker Neb-eker left for Bluff, however, he carried car-ried a warrant for the arrest of Old Polk as well as for his son, Tsc-Na-Gat. Herbert Hyde, a student of the L. . D. S. U. university, whose home is in Bin f'f, called upon Indian Agent Creel yesterday afternoon. He expressed concern con-cern of what might be the result of a clash between the posse and the Indians. In-dians. Indians Well Armed. In speaking of the Indians, whom he has known all his life, he said: Old Polk has had ten wives. There must be more than twenty-five twenty-five men in the tribe that are blood relatives of Hatch. They are sure to stand by him. There is no In- -dian in the tribe so poor but that he has as good a modern rifle as money can buy. If the Indians decide de-cide to hide Hatch they can do it so effectively that no white could ever find him. There are places in the brakes and box canyons where no whites have ever been. Again, it is possible that the Indians may decide to give Hunt up. Whatever What-ever they make their mmds up to do they will go through with it. If there is an Indian down there who cannot shoot straight I have never heard of him. ! |