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Show Notify Nebekcr Through Navajo Scouts of Intention In-tention to Continue Fight to Finish; Piutes and Deputies Prepare for Battle Today. UTES WILL RETURN TO RESERVATION Marshal Tires of Delay and Will Lead Posse of 75 Against Old Polk; No Quarter to Be Giv- . en Redskins ; Squaws Leave Outlaw Camp, The last chance to surrender wus given to Old Polk and his band of renegade Piutes yesterday by Marshal Anuila Neb- eker and, according to the announcement which he made .last night at Bluff, the attack at-tack on the Indians will be -begun today. to-day. Tho conclusion of the battle, declared de-clared Nebeker would be the death or surrender sur-render of every member of the outlaw tribo. Indian Agents Creel and Jenkins and members of the Navajo police made every ev-ery possible effort yesterday to secure the arrest of Old Polk and his son, Tse-Na-Gat, and the disarmament of their followers. fol-lowers. The Navajo scouts who went to the camp of tho Piutes were, for a time, held prisoners and were only allowed to leave after promising to return to their own reservation. When they were released re-leased by Old Polk the Navajo.- wait Into Bluff a,nd informed the marshal of tho intention of the Piutes to give battle to the whites. The Navajos reported that Old Pollc had made his plans for a fight and hod driven the squaws und children from his camp and to placra of safety along the San .Juan rivor. Thirst for Revenge. To the spirit of lawlessness which has prevailed in the camp of the Indians in tho past has now been added a desire for revenge. Nothing short of death to the posse will appease the Piutes who seek to avenge the death of their hrcthren at the hands of the federal officers. While Marshal Nebeker has been sent official sanction for the calling uf federal fed-eral troops If necessary, the Washington dispatch i.o that effect had not been delivered de-livered to him last night. The marshal, however,' has decided to mako the attack today with his present posse and will not call for troops until he is convinced thai the situation cannot be handled with the men now In the field. All the plans for the campaign today were completed at a. meeting of the leaders lead-ers last night. The additional ammunition ammuni-tion ordered from this city rearMiod Bluf yesterday and wan distributed to the men last night, miring yesterday the posse acted as guards in shifts, an effort being made to give every man as muh slei-p as pof-sibiu before the atta k on the redskins red-skins is started. Indian Prisoner Dies. Havaw, tho Indian who was shot by two guards when he attempted to escape, died today and his denili )jnd a HhiKular effent on the other Indians lv-;d i-Hptlvo. Soveral of them have been sullen and in-r-linod tn disobey iho onhru of tlior guards, but wh'-n told 1od;iy tlmt 1I;-vhm-liad died they berime very dorilo, Thrir very actions, however, arousod Hie sus-pirfons sus-pirfons of thoir gimrdfi and extra preparations prepara-tions wore mad! tn prevent any atlempt on thoir pa i t In make a br-jak for Itb-ertv. Itb-ertv. As a reMuM f tho ivork "f AeonW K-re1! and .lenk'ns yeyierd;ty, M'.O frli-jirpy Indians havo bt-cn ruundod up a nd will lie sent t" tho reservation 'his inornlnc in 'order that they may not be. Implkalod ( in the nyhtimr. WILL SEEK TROOPS IF ATTACK BY POSSE IS FAILURE ' Special to Tho Tribune. L-',I.IT'F. I'-ebi- via roloros. Colo., 1 a rn - It' hiw attempt to . :ip-1 :ip-1 lure ihe polk-Hiitrh-p.e v band f ron.-- - . ! ifiulp Phi?e. s.-hodu'-d for 1 liin ml. mi -. f .!, i'nito.1 Sta-es M rshnl A'r--a Noh-r' Noh-r' of c,, i,;!ke rllv wHI r;,tl f..r I'-mI-eral tro--ps to round on Jim hostile. r. nre n-a -r.v.fz thdr v-'b-'-hovU.rH avmost , Winchester? of Jh0 vl'ite-.-. Tin. in;, rli:il, aftcv t-iiiv,: tli- diploma -h ( Uw. Wrh-inirton Wrh-inirton In'H.Mr bt;rc;):i cv:ry oiu-ort u nl : v t briiitr al'O'H the surieuder ( the ..uthrv.'s. ha (jci'Trtii'ict to crcHtrc them in a f-n-sv i,;i!i'f ;inr to end the suspense that lifis rciirnf! In this -.e'-tion f-.;- m. nnir. In an in'oivlv; tonight, h" s-'fd that lio ivid refeivod no ;i ul Ivrlzn t Ion from WnFhint.'ii to call out irc;-al troor.s. as report d in d l. pa t i-hv frnni t he capita I. and had every eonfH'-nre in lli" hiavcrv of tlie nien of his posse, which now tntale (Continued on Page Eleven.) IB REFUSE 10 SURREBDER RENESflDE (Continued from Page One.) nearly 100 men. "I expect our nex.t at-t''-mpL at arrest to be successful." h'j r-aid. "hut if it fulls I will consider calling 'upon federal trocps." Everything is In readiness for- nt-taek nt-taek upon tho Polk band, whvlj is intrenched in-trenched in the rocks aroui3 Tiutlev's wash, six miles southwest of Vjwii. and numbers fort --ei i'ht fighting warri'-rs. They sent a message of defiayee to Marshal Mar-shal Nebekor tonight by two Navajo scouts sent out to tell thfjm that they must surrender or be killer1 The Piutes ilrst made prisoners of the Navajos, then permitted tflem to leave on the promise they would return to their agency at Shiprock, N. "t., and not come into Bluff. The Xava 'js came here in-m in-m e a d and b ro ugh t w y d that Polk and his band would not Cjisider anv propost-Hon propost-Hon of surrender. Vne Iiutes lost several sev-eral men in the batt' of Sunday morning and are very hosie. They are determined deter-mined to fight t'ie white 'men to the death and warnrjd the Navajns to tell their tribesmen iot to come within range of tiieir rifles. Camp Is Cteared. Polk. Hate! and Posey, with the forty-five forty-five braves that follow them, have declared de-clared war cfi all men who oppose them, white or rri. Thev have alreadv cleared their canity of squaws and children. Marsha, Nebeker has perfected his plans fijx attacking the canio of the outlaws, niH men have been on guard around, the Posey camp al! day and tonight to-night they surround the position and the only way for the Piutes to escape is to flghty their way or to retreat across the Sar, Juan to the Fouth. Vhe Piutes have had spies out on the hIls all day, watching every movement of 'the posse, and last night they had signal 1 fires burning. The marshal has made every preparation prepara-tion for a decisive movement against' the piutes. His plan Is to surround them and fight, probably at dawn today, although al-though he said at midnight he had not decided when he would make the attack. Nebeker has made complete preparations for the battle and so have the Indians. The additional ammunition for the posse, 500i rounds, arrived here today from Salt Lake. The Navajo Indian police at Shiprock agency are ready to start on a minute's notice. Havane, the Piute prisoner who tried to escape Tuesday night, died this evening, after two days and nights of suffering. His death has been kept secret from the other.-prisont-rs, tho posse fearing fear-ing a panic would follow. The prisoners are all very- anxious and waieh every movement of the white men about them with a keen eye. The finding of the body of Piute Jack this afternoon caused considerable excitement. It was found by Dr. Ktavelcy, and after a coroner's in-quest, in-quest, was burled. The Piutes came hack Sunday night to bury their dead and carry away their wounded, but overlooked over-looked Jack's body. At this hour 1 60 friendly Indians have been rounded up by the Indian agents.. Creel ahd Jenkins, and have agreed to return to the Southern Ute reservation. There still are many others out and this may delay Marshal Nebeker's attack. But he has decided to make a final fight of It. "The report from Washington," he said, "that I have been authorized to call for troops, Is news to me. 1 have heard nothing of It and I do not contemplate asking for them as long as my present posse stajnds by, me. However, if rny next attack fails I will consider calling for the soldiers. I feel conffUent that our next attempt will be successful, as I have men whom I can rely upon, who are not afraid." 1 He continued: J Our plans are maturing and the de partments of justice and the interior are working together, trying to form- ulate a method whereby the service of i processes can be made with the least possible bjoodshfd. This ts a very grave matter, but we are doing our best. There aro three reasons why the 160 friendly Indians have been rounded up and will he sent to tha reservation today or tomorrow; first, to get them away from the unfriendly element; second, to provide against any possibility of their joining the . renegades; third, to take them where they belong and keep them from trespassing tres-passing upon the white men's land. The banishment of the Acadians could have been no more heart-rending than the scene at their camp wheel I informed the friendly Utes of the government's demand that they quit the country. The squaws talked excitedly and many cried; while men, with tears in their eyes, gazed for the last time on the landi of their forefathers. fore-fathers. "We were here first." said one old Indian, "but white men came and Utes move on. Pretty soon more white men come amd Utes move on. Always move on, Utes; move on, Utes." Such is the banishment of this poor Tribe, a rapidiv dereas:n- race. But. .f aetion is absoiuttly n" '"-ss;iry to j piot--ct the pt-up!e of tins secnun. j |
