Show THE mogul INDIANS civilized methods at the whites objected to by klankey indians capt constant williams of the seventh infantry forwarded to the headquarters of the department of colorado the particulars of the trouble with the moqui indians the moqui are few in number and dwell in the mountains of arizona about one hundred and fifty miles from fort V in gat the nearest military pot po t they are a peaceful and tribe hut ignorant of all matters outride 0 own little villages it is ev n bain they believe they are the only pe nl in the world with the exception of t ou companies of united stales cavalry that appeared on the occasion of their last outbreak ov soloman some pros ideas from i viii te washington with two other lokim about ten years ago on his return he described the immense numbers of pc ale the railroads and gigantic buildings he had seen the indians think ing lie was crazy placed him in con finc mont for some time soloman has never abandoned liis desire for reform and has quietly gathered about him followers eliat comprise about one third of the maquis capt williams to ascertain the cause of the disturbance visited the villages and found that it arose from a second attempt of aai to adopt the customs of the palefaces A meeting of the two factions was held in the square of the village and the chiefs of the contending factions stated their bahe gov solo mai said he wanted his children to go school and be brought up as white children are when he and the others had done this the hostiles ho stiles biad raised objections had seized some of their cornfields and threatened to seize others they had even gone so far as to threaten to expel them from the town so soloman had asked for the cavalry to be sent the hostiles ho stiles numbered about two thirds of the tribe and they were led by one lomahan byoma they were op posed to progress of any kind and wanted to follow in the steps of their forefathers after soloman had finished liis speech their chief rose to reply lie substantially admitted the truth of soloman Sol s statement saying that he and his followers did not want to be civilized or have their children so to school or to wear white mens clothing or to eat white mens food they had seized the fields at because they had belonged to them in former years and had been fully taken away in alic spring lie intended to take away more of the fields of the followers of soloman Sol he also added eliat the difficulty could be settled in no other way than by the coming of united states troops therefore capt williams said that he had deemed it necessary to ask for two troops of the united states cavalry to be sent there it is believed that the trouble will be over in a few days but it will take some time for the news to arrive as the indians are a considerable distance from any town army officers say that they are the most religious people in the world and honorable and upright in all their dealings they speak a language of their own but each separate village I 1 has a dialect which they alone understand |