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Show CAPTURED RINGLEADERS ARE SAFELY BEHIND PRISON BARS Redmen Brought to Salt Lake and Placed in the County Jail; Government Officials Tell of Successful Raid and Surrender. ' -j THE eight Gohutf! ImUnns. roti-donts roti-donts of the Gosh 11 to reservation on the I'tah-Nevada boundary iu .luah couutv, i-liared ill'-cvadirj ill'-cvadirj the .co!oerive draft law and obstructing ob-structing its operation, probably will be arraigned before IT. V. Van I'elt. Cuited States eominisMquer, at 10 o'elotd; this morning. Mr. Van Pelt said last night that though the date-had date-had not been fixed the warrants probably prob-ably would be returned today. The Indians arrested on the reservation reserva-tion at dawn "Wednesday by a detachment detach-ment of the Twentieth infantry from Fort Douglas and Aquila Xebeker, L'uited Siates marshal, were brom:ht to Salt Lake at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and placed in the county jail. Those eharged with conspiraey to obstruct the draft are: Annie's Tommy, Al Steele, dim Straight, John Syme 'ami Willie Ottoiiary. The last was arrested at Wah:ikio" in northern Tfali. Wednesday, by David Thomas, deputy marshal, and taken to the jail last night. Those charged with evading the draft are Tweedy Baker, Lou Mur-phv Mur-phv and .lack Toinoke. L. A. Dorrington, supervisor of Indians In-dians in California, Nevada, part of Oregon and weteru Utah, with A.K. Frank, resident agent at the Goshute reservation, will give the chief testimony testi-mony regarding the threatened upris-:i!L', upris-:i!L', and accompanied the prisoners to Salt Lake. Indians Not Talkative. Concealing their real euiotious behind masks of Indian stolidity, the prisoners succeeded iu baffling an interviewer last night. Annie's Tommy, leader of his race at the reservation, expressed regret at their predicament. On the journey to Salt Lake, between Wend-in Wend-in er and Gold Hill, he wrote a note to his people stating he and the other prisoners pris-oners were being treated well and earnestly earn-estly urged that they remain quiet and give no further trouble. 'Vl am not sorry lor my part in the disturbance. " Al Steele, who seemed sullen aud defiant, said last night. 'But are you not sorry to be in jail on account of your wife and baby?'' he was asked. "That 1 can not help. We had just as well lie fiuliting as submit." he replied. re-plied. Willie Ottogary admitted wrongdoing does not pay. "It will be be.-t for me to be good in the future." he asserted. (Continued on Page Four.) !RG IMEuS ARE SAFE BEHIND BARS (Continued from Page One.) The Indians volunteer no information and reply to questions only in monosyllables, mono-syllables, v 'Had the soldiers been five minutes later bloodshed wouM have been in-j in-j ovitahlry" .Mr. Dorrington. said last nitiht. 'A1 Steele and .lim Straight were halted and placed under arrest when they were galloping their horses toward the cabin of Annie "s Tommy to start trouble immediately, in mv helief." he said. ''The men were getting ready to leave the reservation. ''The work or' the soldiers under Captain Y.'alter C. Gullion was perfect, i The surprise of the Indians was abso-J abso-J lute. 'The raid was beun just at, dawn I and had been completed within five 1 minutes. Kvery detail was mechanical in its precision. ' ' The ludians understand the registration registra-tion and draft tbougll tbey deny knowledge knowl-edge of what is required of them regarding re-garding it, Mr. Dorrington stated. He told of testing them last .Tune in order to learn if they were familiar with what would bo expected of them and their answers showed that they were familiar with its provisions, he sa.id. The work of Mr. Frank, who has been stationed as agent at Ibapah two years, has been most intelligent and efficient, Mr. Dorrington asserted. A talk to the Indians counselling submission sub-mission to arrest and setting forth the benefits which would follow service in the army was made by First Sergeant West, a t'hevenne-Arapalioe, member of the expeditionary force from Fort Douglas. This talk, one Indian to another, an-other, had a quieting effect, Mr. Dor-rington Dor-rington believed. Is Well Educated. Following the departure of the soldiers sol-diers with the prisoners, Mr. Dorrington assembled the Indians and explained what had happened. They must offer no resistance and must understand that the government would be ableto subdue verv" easily any outbreak, he told them. There were eleven Indians of draft age living on the reservation. Eight had registered. Ottogary, located early Wednesday at the Indian camp near Washakie, and arrested by Deputy Thomas with the slid of the Mormon bishop, has been prominent several years in Utah. In manv wars he has represented the Indian's In-dian's of the Goshute tribe in their dealings deal-ings with the w-hite men, particularly in matters of land ownership. He made a trip to Washington several sev-eral months ago and presented a proposal pro-posal for recompensing the Indians for large tracts . of land occupied by the tribe before the coming of the Caucasians. Caucas-ians. Ottogary is well educated, speaks excellent English and is regarded by his own people as a man of much influence. in-fluence. He will be held pending further fur-ther investigations by Leon Bone, special spe-cial agent of the department of justice. "The successful and peaceful manner in which the expedition -was accomplished accom-plished is just another evidence of the efficiency ' attained through close cooperation co-operation and co-ordination between governmental departments," Mr. Xebc-ker Xebc-ker said last night. "In this ease the Indian department, the department of justice and the military mili-tary branch acted together with the result re-sult that' their object was accomplished quickly, in a businesslike manner and effectively, with no show or trouble. This is the way such, things should be done at all times. ' ' Several of the Indians, following the successful conclusion of the raid, in the belief they were not wanted, were permitted per-mitted to go to their cabins for breakfast. break-fast. They promised to return.- Two failed to do so. When it was learned thev were wanted thev had fled to the hills. It is expected they will be apprehended appre-hended with no great difficulty. Beginning of Trouble. The trouble which culminated in the expedition began when the first draft registration was called. Under this order or-der all Indians in the United States of draft age were required to register. The spirit of rebellion became apparent appar-ent at once on the Goshute reservation. Manv of the young Indians refused to register. Mr." Dorrington visited the reservation in dune anil passed some time there in an effort to teach the voung men what the registration meant. He succeeded to have some of them comply com-ply with the law. In other cases he was unsuccessful. "It was at this time that the entire matter should have been settled hy the government," Mr. Peck said. "Methods "Meth-ods which have just proved so successful success-ful could have been used to advantage." advan-tage." he stated. .Mr. Frank requested the department at Washington by telegraph tele-graph last spring to dispatch 100 soldiers. sol-diers. The Indians were threatening Mr. Frank and seemed to be contemplating contem-plating violence. , ; Incidents of the trip from. Salt 'Lake to the reservation call to mind incidents of Indian uprisings during pioneer days. This also is true of the events leading up to the ordering of the raid. The trouble came to an issue last Jan-uarv. Jan-uarv. A half dozen of the young men refused to register, and informed Mr. Frank thev would die fighting on the reservation before they would comply with tho law. The mutineers served notice unon the agent they intended removing re-moving him from the reservation should he longer insist upon compliance with the registration. . The situation became more menacing when the Indians fixed the last day of this month as the time when they would oust the agent and his family by violence, vio-lence, and obey onlv the laws they would formulate' in their own councils. Mr. Dorrington conducted an investigation, investiga-tion, and the results led him to sweat-to sweat-to complaints before the federal commissioner com-missioner at Salt Lake against several of the Indians. It was at this time when information was received to the effect that, violence was contemplated immediately against the agent and his family. Warrants were given Mr. Nebeker. and the war department authorized' Colonel Alfred Hasbromk. post commandant at Fort Douglas, to send the detachment to the reservation. |