OCR Text |
Show THREE INDIANS ARE FREED ON PROMISE TO REGISTER NAMES After having given United States Marshal Aquila N'ebeker their word thev would register at Wold Hill if permitted per-mitted to L'0 to their homes on the (loshute reservation, three of the In-I In-I dians brought to Salt Lake Thursday afternoon by Captain W. C. tlnllion and nil escort of fifty soldiers from Fort i Douglas, Jack Totnoke, Lou Murphy and Tweedy Baker, were relensed from I custody yesterday afternoon and left for their homes on tluv'J::!tl train, nil-I nil-I escort ed. ! Jim Straight, Annie's Tommy, Al Steele, John Sytns and Willie Otl'ogary, cliarsred with entering into a conspiracy to hinder the operation of the selective selec-tive service law, were arraigned be-foro be-foro Foiled Slates Commissioner Henry Y. Van I'elt during the morning. They pleaded not ruiltv and their hearing was set for March 7. After the Indians had been nr-raigned nr-raigned they were returned to tho of. fice of the Foiled States marshal, whore thev weio interrm;iited by I'uited States Attorney W. V. Kny nnd his assistant, 1. B. Fvnns. Warned of Folly. Through Willie Ottogary and Jim Straight, who acted as ml erprol ei s, the three Indians who were permitted to return to the reseryation were instructed in-structed ns to the course which must be pursued bv Hie Indians al the c;u shul" reservation to inoid further trouble. J. 1- Dorrington, special I,, diaa iigeiit, told them that he had re ceiM',1 ii message from the reoen nt i.ni that I lie squaws had declared that tlu'v would not allow A. It, 1'iank, supci intendent at the agency, to return to lfls duties. The Indians were told of tne follv of making any effort to keep Frank ofl the reservation and through the interpreter inter-preter thev were told of the disaster that would come to them if they burned Frank's house or drove him and his family from the ground. "If vou do any harm to Mr. Frar.K or burn his house or barns, do you know what will happen to you! asked Marshal Xebeker. "More soldiers. Shoot ra Indian, answered Touioke auickiv. "Tell them that.'' said the marshal. "I tell uni, ' said Tomoke. and in the Shoshone lanu-uaee he explained all that the marshal had said. They ad promised to tell the Indians on tip-reservation tip-reservation that the United States meant business-and that they must be good, and this was the last promise made by Jack. Tomoke. Lou Murphy and John Svms as thev I, :: ihe o::'ice to go to tiie train, happy that they were being permitted to join their tribe. Jim Straight, who is an intelligent Indian and speaks Lnglish fluently, d: 1 not express so much regret for hi'.r.s"!f that he had been brou-ht to Salt Lake, as he did for his wife on ihe reservation, reserva-tion, who. he said, had a 1 .a by seven months oil. which is sick. Until Marshal Neb-ker explained the selective draft, said Jim Stray!::, the Indians never un ierstoo.l its workings. work-ings. He said that if Mr. Harrington or Mr. Frank had explained it iu the same way. there never would have been any trouble. Worse Than Germans. There are a great many n".itnior in the vicinity of the liosh-.r.e rescr ation, he said, who lun e been iucitin.; t lie Indians to resist hoinj placed in a position po-sition where they might be called upon to fight with the army, and who told them they were foo ish to register for military service. These agitators told them tliat if they persisted in reMs',::v; thev would win out. he said, and could not be forced into war. Jim Straight was asked if anv of the agitators are Hermans. He replied that while none of tiieui are Germans, dev are worse than Germans, and delight iu getting the Indians into trouble. Jim Straight said that he had net the slightest doubt that all the trouble was over and that the ludians would be peaceable and not only register, but that those who had b-cn accused of conspiracy con-spiracy would prove loyal to Uncle Sam. It was simply that they did not understand, he said, and manv of thcui. i iu fact the great maiority, do net real-ir.0 real-ir.0 that a great war is on. Loyally Is Shown. To show the loyalty of the Indians on the Goshute reservation, Jim Straight said that thev are now- makm" an el fort, through the Indian agent, to induce the government to build "a small flour mill on tin1 rrservnt ion. "There are at least fifty ludians." he snid. "who can put in an average of at least twenty acres of wheat. 'If a mill is assured they can be educated to raise wheat all of the same -rade and will take it to the mill, aeccptin ' out of the product only the amount necessary for their own n.., !ln,i ,MV0 the remainder, probably tittv- fttv tons of flour, to the goeiniuent for use in tho armv. ' ' Fr.der present conditio,,. (V ,,. dians have to haul their wheat to Des eret, a distance of about 11.', miles and there is little or no profit iu ,i' ',lir t hem. |