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Show ,w0 tribes into council at C.mai- , ''Representatives, glowered ac- - of a scalping spree. Eventually Irvine got the Anaches grudingingly to agieL Return "the stolen iUdTmakeVeace between the tribes. The Utes demanded the , es of the thieves' The APachcf' of course, objected So the meet ing broke up with each tiiDe waiting for the other to make a move to drag out the war pan t. It was then that Irvine con-ce con-ce ved the idea of the buffalo hunt. He reasoned that if the warriors war-riors of one of the tribes were busy in another part of the country there would be no oc-S oc-S for friction between the two groups. The Appaches, for an unnamed reason, were chosen to go on the hunt. One-Man League Of Nations Held Off War by Hunt ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., L'.n The Gods of Peace must have smiled over a war-threatened world when it was revealed here how ail obscure Indian agent 64 years ago averted a war by spending $65 and organizing a buffalo hunt. While nations are spending billions of dollars and pacifists billions of words over "the next World War." Frank Moshcr, employed em-ployed on a historical record research project here, discovered a letter in which the U. S. agent wrote to his superiors in Washington Wash-ington appologizing for having spent $65.60 to prevent a war between be-tween the Appache and Ute Indians. In-dians. According to the report, writ-tin writ-tin in 1874 by Alex G. Irvine to the Hon. Edward P. Smith, U. S. commissioner of Indian Affairs, Af-fairs, from the Utes. The Utes counted by preliminary prelimin-ary thumps on their war drums. Irving, a one-man league of nations na-tions in what was then a southwestern' south-western' wilderness, sensed the impending trouble and called the |