| Show ID fO PIUTE BAND WORD I I Distant Commissioner Denies nies enies Charges Federal Service vice Is Attempting to it exterminate t the h e T Tribe rl b e eW I W LAND SCHEME WILL BE OFFERED w r Policy May Have Searing earing on R Return 0 of f M Marshal Ward From Pursuit of Old Posey The he federal government has Ither decided upon nor its t s a a policy of or military ulon of the Piute Indians who Yi been or may continue on tho the In San Juan county which Ja yv result In the extermination or partial extermination of ot that The Is tho the emphatic declaration of ot g gar r B. B Merritt assistant commis- commis pr i ner ner of Indian affairs In teles tele- tele rams ams s concerning the actions of ot Old Oldy y and his tribesmen I Instead tead says Mr Merritt It has a new land allotment plan ilch i ich h It hopes will cause the Flutes L cease case their nomadic wanderings ough rough southeastern Utah and Colorado and become t farmers and stock stock- 1 sers the same time announcement announcements e s made here today that United I fates tes Marshall J. J Ray Ward Vard who 5 been prosecuting tho the chase of in ir the San Juan moun- moun I ns ns ni for tor the past ten ton days would urn m to Salt Lake City tomorrow 4 ither ther the announcement of ot the eral leral policy by the Indian offIs oms off om- ils Is s has anything to do with the thern turn urn rn of at the marshal before his hia pressed purpose purpose of capturing Old 1 sy sey ey had been carried out or ort t tether ether the marshal is Just return- return Eln I in the natural course of ot business aid I ld not be learned TT RR DENIES CHARGES There er 1 la is no truth In the tho charges Plute Piute In Indians lians are in danger being exterminated said Mr Fe Fears Fers rs that they will be bed beed ed d out are aIe groundless We hope t our new plan will settle the thed d problem and put an end to toI periodic outbreaks of or recent are rEf rg I The governments government's plan Is to toke toke toko ke ko allotments of or land from the tile j bIle domain In Utah to or orre r re Flutes amounting to 16 acres Every effort wi will wUl ilI be bede bede hd de to assist the Indians in their d pursuits and In l permanent homes he s who participated In inI I recent rebellion in Utah are abject set ct to the regular action 0 of tho thoas as they forfeited the right to toI I eral protection when they left lert lUte to Mountain Reservation In orado 1 the ho governments government's policy toward i has been severely II I ed d d. d Utah citizens whose property 1 iben en raided by tho the wandering tes complain the government Is H I Friends of ot the Indians uhe jho the policy Is too severe It has hast t n nj charged that cattle raisers of ot orado lorado have usurped the tho best I z lands lands lands' landson on the Ute reserva- reserva Mr Merritt asserts that the Ian Han bureau only leases reserva- reserva I that the tho Indians refuse cultivate Much of at the tho land on onI I reservation and In the area to toI I Balloted the Indians Is said to be due to lack of Irrigation I NG INDIANS Where There hero are about Plute InI In- In I on ns' on the Ute We mountain reserva- reserva I hand Jand about roaming over I Utah Many of at the this thet ites tes t s have hav continually refused to the Colorado reservation I ion o ha preferred to roam In pov- pov Jin In southeastern Utah and In R section of Colorado i ich h they say is their ancestral neland eland The land to bo be is t tho the territory formerly t y the Indians than Is the Ute I and that fact tact is hoped influence the to change chango sir Ir ways ivars meantime the Indians cap- cap ed by the marshal are being held tie Ithe the stockade which was built bunt at n Seven o of the Indians l st whom charges of ot against the United States have havo Continued on page S. S GOVERNMENT Continued from page 1 1 filed tiled are said to be going goInS' to get getan getan et etan an early hearing and if It bound over will be be- brought to Salt Lake to be beheld beheld beheld held for trial It is possible that If such action is taken alten in San Juan today that the tho Indians may be brought back by the marshal |
