| Show Navaho War Council I r State Eye On land Trespassing Offic Officials als of the Utah state land I board Monday were attempting to schedule a war council among among- Indians and federal government officials in the controversial controversial controversial con con- range war in the San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan area of Utah State and anti federal officials Monday Monday Mon Ion day still called the affair a tinderbox tinderbox tinderbox tin situation although the threat of actual violence has subsided sub- sub subsided sided with the announcement from froma a spokesman for the Indians that the Navahos are returning their flocks locks to the reservation boundaries bound bound- aries The controversy flared when Navaho stockmen invaded the federal and leased state school section lands for winter grazing White who have leased the land from the bureau of land management and the state protested the influx of Indian stockmen Ignored Trespass Signs According to reports the Indians Indians Indians In In- ignored trespass notices served on them by agents of the theland theland theland land bureau However Knox Patterson Salt Lake attorney and legal spokes spokes- man for the Indians announced I Monday that the Indians have I taken his advice and returned their stock to the drought stricken ranges of the Navaho reservation But H H. Byron Mock area di director director director di- di rector of the B LM L 1 and Lee E. E Young manager Utah state land board office both said they have received no reports from their agents that the Indians have left the grazing lands Far From Settled In announcing that the Indians have retreated to the reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion Mr Patterson said that the case is s far from settled He has filed in U. U S. S district court for a ruling on the Indian claim to toI I grazing grazing- r rights on the land in the San Juan area Mr fir Mock said his office is in interested interested interested in- in in the dispute because the property is under federal jur tion He said that the influx of Indians had interfered with his bureaus bureau's conservation program The state is interested in the case because some acres of state school board lands are under underlease underlease underlease lease to white ranchers in the area |
