Show KNOW UTAH Ii By AlBERT F. F PHILIPS What become of the Ute Chief who was regarded ns as th and also most treacherOus Ous us was a question asked this morning lIe He was the leader of tho war in his followers follow follow- ers being largely 1 Utes and during during- the war was responsible for the killing of seventy white peo eo- eo plo pIc and the destruction of a large amount of prop prop- erty The rhe country abandoned on account of this war included six settlement In Sevier and Plute Piute coun coun- ties four in Sanpete fifteen in Iron Kane and Washington Wash Wash- Ington wilh practically a total loss of stock and Improvements Im- Im and a loss or of half a million dollars which the people had to pay congress to malte appropriation for any part of the losses The veterans vet vet- erans of that war have since been pensioned d by the government Records of of he the L. L LD D. D S. S church which have been searched bY y stake clerks In Roosevelt stale stake say that came to the Uintah reservation sufferIng suffer Ing with wilh a gunshot from the effect ot of which he lied died his body being burled on the reservation J Later at r on when Major Powell made hIs descent of Green river on n hIs exploration of that great river rivel he requested the skeleton of an Indian to be placed d dIn In the SmithsonIan Institute in hi Washington Corn Com pl plying with the request Captain Dodds who was the Indian agent hal had the body of Blackhawk exhumed and presented th the of the chief to Major Powell and the tho latter Is authority for fOl the statement statement state state- ment that the bones of the noted warrior were pl ced In that Institution S White 1 Rocks Indian agency Was established on Christmas day 1868 by C Captain Dodds and remained there the sUmmer summer of 1912 when it was removed removed re- re moved to F Firt rt lt It was while at t White WhiteRocks Rocks Bocks that Major H. H P. P well known citizen citi- citi zen of Sale Lake Lale was the tent agent White Rocks Is the oldest town In the Uintah basIn Captain Dodds when he left the Indian service went to th the Ashley valley alle and homesteaded the first homestead In that basin C To accommodate the IndIans who roamed east of Green river a. a was established at Ouray just above the confluence of the Duchesne rIver with the Green S S SIn In the taU fall at f 1879 the Indians no nor r reservation boundarIes the n narrative o ot the stale I clerks continues and an went into Colorado at will lt It was late in the year Veal when the Meeker massacre I occurred Agent M eker being slain and his wife and daughter daught 1 carried into captivity and after suffering i every possible indignity were rescued S S S I After r. r the massa le the tho established a post oti on the east ast side of Gr Green en river and quartered troops In the barracks naming the the- post Fort Thornburg Thornburg Thorn Thorn- burg but It was abandoned in the spring of 1880 A year lat later r another Fort was established In the Ashley valley at the th of Ashley canyon but the th troops were soon after removed to I Wyoming In the year 1883 the government established a a. six company post on the between between be- be tween the agency at White Rocks and the at Ouray and gave it the name Fort Duchesne The maximum number of troops were never stationed there S S S SAs As I recall now the Ninth cavalry was stationed the th longest of any troop of infantry at this post |