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Show v Tie: ::i:::iii!G t?3" . , CoL Jame Macafleld, acting: com- mander of the Department of tha Colo- ', rado, has retOrned rom a trip to the (i Uintah Indian reservation, which he j took to investigate the reports that the j Indiana were planning to go on tha ' ' . warpath because of the opening of the reservation.- CoL Mansfield aaya that , ' he found nothing to bake any cause for ' alarm. HeJeft for Denver. , i '."The Indiana are quiet now." he said. "Of 'course the future U only conjee-i conjee-i ture. It was ration day while we wera at the Ouray agency, and the Uncom-i Uncom-i pahgres were holding a dance. I never , saw so many fat Indiana In my life. 1 Three young ' bucks wer parading around in white sheets, which a the tribal way of showing that they dealre-, dealre-, . to get married. The Government built the Indians cabins, but they keep their . ponies tn !-them and live . outside in . tepees. While I was there, one Indian lost a child through death. He buried the child under the floor of the cabin and tookr the pony outside and killed it, so that the boy could have a mount to the happy hunting grounds." Col. Mansfleld says that he did not see. a single "sooner," and that if rifles are being taken in to the Indians they are going through Vernal, Utah. At the agencies no reports of Indians .receiving .re-ceiving firearms had been received. The unique part of Col. Mansfield's trip waa that he inspected the outlying cavalry posts of the reservation in an automobile. The Uintah Railway conw pany, which operates the railroad from Mack to Dragon,' has spent $20,000 in building a wagon road which runs from Dragon, the terminus .of the railroads to Fort Duchesne. . ; ' Col. Mansfleld and Col. McCauley, chief quartermaster of the department, traveled 214 miles ln an automobile, and they speak of it as being one of the greatest scenic roads in the world. Climbing to the crest of the range, in i some places the automobile, traveled six miles to ascend one mile. A long stretch of the road runs along the backbone of the range, and from the clouds much of Colorado and Utah can be seen. |