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Show TREATY IS NOW SIGNED Uintah Indians Agree to Give Up a Portion of Their Reservation. . MaJ. James McLaughlin, who. as a representative of the Department of the Interior, recently entered into a treaty with the Indians of the Uintah reservation, has returned to Salt Lake. "I had some difficulty making the red men understand I was their friend," MaJ. McLaughlin said, "but when they understood it was the Great White Father's intention to deal fairly with them and provide them with lands sufficient suf-ficient for all their needs they were quite friendly. "For years the Indians have believed the lands of the reservation belonged to them and as a consequence did not take kindly at first to the notion of giving giv-ing up any part of them. I succeeded In convincing the red men of the Justice Jus-tice of the Government's demands, however,' how-ever,' and they signed the treaty I be lleve, with good will. "This closed the Incident. The surveyors sur-veyors will plat the lands, the Indians will choose the acreage allowed them by the Government, and the remaining lands will be thrown open for settlement." |