Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-03-13 | Page 5 | United States Troops May Go after Outlaw Reds

UNITED MITE STATES TROOPS S MAY GO AFTER AFfER OUTlAW REDS BrIg Gen Con Thigh I l. l Scott chief of or staff of or the tho United States Stales army no now n nin In San Juan county attempting I to settle set net the lie the the- Indian trouble may send fed fed- oral eral cavalry cl after tho the renegades If It f at attempt attempts at at- tempts tempt to gain pain their peaceful surrender der iler nil fall This la is the tho Information contained In dispatches from Bluff It Is stated that t preliminary attempts by y General Scott to 0 parley with the reds have failed ailed tho the Indian leaders sending de defiant defiant de- de e- e fiant and nd warlike messages back with each cuch scout who has Interviewed Ved them so for far Tho The Indians Aro are firmly In Inthe inthe th the Douglas mesa and have havo stated to Indian messengers that they expect re re- re General Scott has asked aked them through Navajo jo Jim ono one of or his hie trusted scouts to come omo to Medicine Hat and smoke the peace pipe But little hope hop la is held by r residents of or that vicinity that the Indians will n nf agree ee to do thi The following report was wall sent leont yesterday yesterday yes yell to the tho war department at Washington by General ScottI Scott I J arrived ed at t Bluff last night after a mlle ort ride rille sixty miles tho thoda da day before and thirty eight miles on the day ay previous sometimes on wheels sometimes on sleds Everything at III Bluff Is quiet The marshal with hi his posse I and agents BRents Jenkins and Creel and tho the mountain Navajos are here I J expect to RO IO tomorrow with the tho n agent ent and Navajos In tn search of or the hostiles who are aro said sald to bo be on Douglass mesa seventy five miles away Leave Leavo the marshal and pO posse here hero