Show SPRING IS HERE AS INDIANS OF UINTA HOLD BEAR DANCE Spring Is here according to the traditions of or the tho Ute Indians for tor during the week they indulged ed In n their annual bear dance which Is the surest forerunner of the real cominG coining of spring it la Is said This ceremony was witnessed b by IL H. W. W Dietz superintendent In the Indian service who has just returned from a n. trip to Uinta ba basin ln The Indians according to Mr Ir Dietz hold this celebration to mark marl the end of or bruins bruin's hibernation Thc They gather In a large corral made madr of or sage brush and dance dance- anco for tor three or four days then the bear beat makes his appearance after his winter sleep and spring I is supposed ed to be here Mr Ir Diet Dietz reports conditions ns In 11 Uintah basin are about normal Potatoes arc are selling in the basin towns for 2 42 per hundred pounds and nd e eggs ss bring from Cram 20 to 5 cents per dozen This Air Mr I Dietz attributes attrib utes to the lack of or transportation facilities While Mr Ir Dietz was there thero the Indian outlaw was caught who has been selling sellin peyote to the red red- skins He had three trunks full tun of or tho the forbidden drug when cap cap- He UfO had the idea that using peyote made him Immune of or ar arrest arrest ar- ar I rest but one ono white a agent ent and two Indian policemen shattered hi his dreams with pistols and took him to Grand J Junction unction to Jail |