| Show 0 CNE pg officer 0 f flee rs to salt sal t lake navajos and scouts still on trail trall of renegade KencK ade united 1 states marshal J ray ward has abandoned hie his personal pe chaise cha of old posey although ho he states taic that his hi office III keep up it its a hunt for the renegade pluto until u antil he la is captured the marshal accompanied bv by deputy Sl marshal arshal iooss rosa and 0 A reporter for the salt i ake tribune passed asea through moab yesterday aday on tl their ir return to salt lake from their spectacular tri trip into nto the wilderness south of bland blanding ng chete they unsuccessfully stalked the redskin in hie his native haunt haunts it ie is understood that the marshal has enlisted the aid of navajos in running down old posey the state and county have ach each offered a reward for tte capture of the plute and this money ti is said to look mighty attractive to the navajos the marthai marshal still has ha a number of local deputies t e a I 1 in n t the he field among them sara sam rentz antz e who wit 0 Is familiar with he indians d and peaks speaks ute and navajo fluently it is probable that old posey may return from hiding after a few weeks when be he thinks the excitement has died down and bis his capture then will be comparatively easy it is believed probably the most ridiculous of the many ridiculous press ress reports that have been published published in the daily papers was one appearing under a blanding date line tuesday giving the startling information that old posey had dou doubtless beas perished dished in a cloudburst the day be before ore it sp appears that the section in which the marshal and posse were located was visited by a heavy rain min with resultant floods in the canyons the inspired staff correspondent immediately rushed through a column of war stuff giving the doleful particular particulars of poseys probable demise in the flood to assume that a diute piute indian could be so foolish as to get himelr drowned in a country every inch of which he knows by heart is rather far etched to say the least just what to do with the captured indians who are being held in an au electrically charged barb wire stockade at blanding is a it problem that is troubling the indian official officials the seven or eight indians who took part in the fight light with the whites at the beginning of the trouble will likely be prosecuted in the courts but whether under a federal or a state charge has not been decided marshal ward will take the matter up with the state attorney general and the federal district attorney at salt lake cay and a decision will probably be reached the indian agent from iv ignacio colo is opposed to taking the remaining remaining blanding indian indians to the southern ute reservation for the rea eon son that the aiutes and ute utes are not friendly and it is t not believed would live together in peace in the mean time tim the aiutes ome some seventy or eighty including women and children are being g held in the toc kand at bland bind ing awaiting disposition of their fate late for a while the government defrayed the cot cost of their keep birt but the indian office is no tie longer doing this and the th cost of feeding the indiana indians has de velvet upon the people of blanding blinding this situation cannot continue long a 4 the expense ie is too heavy for th the community to 40 meet for any length of time |
