Show EDITOR OF THE VALLEY TAN TABT DIAR str SIR in the new york tribune of october ath I 1 notice the following ln indians ians selling squaws squads to the whites correspondence of the ile wisconsin i CEDER CITY cirr 20 miles south i I 1 of parowan carowan Pa rowan UTAH territory aug 19 1858 i A new trade is springing up between I 1 the utes and biedes indians that of selling 7 and buying squaws squads at har mony some forty miles from wai washington the abram having a squaw who signified her wish to have a younger husband marched her before the muzzle of his rifle to ceder where utes were quartered having come here for the purpose of buying squaws squads for the united states troops and sold her to them so she had a fair prospect of having her desires more than gratified it is understood that agent G hurt hart is encouraging the trade A few days since since a noise of crying was heard in the streets I 1 went out and saw an indian dragging long along his squaw while she was howling bitterly upon asking what was the cause he replied kots ashanti mi mill she dont want me having also conceio conce iv 1 ed a desire for another husband and probably probably she may be likewise accommodated there are soldiers enough here who have nothing to do or think of f but to furnish all the disaffected squaws squads in the territory with temporary husbands the correspondent of the wisconsin has the audacity to call this traffic between the and biedes a new trade but he obviously utters a willful falsehood that trade having havin existed at the time of our first acquaintance with the two tribes and practiced ever since since I 1 do not believe that there is i s at this time a squaw to be found in camp floyd nor has there been since since the troops first occupied it and the charge that there is a market opened at t that place for such a trade is false and unfounded and carries with it an all imputation that I 1 feel it my duty to repel so far as this correspondent attempts to implicate myself as giving encourage ment to such a traffic I 1 pronounce him a liar tind and tt a scoundrel again a correspondent of the alta california of oct treats the public with the following very interesting paragraph TROUBLE EXPECTED gintic tintic the cheif of the at atupan span ish kanyon fifty miles below this city threatens war upon the whites ile he is a bad indian and has been at the head of the troubles between the races in this country some time since the indians of fintics cs band committed rape upon a danish girl and her mother the crim criminals were demanded by the governor to be punished by law the chief refused to deliver them up but offered to shoot them himself the indians have a perfect horror of hanging and especially by white men I 1 in n cc consequence ns e ace of this demand not being COmp complied lilu with l th an order was issued to arrest the chiefs tintic gintic and bastiste and hold them responsible i es pon sible this so offended the chiefs that they burnt their lodges and went ie into the mountains about the dinst threatening war upon mormons cormons and whites these indians are capable of annoying ing the thin settlements very much and fears are expressed on account of their attitude these are the indians over whom dr hurt the agent ent in that region aiger claims to have under perfect control I 1 think the correspondent gives him self credit for more sagacity bagaci ty ar and ld foresight than he i is entitled to for he comes up here a perfect stranger peeps into one of the business streets of salt lake city has a glimpse of a few handcart hand cart women selling fruit and imagines the whole utah difficulty spread out before him perfectly comprehensible but to show how perfectly wr eckless and unreliable the ALTAS correspondent has rendered himself it is only necessary for those who are acquainted with the facts alluded to to read the above paragraph ra almost every line of which contains a misrepresentation the correspondents statements in reference to myself are false for I 1 never have claimed to excer cise such a C control it is to be regretted regret ed that the literary journals of the country should open their columns to correspondents so wr eckless of what they say and so regardless of consequences G HURT |