Show THE RENEGADES utes returning to former reservation t er under fAlli military tary esco escott t say they will be lood good the renegade U aea i es are marching back home again b but t it is a different kind of a march from that memorable march of the winter of 1905 when they drove terror in front of them carried threats and war whoops whoop paint and feathers with them and left in their wake devastation and nd carnage they are now peaceable pea cable and quiet with all the paint and feathers and war coops and threats gone they have promised uncle sam that they will be good that they will come to their allotments on the former uintah reservation and cultivate the soil they are returning under escort of a ca captain p tain and ten united states cavalrymen these utes left rapid city SD S D last friday there is a long road in front of them nine hundred milan mile a will they have to trek it before their journey is ended captain hall indian agent at whiterocks thinks e are about in the bunch when the they y left here there were of them some have died othe s are perhaps left behind from timeto time to time for thelast the past two or three years a few of them in ones and twos and threes have drifted to the reservation when the uintah indian reservation was thrown open to entry in 1905 after all tho the indians had been allotted the beat that there was in the territory there was a revolt among many of them and they declared they would not stand for the treatment they were receiving at the hands of the government they had an idea they were being cheated it took but very little to stir them up to a heated passion there was one among them ready to strike the match to the dry timber and start the fire burning red cap was the man he is a son of the famous warrior by the same name ile he came by hits his passion honestly the same hot vengeful fighting blood trickles through his hia veins that trickled through the veins of his father before him he had a good farm up the river from myton but he like it he have liked it if it had been the most productive soil boil in the world and if it had been fenced and under a fine state of cultivation if it had been groaning under its burden of ripening gram grain and fruit and if the fat cattle had been roaming over broad and luxuriant pastures he be would have felt the same way ile he and work agree his ancestors for hundreds of years back had not worked and there was no reason why he should 0 wo o k the world owed him a living and he vu A 1 t 4 going to collect his debts this red cap was young handsone handsome and influential he possessed the power to inflame the minds of a large number of the other utes who know what they wanted and cared less the thel j just wanted to tobe be mean and contemptible contempt ibb and they were only too glad of a chance to prove it red cap painted his face and put feathers in his hair and began his dirty work he made inflammatory speeches he told his followers that the white man was imposing upon them that he was taking everything and leaving the red roan man nothing no grazing land no place for the ponies to roam no nothing all gone after awhile he succeeded in poisoning the minds of about of them and one day they gathered together and made ready to start they formed a long procession and marched across the reservation er to deep creek and over to dry fork all along the route the whites were in a state of terror and many of them hunted the tall timbers the utes carried a white flag but if ever a white flag was a travesty it was that same one they carried if it was convenient for them they kill and destroy otherwise the flag of truce was nothing they traded the horses harness and wagons that uncle sam gave ave them for provisions all along the journey they crossed the taylor mountain and went into wyoming in that state and later in south dakota they put fear and terror into the hearts of many the government finally rounded them up with the army at one time there were 1600 soldiers on their trail for a time these renegades rene gades were cared for by the government as if they had been helpless invalids invalid as if they had been babes in the arms of their mothers then some rome land was leased for them from the sioux indians indiana on the cheyenne river reservation these renegades rene gades say they will be rood good but will they there is a doubt it is believed by many that they will give trouble as soon as they got gel back the white settlers who came here from the uttermost parts of tho the earth to reclaim this desert to 0 o build up the waste places to cultivate the soil to conF construe true homes and schools and chur churches clies are not to be trifled with while in the midst of all this labor you have the soldiers at ft duchesne why should you be uneasy or cir why should you fear the indians a reservation settler was asked the settler answer at once in fact he answer at all except to ask his questioner a question has it ever occurred to you he asked that may be so the soldiers are stationed at ft duchesne to protect the indian and not the white man was that question significant as to what the white man might do if pressed too hard by the savage the savage who has ever been dangerous the savage who has gloried in the possession of a white mans scalp the savage who murdered major meeker and drove a barrel stave through his mouth and then into the ground and that butchery occurred right here in our midst and right here in our time only a few years ago just over the line in colorado the indians are none too good to do it again unless their hearts are filled w with ith fear |