Show Con federated confederated ules lies TO receive noncy money congress makes an appropriation A to pay off judgment amounting amount g to more than three and quarter Q rier millions ons HE fact act that during duran the lat last T THE hours houra of the last lait so fielon of con gross a law wits WA enacted which is of great importance to the con confedra fedr abed bands of uto ute indiana la in not generally known even many employees employee of the department part ment of the interior have never heard of it in the general deficiency bill wasi was a clause introduced by donator rie smoot of utah providing for the appropriation of for those indiana this appropriation to ia to satisfy pi a judgment for the said aid amount MI as allowed by the united states state court of claim february 13 1911 it will be re remembered that such auch an appropriation WM wa made by the senate ou on another oc canton but when ahe it reached th house it was wa held up tor for tion the charge was wa made mad at the th time lime that irregularities had been discovered the smoot clause clauie in the tb bill tur further says baya that this tata money Is 1 to remain la in the united states treasury trea aury to the credit of the indiana indian and that thai it shall hall bear interest inte reit at the rate of four per cent per annum from and attar after february 13 1911 this aiila interest Is to be available annually and is i to be b paid to the penned for their benefit in ig the dis die of the secretary ecret ary of the interior the annual interest on would amount to at tour four percent per cent the interest intel cat now duo due since the judgment was allowed in 1911 would amount to considerably sider ably more than a quarter of a million in the federated confederated con baud band of utes atea of utah and colorado there are approximately 1700 of whom about 1200 reside on what was the uintah indian reservation two tribes of these the white river aten and the uintah utes live around whiterocks and they number from to atho live around ouray and they number from to the colorado utes atea live down near durango and the sub agency at cortez the ali utes claims against figal nit the government date years back and they have been fighting through attorneys all the time the original claim claim put lu in was for something like and included a little of anything and everything but mostly for lands landa relinquished in colorado when the treaty with the utes pro bided vided that they come to utah finally the court of claims allowed the sum cum above mentioned from time to time lime deductions were made tor for one reason or another the White whiteriver river utes who participated la in the meeker massacre in the year 1879 paid dearly la in money for that diabolical deed tire meeker and daughter miss mils josephine meek or wife and daughter of major meeker who was murdered and the widows widow of the clerk and blacksmith v abo ho were murdered at the same time received pensions pe out of white river uto ute funds fund tor for a period of twenty teaty ears ear amounting amount ax in all to or payments of these pensions po celone ceased about ten years ago A number of the white river utes ute who helped in this thia mae mac sacre are still living in the white rocks country it to Is claimed that snake john la Is the man who drove the barrel stave through Me mockers ekers mouth and into the ground the hla his tory of that awful crime is 1 a familiar to 60 readers reader of the vernal ex press an ai the pages of an open book but let us iw try to baileh it from our memories and think only of the present conditions of 0 the red man who bin ha been on the verge torte of starvation etar while all these have bay been due him lie he needs help and it be glue to look as a it U ho he might come in to we hi own the thousands of acred of fertile soil oil on oa the clr with canals completed and water ready to ie be turned on way my in the not for far distant future be under cultivation ti the expenditure of the interest on those millions will be al almost value to the white man aw 0 well as to the indian the moro more than three quarters quarter of a million dollars expended in the con ot ruction of those government canals canala went a long way towards toward keeping the wolf from the door of many a man inan in that country brighter anil and better days daye are yet to come |