| Show ANNUAL REPORT ON INDIAN AffAIRS Commissioner Has Much to Say Relative to Work Last Year I THE UINTAH RESERVATION I n or of I I thill is 1 I In 11 uttI l WI WIO s sor O or Special D commission tl or ot at affairs In Il Isle annual re report report port lute thIs to 10 I soy relative to wont worl wonton on the reservation last year are two general moth ode oda ot of makIng Tim Tho onu onuis la is merel merely to schedule such luch as may be readily found on the tho Igene agency rols rolls Ind and lit list I a tract ot of land opposite name not olly only without runnIng the lines Ind und establishing the tho coror but oven any al ass tl P th the charlet character r of tie the or 01 Il Its lo 10 location cation WIth Icard to the Iho humus home or 01 rise fhe other requires the thA sunning out of at the subdivision lines IUt alP the tho corners In the ot of the tho selector I It occurs that land actually wanted ranted and ought to ho he allotted Is entirely different lol hoist that which seemed to 10 bl be indicated by the tho glen gIven Too T o oten often the directing opening o of II mt seems to tont nt that 1 bu hurried through the tho first llan idan The M tah In Utah furnishes nn an of th the rushing und haphazard method The he allot snoOPs ments there hud had to bo be malo made vcr ery halt haltI heat I because the ut act the open openIng log Ing or at hit Ild not allow allowa a a rel time I it WIS ves ImpossIble to survey the lan Inside 18 before the opening much lesl less Ihl the made and not yet t Me are plate for or all townships al ai allotments procurable though more than Ihan 1 It year eal hats haH elapsed since the allotting commission ls its work A field party in IH still In locating thu scheduled h by the doss dossAs As 1 must always 8 bo the case under circumstances like these the tho alot allot moist ment amounted to 10 Ulo little moro more than n a reservation ot of what was believed to 10 bo be sufficient land ot of the right character The panli patents for tor the hlo have tl all beca but n a large part pari of 01 do slot nol the lands correctly time errors ate amid many die appointments wil will occur but fortun Ity local Ila ore luch such that settlers rs not lakel the landl lands very Iry rapidly and h It II II is Probable that there wi not bl ho SO lal conflicts 11 amid contests 11 no there woul 1 have hLo been It the surplus had been taken at once on the of 01 the Iho reservation The Tue work ot of correcting the patents wi will bo be A na rapidly us as possible A 1 umbel ha have been canceled and re reissued issued and as far us as 11 now known near neur nearly I ly CO Q snore marl will have to bo be put through thu sane process I it Is certain that 1010 some Indian nad white 1010 lose 1 a vent part or of tie the lands the hl have selected Ild n a gloat ot of a additIonal labor and fX ox pencIl wt will he be upon the govern mell snout ni sill dUn to the Ibo unwise hUlle haste wih with which I a work sas a through that demands deliberation and care this would ho bo 18 sit good n a plaCe as uI any to lentol a 0 seqUel to the tho which hal has 11 at attracted some Home public attention through exaggerated tales printed 1 In various vans furU ot of the tho country The pop population ot of tho ho reservatIon was belIen between tho White Ier hilver limo Iha and the Uncompahgre Vies A large largA ot of time White Iver hilvers ncr never reconciled to the tho Ida idea ot of opening their country to 10 settlement rhey are oro the tho grul group least advanced its In cIvilIzatIon In the spring of 1905 lie boo toro fore the allotment began n is delegation chosen b by ln and frostS three bands bauda via 1 Washington the tho purpose ot of learning frosts the tho lp ot of the authorities tes ties hero just what cents leml lemlIn In ing having the tho there thereof ot of tu to thorn them Th The lives ot of the and 1 Un Uin tabs though not disguIsing their ron cost Preference for tor lh ibis oll aid over oel time tho new flOY order ot of things n nevertheless mill caleel their readiness 8 to trust to the government nt hut but the White held out oUI to the last Iut insisting upon hearing the saro seine filets repeated IW by the tho prod dent the tho secretary ot of the und the Iho ot of Indian 1111 then only emily halt half recognizing thu tho II 11 f At the hero they 11 an urgent plea for perm Ilon for tor bench band to 10 from time Iho Uintah to reserve lon lion where no white would 1 silo them or to find homel In the for tor est eeL reserve When repeatedly assured that these requests could not bo be grant td they returned to Utah II in I a die satisfied mood an amid did ni all they could short Ct of violence to embarrass time tho work ot of the thu allotting COl commission mIls IDAN A r V weeks I O the received i that 1 a large pUt part or of te Jor band u nl or of Lath oli sexes Ild and andall al all ages age lied had left the tho starting for Cor souse some poInt In South Dakota apparently I C Ito to Ille In iii time the mack Black H Hills 1 II or 01 go on to 10 Iino Ridge or 01 Ho jo 0 their minds anything 1111 still remains mUl Initial bt be to ni all Indiana for Their agent followed into Inlo intercepted them In their journey state Ind fur tul daYI days wih with theta Url Jog Ing aud Ulm to return to II their own on end and tryIng to poInt out to them the u ot of go log Ing 1 wih with an any al as thc hue hail In vie Ie When h he announced the Indians were weme d deaf at 10 to ul lea ICU and hail had decided as 5 a a Inal finality to push on I sent sent hint him time following dis dispatch patch I it absolutely l certain you OU cannot In duce Indians to abandon their listen t 0 II OU wi will return to agency 1 lie tOr doing 10 so warn them that thai It tho they perSist In disregarding your they lust take taka the tho responsibility for tor any IY that thai happens to 10 them Explain that Ihal the tho citizenship to they lt at trIbute theIr independence Isas 18 its hul bur dens lS us wel 18 isa 16 ltd privileges mind that lS as citizens they are liable to punish b by local for fOl any un no lawful acts tho they ma may commit commit Whal wi happen to these who on any foreign lon can cannot not nol ho bo recognize except n as vIal visitors tors or permitted 1 to stay vor very long In that character there thero Is no prophesying A As under the tho old law they alI are citizens as citizens th they y are not subject to en the tho benevolent despot tHI idOl exercised over oel the tho chits b by the tho States government I do slot not see eo that there thoro I Is misty federal which thom them back authority can conO convey forcibly sins unc against their wi will 10 to the country where they belong except by the tho Process provided b by time Iho lon lion to Pleat situations with which time Iho local authorities confess themselves to 10 cope The mOst that this limit oleo or the can do of Is its own initiative lit Is to order their olom from any foreign reservation they la sony have havo penetrated and impose 08 II a thins ot of upon any ono one ot of them theism who 10 ro tunis without lInt Dut as aM they have no the tho be for oi all practical purposes n it nullity of the tho guardhouse would lavo have imo tar ter rOl rons tOt for the tho would itt Ital locals free freo food tood anti shelter and on reservations where such uch Is experienced In employment tor or orthe the Indians already living there no seems oems to 10 ofel offer itself for tor tho tha utilization of the tho labor ot of a baud band ot of under of at VI vit grancy To tares forestall lol time tho r that 01 all this is 18 a narrative ot of rather than thana t a discussion ot at the tho allotment question I 1 lay conclude tho story b by saying that the White 11 exodus means fresh tresh troubles In straightening cut time tho land at Those wander tangle II now big Ing In lall who ho have riot not yet yel fairly Identified themselves with thel their allot mettle wi will bC be al this to II identity en t aler after their excursion oven even though thoy the may by and ly by Indeed I it may eventually ho Imo impo sible to determine lisa tho owners of oC man many tracts set Ret apart for fot time tho White Ues Thus through thI tIme defectIveness ot of 10 so man land titles the development ot of time Iho country may be seriously retarded |
