Show for the deseret news indian fight at carson MR EDiTOR will you yoube be kind enough to inform your readers if in your power the cause causa or causes that led to the fight what has provoked the red man to hostilities against the whites we read of much excitement and i trouble troubie I 1 e in the western part of this territory but as yet have seen no cause assigned for it by late accounts it appears that aid is solicited from california and being rendered that men arms ammunition and provisions are arc loudly called for when a provisional government was organized there and a separate territory asked for one would suppose from the published accounts from that quarter that soldiers were as numerous there as in the army of Napo Napoleon leonal almost most why the few numbers there now A little information upon those points would be gladly received bycer ong one of your readers and probably by many INQUIRER in answer to the foregoing inquiries we will say that as to the number of residents indest ern utah 2 it is well known to have been greatly exaggerated as well as the mineral wealth of 0 the country the provisional government organization consists only in name and has no potency whatever when whisky is not plenty the question of there having b been much of a battle fought there notwithstanding 0 the great excitement that has haa been raised is very problematical and what the cause of the blit fight fi if an encounter has taken place between the white and red skins and of the hostile demonstrations rations reported to have been made towards the former by the latter we know not but from well authenticated accounts of the course heretofore pursued by some of the lawless beings that have resided or passed throy that region towards the indians aside froh from from the massacres committed by such murderous or organizations 0 animations as the pitt river company we are forced to believe that they are not hostile wit without h lout cause however it is our opinion that the whole affair has hag been to a great extent exaggerated and that it is more of a ruse got up for effect than anything else there are hundreds of lazy starving creatures that have been lured there by the cry of gold and silver that will wili die of want unless they can get up some excitement cit ement that will enable them to make a raise when the facts in relation on to the war wan are fully made known we will lay them before our readers |