Show 1 the E INDIAN TR EATY As will be seen by perusing the correspondence co e on prest youngs trip hripto 10 lo utah county quite a large body of or indians were assembled at the indian farm near spanish fork last week to meet with the president and col irish superintendent of indian lairs affairs Af to consider tho terms of a treaty involving their title LIN to the reservations in this territory meetings were wore held with the indians on wednesday thursday and friday th ath and ath dinst on the ther first filmed named day dy a p prepared ab abstract of odthe the treaty was read by col irish Iri irl sla sll which is very liberal in its conditions and provisions the ind indians la ap 7 are r rel ret re 4 t quiren to move ta t uintah valley within i thie thle thid n one year from the ratification of the treaty givIn gru geu their thair title to the indian landlin land sIn sin 11 atah 1 they m ard are required to b 1 not to 11 go to t P J war with other V na or tribe 1 11 except axce e P in self defence no to steal or molest the whites to assist ass 8 t in cultivating the tho th c lands and to send their children to schools to be esta established blushed for them on abiding these conditions the protection prot action of the U S government will be extended to them 11 go government lay LAI will pay them afifi annually H ally for the first ten years ani ar annually uan for the next twenty years tan fan 1566 annually for the thirty y a rs thereafter farms will be made a grist and lumber mill built schools established houses built cpr forthe the principal chiefs annuities paid to the chiefs and jand other provisions of a beneficial character charach r A arm arc guaranteed the Indi indians ails alls ar likewise 1 I at wise to have th the e right of hunting huA ting digging roots and i gathering be berries k fries on all ail unoccupied lands to fish in 11 their accustomed places and erect houses for the purpose of afi fish 4 1 curing Y wirer TW several bands of the utes the pah and the gs were present I 1 and represented by their chiefs as was I 1 also aiso the cum uni um bahs fifteen chiefs signed the treaty on thursday after a very interesting talk with them that morning and on the previous days dayl on thursday afternoon col irish distributed a large quantity of presents to them having them seated in three rows opposite the farm house the thel braves 14 1 one row the squaws squawk and papooses oses osea iii in di iother another and tb the e children in a third blankets leggings knives tobacco dressm dressy shirts pants for the 1 chiefs etc cab eta 1 were vere we r e received with childlike child chila like ca eagerness geril e s s b by y many sandwith and with a sort of stoical apathy by some of the chiefs who wiio seemed tofeek to feel neel they should rest on their dignity to b h certain edt eit extent erit good go od feelings beelin s prevailed among them relative aa thein their amicable ImI cable cabie relations in the past with the settlers were indulged in the only chief who was averse adverse to signing the treaty was san pitch ritch brother to walker and Arm armteen peen but subsequently it appeared more as if he were standing on his dagni dignity ity as a big chief t hall than anything else he being willing to sign 61 on h saturday but the paper had harthen then gone he will have an opportunity of attaching his mark to the document the chiefs manifested a strong sense of the justice of punishing the guilty for their crimes and misdemeanors and not puni punishing hing the innocent for the evil deeds of the guilty guilt whether white or red As a faithful observance of their treaties has ever beena been a characteristic of the indians here as well as elsewhere we have nave no doubt of their honorably keeping this if it is not infringed upon by reckless whites blackhawk black hawk and his band who have been perpetrating the late atrocities in I 1 that neighborhood are still in n the mountains but effective measures are being adopted we under understand stand to pre vent a recurrence of them those who signed the treaty appeared favorably disposed to render assistance in that direction rge rde tion the provisions of the treaty and t the opportunity of signing it will ba be extended to the indians throughout the entire territory as early as possible I 1 |