Show THE disaffection OF THE WHITE eiver BIVER UTES to a dispatch in the san francisco chronicle the utes from the white juver agency were proceeding from fort atter fetterman towards crooks command under the command of spencer r er it was wag evident that there were two factions among the utes a as rebellious murmuring had bad been heard from them theal for several days clays which increased as the expedition advanced on aug at noon the expedition camped on a small smal i stream five miles south of big cheyenne after lunch the white men prepared to resume the march mareb but not an indian left his blanket blanken blanker and it was soon boon discovered that theet they were resolved to go no further north they claimed that the sioux were not as near as they had been led to believe belleve eve that the interpreters had lied to them they would wait till the enemy were brought to them and then they would fight the whites pursued their journey and the indians hel bel held heid d A council mr curtis asked the utes what they proposed doing chief douglass replied that Ws luemen men meu were dissatisfied in several respects they claimed that they had fulfilled their contract that the enemy did not appear and they were under no obligations obligation sto to go further north nor was it his opinion that they would chief nervously and stoutly declared that he be did not lot leave white river colorado rodolto rad olto to fight the sioux became he came along with others to take whatever rations arms and protection the government would give them until they marched to a place when whence e they could strike out the command and go buffalo hunting chief Saque said elhat hat bat he wound V u id go on north in case ease he be could fio tio nind find d the sioux within seven sleeps and could get their scalps and ponies chief said the government had been good and the utes ought to do what they had promised before they left white river that the government would not help the utes hereafter unless the utes ules helped the government now to kill the sioux jbf the result was the declaration that the band would divide awen ty seven continuing north 11 under chiefs douglas and jim and the would go to the sweetwater and hunt buffalo burno the twenty seven joined spencer who now had forty nine in all whites and ind indians and the others deliberately set fire to the grass around their own camp raising a smoke that could be see seen i n fifty miles distant and then left for the sweetwater taking with them the tho guns and pistols issued to them at medicine baw boyf spencer expected that when they reached powder river forty miles north the remaining malnin gUtes utes would the others making for the sweetwater via independence rock the seminole mines rallies and R rawlins kawlins springs and find thence to their agencies on the white river riven siverand riv KIv erand enand and the uin Ulu uintah tali the says concluded to continue north with hla hia reduced indian allies against his bis better judgment and at the clamorous request of several white interpreters who are covertly en route to the black hills and are employing this opportunity under the guise of scouts to reach camp supply on government rations where they are in expectancy of stealing fresh horses borses the officer decided to go on through with but the slig slightest h test t ought thought la of reaching crook also that a number of lights in the ute firmament admitted that they were afraid to go further north and that buffalo hunting was safer that the lesser chiefa are young ambitious and jealous jea ioup loup and are in a constant ferment and that it is the general impression that to attempt to conduct a band of indians from the white river kiver agency to the yellowstone low stone could not prove otherwise than abortive |