Show AN interpreters experiences san juan county utah BLUFF october Oc october jober 1892 for the last laet two days it hae bail been raining nicely i the first we have had ance since ray may except a small email shower on the eth it is cloudy and rai baiting ting little yet in the hot sandy places a in our country it may start the grass if warm otherwise feed will be it turns turn winter the Nava joea are peaceable at there is some present g although always brow brewing dg ai this avaricious tribe they very recently killed a 6 bad medicine man of this tribe whom they think was a wizard four children died very suddenly and they claim he did it it is not so BO the responsibility of being assume easy aay to a 1 doctor among them as among the whites kill or cure we thins it is all right but let one of them among the indians indiana make one or two failures and nd they are condemned and put out of the visy way themselves by being beaten to death with sticks and stones they show great pluck as they never murmur nor complain while dying in this terrible manner this makes the second one in nay my experience per peri ence lence the government will probably ably look into this affair and try ani stop atop the superstitious custom but it will not be without some dome trouble as the I 1 indians jiang learn fearn slowly that there is a law to which they aru are subject this seems petua to be their hardest lesson lemon if the agents of the government would try to teach them concerning the law instead of trying to christianize them which it is only temporary at best beat there being no language in this dialect to properly lay before them christianity y as I 1 the gospel goepel it would be more profit profitable profitably abl but the do not noi adopt the simple mode of showing them hem in kindness kinU nees something about laws and regulations amongst men but nearly always threaten them with soldiers eol etc and invariably show a will to crush them if they do not yield ko n orith nut them the point the indians indiana are very much like other human beings they are easy to be led but slow alow to oe driven and it if there were more interpreters and fewer soldiers soldier it would soon work a reformation I 1 there are however many military men who are well disposed towards them recently oden Gur gurgovits Gurovi tB of fort whipple arizona with a posse of sold lers ie from port fort wingate N M traveled th through the navajo reservation with a view to ascertaining how to increase their water supply and farm tag ing facilities this Is indeed a step in the right direction the navajo Nava joes have suffered greatly this dry season la iu consequence of which no doubt they were in a measure compelled to tres pasa more or low less upon the white settlers by moving off on their reservation many complaints have been made this summer to the governor of arizona and the navajo agent justly tou to but much charity has been exercised to the poor indians indiana the people knowing their actuation there to is one thing how bow ever the people can justly complain about and that to is the unscrupulous liquor vendor many serious consequences ces may result from this unlawful traffic a as an indian is in the most unreasonable and turbulent human being when drunk I 1 disarmed one at one time who with a winchester rifle drove his bis own people away and threatened everybody else who dared come near the indians indiana tried to prevail on me not to go ge near as he be would surely shoot me but I 1 saw the dangers that might occur to others and I 1 slipped up to him gently taking an empty bottle in my hand band which I 1 showed him while approaching him cautiously he be I 1 had more liquor for him and this served to co delude him when I 1 got near enough I 1 jumped on him and disarmed him I 1 sat eat down dowa on him for three hours houn which nearly wore me out when I 1 had accomplished this thia nearly forty indiana came sallying out of the hills they had fled like so ao many sheep be fore a lion flon on another occasion I 1 dragged a drunken indian out of the little colorado river when dry he had bad four bottles of liquor on his person and was completely helpless A few minutes afterwards the river raised fully five feet and tie he would certainly have been drowned I 1 have seen an indian offer 15 for one bottle of liquor during shearing time they have plenty of money and when they once get a taste of the firewater it is quite profitable for dealers to trifle with the law and also endanger human life but who cares so long as the money to is forthcoming frontier life is not quite so dangerous 0 us as ae it 16 used to be but it is in not unfair to say that many trials and difficulties and bargers at 11 exist this country ought to be settled up there are many facilities here minerals have been found on the blue mountain in great quantities both gold a d silver and the miners areja are jubilant bilant over their pro prospects 9 fecto aud and they are beginning beg ining to ohl ship p ore to durango assays essays have been had as high as 1000 per ton if this ute removal question was settled san juan county would soon fill up and still add wealth I 1 and population to blessed utah yours you re tn ly C L |