| Show ALL DID NOT GO governor vernor west wednesday after lioon boon received the following letter from indian interpreter C li L christensen showing the status or of the ute invasion inva aton difficulty at thin thia date san juan county december to ills hla excellency caleb W west governor of and colonel Geni gentlemen lemen 1 thought I 1 would lot let you know that thai your mission ot of peace to this part of utah was not cot entirely in vain i ai A goodly number of the ute indians indiana have leh left here but not all that ought to 10 gone on the nth alt tepees passed through this place taking up their winter quarters on the monte auma of pit about twelve to thirty five miles northeast ot of bluff blaff these hese twenty tepees represent a soon nearly one hundred Indi indians abs A number bomber pulled tilled for la salle mountains with sit an 0 old d pitie pine river vie ute named filmed rooster I 1 do not know the number bi now an old hard hardshell kind ot of a chief owning i nearly linearly five hundred head of horses horsem moved poc thweat to the blue moun gains bains re he has generally nearly thirty 9 with him bim P B R butt brother ot Si sheriff buti just from day valle valley says lor there to is quite a number in there tor the winter and say they ate are going to 9 ay some few have gone to bluff and quite its a umber number have someway gone way west vrest bobring bordering on the big Oo orado river there is this difference in favor of the settlers in their scattered soan ered condition theado they do not lorm form so formidable an appearance lor for fig figh hing ing and the people are not in so no much danger as when thy they in a body where hey bey pleased they courie coursel leit elt the most of their animals heft with Ir friends londs well we feel a great deal of good has been done but do not expect entire rel re lief alef until congress takes steps slops to remove oscare or care for the renegades rene gades who dwell here md and reservation indians indiana also to come and divide the spoils oils with them agent day no doubt doubr sid did the beet beat he could to have them all go but as he himself said while here in Mond oello he had not much influence with this part of his tribe he no doubt did very well having such auch an able man to help him as colonel lawton taking into consideration the ignorance of the in diania and it being also hard wintertime winter the Nava joes moved promptly over to their own side aide of the san sam juan river through the able management of their agent caplain williams Wil Hama seventh infantry who came personally to bluff and attended to 0 bin bia own indiana without be ing forced to by the government times timea look brighter though some may think more might have been done it is generally conceded that much good came out of the whole transaction and the eon conservative serva tive elt feel much relieved and thankful to all who did their duty the Q mm immunity unity i well generally and rii remember with kindrew governor wet west and colonel Tat Ta look C 14 indian interpreter in behalf of a number of thankful citizens oU izena |
