Show UTE INDIANS STARVING DURANGO colo dec 28 the du da board of trade at a last laet evening issued the following state chief ignacio of the ibe southern ute indiana indian and a large part of hie bis nation have elected not to take allotments of land in severalty severally and for several months have been in occupation of lije west end of the present which was set get apart and reserved tor for such indians as would not take land it in severalty neve deve ralty this was dune done under a not of congress approved february 20 1895 this law also states that hat toe government shall maintain ao an agency at some aume suitable place ou on the lauds so reserved reBer ved this act of congress was explained to the indiana by the india department at the time a majority of the male avult indians indiana accepted anu and consented to its ita provisions mud and liva clo and his bia die indiana went to able western part par of the expecting the indian department would keep faith with them no agency was wa established but in the early lall jail ignacio was wag promised that it he be and his bla indians indiana would go to trie toe agency on the eastern end of thi the reservation a distance of severity five anve miles for their annuity money ono and other moneys money aue irom from the government ern ment an agency would be immediately established at navajo springs springe at which place thereafter ibe reatter rations would be furnished furnie hed them weekly as a is furnished to the indiana on the eastern eid of the reservation and at which place all their m ney would be paid to them hem ignacio and big bie indians indiana believed this prom isel aae and went after their money and rations and immediately returned to their home on the western end of the reservation but no agency has baa been established at navajo springs aby other place on the western end of the reservations aid chief ignacio and his hie indiana have received no rations for mouths months to keep them from starving members of the durango board 0 01 trade have sent rent them provisions provi filona from time to time and the white settlers ettlene ett lere near tiem nave have fed them from their stock these indians are now in starving nou dilion and chief ignacis Ign unmet aoiS says be will starve to death before h lia will wiil go to the old oid agency for rational ration and we believe that he be will doo do so ban av aa he be never breaks bis big word he is an ani indian adian obier chief that comes up to the id iden of a boble indian as picture j b bys cooper in his bis Lio novels vels he says that her he has kept his bis agreement and wonders bonde r why washington does not keep his part pan of the compact 4 chief igancio will not kill cattle on 0 a I 1 the range tu to keep himself from starvation but some of his followers may and this will result in bloodshed th the dinoian brave will retaliate on 1 th I whites at the sight eight of his dead squair equal and papoose winter weather now on us wui t hasten this state of affair afla lr commissioner browning has turned a deaf ear so far to the appeals of the starving indians indiana seeming to imply that he fie believes a good indian isa ay dead indian chief ignacio has perd per met president cleveland at the white house aud and believes that W h b nas has not forgotten and will not let hlo I 1 10 and his hie people starve the board oft d appeals to the united states at large lit 1 the cause of humanity to make chwa ahr present cold blooded indian depart moot ment feed these starving indiana In diane |