Show THE OGDEN INDIAN TROUBLE V farmington july 22 1896 to the editor the very interesting article in yester da daya a semiweekly semi weekly NEWS under the heading hy d ing plundered by indians 11 has haa suggested to my mind tit and queries that may if published ne DO interesting to the readers of said article it says that the ogden indian difficulty of september 1850 was caused by the murder of their great chief white cloud i an act which resulted iu in the death afan of an innocent white man v the plunder and destruction of dwellings and other losses amounting in all to ganv thousand dollars the white man had killed white while cloud a big chief of some northern nor thein tribe lor for taking some green corn in his lot 11 if your correspondent has given a correct and complete statement of the affair I 1 think that the excellent reputation accredited to our early pioneers for their treatment of the natives whose hunting grounds they were taking possession of was not fairly earned it to is a wonder that the threatened bloody massacre spoken of by your correspondent did not take place and I 1 it also lie la remarkably curious that a treat treaty r was not made with the indians as soon i as aa possible after the murder of their chief a liberal payment enado to them for the real real or supposed tl value of their chief and above all a oon con assurance given them that tho tha Y 1 I hasty and inconsiderate defender of a 4 N few ears of corn would be properly dealt N with a mr editor will you please state whether or no any punishment was inflicted on the man who would kill an ignorant indian for doing perhaps under exactly similar circumstances what the ancient apostles did plucked ears ok ofa corn T B 13 claux CLARK we doubt very much whether our correspondent himself knows known what her he wants to got get at it if he merely wi shelt to know whether the man who shot I 1 I 1 the indian chief was punished there tor for it would have b been eon sufficient to i have asked that qu question ebion but when he suggests that the early pioneers plo neeri did not fairly earn their leputa tion for a just policy toward the in 41 deans be assumes that which the he 0 whole history of utah in early day Ino luding the incident contra ia diets dicas because a man in a passion pas aioo quarreled with and killed adoth another el r at though that other was an Inu indian lant chief it afforded no excuse for I 1 he early pioneers to allow angry indians indiana to massauro maae mas aure saure unoffending men med women and chil dror and to their honor be it said aid they did not do de it there is i no A wonder at all that the threatened maga aias dacre did not occur for the early set 1 l tiers prevented it and did just jaet right in their heir treatment of the natives native 1 whom they taught to look for the pun P of guilty parties and not to A seek innocent victims the confidence I 1 which those same indians indiana learned to repose to in the early pioneer ii Is sufficient Buffi proof that the latter fairly earned their I 1 reputation both in the treaties which were made with the savages and the IZ v assurances given that offenders lenders of would be dealt with in a proper manner |