Show WHITE RIVER UTES OPPOSE THE ALLOTMENT OF THE reservation WHITE WRITE ROOKS ROCKS utah may 30 30 six daa da a last week inspector mclaughlin laughlin ln ed with the uintah and white rh er utes tho object being negotiations for the acceptance by tho the adult mulo members of cheso tribes of tho provisions of the act of congress conR reea approved march 3rd last pending allotments in severalty for all the members of these bands tho act in full provides that after titter the indians hano taken allotments on tho the irrigable land and a pasture of acres is put aside south of tho the strawberry river tho the remaining lands of the uintah reservation are to be opened for settlement ett lement under the homestead law of october 1 1004 tho tile act la but the secretary of the interior is directed to send tin an inspector to negotiate with tho the indians to obtain their consent to receive allot allotments rients botole juno june 1 and that in cuso case the indiana refuse consent these allotments are to bo be made arbitrarily INDIANS OPPOSE LAW from first to dinst of tho the council the indians havo have spoken strongly in opposition to the entire law tho the sheuk era principally to tho the chiefs and bond hend men of tho the white rivers tho the lending leading laon inen of the took no part in the talk except Wan roada roads unil and charlie mack who plead pleaded td for anoro liberal provisions vi tho the whito white aher op speakers eakers emphatic emph otio in their charge charges it of viol atlen ot moet most solemn on tho the part of the government claiming that only two to years ago their delegates to washington were told that the land was theirs to hold for all time and hat that they were instructed Instruct ml to turn it deaf deal oar car to all appeals or demand demands of white men for tho the land ind as 08 they recounted their long larig list of grievances were mere at ut times pathetic and frequently eloquent WHAT POOR LO SAYS SANS these arc are our land lands our people arrived here before the white men came wo we have kept our promises to washington as they call the president and he put a chain along the top too of thea mountains und and sald my children hero are your lands here our children huv auvo e been born and tho the land is heavy with tho the bones of our dead hera lie the bonce bones of our chief tabby they aro hero heavy and cannot be tho the strong arms sold soldiers lers of washington nie ate here to hold down thoo lands lanil ls wo do not believe what on oil say you are sent here to cheat us some rich men want our lands for tho dio money rock in these mountains mount alna where a u all our ponies that nou live on the mountains to go we cannot walk fifty miles to the strawberry we want to ride our ponies are wu no to iw up OB on a luttio piece of f ground with a wire fence around us its why dont tho the whito white man cut out us down and us I 1 why does he say go and live on this little piece of land laud where ethcie la Is no grass for our ponies or game or fur for ua us to eat ent ahey will take our timber how ure are we to get wood to burn to keup our children warm in winter our black wood coal mal too they tuko take irom from us they fish lu in our streams they kill with powder there are no trees loft left ua us to build fences no timber to build log home hotnes you may go away wo will not sign the paper you do not come from washington washington tins 1 it straight tongue and ho lie sas any a these lande lands tiro tire oura ours ho ile ie Is our friend we will no more HARD WORK WORIC with a patience pat pati lonce once and understandings s vt ot indians which has put him in the front rank of R with indian tribes and with an tin almost perfect record of success inspector ugh has hits labored for six long daya days explaining pla pIn ining imploring and contradicting fabo statements of lila its motives only to bo met ut at every turn with alth an angry de deblance flance but ciany of the intelligent tell telli igent gont indians indiana who understood the situation but who were intimidated by their wild brothers br othera felt it best to eign sign the paper and beg their friends in ill washington to make a in the law giving water wood coal and timber for their SIGN PAPER at the request of tho the intelligent indians captain marcer their agent stated their wishes for to the law advised the indians to con sent to allotments allot monta und without a sin glo exception to tho the opposition speeches peo chea tho the completed bat but evening two hundred and eighty two constitute all itil the member members of tho the tribes A majority ie Is necessary to tho acceptance of the allotments und only fifty ono have signed though tho the paper has 1 been bu open fourdais fourd nys als and those signing aro are largely of the P 11 whose lending loading moil believe it better to accept gracefully tho the inevitable I 1 the law will go into effect but apparently parent ly it hout tho the of tho the I 1 indians MAJOR 1 major a ailin passed th through thi ough price laet last monday from whito white vav en route to salt lake olty city ho ile anted that he lie was more than pleased with his ills work tin and that the reservation Is to bo be thrown open october 1101 1 ital und as a result acre acrea of land will bo be available ayal lable to the homesteader there aro are adults on thu reservation and the heads of will each receive eighty jeres acree of land along iho the Duth duehesne esne strawberry Straw berr whito white rock and tho the oilier other stream streams and their tributa tributaries ries those noi hea heads of fai nilles will each cacti receive forty acres besides Bott ldes thia this there will bo be reserved for them to bo be shared itt im common acres of grazing I 1 land which Is not suitable sult ablo for agricultural I 1 purpose the of the land acres win bo be thrown open for settlement for which aich tho the government ahu receive per acre which will bo put into it resolve fund hind for the benefit of the indian indians the land laud will bo be t thrown wn upon open to t tho ie public in sixteen month 11 brorn f roin now tile only thing that now remains to be dono done ie Is to put the land on in tile life and andi to approve the treaty lit at washington |