Show INO IANS had 0 I 1 luck alk 1 1 01 ILI ihbe BUT 1 NOTHING 10 1 11 ti NOT agent 1 lor tor tin div irlby 4 ot at wilto llo ks und and ourn les dmit 1 not hebein to t grup rup the bit atlon that confronts himself and 1 the A ard of tin tile late balc of lum land itt albov may slay 24 hundreds of ute indians indiana on the former uintah roser atlon are actually hungry while whilo they have plenty of money in the bank they know practically nothing of work aud and their kredit at the stores haa has been cut oft by order of charlea charles 1 L davis acting lindlau agent and supervising firmer the usual annuity ot of twenty dollars per capita haa has not been bild p lid for thia this year and it the of the ic it diall department is strung out mucia longer there will bo moro suffering among them than ever before the local government farmers aro are making every emery effort to teach the redman ho how to cultivate the soil 11 but Z he lie declares that ho I 1 no likum work vork on heap empty stomach hibbit Ile rank who haa has an allotment near myton wa was i wic of twelve to receive a hundred pounds of potatoes tat oto to plant hu promised th fully to put the spuds in the g ind and re le kept hia his word but it 1 to said bo io dug them up abtin right away aay for food rabbit and his squaw have twenty tour four hundred dollars ilo llara in the bunk rhey also have hae a team of sleek black horses willett coat lost five the hundred dollars shiny new harness wagons vios und and all other farming the horses have plenty of ha and oats to cat ind nd a warm stable tj tp sleep in etab bit and nil hii squaw live in a tepee and tat at and sleep on the ground and bis his quay have more than tour four in I 1 dollars in the bank and 0 ie te V I 1 ous and dollars yet they all go gu hungry every day Instruct i ns nis i ive ave come crime from the agency at fort port duchesne to issue rations as carefully as its ios and the reason la Is riven given that tho the available momy monty nill ft bo be scarce until tho the crops are made it is safe to aay say that the crop on oil uie the indian allotments this year ear where the tile inns djus themselves aro are the farmers will lit not be sufficient to teed feed eo so many canary birds the land Is mostly new and must have a certain amount of life before it becomes prod productive ten ton thousand acres of 0 what la Is known aa as dead indian land baa has been eold sold in the last wo or thre years and the indians auld v bo be rich er by at least two hundred thou and dollars it they could get ti the money but most ot of these sales were not confirmed until within tho last few months the money is now in the bank and in the meantime hunger prevails A few days ago a valuable team was as seen standing idle in a plowed field the driver an indian was some distance awa away with a rifle shooting at a prairie dop dog it was as learned that th tt he had eaten scarcely any breakfast and that before he could do further work he must replenish his stomach even though with a dog the rations issued to so called working indians amount to fifty pounds ot of flour for a hundred days ten pounds of bacon one pound baking powder three pounds beans and four pounds sugar the bottom of the flour barrel Is in eight light soon after the end of the first week weel and the entire larder la Is empty before many days have passed and again the indian Is on the still hunt for prairie doge and the tile work ork gooe goes undone in no ca caw Is a clerk allowed to issue rations to more than tour four in one family and many families are twice that large beside besides the money derived from recent sales of allotments tho the united states government owes the con federated band of uto ute indians from to and it has been due for more than a of a century effort after effort ha hat been made to secure the money and finally a judgment was rendered in the supreme court of the united states a ago against the rovern government ment for approximately A bill has been introduced in congress providing tor for the payment of this amount and early favorable action la Is expected |