Show SALES OF LIQUOR CAUSING TROUBLE Illicit Traffic In Intoxicants Is Threatening Conditions of p the Indians I 11 OFFICERS FILE COMPLAINT Agents Ag ii ts on Reservations Write Governor C Cutler Asking I Aid In Enforcing Laws Condition CondItions on the former Indian reservation atlon are arc becoming alarming to those who have ha the In Interests Interests in- in of the red men inca at heart It is declared that the sale of liquor to ln indians Indiana has been going on almost openly and with such freedom that the tho Indians UI are arc in danger er of becoming drunkards ruI and in fri the end nothing but buta a burden on the community as pau pau- pers A letter has been received In Sn Governor GOY Gov Cutlers Cutler's from the lire and Ourn Ouray Indian agency in which the writer deplores this traffic It is he says mys steadily growing and Is causing conditions that arc becoming as steadily stead Stead- ily 11 The Tho sitUation In this lc regard ard sa says tho letter has hll long been unsatisfactory tory tor Loi y even before the opening of or tho reservation atlon but since that time lime conditions condi condi- 1 have rown steadily worse until now non tho the Indians seem Icem able to buy In Intoxicants Intoxicants In- In toxicants over the counters In the sa- sa sa saloons loons loom themselves l cs There are In existence throughout hout the lie reservation ution and In the several c towns towns' owns owns' which have e recently come conic Into existence within tho limits of tho the thores res- res cr atlon numerous saloons H ninny many of ot whIch uro are believed d to bo curr carrying on art n U uR fr i Io li II t o oo lIquor o loun with w rin v Indians I I have IHL no doubt but that the situation n n will remain unimproved etl Tho TIme county count officials of or tile the several counties Interested havo have orr oti sundry occa occasions oc oc- oc- oc ca nab lons ns expressed their thelt r willingness to todo todo toto do to whatever was to handle the question I do not attribute the Jacko lack Jack o of c results obtained to Insufficient cf- cf I for OEtS la on their part purt so O much iu us to the tact fact that methods to the lie situation have hac hot not heretofore been exercised I I I. Illicit I believe were It not miot for the tho Illegal nl traffic with Indians Indiana supplemented perhaps per per- haps hap maps by hy sales to enlisted men at Fort lort Duchesne all of ot these saloons would find It so bo unprofitable that they would not nol ot continue in business and therefore their heir present status makes their business busi busi- ness nesi Illegitimate from a moral stand stand- point even avon were the laws of tho the state stale not ot considered Should the situation with respect to o the Indians be left lell as It at sent pro exists the most disastrous results pos- pos will arise and the community at largo Jargo argo will in the end be the main suf suf- u- u ferer As Is well known all Indians to th the drink drink- have a natural tendency ing of r intoxicants and unless s re restrained restrained restrained re- re strained they will be come habitual drunkards to the menace of the peace of or the community resulting finally Inthe Inthe in inthe the existence of a n. large Jarge number of paupers on the hands of the com com- mu a ity While the federal government Jo re retains re- re talus jurisdiction over certain Interests of th the tha Indians I consider er the present to be tho the proper time lime to use every effort ef effort ef- ef f fort rt for the Indians Indians' protection that learn to become support self the they ma may I Ing before a time lime comes when the Uro genera general general gen gen- era eral government will give Ive up Its present present pres pres- ent control over their landed handed interests so that final finally when they have property properly In irr fee they v will be able at least In a measure to handle their property with some degree of or conser- conser If the lire In Indians lans are allowed to lo obtain intoxicants freely In but a short time they will become degraded to tho the point where they will be he practicallY practically drunkards so o that ultimately the they will wiil be Incapable of managing any army of their interests and will dispose of or their property rapidly until they are left actual paupers Strenuous Effort Necessary I believe that strenuous measures to lo control the situation are arc necessary The writer of the letter refers to two state laws Sections and of or the Statute Books Booles of or Utah Of the tho former he says I believe It to be practically imposIble impossible without tho the expenditure of all air sible Ible enormous amount of or mone money to apprehend bend hend persons engaged In the Illegal I traffic sufficiently often to break up the trade entirely Section also quoted prohibited tho the carrying on of or the thc liquor traffic at any airy point within ten miles o of an Indian reservation Tills This would also I affect all 11 saloons in Moffat near Hear Fort Duchesne But that law was vas repealed In 1899 and therefore cannot be enforced en- en forced at the present time Governor Cutler r has written to th time the county officials of and ami Uinta Ulata counties asking their opinion of or th the situation as depleted in th the letter hotter There are aro two two methods b by which this traffic may be restricted said tho the governor o Tue Tuesday day One Ono Is by having tho the county count r officials enforce stringently the tho present law The rue other which ml might ht be even more effective is it by hy raising th the tha liquor license so o as to make the Iho unprofitable In all but a few fes saloons saloon These could be the more easily watched Some time a ago o two counties hired special officers to watch alch this traffic and to enforce the tho regulations of or the sta state stalo statutes At tho the la last t leg leg- an un expense bill of being the tho actual outlay of thc these e counties IiI h Ii this special provision for Cor tho safeguarding safe safeS I guarding of the law Jaw was recommended recommend ed by me and approved cd by tho the of or examiners and I i belike e by the committee of or the thc before I which It came cume rho Tho bill was wn somehow some sonie- how killed in tile the le legislature I laturo I have I j I not nol yet ct learned why |