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Show SGOTT CAPTURES : RENEGADEJNDIANS I INDIAN WAR IN SOUTHERN UTAH BROUGHT TO CLOSE WITHOUT i FURTHER BLOODSHED. I ' Twent-seven Indians Accompany General Gen-eral Scott to Bluff and Will be Brought to Salt Lake for J Trial for Misdeeds. '. Salt Lake City. The Piute upris-; upris-; ing in Utah was ended Saturday ; when Brigadier General Hugh L. Scott returned to Bluff, Utah, with Chief i Old Polk, his son, (Hatch) "Tse-Na-t Gat," Chief Posey, Posey's oldest boy, I and twenty-three other Indians, whom I he captured on Douglas mesa. The captives, at their own request, are to be brought to Salt Lake City. The capture of the ringleaders by the United States army officer and his ' small party of personal escorts accomplished accom-plished the peaceful setltement of the . rebellion by the Indians, which had resulted in the deaths of six men and the wounding of many others in the ; early fighting between a posse and the ; redskins. ; General Scott, chief of staff of the . regular army, overcame many obstacles obsta-cles in adding this latest feat to his long list of pacifications of rebellious Indians. His mission to Utah, ordered by Secretary War Garrison, was considered con-sidered the last step before the calling . out of federal troops to combat the redskins. General Scott, accompanied by his ! aide, Lieutenant Colonal Robert E. L. i Michie, and Private Paul Randolph, an orderly, got in touch with the hos-tiles hos-tiles last Wednesday through friend- i ly Navajo Indian messengers sent out by General Scott to locate them. The Navajo messengers told Chiefs Old Polk and Posey that the big war chief, representing the "Great White i Father" (President Wilson) had come to smoke a pipe of peace with them ' and talk over their grievances. As a precautionary measure the Piute Indians carefully scouted the ground several miles in advance of their chiefs, as the latter went toward to-ward the meeting place. Finally, satisfying sat-isfying themselves that General Scott was accompanied only by a small party, the chiefs went forward to meet him. At the end of the powwow pow-wow they consented to accompany him to Bluff, believing that General Scott will see that they will get justice. |