Show SLEEPING BY SIDE OF WHIT ROTHER Oates Ute Indian Princess and Pale PaleFace Face Pace Begin Jour Journey ey to Happy I w Hunting Grou Ground l Together I 0 i T By Geor GeorgeS George S. S Sloan Oates Beloved Oates-Beloved Beloved wife of im Accawinna Born Slim Jim says ma maybe be so 47 snows Died h Died June 7 1915 Interment Interment Inter Inter- ment at My Myton ton cemetery f i J I Thus briefly reads the ob obituary tary of an Indian princess daughter of who wa was was chief thief adviser to Ouray late chief of the Utes In the mer statement of facts we may have but a passing interest t. t The circumstances surrounding the death and burial are of of than passing interest Years hence when th the history Of df f the Utes is recorded events like this will stand out ut as land mar marks s in the slow process of their advancement I IThe The fact that the Indian should be buried in the white mans grave yard is significant t tAdd Add tp tf this the fact that it was at the request of the Indian India that she is buried there and you have a stranger thing still It is contrary to Indian cus eus tom torn However it has been Q done ne and the Indian princess sleeps beside her white brothers She sleeps close beside those of the race once hated by her people To the long years of misunderstanding and abuse of friendship and war this is a fitting ending eliding To the happy happ T hunting grounds they take there Way from the same little enclosure The Thc forward march of the races of the world is slow We are apt to think that the Indian is away behind the century century century cen cen- tury in which he lives We Ve think many of his ways Barbaric Whether these ways are bad barbaric aric and crude is perhaps a matter of view point The rhe Indian tries to send every thing with the dead Blankets do do dorin rin rings s horses dishes cats saddles buggies and even tie house itself itself all all these are buried with or about bout the dead dead else burned destroyed or that no one else may use them a ant so b that the departed may enjoy them in the happy U J ljj Mpg jr gl grO S. Now the 1 clain eloin g gi chi cil r still m many an anY Yil ca s th t r r r n n mp e tj rt t av P. P 4 I to Uit l h h mt t Il iu b 4 jl W 1 10 n 1 talt ha have havethe e. e the reI LY left lef 4 Vr TT The Y nl 81 of Oates Oates' is is u que ue at least least- least among iR nong i th the Utes Old shier chiei eay ay the man to Thom the government paid a hundred and fifty dollars a m mouth Ith for his good will may be highly displeased to know th that t the daughter of his old adviser adviser adviser ad ad- is buried with the white w ite man Some say that he heis heis heis is buried i in 1 the cemetery at ai Montrose 1 near the old Post Others Other say that he is bt buried lere leie the white map man can ern an n never Cl find him where the white ni man n can not ot talk him m again agam Rumor has it that h he lie wa was l i ri led jl Q with a tl rope in his hand the rope ropo about the neck o of horse orBe which was shot above his grave so t that at he ho might be liF i all ready to ride away to the chase or the battle Over lIfe e country probably several l hundred horses were killed that he might have plenty o or of horses over there 5 The fhe funeral of Oates was simple The body was taken to the cemetery shortly shortly tj fore re noon Monday 1 Sixteen bl braves nine squaws nine dins du dUl s sand and arld one white man made up p th the pa party ty The grave foo tools took a long while It was the intention to bury bUlJ a cat a chicken ilen and a sack of or flour with the body but when the whit made it clear that here her things must be bc buried at IeR least t four feet below the ground I they were left out The p ye r e completed to the required I depth a feather bed was was was' placed d in the bottom The box was put in next then the r et wrapped in comforts and shawls What is in the thc casket is only known by the Indian Probably all the jewelry shu and valuables that belonged belong belong- ed to Oates On the thc box was pl placed ced a felt mattress This was covered with a large rug Then Tien after a short ceremony by the grave grave was was filI r. t. t v I Contrast this burial with that hat of Chief Sowers Sowers I was a chief of the Utes Aft him one of the great canyon s I of Utah is nan named ed He lie Het t stag i tidied buried d in a new spring wagon va A cave was made large enough to hold the wagon and am am three ee graves It was covered with roofing J pipe per mad and dirt dirt So perfectly was the tomb t after ilter ter twenty years the varnish on the wagon W gOI appeared p 1 v. UC new Sowers was placed place in inthe inthe the wagon the by seats seat wet so arranged that h wg ig recline full ut r length w th I BoUt Both oth of the We of-We seat scat cushiony x were c pta place lace q beneath his his his' hc head ll And Anc AncH t to ete e clothe iq th the ok chief chief chier rest About the wagon were sa t y bridles beaded yest e est t gauntlet gloves of ancy llCY design belts made ade of rare a stove sto dis dishes s n many other things hingE Of Af a l Besides the wa wagon on were three gr groves v u a n half alf grown Indian Mian and t the e others other full grow ro probably l bably two squaws and awl a ri child About the g av today torla are many skeletons of horses homes killed for the old chief chief to use i it iti f the h happy pp hunting punting grounds But t the e ol old chief re rests t n no t g In 11 the buggy The white whiteman whiteman whiteman man cam came along and nd in itt hi t 5 held belt not th the grave vc of or the redman sacred s The fhe prave in lately l been despoiled The bug buggy y t un and ami 1 Q e every vel t tiling 1 ti b Valuable have been taken away 1 1 So many other graves rayea It have re been despoiled One Indian chief was buried in a y arsago ago Unlike Sowers Sowe w u wt w l buried d sitting up with th the i c in his his hari handt a 1 His kis grave rave grave away away back in some some- cant can n il I 1 t About out Contil 94 Y lr re ge e Eight t n t- t S E I L S |