Show INDIANS WILL VILL LOBBY BEFORE LEGISLATURE eel aito Ingo ago of Peyote lUll Bill at nt Coin Oom- t f luit Session Session Sl Mrs Bonnin of Fort j in is Interested In lu- terest cd tIp t Ip Mrs U. U T. T Donnin Bonnin o of Fort Du- Du is all tho while interesting ting in the uplift of the Utes Mrs Bonnin is a Sioux but she like allgood alloo all good oo l people knows no ino color creed to helping In MOT Mar race rac when It comes come time lime of need She is ever er read ready and anxious to better conditions physically i wally cally all morally and socially Now Nov she ho She is using every even effort t to suppress the use of Peyote In that connee ton ion the following Information has been een received d from Salt Lake To appeal to the white man to red man man- pass as s a law to protect tho the ag against himself educated Indians from tho the Uintah reservation will come before the state legislature at this session Two men and a woman woman woman-Hobert Robert Ouray Oura Francisco Cesspooch and Mrs Gertrude have Bonnin-have have written to toG C. C Coulson Smith special agent of the state board of pharmacy they will come here on behalf of ot the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed Peyote anti-Peyote act The bill to be introduced b by some legislator or to he be selected by the legislative legislative legis committee of the state board of oC pharmacy headed by William II H. Da Dayton ton will be drafted at a meeting on Tuesday Smith has made recommendations re I to the committee and It Is believed these will be followed with minor changes His suggestions call for of traffic In and use of peyote peyote peyote pey- pey ote the same as narcotics are arc now forbidden both by 11 state and federal statute It Is likely that the law will swill make It a serious erious offense punishable by bt imprisonment imprisonment with no fine alternative tive tire r for Anyone anyone to buy sell or have Peyote In his or her possession That such a law will stop or at least check the use of the deadly narcotic by the Indians is the belief beHe of state officials and the Indian nonusers nonusers non non- users o of It Both Doth Cesspooch Cess pooch and Ouray the th Riverside school graduates who recently recently recently re re- re- re were in Salt Lake on behalf o of such a measure have been threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened with death by Pete PeJe head of the Peyote church and his fol fol- fol- fol lowers Smith received a letter from Cesspooch Cesspooch Cesspooch Cess Cess- pooch yesterday telling that Phelps had bad threatened to get him for his activities against the drug that the reds worship worship that that they have substituted substituted sub for the Christian God But Dut I am not afraid I know lenow It Itis itIs itis is bad mighty bad for my people They will learn some day Then they will love not hate me the Indian wrote Mrs Bonnin a full blood Sioux living at Fort Duchesne secretary of the Society o of American Indians has also written to Smith She will support supe support sup sup- e port port the measure In the Utah legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature and also will assist in its passage passage passage pas pas- sage through the Colorado l legisla legisla- ture She says that a law there is necessary to prevent It being smuggled smuggled smuggled smug smug- a across the state line 1 |