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Show GENERAL SCOTT TO SEE PIES Bluff Utah, March ll. The announcement an-nouncement that General Sott would leave tomorrow to visit the renegade Piute? encamped on Douglas mesa and the disc-oven that Old Polk had left a wounded Indian girl to die summarize sum-marize the day's incidents at Bluff. The 7-year-old Piute girl shot in the leg by a stra bullet during the hat tie between ihe Pllltes and Marshal Nebeker's posse here February 21. was left to die by Old Polk, and his band of Plmes it was learned today from friendly Indians. A Navajo squaw, going over the battleground later, found the child ami j took her to her tepee. Navajos are j now caring for the little girl, and she has a chance to recover A physi cian has been sent to the Indian camp and he will bring the girl back to Bluff. Find 600 Goats. Members of the posse have found 600 goats abandoned by the Piutes in their retreat to Douglas mesa. in comb and Butler washes. The second sec-ond horse stolen from the posse by the Piutes has also been found bj i Navajo, who brought it to Bluff The scouts making the Investigation in the washes found many more trat Its than the had expected, indicating that the renegades band had increased increas-ed greatly in numbers. Less fear is felt for the safety o'.' the Wethenll trading post Kayen-ta, Kayen-ta, Ariz, through the service of an Indian runner employed by the United Uni-ted States government to carry messages mes-sages between Knwnta and Bluff The runner is a Naajo lie makes two trips a week in remarkably short time ami on each journey has to swim the treacherous San Juan rier twice He arrived today and reported Ihe post safr I'nlted States Marshal Xebeker. in an Interview tonight stated that General Gen-eral Scott and his parts would start tomorrow on their peace mission to the Piute Indian outlaws, now report ed to be encamped on Douglas mesa In southeastern Utah oo |