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Show I Jj Of His Remarkable Mastery Of Red I Men His Suppression Of Pintes BjP" ''iW3Bj I Is Eleventh Settlement Of Uprisings fgggj' When , tie L'nited Stales govern - ; merit goes to war it usually puts an I army of more ilian 100,000 men In the fioM When he United States i government staris out to quell an :i Indian uprising i' snds iust one I man. He is General Hygh L Scott chief of staff of ihe United States I Even one company of troops ac- j COmpanying General Scott would be I superfluous. All dial is necessary I is for the general to let the rebi I- i lious Indians know he is in the field I and is ready 10 make peace and i they are ready to make terms with j him. J General Seotf recently rode into I Thompsons, Utah with the four j leaders of a band of rebellious Piute I Indians and settled an Indian uprls- I ing in which several men were kill- I ed and in which a posse headed by j United States marshals had failed J to conquer the outlaws. J General Scott had as his prison- 1 ers: Old Polk, chief of one of the .1 divisions of the renegate Piutes; I Tse-ne-Gat, son of Old Polk; Old 1 Posey, chief of the other division of J the renegades, and Posey's son Tse- J ne-Gat is charged with murdering a I ,l' Mexican during the uprising and the . 3 others with inciting an uprising J The four prisoners when brought 3 to Thompsons were subdued and 1 willing to follow General Scott anv J place he might lead them. While 1 a few days before these men were ; - 1 accounted the bloodthirsty leaders 'J of a desperate outlaw band, they ap- j peared as children under Scott's I I care. At Thompsons he dined with them , 1 and pleased them by ordering the waiter to arrange a table for him ' I and his guests away from the I "white folks " There he saw that 'i4 they were well fed and after the meal further pleased them by dfs- J tributing cigarettes. From the time j the four Indian leaders surrendered J until he landed them in the pcnlten- .' tiary to await trial they were never J handcuffed, or even kept under I guard. I THEY BECOME 1 DOCILE. I The people in Thompsons and in -T l other Utah cities through which the ; A.! strange party of a United States I , ' general with four Indians in war , I 1 Paint following him like children '". being taken to the circus, were H frightened by the appearance of the . j outlaws, but under General Scott's - I I care they were as docile as if they I knew not the meaning of war. I bloodshed and murder. I 1 in their Piute dialect thev re- J ferred to General Sfcott as their Good White Father and he called them - j "h boys." The Great White Fa- 1 ther tn Washington meant not as gH much to them as the Good White WgM Father who rode out to meet them aQd promised to protect them and dH9 "ee tbey were granted their rights Ifffll The Great White Father was a myth $9 w,tn a mythical army behind him Pg Tney hated that army that fought ffiSL tnem witn machine guns from a dis- W&R fance and killed their children and gBBB their squaws S9' Tne Good White Father came to WsSk them unarncd. He fed them and EaHai Kaye them clothing He did not talk HH 01 battle and came unarmed. So mm, when the four renegades consented Ijftfi lo be captured and taken back for Hy 1 rial In the Federal courts, their m tribesmen, squaws and children con- BkI scnted to go back to the reservation. HH1 Thus General Scott won his ninth HJ Indian campaign without bloodshed. M ,n I he preceding c ampaigns ho had H9j cone to the Indian leaders and told HH them he wanted them to come back HH to the reservation and live in peace HH9 nd they did. M, General Scott's story is eplendid- Hl ly told in his own terse, brief way Bl in a recent interview H8 MOTT'S OWH H MORI. "When ihe Piutes left the resena- H tlon. fought the Indian agents and thr United States marshals and pusses I was ordered to proceed to t-'tah at once and quell the uprising, i might have had any part of the army that I micht have requested, but I preferred to go alone. The sight of troops would only have added add-ed lo ihe desperation, nd desire .o kill, of the Indians. "I kf( Washington, D. C. March 3, with Lieutenant-Colonel Robcn E L. Michie. my aide-dc-cair p. and Trooper P. R Randolph of the Fifth Cavalry, who served as ray orderly. It was my desire to get to the scene of action before there was any more bloodshed I was anxious during the emire journey that there he not another pitched bnrt ir- before I arrived ar-rived and that some of the posse or the Indians would be killed li nras my hope that the posse would refrain re-frain from battling the Indians and that the renegades would remain in the moutains 'o which they had fled and stay there until v c reached the scene. "We reached Thompsons Utah March S and went by automobile, wagon, horseback, sleigh and on foot to Bluff, Utah There we learned learn-ed that Polk and Pnse and their Indians had gone to the Navajo mountains, some 125 miles west of Bluff We rested for a day and then proceeded by horseback on our journey jour-ney toward the mountains "We sent a friendly Piute, known as Jim's boy to go to the leaders of the outlaws to tell them I wanted to see them. Then we struck enrap and waited. "The next day some of ihe Indians rode in close to our camp to see that we were alone and there was no dancer of a trap or trickery. The third day some of the Indians entered en-tered our camp. Reassured that I and my two companions were The only ones and the army and detested detest-ed posse were many miles away Posey and four Indians came into our camp We talked a little through an Indian interpreter It was in the evening and I was not anxious to rush matters TAKING IT EASY. "I asked them how they were I told them I didn't feel very well and did not want to talk to them until next day. They helped us kill beef and we gave them a good meal, the first they had had in two weeks They were poorly clad and we gaa-them gaa-them some blankets Posey and his men were unarmed, but I believe they hid their weapons in the rocks nearby. The first Iudians who visited vis-ited our camp saw that we didn t have as much as a revolver and as a matter of courtesy when Posey and his men visited us they had left their weapons behind. "The next day Polk and Hatch and about 25 of their men came in lo see me I asked them what was the trouble and why they had left the reservation. They told me that th cowboys came at daylight surrounded surround-ed them In their reservation and shot their children and wounded a squaw. They said they did not like the cowboys and previously had had trouble with Ihem. They had tried to live In peace on their reservation, but the cowboys had annoyed tbem and they had tolerated it until at last they were forced to lesent the murder of their children, "I sympathized with them. I told them it w asn t fair for the cowboys to treat them like that, and I wouldn't want my children pursued pur-sued by cowboys and shot I said furthermore that I wouldn't see anyone any-one else's children t rented that way I said I would see that such cruelty was stopped. I didn't try to push matters and they realized I was fully ful-ly in sympathy with them. "I told the Indian aeents who had come up in the meantime with supplies sup-plies to see that the men, squaws and children had plenty of blankets and provisions Nothing could have done more to win the hearts of (hese indians. The children and women ate ravenously for they had been more ihan two weeks with nothing to live on but jerked meat. Their clothing was in tatters and they had suffered from the cold. "I told the leaders that I would see their people were protected from further outrages and asked them to ' : MRS. HUGH L.SCOTTH- V PHOTO BY HARRIS EWING fc I im retire and decide what they wauted to do. By this lime ihcy had forgotten forgot-ten all about the warpath It was peaceful and we were on as friend-I friend-I terms as if it were one big picnic and I and my men were in charge of the free 3cmouade booth. CONCILIATES LEADERS. "The Indian leaders camr bar 1. after a conference and told me they w ere willing to do any thing I wanted them to do We sat down in a circle I said. 'The marshal wants you and you. and you.' pointing to the four men wanted, 'to go with him io Salt Lake City. The rest of you may return re-turn to your reservations with the no nts and I will see that you are not harmed. Is thai alright0' Thej said it waB. and they would go any place I wanted them to go. "We broke camp and all rode to Bluff We rode ahead and the Indians In-dians followed. The four prisoners were not ironed or shackled and in fact were not led to believe thej were prisouers until they were put In Jail to await trial Thej never tried to gft away. In fact. I don't believe we could have got rid of them if we had tried. At night tb J slept together and no one stood guard over them. They arp pcrfi I ly harmless now. and all the Indians In-dians feel satisfied. The whites are over their scare and there will h no more trouble from this band of Indiana "These Indians are just children easy to alarm and sometimes hard to annease. Thev harl unrki ii,... elves into such a pitch over ihfir troubles that they were getting dangerous. They were attempting to get a large tribe of Navajos to join them in an outbreak Whre they were camped in the wild broken country near ihe Grand Canyon, they would havo been mighty hard to dislodge It would have taken a large force of cavalry, perhaps two or three regiments, to subdue them and that would take It will be the right one if the terms are right. "I cume in here prepared to spend any number of days to gel in touch with the conditions. Once I can get them to come in and talk l hoy learn that 1 am llicir friend and the biggest pari of the battle is over. Whal I consider is .he greatest fea-ture fea-ture of all is the fact that once In-diaus In-diaus have given mc their promise to be good ihey have never broken their word .Nor has it been necessary neces-sary to go over the same ground the second lime. "Of the twenty-seven Indians that came into Medicine Hat in response to my message sent by an Indian runner rln-re was not on" if them but wanted to come under my protection. protec-tion. I hav nothing but praise for the United States uirshals and the Ir.dian agent;, Thai ihere was no more bloodshed is little leas' than miraculous. 8KCRE1 i IUJTDNB8S. "However Indians must be treated treat-ed with kindness and plenty of provisions pro-visions They fed this coming ;o them from the government While I am not much on romance. I know they still feel that hatred against some white men in general that their ancestors did when ihey were first deprived of theil lands and taken to the reservations. Wither are Indians romantic unless it be in their desire for plenty of food and clothing, and to be h it severely alone in their pursuit of a living. When white men begin to Interfere With them there is trouble ahead. Indians arc clannish ihat way. They don'i feel like having the white man as their friend or guest if they can avoid it." The moat significant part of General Gen-eral Scott's interview is .he part: "I sent an Indian runner .o Lell '.he renegade Piutes that I wanted ;o see them' Like the detective's words to Ihe criminal: "The hi f wants to see you." or the mother's words to the mischievous boj "Your father wants to see you in the woodshed," was General Scott's INDIAN CHkTrE BIB J several months with a large loss ol life on both sides as the Indians, while poorly clothed and provisioned provision-ed were well equipped With rifles and ammunition. It also would have cost the government at least $25,000 just to get the soldiers in there. HIS ELEVENTH IPRLSIX.. "This is h eleventh uprising I have been called upon to quiet. I am phased (hat 1 huve bcru successful suc-cessful at such an early date in treating with the Piutes. It has never nev-er been ray policy to hasten matters mat-ters but to allow the Iudians ampl time to become thoroughly conversant convers-ant with every phase of terms I have to offer before 1 put the final question: ques-tion: 'What are you going to do?' They are slow but correct thinkers, and while It takes them sometime to come to a conclusion ou can bci menace to the Indiaa if ihey lud bee,, ,old that President Wilson was waiting for them out on I hi plains they would perhaps hive not re. ponded as quickly as when told t.cneral Scott wanted to sec thorn. It was not a request for an interview inter-view it was not as if. fne gcnoral sent his card asking for an audl-kV audl-kV W3 1 coroBU,nO it mam in brief: General Seotl i8 here .Von, Washington to etU ;hia unfiling He grants to finish and get back to Washington as soon as possible. This treat commander of men brooks no delays. If you do not come to him he will come to you. If e cannot bring you to terms by his friendly manner, then he will come after yru with the United States army and will make you sor ry you ever left the reservation Hi is not an ordinary soldier used to fighting in civilized warfare only. He knows more about Indian tac-th tac-th s and Indian warfare than you dtf yourselves. HE KNOWS THE IM)I . You may fight the ordinary soldier sol-dier from behind boulders and trees and delay i apture tor many months, bni if General Scott brings his troops he will teach them how to fight behind boulders and trcc9 cd he will v. ipe out the w hole tribe. He can wait many months to accomplish accom-plish this for his troops are well armed and well provisioned, while oii have but III He food and hardly any ammunition. General Scott fought with your ancestors before you and couquered them He showed he knew just a little more about Indian warfare than they. And your ancestors aft- , ri slating him once decided that In Lhi future when the great general y came from Washington to settle V matters i1 was best Lo surrender. Your ancestors knew he was their i friend. Never did he co back on his promises to defend those who surrendered sur-rendered to him. This was what General Scoff's age meant to the Indians when he sen' Hie runner to tell them "General Scott wants to see you." They knew that when the general gav.i them his promise that conditions condi-tions on the Reservation would be better and they would not again be molested h the cowboys, he meant it would be kept. i at most peculiar part of the subjugation of the Piutes was the surrender of the four leaders for in. ii in t lie United States court. Perhaps nothing is more dreaded bv ;' Indian than a trial before a fudge of white men with a "palc-f;- ' laWyer to defend him. The Indian In-dian has but a poor understanding of Law, especially of laws made bv w hite men. He realizes that to wantonly wan-tonly kill is a punishable crime, hut he do- s nor feel to slay a foe in battle bat-tle or hi an uprising should be construed con-strued as murder. WIThen General Scott came lie brought with him a respect for ihe I ihat made the Indians realize they could get a lair .rial because 1 lb Good White Father would ee f they were protected. To them ie D " dinarj man. workmc , '"' h' 1 nit d staler ROVOI nn nl g on a salary j,!St as thousands of OthetB arc doing. He was ihe United Unit-ed btates government. To them be was sort j , supernatural being who could call chouaanos of wa -rlora into action merely by a ... d "s brad. At his order those wild oi l tab would be literally covered cov-ered with iroops. cavalry and artillery, artil-lery, and i he Indians would fa.-.- annihilation, an-nihilation, 80 thev voided their leaders up for trial and wont peace-fully peace-fully beck to the reservation General Scot! and his staff of two men cDt back t0 Washington to deal with more knotty problems of amy than Indian uprising. The K "''I gars til ftp credit in the ' '' "3antl even spoke a kind AO,d LUd T radian agents who vx the sjfll;(tio!, I et beyond their control. Thev I went afoul settling the matter after I " Had gotten to such a head ,vith .he I wrong weapons. They armed a 1 posse and sorted out to auhdue Ihe 1 nd.ans. That was just haj the I t1?8, Peted and what they I brn ,',A hnd1 toi I 'id.ng wildly about Without ord-r 1 leader -uid the Indiana behli i V ,'" 'Idera shooting th-m down as fl th approai Affa ' - bad i one m such a stand j 'hen Secretary of wor Garrlaou 1 ordered General Scott to the iiouu |