OCR Text |
Show INDIANS TAKEN ON RESERVATION GOLD HILL, Utnh, Feb. 20. Open defiance of the authorities of the United States goyernment in enforcing enforc-ing the provision of the draft law among the Indian residents on the Goshuto reservation on tho Utah-Nevada Utah-Nevada line in Juab county, and threats of violence by the redmen against tho Indian agent and his family, fam-ily, was promptly and effectively met when the government quietly sent a detachment of the Twentieth Infantry from Fort Douglas to the reservation and arrested tho ringleaders in the draft revolt and brought them prisoners pris-oners this afternoon to Gold Hill. Tho prisoners, seven in number, will bo held under military guard in this camp tonight, and tomorrow will bo taken to Salt Lake and lodged In the county jail pending prosecution on charges of conspiracy and evading the draft law. The Indian prisoners, who wore -surprised by the federal troops and rounded up before daylight this morning morn-ing before they could make escape to the hills or organize effective resistance, resist-ance, Include Annie's Tommy, Al Stcelo, Jim Straight, John Syme, who are charged witn conspiracy to Incito the Indians of draft age upon iue reservation to defianco of tho government, govern-ment, and Tweedy Baker, Lou Murphy j and Jack Semoo, who are charged with being evaders of tho draft registration regis-tration law. The Military Contingent. The soldiers from Fort Douglas, including in-cluding threo officers and fifty-one enlisted en-listed men under command of Captain Walter C. Gullion, accompaned United States Marshal Aquila Nebeker from Salt Lake to the reservation, making the 200-mile trip so secretly that they arrived upon the reservation without an inkling of their coming reaching the Indians. The result wns that they were able to walk in upon the Indians in their homes before daylight, capture them and seize their rifles and ammunition beforo any Information could bo given the mutinous wards of the government. govern-ment. The feat of leading such a detach- rhent of soldiers from Salt Lake across B m tho Great Salt lake desert by rail, gSj through the ice-fettered mountains n H and snow-covered valleys of western I H Utah in automobiles under weather I (I conditions marked by a temperature of H 20 degrees below zero, the latter por- I tlon of the trip being made under "I cover of night, was not without its Ber- ' I ious difficulties. But under tho guld- I ance of Captain Gullion, in command I of the infantry detachment, and Mar- H shal Nebeker, representing the depart- Q ment of justice, and L. A. Dorrington, j I supervisor of the Ninth district of the B Indian service, it was successfully ac- U H complished and the Indians were R H peacefully captured before they could B H carry out any threats of violence 1 H against the Indian agent and his fam- n H |