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Show REDMEN REBEL if TERRORf DRAFT GOSHUTE SLACKER'S CAUGHT AT UTAH LINE, RINGLEADERS BEING IMPRISONED. Threats of Violence by Indians Against Agent and His Family Also. Charged Against Erring Members of the Tribe. Salt Lake City. Open defiance of the authorities of the United States government in enforcing the provision of the draft law among theTndian residents resi-dents on the Goshute reservation on the Utah-Nevada line in Juab county, and threats of violence by the redruen against the Indian agent and his family, fam-ily, was promptly and effectively met when the government quietly sent a de tachment of the Twentieth infantry from Fort Douglas to the reservation and arrested the ringleaders in the draft revolt and brought them prisoners prison-ers to this city. The Indian prisoners, who were surprised sur-prised by the federal troops and rounded round-ed up before daylight, before they could make escape to the hills or organize or-ganize effective resistance, include Annie's An-nie's Tommy, Al Steele, Jim Straight, John Synie, who are charged with conspiracy con-spiracy to incite the Indians of draft age upon the reservation to defiance of the government, and Tweedy Baker, Lou Murphy and Jack Semoo, who are charged with being evaders of the draft registration law. The soldiers from Fort Douglas, including in-cluding three officers and fifty-one en- ler cnmmnnd of CaDtain Walter C. Gullion, accompanied 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 I Indians. |