Show RECORDS ARE BEING MADE indian war veterans are being listed commissioners westwood and pratt are here to secure list of indian fighters the commissioners appointed to get a correct history and listing of the utah indian war veterans are at work in this county on saturday J M westwood and M L pratt arrived dt at salina from gunnison and they are now here in richfield gathering names and data the object of the commission is IB to s secure a complete list of the veterans who gave their tune tinie and means to the elimination of the noble red man and opened up this country to settlement so that congress can place them on the list of pensioners of 0 the government many of these men spent months in the service of tho the government and never received ft any compensation through the efforts of senators smoot and sutherland this matter has been placed before the congress of the united states and an aff effort ort will be made to secure the compensation pensa tion which is due them there is a great deal of misunderstanding in the matter of presenting applications for the records most of the men have the idea that thai all that is necessary is to present their own history of their activity and in some instances affidavits frim othra othar are made the regulations require that each applicant present himself in person and accompanied by two witnesses who iho isred in the same company va 1 ha c ST oy 4 cip tair beford they are rl eligible gible since the commission con mission started work they have had bad applicants from eleven states outside of utah and one applicant from mexico and another from canada these men have made the long journeys in order that hat the tha record may be made thoro thorough rather than the hope of reward fron fro n the government in addition to the government record that is being completed the commissioners ners are making up a record for the use of the veterans themselves they are listing all the veterans name date of service and principal places kofl of active service where the veteran has died them the place the name of the nearest surviving relative in the record and this record wll will be very complete as to the indian fighters ot utah westwood and pratt havo been engaged in this work for sever seven months and they have now comple all the territory lying between S lake and bevier counties moz moi will be visited as soon as the wor completed here heir e loa will then the objective point returning f wayne county piute diute garneld garfield KL kii a and washington will be visited i turn the counties lying north of washington will be next in order and when Salt Lale is reached thel commission will then take up the counties in the northern part of the state thus their work will extend pretty well into the spring of 1910 |