Show baan alu AN li A camp defying the she united I 1 a tes by albert R lyman A when the mormon colonists had bad blasted their away thru the ba barrier r ban juan joan and had begun the ahr first st whid 1 s settlement in th the e of they found then theair selves suT surrounded rounded by it a race of indians wh who lived in saucy contempt of the white mans law the century old unite d states had not reached tb them em borover Mo rover they had bad resolved that it never should reach them it should never come into their hunting ground auld and they would not go out only as they should choose to go and always with full liberty to return when they pleased what was the ahe great trump arume card they expected to play if uncle sam came after them mighty soon to be seen and it would edib estabi o i kah ashfor for their defiance e a precedent to stand indefinitely cherished in the proud heart sif every ute big enough to aidea rids a cayuse was the of that impregnable triangle into which he could take refuge from all pursuit what an unwelcome surprise it had been to them ahen that nervy company of mori cormons mormons il ons came stringing thru the very beake of their wild empire ein As tile slow moving scission or of waskna entered harmony flat an to opening pening inthe in the thick cedars ar old ute rode out outa of the timbers and almost jell fell from his horse in surprise fit at the sight A but he whipped his fright frightened ened popy pony up to ones one ot of th wagons andi and begun what present day english would translate as follows WI are the did you conic come in at when platte lyman told him they had cro erased sed the colorado a ways above its junction with the san juani juan the old ute shook his head you lie he affirmed you cant como corn in that way and the utes hesitate at all to pull something of oft f tiby thy an about the first lure ol of easy plunder proceeding ard and having in mind just where to go that first break was ti m massacre s er of smith thruman and my may at piute diute springs the particulars of the tragedy may appear later but today we are taking but a run view of the camp that defied the united states for forty years NOW ond behind them the lutcs turned with oil all tair i i va nbc t ija c y pra 4 16 jS Mf A aai i ai fri R 1 ry ON 1 ww mak S 4 r f q ra iff ll 11 ia ft A k va ba s cliff dwellers ruins near monumental valley booty down towards the sheltering rocks rocke they had their squaws squads and papooses oses and herds ot of goats with them and they felt no need of haste behind their defenses defences de fences they awaited the white av engers bu but t no one came the eager company ala that t had bad gathered Ao to follow them had no idea where to go when the utes became rest res telas elss and venture dout to be surprised by the cowboys cow boys dt at lasal matters terminated less favorably than if they had bad stayed longer in the rocks for they lost two men and got ony fourteen white men in return when they ahey staged the next fight they knew enough to hold to the barrier instead of coming out that tight begun at verdure and was car 1 tied lied on in the hills south from it the indians indiana moved slowly and deliberately libera tely again towards their defenses they even permitted themselves to be seen every day by their pursuers asif as if wishing to correct any erroneous conclusion which the white man might have drawn from the light fight at lasal here again we shall ornit omit the details observing only that the pursuing band of soldiers and cow voys left some of their number dead at soldier crossing and returned turned le in ignominious defeat without killing one ute but the utis went on south to hold riotous carnival in celebration of ahe firc lir r fortress the hot places in that defiance of undo uncle sam for the thirty odd years may be related in other issues but we ate are concerned here ie with tha th fact that that defiance went forward in spite cfall of all pressure brought to bear again t it it was reported report cd thi that attris this pesky besky little litile band of utes were to be moved to a reset reservation reserva tun more moie times than we have space to relate came th this 11 report as something which vas ac actually lually going to happen bappe find and government representatives came in alpar ent antly ay to tee see that the red nen men took notice of the orders but they go for that matter they gone yet mancos jim said his fathers died dica ji i allen alien canyon and he be intended addic to lic there too that is what he did but he first became good and ready with ripe old age to all atie e orders of the government posey declared emphatically me no ka go 1 I 1 he dicht go he died staying aa as I 1 we may explain some other time in the whole forty years no indian taking refuge in the walls of the triangle ri was brought back by force when posey broke from the officers at bauff after he had been bound over I 1 to the district court he be sank from sight in the fastness of his beloved rocks was he be brought back or was fhe he order to ap appear pearin in court avei honored no go one followed him he stayed within the walls unmolested till he e lot got ready to return ile he sent his buiter of defiance while he 46 was there and when became he came out he got a long range iun gun au and dired dared anybody or anything to knock the chip from his shoulder after the fight at bluff resulting r franf rom the attempt to arrest pokes voy boy the utes vanished again among the thi jocks rocks but no one need to imagine ag ine that because P poke ohe and their boys were taken out to salt lake and to denver that any an officer or posse had bad invaded the triangle and taken them out nga insl i their thal r will no sir not that w way ay at all T the aggravated situation hi hrar 11 fi f P while state and federal officers looked t wards towards 0 the rocks locks and scratched then heads in perplexity where was as poke and posy the leaders of f the fight and how could they be reached the menacing hum from till yn n conquered hornets nest echoed clear t to the nations capitol and an 1 i hugh L scott came all the wt way from r washington to take the situation situation in hand but he brought with him no fighting men and neither made fiade nor threater threat threatened ei ned any military display it is unthinkable that the wise old general did not know san juan had never been successfully invaded by a military force he knew it could and no doubt would some day be brought totite to time but he probably figured that time had not yet come at all events when he had bad recognized thil this rebel camp by coming to jt it all the way from washington ae he meant to accomplish com what he came for and he knew better than to depend on methods which had always failed setting getting out from bluff without arms he braved the perilous barriers and persuaded the old renegades rene gades to follow him in and submit to arrest everybody with real red bib blood 04 in his veins was wag thrilled with the potency of general scotts sp splendid lendin methods but let no one tun run awa awai with the idea that the camp had bad dered the annexation of san juan county to the united states Is s the subject of tile the next chapter |