| Show RAMBLING THOUGHTS 0 1 OF A i by frank avey ey continued from last week e governor west then spoke gen clemen I 1 have all sides of this question and it is doubtful in my mind ind ii who are really the trespassers trespasser the indians or a few large cattlemen hut but you bona fide homesteaders shall be protected in your rights and I 1 will do all in my power to protect you sou wien een if I 1 have to call out the militia to place the indians indiana back on their reservation where they belong here again I 1 marianna fa arianna spoke washington city man say indians set down here salt lake city captain Captai 5 ay you must go washington Washing tran city man soon slap em cm jaw salt sait lakel lake city captain we stay no go back to le colonel dawson then spoke you must go back at once to your reservation or I 1 will rut lut you back with ranny soldiers and if you fight many will die take our choice I 1 am tired of our talk of staying at all costs we stay was Mari annas reply this meeting was closed without ae ac coni comp lishing shing much in tile the way of tile the removal of the indians back to their I 1 reservation I 1 ration so colonel dawson at once called a meeting of government and utah territory officials and they at once decided to send for federal i troops and if need be the territory oryl colonel dawson sent dis j patches to tile the united states fort near ic ar denver for three hundred cavalry v to be in readiness to entrain for thompson utah at once T B carpenter and jack silvey were selected by dawson to deliver these dispatches as s quickly as possible to the operator at thompson Sli springs rings selecting tb the e feat horses and changing horses twice they made the ride of miles mile i ee en and a half hours two hours er cr governor bests son and the iter carried another set of dis ches to the telegraph operator at ampson it looked like war with P indians and all citizens were abused au al used cd lingo christensen then visited the indians at their camp on tile the vast border of tile the little settlement vt at Mont monticello idello earnestly he urged them to give in and go back to their reservation the older utes listened favorably avor ably but the younger ones said now washington city man say I 1 came this is our happy hunting I 1 ground around for many snows snow if we have to fight we will we can easily whip the cowboys the mormons cormons are I 1 i our friends we think and will not fight ui usand arid we can whip in the rims of this country all the soldier boys they can ar send against us j lingo christensen Chrls pleaded with them W 6 be good indians and go back to iwa reservation and said that i tho the Wha washington hington father would help I 1 it was useless to fight a as ahe the white man wai in in numbers like tabe abe sands aids of our great rims count less thai all the utes would in ti ime time t me bc kl aled off if they persisted in jhc thc whites AU all night long was kept up and just as ahe the EUIT bury came up the indians gave up i i and ana agid ga id we will go no use to fight I 1 1 the tb white man any longer chrisi chris i aeiken A eiBen aar once reported to colonel daw dawson son i and rd governor west that the 1 Indian had at last given up and cole at once sent a dis di atch rider oder countermanding all pre v i t ii dispatches aoi for sol soldier dierk ahlis elded the indin indian invasion into sanjuan an county couney without bloodshed slowly and sullenly t the ll 11 majority of adla retired towards the reserva tiow jion n colorado do but tile the aiutes re agnf and are still with us u today boday the the adian indian invasion had been vere evere to tel the stockmen stoc kmen that ranged on our vinter v rangen ranged coats ponies and striping am pling at the si airings rings and water holes had done their sad wor work and we had a akifty fifty per cent lovs los that winter handspring and spring by stockmen stoc kmen and ranchers apt wintered their stock on the open rae ra e the ocker s thoughts now drift back to events at peters spring in 1888 1893 9 this spring ws was named M appt w an associate cattleman of spud Hu hudsons Hud dicris sons who located and built a cabin bore h re in 1879 the flame year that hudson buit built the dougle cabins at tile the ves veva a sir mr petri botn I the ill brend on the lh I ift aft ft tan of cf his cattle at at tim lie aie sou soil continued 0 on n rat ran rs RAMBLING THOUGHTS I 1 OF A continued from first paged page his cattle interests about head to the carlisle cattle bom Company pany in 1883 as also did hudson with about head green api grobisen Ro bisen an 1000 V head dudley reese poo 1000 head had the Car carlisle liale cattle company was called callea jh the hip me ide anaf rind outa it at at peters S tring rini ta ta shoot shooting ang catchi took place in 88 john gibson a a said to have been a d deserter eser ter They emptied applied their six shooters ati at another at shoot ten steps ais gibson was i il but the I 1 soldini sol dici r was bally infused ingui cd ind and barito ra rito mo elior fd i on mrs alons lons peterson at tile their ir badly frk frightened hei bee abut she called neighbors and the soldier s wounds were dressed and he recovered As jias has been noted previously there was bad blood between the southern utes and the aiutes piute prini prin I fil n pally lally because both parties partie wanted san juan county a as a shooting ground hatch with a small band of aiutes was clamped camped at peters spring sprine also a abaid band of southern utes and a young indian known as cowboy by the W bitet I 1 tei ft acar ear by hatch I 1 and cowboy got into a 4 qu quarrel and colbo cowboy killed hatch this caused I 1 excitement any hate among both faction of the Indians 1 hastily tile the aiutes H under a I 1 ledge and set fite fire to td 6 body and after f two of ponies they hastily ht broke ai cam ramp p and hea headed aed south west the southern utes did likewise e but ii headed ade d for the ute ni mountains ins A lew frays later DATI bird who or oi the Carl Carlis islo lp cattle co on the anali V at the double cabins rod rode eup up to indian cam camp camle lw aw the deal aela ind indian I 1 an ponies and investigating furth further r found hatchs hatcha body half b burned unter under f nearby hedge hede he had learned two days before this that the indians haf hae had iro trouble irble i among themselves and being somewhat of a coarse wag 1 set the remal remaining ning part of hatcha hatchs body upright cut cud a stout stick split and ran it through one of hatchs hatcha empty ayli eye sockets then taking a piece of aper paper did some nonsense 1 writing an on i it stating here lies a good indian Iri dlan and so go he departed lookin gf or herseg hor seg A few hours leei later D b 1 L goul delock dan was at t the h e double cabins and saw a 10 lone ne indian halfast as hK pony could arunto reach aim him waving a paper in hand he shouted the matter now paper talk in hatchs hatcha eye and giving the paper to Goul delock to nat once he h recognized dan birds handwriting and observing that tle the indian tn dla d was a piute diute he thought to tc give him a scare saying paper says ute sUte M mountain utes baliv fight mutes springing Spring on his pony whipped hin him on both sides to a run headed south towards the chev diute piute camp f 1 the end of tile the first ser series lesof of these articles |
