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Show LET THEM STAY AT HOME. A social dispatch from Durango to the Denver News states that Chief Ignacio of the Ules, Chief Buckskin Charley of the Weeminuches, and several other chiefs, accompanied by Agent Stollsteimer of the Ute Agency, and an interpreter, have gone on a visit to the Great Father and his Cabinet warriors at Washington. The Ute Indians, represented by these chiefs, are said to be desirous of selling to the Government their reservation in Southern Colorado, and moving from that State into Utah, and to this end they will endeavor en-deavor to open negotiations with the Interior. Department. The reservation now occupied by these Indian is in La Plata county, and is the only one in the State. It consists of 1,710 square miles, or 1,095,400 acres, and sustains sus-tains an Indian population of - about 1,000. These Indians are the reputed owners of 50. mules, 5,000 ponies, 150 cattle and 3,500 sheep, and the different tribes comprising the band sail under the euphonious names of Copates, AVeemi-nuches AVeemi-nuches and Musches. j Why these Indians should be so desirous desir-ous of removing from their present quarters quar-ters over the line into Utah, does not clearly appear, but we suspect that the people of Colorado have their own reasons for wishing them success in the move which they are represented to be very anxious to make. It is barely possible pos-sible that the Coloradans sure casting wistful eyes in the direction of the desirable desir-able lands contained within the limits of that reservation,and perhaps therein may lie the secret of the whole business. If the red men have any sense at all, they will remain where they are. Utah is no place for them, and it is quite certain that the progressive element throughout the Territory Ter-ritory will make a vigorous kick when- j ever an attempt is made to quarter more ! Indians upon lands within our lines. ! Colorado may keep her Indians at home ; I Utah at present has trouble enough with a lot of pig-headed whites, without having hav-ing the agony piled on by a thousand, more or less, of lousy Indians. |