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Show 45. DE%VER,C OLO., S~ptmlder1 , 1873. SIR: In obedience to your instructions contained in circular of date June 30, 1873z 1 have the honor to submit, for your information the following report of the adminls-tration of affairs at this agency during the year)just past. Instead of entering into any details I desire to call the attention of the Department to the nniform good behavior of Pi-ah's" hand during the time above referred to, and to their oomparatire freedom from the vices which almost invariably characterize the Indianwhenbrought aaelosely and constantly in contact with whites an these Utes have been. But few complaintsaPaoytbinglikeeven misdemennors on their part have been brought to my notice; and not a, single base of drunkenness has oocnrrea among them while they have been in or near Denver. The same good reports of their bohevior come to me from the plains and the parks, the only irregularity of which they have been guilty of late hming been the attack (July 7,1873) upon a smgll band of Arap-ahoes on tbe Little Republican, in which affair the Utesreport hzving seemed twenty-eiaht ponies and one scalp. I wrote you of this ocourrenco July 10, 1873, a telegram h&ng been reoeived by me from the K. P. R. R. agent at Deer Trail, relating the facts as nearly as he could learn them from "Pi-ah." In my letter I stated that the Ara~ahaes were the aemessors, but I have since learned from the Utes themselves |