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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. 485 marshals, and courts, alike. At my special request United States Marshal E. H. Parsons detailed two deputies, in addition to local deputy U. M. Curtis, to look after the whisky sellers on this reserve and vicinity, with the excellent help of my agency police. Many arrests were made, some for selling liquor to the Indians and others for having it on the reserve; but owino to the greatcost and difficulty of getting Indians to court, distant 150 miles, a& the indifference of wurts in the mattsr and the disposition to discredit Indian testimony, it has to be said that the psnalties, when conviction was obtained, were shamefully in-adequate. Yet the liquor-selling community are convinced that they can not carry on their nefarious traffic with impunity. For definite figuresseestatistics. Crimea among the Tndians have beeu almost unknown during the past year. Some quarrels and difficulties, usually the rdsult of liquor, have beeu uniiormly settled by three arbitrators appointed by the agent; their decision is usually so lair and just as to wed no alteration. This is the course I am taking to teach them some of the principles of self-government and to prepare them for the higher step of "courts of Indian offenses." Police.-My police have done their duty faithfully during the past year. Allotments.-No allotments of lands in severalty have yet been made on this rss-ervation, although much talked of by the more progress've. I am of the opinion that this important matter deserves close attention by the Department, and should be made the subject of careful inquiry by all inspectors. My own view is that the matter of making more extensive ditches will have much to do inin. ducing Indianstoseekallotments. The rearing of fruit trees and small fruit3 is also a good incentive to seeking a p~rmaneuht ome. At nodistant future these Indims will remember with gratitude the day when they were induced to culti- "ate orchards. 1ndushies.-I nots a decided improvement in all industrial lines. There are fewer positively idle Indiaus. So sooner do they hear of any authorized work than more Indians oRer their services than chn be hired. Indiana haul all agency freight (with slight exceptions in very had weather), acoompacied by a white person to transact the business. For this service they receive $2per hun-dred weight. Xissim-As a missionary field those agencies still remain unoccupied. I had a letter of inquiry from tho Rev. Theo. Hartwig, of the missionary board OF the Luthe~an Synod of Wisconsin, proposing to make a tour of inspection, prelimi-nmy to establishing a mission here, to which I replied favorably. I received a card stating that my letter would be laid before their board at its next meeting. I am hopefulthatsome favorable action will come of it, and that this loug-nsg-lectad field will be supplierl. The want is seriously felt by the fifteen or more employQs and their families, who are members of orthodox churches, and who havo faithfully maintained a Sabbath school under the careful leadership of Superintendent Binford. , UNCOMPAHGRE UTES. The Uncompahgre Utes are one of the "Confederated hands of Utes," separ-ated and located in Utnh by a commission acting under authority of an act of Congress in 1881, having formerly owned and occupied lands lying immediately east of them in the State of Colorado, where they still claim some reserved rights, mainly that of taking up lands there under United States law, same as other citizens, and also the right to hunt on partsof theirformirdomaio. This latter is still an open question, and its exercise leads to considerable friction with the local authorities of the adjoining counties and no little annoyance to the agentandemploy6s, who are yearly called upon toreturn absent Indiansand practically to guard a frontier line of about 100 miles in lenpth, with hungry In-dians on one side and tens of thousands of deer just on the other, a feat which implies a subserviency to orders and regulations on the part of the Indian sol-dom attained by white men. Sitoation-This reservation lies nearly east of and joins the Uintah. It con-tains 2,000,000 acres. about two-thirds lying on the east side of theGreen River. A considerable amoilnt of farm lands (enough for all the Indians) lies along the Lower Duchesne River, butlittle of which has yet been brought under irriga-tion, owing to the expense it would inrolvd, mar? than can be done without ex-tra Government nirl ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~.~~ 1'hn [nrlion lying east oi t l ~ eG reru R i r c ~ i ali ttlemore than uhopelc.sedcs:rt ovt!r w11it.h rha 1url:un mioht roam ar.d tend his feu flooko ant1 hnn. fopall t:nlo and his conditiuu never bL7iml,t.ovcd. l'lria fact alonu is 8lun.l.v bur s u r a l ~ss pa- |