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Show li -2- dead. This matter that you desire to talk about is cold. It lias been dead a long time, and there is no occasion to try to revive it . I do not w Lsh to talk about it. My attitude t oo.ard the white has always been friendly, decidedly so, I do not need to say this, for everyone knows it to be a fact. Hover have I had an unkind feeling or an unkind thought toward ths Government in .7ashin.gt.on-. and if I were to express just 5?hat I have in my mind today, and what I have in my mind constantly, relative to this subject, someone would misunderstand me .and think that Chipeta's heart has changed and that she is no longer friendly toward the G-overnment. __"his would be the Result regardless of the facts. There is no unkind feeling in my heart, and I do not. wish to discuss the subject for fear that someone oil! fail to understand my attitude"; and here the- old lady ceased speaking, and it required some diplomacy to get her started again. I said: "Chipeta, I am a new cowner here and I have heard various reports and I do not ..now whether the sa reports are true, because I have never heard of the matter direct from yea. It has been reported to me that i.n yoar old home in Colorado yon. were v^Ty comfortably fixed up; that you had a good house, two or three rooms, veil furnished; that you had a nice farm and that you one' your husband, Ouray, were very happily located thereon; that the |