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Show WKcSal obligations so to act. for the lav gives little discretion to the J oofnf icer, making It his imperative duty to stop violations thereof* and to arrest offenders; but lo. view of the fact that these Indians clain this as their hunting ground,where they, in years gone by, have secured the meat on which to subsist- constituting on many occasions their pr.i.i cipal food-supply, and skins out of which they have made covering for their feet and clothed their bodies, and for tho further fret that it r'_ is exceedingly difficult for then to understand why Colorado should pass a law prohibiting them from hunting except at certain ooooons of the year- especially '"hen they clcXn they have a treaty with the Great Father, in which it is specially stipulated that they should always havo tiiis right. I am inclined to think that ..-lr V.ilcox would havo made no serious mistake,/certainly 1:0110 morally,) if he dh rg iven them tills timely notice, and 7 7z noXAgink he would Have been very seriously censured by his superiors if lie hod. so acted. Or, in the second p! ._._. o , c -.-".or ne nan roao.i'x_ camp a m m':.ae reasonable- efforts to arrcot -..'.: _i. T lL' d: i. o.-ns, given it up and ealL'Cd off his force. This, no doubt, would avo resulted and ZSJ doubt would hove emboldened tiie Indians no more lefiant than ever. This line of action could from a determined officer who felt lie was clothed his own -displacement X:-A_. Al 1:1 T.'l DO ox -ecooc. O 1 the law arid entrusted with the high function of its enforcement, until ' .- x the occurring of z;-o.oh condit:lon'.<as, in his ."judgment, made it a physical impossibility, or that further efforts In. that direction were useless. Hut, taking ail the circumstances a3 developed oy tiie statements |
