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Show ISJSSHRSE ! H2S?**?* 5ISS*^ i??^ ® SE INDIANS NMONTEZ t e n t t y Proposed Draft, Utss Leave Reservation In Bands and Clashes With White Settlers In Southwest of State Are F Daily the situation in the Is3% j eoaBtvy in sonta western Colorado h growing more tense, and white settlers iii the country, report that roving bands of TTtea, have recently begun a series of rtidb on the ranches of the whites wbleh km resulted in the driving $££ © f stock and the burning; oUtabim. Thess Xqd!* BS, who are operating m Mont& Atnm. county, Colo., aad Moafci-k- Ilo, X'' mkf are members of the ban*! which, tauter Old Polk ^; » n $ | Chief Poser, ) ei) m the outbreak of the IT to* when soT^ muueat agent* sought to m* rest Tse- Xe- Oat, son oft the 4& mmi,. on a ciupgaef murdering JFuaa Ciiai eon, a Mexican sheed lrtlijML, The situation has groWft'W'tt& » » ffi| that white settlers in tint i*$$ aa' In which t h e Utes are operating hav* « J# culated petitions, protesting against ike acts of the Indians, to the eomxnisaion-- er of Indian affairs at Washington, The settlers demand that the Indians be immediately rounded"' op'; aaifl| « ' turned'to the reseTv* lao^ i:*' T^*^,!:'| a| dians hare, been' B a t H T ^ ^ ^ l N^ Monteznma canon for summer• vp& mfts. ing grounds, and in recent w « dkartfe « | hnve assumed an overbearing attitude toward white settlers. Trouble between t » © white* jut< Ttft* Indians seems . certain,' 4 « eoT#^ l'M reports from Durango* ;. 9 ^ * , ; t ^ i ^ ra o£ the Indians now seem*". to* mVm switched from one of opposition to t& e proposed extension of ta « dteaf^ fj^^ as. it applies to the Indians, and fei hare assumed vvarlikft-' prt^ rtioW''. to* ward the whites*. In their complaint t* ' 9i © K ^ m t p^ siouer of Indian affairs, this * 4fwN| make it plain that they at* siajslstit 1 « | nirpid trouble, but assert'i; fwi^:. 3Wa| e* i Something is dode imme\ Hat* ly to . COIN rect the Indians, a clwb niaf^ bo- expected at any time. Complaints'•••• flfer^ f made to the Indian agent in charge of the Ute Mountain reservation, but Ju said he was powerless to; act because the depredations charged* M0^^ 0Stlt reds were committed out^^ tn*^ tw « - ervation. The outcome of the draft conference between the Ignacio and Ute chiefs at the White Rocks agency on the Uintah reset ration in Utah is not yet known. The chiefs were expected in Durango Wednesday, where they were to c w f # |