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Show The issue of flour, sugar, and coffee at Tularosa will have a tendency to make them Indians discontended when they loern it, aa they certainly will, and I respectfully sug-gest and request that tho same articles, in the same proportions, be issued at this apenoy. These Indians are and have been behaving better than there was remoo to expect, and without prontises or hope of reward. They are entitled M as good treat-m n t as any, and are much more deservin than those of the Tula~osaA gencg. Cou-tracts about to be let for a year's sup& of beef-cattle and two hundred thaosaod pounds of corn. UTE AGENCY. * These Indians (the Capote and Weminuche Utes) have been very unsettled during the past summer, principally on account of the efirts ~nnde by the agent to recover s quantity of stook taken by them in May last, to enable them, a8 they said, to visit ths Great Spirit, who would be visible at Green River, in Utah, at a osrtsin time. I t wos thought thin stock had been taken by Sobetn's band of Capates, and upon learning thst troops had been ordered to pursue Sohstu'a band, and to bring it; to Tierra Ama-rill*, if necessary, I reqnested the con,mandiug "Ricer of this military district to direct the officer in command of this force to eonstllt with the agent of these Indims regard-ing the necessitgforpnrsuit st thnt time, and sent him n copy of aoommuoication,j~~st reeeivedfrom theagent,ststingthat the Indiana were peaceable, and he thought most of the stolen stook would bedelivered up to him for the own8rs. As troops had been ordered to that agency, I direot,ed the agent to make every eEod to recover the stook peace-ably, and when all other means bad failed to on11 upon the o5cer in command of the troops for assistance, should he oausider if necessary to enforce hie demands, but to avoid a oollision between the troops and Iudians, if possibla. A council wae called, which was very uosatiafaotory, and the reault was a akirmiah between the troops and the Indians lasting ahout an hour, in which one soldier and two horsae were~ounded, and one ~odi ana nd severs1 horses killed. After the fi ht a Mexican, named "Luoero," was killed by the Iodiaus. At the request of General soward, apecind Indian Coturnis-sioner, I visited that agency on-the 28th of Jone and held a cooncil with the principal chiefs of the Capotes, at wbioll they expressed their willinguaas to deliver np the stoek as soon aa it could be found, but thst it might take several months, as most of the stack was with the Weminoches in Utah. They said they would deliver up the thieves also, but that they did not know who or vhare tbey were, &c. I gave them twenty days, in which to do both, telling them I would aak for troop;, to Galrethem by force if my demands were not oon>plicrl with at that time. The time givon them haviogexpired,I directed the agent to ask for tmops, and to proceed with them to take the atoleo stookaad thieves, aud also to demand and take the n~nrdereros f Agent Miller, who ware known, and whose description bad been sent him by one Major W. R. Price, , United States Agent, who was in aommaud of the troops io that seation, between whom aud the went there hail been a. perfect understanding, prpmptly firmished the force asked for and moompnnied it in person, rendering ail p o~s~bal ess istance to the agent; but as the Weminooi~es ore in Ubah, their efforts have been nusuccessful ex-cept to recover about fifteen heed of stock delivured up by the Capotes. All the troops have been ordered back to their proper stutiaus, md the trouble with the Utes seems to be settled for the present. The murderers of AgentMiller srawit,h the Wmlinuehes, but they are well known, and I hope to secure them in time. This agemy was re-moved from Abiquiu to Tierra Amarilla in Jnna last, the latter place being more remote from the settlements, and easier of aooess to the Iudians, who onn visit their agent without ooming. in oontaot with the oitieens. In view of the faot thnt no adequate provision has been made for these Iodisns by the Dspsstment, and thst t,heg are depeudnnt solely tipon the limited supply of pm-visions and clothing that om be furnished from the fund for the contingoeat expenses of thesuperintendenoy, Irespect,fully requent thst their proportion (and a180 the pro-portion of the Mnooha Utes at Cimmaroo) of the funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of the treaty of 1868, made with th* seven bands of Colorado Utes, aodalso their proportion of the annuity-goods furniahnd under that treaty, be sent to me annu-ally, for the benefit of these tbree bands (the Capotea, Werninuohes and Muacbes,) living in this territory. It is true they do not recognize the treaty, nayin au m,an-thoriznd person claimed to represent them a% its signing; but ss they are t&rse of the neven bands with whieh the treaty was made, and as Congress has rode no other pro-vision for them, I respeotfully present their alsiln to three-sevsuths of the amount of funds nod annuity-goods furnished uuder the treaty. The bohavior of theseUtes during the past year will compare favorably with that of any of the wild tribe8 of this super-intendehou, and, b e~o n dd oubt, the ereat mmaiorits of them are and have been disao~ed to be pea&abl*,'and they are entitlgd to ooriidn<ation. I n mr last mnual renort I recommended that atemuorsrv" s~ooe~n ov ~. ~~~ ~ ~ s favo&llc puiut uu tl;,r Ynn Juuu Kiret., r i r l r H vivw' ro mnke it grsrxruurur al~c~nrltailt i azellt b l 2 ancrrsrfill i l l Ilia effUrr~ 10 indllra 1Iov IlNlinlLc to taL6 nu interrrt in tkrzni~~;., an11I ill" more tlvarr crer cunvinccrl $11 !la pracrieability act81 irs Bl ~ n ls ucccs. Ir \\.oul<I |
