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Show 5* 1S53 » found them disposed to be friendly. Again he • y / found the chief instigator of trouble to be white. men. traders from California, whose chief stock was liquor, who killed and robbed Indians and emigrants alike. They " steal and commit more depredations than the Indians, all of which they manage to have charged to the Indians I feel satisfied that until government throws protection over this route and places the means within the reach of the officers to enforce their authority and the laws there can be no 1 safety to travel." Hindrances. Delays and Depredations. To the various reports and admonitions the government did not respond; and in addition to the various and repeated causes of disturbances in Utah, was the fundamental one of no provision hav4ng > v » ftn_ tnaflfl f" T.. lftTid indgf^- fjnation Commissioner Hanypenny, in his reports for this year and the next, 1653 and 1^ 54, urged as remedies that new treaties be made, and that capable commissioners be appointed to study the whole subject of Indian relations in Utah - and elsewhere. " Our citizens ought to have proper protection from Indian depredations; but in the present s state of things 4n these Territories ( New Mexioo 1 Senate Executive Document, 33 Cong., 1st Seas., vol. 1, Doc. 1, p. W- 7. 2 |