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Show 107 Congress in 1863 made an appropriation for the purpose of negotiating treaties with the Indiana of Utah. A commission was appointed to effect the neogtiation, consisting of Superintendent Doty, Agent 1 Mann, and Henry Martin' . Siiperintendent Doty, with General Connor, commanding officer of the Utah military department, made oral treaties with various Utah bands, being without instructions from the department. Consequently their work was of only a very tenporary character, to secure peace for the moment. Warfare Again. Meanwhile, the opportunity to make good with the reservations had been so long neglected that from 1857 to 1862 outbreaks were ofl frequent occurrence and wore only successfully resisted by volunteers. In 1863, Connor put down, with terrific slaughter, the Shoshone and Bannacka in Northern Utah, where for fifteen years the northern tribes had infested the overland mail route. In the same year Colonel G. S. Evans defeated the Utahs in an outbreak near the Spanish Forkv 1 Indian AffairB Rerort, 1862, p. 33. 3 Ibid., 1863, p. 393. 3 Bancroft, Kuber Howe, History of Utah, p. 630. |