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Show 40 sed the executions and gained the impression that Gunnison's murder-ers would be dealt with similarly. J When they were not, increased suspicion and distrust between federal officials and the Mormons resulted. Other issues were also to outline sharply the difference between the settlers of Utah and the officials of their federal government in Washington, D.C. The differences between the federal officials and Governor Young were pronounced even before the coming of the Walker War. The case of Jacob Holeman illustrates the problem. Holeman came to Utah after some federal officials "fled" in 1851. The "runaway" officers, as the Mormons styled them, were protesting what they considered complete control by the Saints. In that same year (l85l), Holeman came to replace sub-agent Henry R. Day, who had fled. For a short period of time Holeman and Young were in harmony in relation to the handling of Indian affairs. Holeman attended a meeting of several Indian tribes at Fort Laramie later where both the Indians and the mountain men told (of the efforts of the Mormons to secure the eastern entrance to the Salt Lake Valley at the expense of the hunters and trappers. Holeman's letters, directed to Washington, D.C. instead of to Brigham Young, Superintendent ex-officio of Indian Affairs, were to 13David H. Miller, op_. cit. , p. 163. -^Alan E. Haynes, "The Federal Government and its Policies Regarding the Frontier Era of Utah Territory, 1850-1877," (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, Catholic University of America, 1968), pp. 6O-65. |