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Show nr.?r.n m fttPLi T ^ T H * IOLLOWIKO) | " Lax.d. - DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; 5V?>-??~n ««_.'" OFFICE OF IND1AM AFFAIRS, j. , ..il-1905'. AG. 16 4-19 05. WASHINGTON. June 9,19 05. The Honorable The Secretary of the Interior. Sir: This Office has the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by Department reference for consideration and report, of a cemmuni-caticn dated Kay 24,1905, from the Acting Secretary of War, enclosing for your information, copy of a report made by Lieut. Col. Irani. West, Inspector General, Southwestern Division, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, of his investigation into the matter of the reported purchase of arms and ammunition and of tire threatened uprising on the part of the White F.iver Utes at the coming opening of the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah. Colonel West states that from inquiries he ascertained that the only places where arms and fixed ammunition are sold to these Indians are at the town of Vernal, 27 miles from Port Duchesne, Utah, and what is called "The Strip", one and cne-half miles from the Post.' First Lieutenant E.P. Crowns, 29th Infantry, went to Vernal, at the request of Colonel West. He ascertained from the merchants there that between 8 and 10 rifles (Winchester cal.30) and' 4,000 rounds of .30 calibre ammunition had been purchased there during i /AAA |