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Show 4D Itormon and non- Mormon Indian agents. This unfortunate olroumstanoe was undoubtedly the greatest deterrent to harmony among the oonfllotlng groups of occupants of the Territory, for falling in amicable oooperatlon, federal and Mormon agents could not achieve even the beginning of a friendly understanding between the government and the Indians, who were bewildered by the opposing tactics of the two parties. Both agents, Day and Holeman, suffered annoyances from the Hormone. Fearing spies, they frequently sent letters outside the Territory to be mailed. Both protested in their reports to Commissioner Lea that Young should not be superintendent, that he used the office to promote the interest of his people. Holeman recounted that Young and the Uormon sub- agent, S. B. Hose, had taken presents to placate Indians in a section of the country where Mormons were making a new settlement contrary to the wishes of the Indians of the region. These presents were provided at the expense of the federal government, not so serious an offense in itself, but the friendship purchased thereby was for the Mormons, and against the United States beoause the Indians were made to believe the former were their |