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Show Salt Lake City, Utah, April 6, 1923. " I-. on. Secretary of Interior. I hnve tli.: honor to enclose herewith - communication of ,7. 7. Oibbs concerning the Piute Indians as published in our Utah paper - the Tribune. I. consider it very moderate, very sensible and vary honest. I am glad to find that there is one white man living in the vicinity of the Piute Indians who is disposed to do right with those people. I also enclose clipping from report of Tribune correspondent, giving the Indians' side of the trouble and showing the barren country in which they are situated; and that t}: er>}- is not more than enough arable land where the Piutes are * than^- v; ill provide homes for six or eight families. for the homesteads of the Indians. All reports ^ nov; that the Piute Indians have been knocked about and all their good lands taken from them by the white/ until they are now in the condition of hunted wild ar. im'jls and it is not strange that they should now commit some acts of desperation occasionally. I think no effort has been made to establish them on .... ->.,. o o » Prom the treatment they have received at the hands of • ernment, it would be wrong to expect them to do any go od i o r th ems eIve s. If the Honorable Secretary will give me the authority of a special agent, I will go down there at once,, without compensation other than my actual and necessary expenses, and see what can be done for those Indians in the \? ay of providing liomesteads. for them4 Iiy own idea is that all the good lands in the vicinity of the Piutes is now taken by white settlers and as there is no longer any vacant country where they can be given another reservation, the best thing to do, perhaps the only thing, that |
