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Show had told him this, but at the time I waa mm ® * I told him the Utes had just started some of them % ® Arm and were poor people. He told me that we had an ftgwt hare and whatever'we needed to come to him and that Is why v? t are here to- day. I have heard that you have mM* out a paper with all the young men's names from eighteen to forty five. I want you to rub" those names off that paper, I do not want any of these Utes to register. If, as you aay, the Government has said that all Indians between these ages mist register, I wish you would write to the Commissioner tt& 0.3k him if there is not some way for him to fix it for us so we will not have to register. But if he tells us in his letter that we must register, I do not want any of the Utes to register. We do not blame you for this business and we know that you are not doing this, that it is all the Government1' a work. There are a few of the older Indians who believe that It is the agent who is sending those boys to war and they talk about thli, but they do not know. ' I wish you would write all the things I have said to the Commissioner and ask nim to write to us." Thore were several Indians who spoke in confirmation of Buckskin CharlieTs remarks which were of greater length than quoted above, but I believe the above quotation covers every thing that he said. Tery respectfully, Superintendent. |