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Show Relations with Non- Indians - 541 Letter with petition to Secretary of the Interior Hobbs forward to the secretary a petition signed by many settlers of San Juan County, Utah, requesting that lands set aside for the Southern Ute Indians be restored to the public domain. Attached is the petition. NA, RG 75, BIA/ 28052 Aug. 12, 1893 Bartholomew, Charles, Indian Agent, So. Ute Agency Letter to General A. McD, McCook, U. S. Army Bartholomew informs the general that the So. Ute Indians who are off the reservation to hunt, do so by right of a treaty. The Indians will not harm the settlers as long as they are left to do what they have a right to do. The governor of Colorado should be encouraged to restrain his people from threatening violence and unlawful interference with these Indians. FRCD/ RG 7 5 Sept. 1, 1893 Freeman, W. B., Acting Agent, So. Ute Agency Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Freeman submits a monthly report for August, 1893. He mentions that Palo Negro and two of his friends took from a white man a horse that had been stolen from him four years ago. David Root injured his leg in the Blue Mountains and it had to be amputated. Farming Indians are busy harvesting hay and grain. 1894 Cannon, John Q. " When the Utes Invaded Utah" Improvement Era, November, 1928 Cannon gives his version of what Governor West called an " invasion" by the Southern Utes in Grand and San Juan counties. Feb. 9, 1894 Day, David F., Agent |