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Show copy. UNITED STATES I2IDIAH SERVICE, Uintah Agency, Utah, November 12th, lSí .X Major Chaffee, Commíinding Fort DuChesne, Utah. S i r : On Saturday evening, the lOth i n s t a n t , yotir Adjutant Lieuten-ant Anderson, shovied me a t e l e g r am dated the Qth i r i s t a h t , frorn General Brooke, addreosed to yoürcolf, in r e f a r e n c e I".o come Indians b e i n g in P.otrtt County, Colorado. I at once c a l l e d a Oouncil oí' vihat Indiano that vrere naar the Agency and t o l d f.ham what I had he a r e l . I era d i s p o s e d to t h i n k that the Indians spoken oí in the t e l e g r am are Indiano frorn Uintah Agency to nhom pasóos ivere given to hunt at Douglass Springs, \7yoming. They viere c a u t i o n e d not to go i n t o the S t a t e oZ Colorado. The Indiano have gene :- l ü t lo f a r t h e r fchan t h e i r p a s r . e s p e r i n i t t e d , but I am c e r t a i n t h a t they w i ll harrc no one or in any iva y i n t e r i o r e with the ra..nchnen. They are h u n t i n g on t h e p u b l i e domain vrhicb I should t h i n k they would have as nrnch p r i v i l e g e to do as the white man. Au agreement v/ith them in 1873 g r a n t s them the p r i v i l e g e to hnnt on the p u b l i e domain in t h e S t a t e of Colorado. I simply montion t h i s as an excuse for the Indiana going. On Saturday evening I s e n t tvio of the p r i n c i p al |
