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Show 362 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. bring them a large price. There is still remaining a small balance of the appropriation unexpended, which I propose to invest in vegetable seed to send out in the early spring. The corn crop of the Indians has deteriorated greatly from long planting, and a small appropriation for the purchase of corn and other seed would be very beneficial. very respectfully, your obedient servant, SYLVESTER NOWRY. Hon. A. B. GREENWOOD, Cnnmissioner of I d a m Affcuirs. No. 174. UTAH~ UPERINTWTDENCY, GREATS ALTL AKEC ITY, September 29. 1859. a SIR: In accordance with the regulations of the Indian department, I have the honor to submit the followin-g as my annual report for the A year 1853. Since the date of my last annual report, certain acts occurred in the vicinity of Spanish Fork Indian farm, which have been detailed to the department in letters. Two Indians belonging to the above farm were charged with attempt-ing to commit a rape on a Danish woman and her daughter. These Indians, Mose and Looking-glass, were arrested in October, 1858, by a detachment of the United States army, on a requisition from Gov-ernor Cumming. It is a matter of much regret that an inoffensive chief of the Utahs was killed by a dragoon in the supposed performance of his duty. The death of this chief caused great commotion among the southern bands of Ubbs. It required my presence in their midst several times. During this period of excitement, twoinhabitants of the Territory were found dead near Fillmore, supposed to have been killed by Indians. An Indian was found dead in the vicinity of the dead bodies of the white men. My investigations have not enabled me to identify the mur-derers. Mose and Looking-glass were arrested, as I before stated, and were subsequently discharged by the United States judge presiding in that district. INDIANS. The Indians, claiming a home in Utah Territory, are evidently the offspring of two nations who migrated west of the Rocky mountains from the northwest many years ago. It is proba.ble that most of the descendants of thoso nations are now within the boundmy of this Terri-tory. They have greatly decreased in numbers, and proportionately in their mental and physical condition, during the past thirty years. Their degeneracy in the mode of living and comforts hae been more manifest during that period. |