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Show . 8 . REPOBT OF TH'E COJIXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXV by the Secretmy of the Interior on the 24th of September last, and steps were immediately taken to cause the money appropriated under the 4th clause of section 9 of the act, to be paid to the Indians. Under the provisions of the first clause of the abox-e-named ag r ee-ment, no payment will be made to the White Rirer Utes until the sur-render or apprehension of those members of their nation, not get in the custody of the United States, who were implicated it1 tho murder of Agent Meeker, and the murder of, and outrages upon, the cmplo~6so f the White River Agency, on the 29th of September, 1879; or 11ntil the President shall be satisfied tha* the guilty parties ore no longer lil-ing, or have fled beyond the limits of the United States. 'I A portion of the surveys contemplated by the act and rnecessarx for the location of t.he Indians has been made, but, in consequence of the delay in the passage of the bill and the consequent lateness of the sea-son when the agreement rras ratified, comparativelr little couuld be doue towards locating the Utes in the localities designated for thenu. and operatious in this direction have been suspended until nest sprinp. The killing of tkc aopa of Clhief eflhaz.nr2atrx. Just before the Ute comn~ission had snspended its vorlr, the Ilrdialls of the Los Pinos Agency were thrown into a feverish state of escite~nent by the murder, by awhite freighter, of Johnson, son of the Chief Shax-a;?- naux. The difficulty occurred on the evening of the 29th of September last., at what is ki~owai~s Cline's Ranch,, about thirty miles distaut from the agency, on the Cimmaron. ~ar1.yth e next morning sorue thirty In-dians, headed by Chief Shavanaux, and all well armed, canre to the agency, and made known their errand. They were rery much escited, and fully determined upoil revenge. The agent, after rn~ucel~ff ort, suc-ceeded in quieting them, and taking with him a military officer and a file of fifteen soldiers, furnished by the commandant of t.he Post at the agency, proceeded with them to the scene of the outrage for the puq>ose I of arresting the murderer. On arriving at the ranch he found that the criminal had been arrested, and was in charge of a number of eitizexls of Colorado. After due consideration, it was deemed best to place the prisoner in charge of three well-known Colorado citizens, in rrhosc cus-tody the agent found him, to be taken by them to Gt~nnisou City (the nearest court having jurisdictionof the crime), and there turned over to the proper law officers of the State. The Indians and all others seemed - apparently well satisfied with this arrangement, and the agent advised the Indians to return to their homes, whereupon, as was sopposed, they all left, taking the trail across the mountains leading to the agency. The agent, the military, Colonel Meacham, and others left for their re-spective stations aoon after. The Indians, however, instigated by certain lawless white men, re-turned 6 the ranch the next mo,ming, accompanied by thwe white out-laws, and finding that the citizens had left with their prisoner for Gun- |
