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Show REPORT OF AGENT IN UTAH. They also own several valuabie herds of aattle, and the Uneompahgm o m &few large floeka of oats. In fact, inlive stook the Utee may be said to be welloff. The Uintabn and ~ % i tReiv ers have also thirt,y or forty ws. ons, with which they do eon-aiderable freighting for the agency snd theegenoy trdere. Thirty new waganswill be issued to thsh in the course of the next twomonths, and then they will be able to put.fiit,y or sixty good four-horse teams on the road. Some of them ale0 make some pretensions toward farming. One band of the Unaompahgree, looatedon DuChesne River, between the agency and Fort Du Chesne, will raiae this year 25,000 ponnds of oats end a considerable amount of potatoes and melons, while theuintahe and White Rivers will raise perhaps twice a8 much of all the products named as the Unoompah-gres, and several hundred bushels of wheat besides. EYEhT8 OF TEE YEAR. Althongh not marked by any sort of advancement or improvement in the Utes, this has been an eventful year st these agaxoies. Five great crimes, besides minor ads of lswleseneea, have been eo~nmittedb y the Indians. The commission of these crimes,~ and the inabilit,y of the agent to punish the perpetrators thereof, led to the establish-ment of a military post on the Uneompahgre Reserve an the 19th of August, which almost precipitated a general and determined outbreak at both a~enoies. The 6rat of these orirues was t,hs killing and rabhing of ? white trapper named Enacll Rhodes, on Strsn,berry River, last December, by n. Wblte River named Sowsr-rump. Sowernlmp fled from the reaerve imnlediatelysfter committing the crime and has never been apprehended. He ia still 8upposp.d to be off the reserve. The next waa by thu lJncompnhps, at Ouray, atthe time of their annnitypayment in April last. Two hundrerl and ~eveut,y-nineIn dians whose names n,ppcared on the census rolls failed to present themselves for-payment, and Mr. Carson, the ap.sntthen in charge, was intimidated a11d oompelled to pay, as he believed, to save his hfr, their share of the money, no~ountingi n the aggregate t,o $1,600, to the Utes preaent, who had already reveivrd their per capits. Soon aftor this occurrenee an Uneompahp named Arowod shot and killed Shav* nenx, an Uncornpsbgro chief and "medicine man," whom Arowod socused of mslr-iog bad medicine for his two eon6 who had died a short timo before, After shooting Shavnnanf, Arawod started to ride away, but did not get out of gunshot range before his body was picroed by a t least s honhcad Winohe~tear nd revolver balls fired a t him by Shavsoanx's friends who happened to he near at hand st the time. A rope was then nut, around Arowod's feet aud he wall drszeed to the bank of Du Chesus River man," sod, I may idd, a bad man xnd had a.t.teGded Pap Rice'a two sons, both of whom died. Meetins Wash some timo herward. Xiee said to him. I' You have killed both ~~~ ~~ ~ - ~~ of my aons nncl JUU 8 1 1 i ~ l . r na wvll kill ntr." 1,'~nmtruinzt I1.8r remmk to lbe 8, t l ~ r vu~ft bi, o\vrb IIIP, \Vnrl~l c\clc:ll hin XU" ill ~ I I Po lcl i l lal l i l l t t l firr<l, k i i l i n~h ilrl inrturltly. Wl~~vronl h.<lt o aceottut t'ur {ha durd. tltc- I#c.ari u.ilitirarim lIt.11 \ \ a 4 or bis Rirnds oould offer for it was that Rice, being rather a,; old man, had only s few yenm to live anyhow, and that, therefore, no very great wrong had been done. THE MILITARY-PORT DU CHESNE-THREATEWED OUTBREAK. . On the 19th of August a force of four companies of infantry and two of cavalry, under command of Col. F. W. Benteen, marched into the Unoompahgre Reserve and went into camp at a place near the junction of Uintah arid Du Cheene Rivere, about half wtsvbetween the two aeencies. which thev cdledFort DuChesne. Fort DnChesne ia to bo6 prrmnnpnr pusr, &d thu prrsenrc uithe rruops had m f i l l . , in ms i~l~lgment, hsnl a benalieial effect upor, the lndiaud. Ar fint thej ntade 881, tlteir milrds to rt.aiat the, inrnriou uf their resen.rs by the Army, and fur ouver~l dapr a grnaral and do-wnnirled nutbreak necmcd likely to occur at any mr,mrut. But the crisir n.:&a finn1l.v p:wsed wirlic,ur any act8 of violcntc, and nr prrsenr rlne Indian3 sllpear to bt ne..ll-ciltrd to the presdnce of troopn in the ca,unrrg. If permitted to suggest the nee& of these Indians, I would say that first of a11 they need a ntrong, rigorous, fearless, and honest went; and, next, fewer annuity goods and supplies, and at least two additional or as&tant farmers for Onray Agency and |