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Show -nUHjt- Tho Indian respects governmental authority. The Ute bowed to it when he accepted his allotment and returned to his former homo; but no transient in temporary control of raiaisterial affairs will be able to direct his energy. He wents to know that the man in charge is clothed with authority. He will determine for himself if that man is for or against him. Prom one e_X of the reservation to the other we heard practically but one demand: "We want an agent, not somebody, again somebody and then you come." These people want someone that they can go to with some assurance that he will be the same person they will have to look to for the fulfillment of any promise. They feel that against their wishes one million acres of lard was taken from them and opened to settlement, and that another million was oleced in a forest reserve with the understanding they were to receive the revenue until 1920. They have witnessed the settler on the ceded lands improve his claim with timber out from the forest reserve under a free use permit. They have been helpless to prevent the cattle and shxep of the white men from crossing their exclusive range of 250,000 acres to reaoh the forest ranges for which the white man pays, but no part of whioh goes to reimburse the Indian, and they realia© that greater returns are being derived from the reserved lands than they can ultimately receive from the |