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Show I .< Com. -4- One citizen of Hayden told .me that it "might have been a bootlegger who had been scared"by me who made the remarks. There is such a boot legger In the community whose place has been watched by myself and my policemen and upon whom Special Officer Kennstt made an attempted raid while he was in here. But it was not confined to one disgruntled bootlegger.- There were several who assiimed the same attitude. In fact the annual Sun Dance is a.bout theonly excitement cr croud the village of Hayden ever has, and it brings considerable crouds of both Indians and whites through their place. It thus means some little trade to them and thoy would naturally resent efforts to discontinue it. Then again there is some sentiment among the whitenfarmers generally to the effect that the Indians have no business to get on their land and farm; that they ought to be paid their money Mid let the white men have the land and water. This class of white men therefore rejoice in all the roving dancing idle habits the Utes possess and pould accentuate them if they could. I will admit that I was taken unawares by the turn the affair took, for I thought we had them bluffed out of the dance completely; and we did, too, except for this interference. U.S .l-arshal Acuilla Usbeker of Salt Lake cams to-Vernal,o.':" 23 miles from where the dance was held, arriving there two days after the dance had closed. He wired me to meet him there to discuss the matter, which I did; but there was about nothing then which could be done except to sow seed o/hich might operate to make the prevention of the dance next year more easy. |