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Show Indians, principally the Y/hi te River and I have conferred v/ith other people acquainted v/ith conditions here whom I could reach and urged upon them the .r.oae i ssity of obeying Departmental orders and to advise until" the matter could be fully investigated. Yesterday morning, July 2nd, it was reported to me that the Indians were dancing. Cr. the evening of the 2nd I met.a number of the Utes who are in Vernal for the 4th of July celebration; also "iy ".'/hitlock, and others who are acquainted with the Indians, and yy informed by them that the Sun dance had ceased at noon on the ?wi of July, and that everything n.vas quiet and there v/as no danger of on outbreak of any kind, of which condition I promptly mired you. In my opinion, the action oo the-part of the Indians in persisting in this dance, was a -isunderstanding by theo, because the former agent, Capt C. C-. nail, 33 .v.r;.'.itt'*d them to indulge In this fun Dance, with the •unde 1-3 tar ding that it should not laat longer than three X . 0ll arc not familiar with the o'u-i Dance, I -'. P omolain that it is a religious ceremony and is observed by nearly all the Indian tribes where it has not |