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Show ' • ' \ f TlUES AND PLACCS OF HOLDING COURT, ' \ F A . ""' DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AT «ALT I,'." t CITV-Second Mondays in Apr,! .|Jd November. AT 0.:UI:N-Second Mondays in March .-aid OFFICC OF September. UNITED STATES MARSHAL, y July 7th,1914 DISTRICT OF UTAH. SALT LAKE CITY. WAV. Ray, District Atty. Salt Lake City, Utah. Sir: Pursuant to the telegram received from the Attorney General a copy of which is as follows; to-wit, •^Washington, July 2,1914 Ray,U.S.Atty. Salt Lake Utah. Answering your wire today,send Marshal or Deputies to Vernal to take any action allowed by law for purposes stated in previous telegram.-3" Signed,"McReynolds. " And pursuant to your instructions,I proceeded to Vernal July 3,1914,by Rio Grande Railway to Mack,Colorado, and thence to Vernal via Uintah Transportation Co. this being the route by which I could reach Vernal,Utah in the quickest possible time. I arrived-at Vernal, Utah the evening of July 3. I had telegraphed Mr J.D.Martin from Watson,Col.to meet me at Vernal for conference,while Mr Martin,I learned/ did not receive my telegram,I found hi in at Vernal evening of July 3,he having come up from Pt.Duchesne to purchase some horses. f I learned from Mr Martinmas well as from other sour© -ceo,that the "Sun Dance", which I was directed to use all lawful means to prevent, had already taken place on Lake Fork,about thirty miles north west of the town of Myton, in the Uintah Basin,and about fifty miles from Vernal. i My information was that the "Dance" began June 30, and ended July 2, There were about eight male Indians v/ho were active participants in the ceremony,which was witnessed by about three hundred Indians of both sexes. My information was that there were no ill effects from the "Dance",. The old idea of testing the ability to endure pain to initiate the subject into the band of warriors having been eliminated from the ceremony,as the necessity for warriors has passed,and the idea of its affording curative effects being now most prominent. Prom what I learnedjfrom the only white man who was present, with whom I had the opportunity to confer., and who was present only as a matter of curiosity,; the Indians were indulging in the dance more from the opinion possesed by them Afgeenlt othfha adti tnsto hb eae riiinnggth ter tfhteoeri erin ncrteie grhof^fea rnetd;h oer oD neip nav /roitttmhee nrwth iwcoohrr d Astg,hetn htIe n idIsin adanin a n s |