Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1915 — General Dodge and Ute Queen Renew Old Pledge [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

General Dodge and Ute Queen Renew Old Pledge

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLO:—Fifty years ago Gen. Granville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, lowa, and Ouray, the great peace chief of the Ute Indians in western Colorado, swore eternal friendship to each other. A few

weeks ago this vow of friendship was renewed between the general, now past eighty years of age, and Chipeta, widow of Ouray and queen of the Ute tribe, when the-two met here by accident beside tio same spring where the original friendship oath was sworn by the Indian and the white soldier. Chipeta is now ninety-three years old and except for a rheumatic pain now and then she looks as young as any other Indian squaw who has arrived at the fifty-year mark. At the

time of the making of the original pledge a third member of the party was Chief McCook, Chipeta’s brother and brother-in-law of Ouray. And old MeCook, wearing moccasins, a white man’s shirt and suit of clothes, a collar, a derby hat and with hair hanging to his waist, was with his sister when she and General Dodge renewed their friendship. General Dodge, who is commander for life of the Army of the Tennessee, is the only major general of the Civil War yet alive and is the only Civil war corps commander living in this country. Chipeta is one of the oldest Indian women in the country and she and her brother constitute the only link between the Utes of frontier days and the present half-civilized tribe of red men, /Iv-' .i . • -I- * . i ■ nan' iimb