Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — RUNNING FROM RED-SKINS. [ARTICLE]

RUNNING FROM RED-SKINS.

Serious Uprising Among the Ute Indians in Colorado. Wild Excitement Among the Settlers— Driven Before the Marauders—All Settlers Warned to Leave—A Bloody Time Feared. The White River Utes are reported to have gone on the war-path again under the lead of Coloro w, and to be slaughtering citizens. The Mayor of Meeker, together with the County Commissioners and secretary of the stockgrowers’ association at that place, telegraphed Gov. A dams Friday, from Greenwood Springs, that the Utes have been firing on the citizens above Meeker and have sent runners to Uintah agency to call out the war party.. The citizens are flocking into Meeker from ranches. An appeal is made for troops and amunition.

Rawlins, Wy. T., Aug. 16. —A messenger has jußt arrived from White river, Colorado, who reports that about 15# Utes are fighting at Beaver creek, fifteen miles from Meeker. Families are rushing iqto Meeker, and more Indians are coming. The country is all on fire below Meeker, between the White' anil Bear rivers. Mr. Golden, the messenger, is trustworthy. One hundred mounted men are ready and will march on the Utes. Women are making bandages,and the town is thoroughly excited. Grand Jt .wtion.Col., August l(i. —The manager of the Philadelphia Gattie.company came in Monday from White river. He says some white men met the couriers from the Uintah reservation, below Rangelv, and the Indians forced them back and drove them before them at full speed. The Decker brothers and ot liter cattlemen are riding night and day, gathering.up their cattle and hhrrying them frord the White river range. All settlers in the locality have been warned by white couriers to leave, and they are abandoning everthing to getaway before the Indians can arrive from the reservation.