History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ^ bill passed bycongress allowed 160 acres of pasture and the sameamount of farming land to each head of a family, and80 acres to each child. The consent, first of congress,and secondly of a majority of the three bands, was tobe obtained to this arrangement, when $60,000, or as 480 INDIAN WARS. iiiucli more as congress might appropriate, should bedistributed among them. An annuity of 350,000 wasalso to be ])aid them, and a support furnished themand their cliildren until they became self-supporthig.*This schedule was so altered as to require
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History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ^ bill passed bycongress allowed 160 acres of pasture and the sameamount of farming land to each head of a family, and80 acres to each child. The consent, first of congress, and secondly of a majority of the three bands, was tobe obtained to this arrangement, when $60, 000, or as 480 INDIAN WARS. iiiucli more as congress might appropriate, should bedistributed among them. An annuity of 350, 000 wasalso to be ])aid them, and a support furnished themand their cliildren until they became self-supporthig.*This schedule was so altered as to require the sur-render of the nmrderers before the White Kiver Utesshould receive all their share of the money, and anannuity of $500 each was to be taken out of the Uteannuity to be paid to the widows of the men slain at. Uintah Reservation. the agency. On the other hand, Schurz insisted onan appropriation of $350, 000 for different objectsbeneficial to the Utes, to be expended in surveying Denver Tribune, Mar. 7, 1880. The history of the progress of the Utecommissions was reported in tlie Trihine from day to day, and from its col-umns I have drawn most of my statements and some of my conclusions.The account of the massacre, etc., contained mBmkinx Denver Hi.it., is ap- garently derived from a similar source. There is a pamphlet hy Thomasturgis, The Ute War of IS79, Clicyenne, 1879, pp. 26, .showing why the Ind-ian hureau should be transferred from the interior department to the mili-tary, which also contains a history of the outbreak. I find partial accountsin Bi/ers Centennial State, MS., 4(5-52; ^7. S. If. Doe., 1879-80; IJeU-na(Moid.) Herald, Oct., Nov., and Dec, 1879; Helena Imlependent, Oct. 16and 30, 1879; Sen. Jour. Colo, 1881, 42-3; U. S. Sen. Doc, i. 29, 4Gth cong.2d8ess.; U. S. H. Doe., ix.,