| 26BUFFALO BILL'S BELIEF.
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UPON THE TROUBLE WITH THE
UTES.
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He Does Not Apprehend Any Serious
[?]--His Opinion of the
Indians.
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Buffalo Bill and troupe arrived in the
city yesterday morning, and took quarters
at the Oliver house. In the evening
a TELEGRAM reporter called upon
Mr. Cody at the hotel, and found him
comfortably seated in room 37, relating
some of hsi western experiences to Mr.
Lewis Leppleman, of Fremont, and Mr.
Maurice Judd, of this city.
Buffalo Bill is as fine a specimen of his race
and class as could anywhere be
found, and that is saying a good deal,
for honest hearts and [st?] frames
and handsome features are not rare
among the pioneers of western
civilization. It might be supposed that these
hunters and Indian trailers are disagreeable
people to come across. That is
not the case at all. There are of course
some rough characters, regular deepers
does, among them, and they occassionally
shoot each other pretty freeling in gambling
quarrels and [?] spree; but to
a stranger who knows how to behave
himself they are as far as experience
goes, most civil and [?]. If a man
is civil to them they will be civil to him,
and if he does not interfere about their
affairs they wont bother about his, unless
he wants their assistance, and then
they will be ready and willing to give.
The manly sense of independence, the self
respect, and that feeling of respect for
others engendered by it which so strongly
characterize the American people, are
as deeply marked and have as good an
effect among the nomads of the west as
in any other class of the population.
Buffalo Bill made his first trip east of
the Mississippi in the winter of 1872,
and since that time he has appeared in
all the principal theaters of the east and
west. As an actor he has gained a worldwide
reparation second to none. He
confines himself exclusively to border
dramas, which give him an excellent
opportunity to display his great skill
as a marksman.
As scon as the gentlemen present had
taken their leave, the reporter struck up
a conversation with Mr. Cody, by [?]
referring to that never exhausted subject,
the weather, which was thoroughly
discussed, as well as the probabilities
for the future, and then the question
as to when he had opened the season
was broached.
"I opened in New York on the 23rd of
August," replied Mr. Cody, "and have
met with a good reception wherever I
have [?]
"Not in the least, but they are like
every other class of people, they like to
defend their rights. I believe the Indians
are more sinned against than [?].
The Indians hate miners. They would
rather see ten companies of soldiers up
on their reservations than one miner,
and the reason for this is that they know
soldiers will not remain long, they
simply hang around a few days and then
return to the posts, but when they see a
miner coming among them with a pick
on his shoulder and a spade in his hand,
they at once comes to the
conclusion that he has come
to stay, and if they try to maintain their
rights and someone happens to be
killed the story is at once set afloat that
the Indians are on the war-path. During
my acquaintance with the Indians I
have never known a treaty to be broken
but what the whites were as much at
fault as the red skins. You remember,
said Mr. Cody, of a few
years ago when the government had
trouble with the Ponca tribe. They
were always considered as the most
peaceful tribe in the west. They had a
[?] reservation in Nebraska upon which
they had built houses and expected to
live and die there. But as a civilization
advanced [?], their reservation
was wasted by the whites, and the government
made them a proposition to exchange
for one in the Indian territory
and a certain sum of money. The Ponca's
refused the proposition, as they
had lived there a great while, and their
friends who had died were buried there,
and there were a great many like incidents
connected with the place which made it
as a home to them. But the government
was determined and actually picked them
up bodily, so to speak, and sent them
down into Indian territory. The
climate there proved too warm
the fact that the people of Colorado are
anxious to get rid of them, and should
they show the least warlike disposition,
the governor could raise an army of
20,000 within twenty-four hours, and
with such an opposition it would be an
easy matter to exterminate them.
Nothing more suggesting itself, the reporter,
after thanking Mr. Cody for the
valuable information he had received,
withdrew. Mr. Cody and company will
leave at 8:40 o'clock this morning for
Detroit, where he appears this and
tomorrow evenings.
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