POPE Headquarters Dept. of the Missouri
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Sept. 13, 1879
Colonel: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a copy of letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the depredations and other bad conduct of the Ute Indians belonging to the White River Agency in Colorado, with the endorsements thereon, and I respectfully submit the following report of the facts concerning that agency.
The letter of Indian Agent Meeker has…