To E.J. Brooks,
Acting Commissioner
Indian Affairs,
Letter from Indian Agent Meeker, Dated July 2, just received, has asked me to appeal to the military, and says the commander at Fort Steele pays no attention to his repeated requests to keep Indians where they belong. He says Chief Douglas has sent scouts to recall his band, but the other Indians belong to nobody. I have no information whether they have started home. The Utes have burned more timber the last few weeks than the white settlers have cut in twenty years.
FREDERICK W. PITKIN, Governor
(Telegram, Dated Denver, Colo., July 8, 1879)
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