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<br />0167 <br /> <br />When Mr. Brunot received notice of his appointment. <br /> <br />he was at his headquarters at cheyenne. Wyoming, and just <br /> <br />ready to make his departure to serve on a commission <br /> <br />attempting to secure a treaty cession from the Crow In- <br />4 <br />dians. About the same time that he received notice of <br /> <br />his appointment to the ute Commission and before receiv- <br /> <br />ing his instructions from the commissioner of Indian <br /> <br />affairs. he received a telegram from Charles Adams then <br /> <br />agent of the Los pinos agency stating that he and Ouray <br /> <br />were at Denver and that Ouray desired to talk to him. <br /> <br />They were invited to come to Cheyenne for a conference <br /> <br />and arrived at noon, June 25. The object of Ouray's visit <br /> <br />was to hear what prospect there was for the recovery of <br /> <br />his son. a young man who had been captured by the Sioux <br /> <br />in a battle between them and the utes on the Republican <br /> <br />River. in Kansas. some ten years before. After his <br /> <br />capture Ouray had heard nothing of him except that he had <br /> <br />learned from a Mexican woman. who had lived among the <br /> <br />Sioux that the boy was still alive. On Mr. Brunot's <br /> <br />visit to the Los pinos agency the year before Ouray had <br /> <br />mentioned the matter to him and Brunot had promised to <br /> <br />do all that he could do to find the boy. <br /> <br />4. Ibid. p. 481. <br /> <br />-17- <br />