The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-25

BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
THE IDAHO INDIAN WAR.
The Settlers Without Arms.
Complaints Of the Indians About
their Agents.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.

San Francisco, June 23.-A press
dispatch from Boise City, says Judge
Kelley, Of the Idaho Statesman, who left
here Monday, the 18Th instant, to take
arms to the people OF the WeiSer Valleys,
returned here this morning. He reports
that the people OF these valleys have left
their farms, and nearly all assembled in
Lower WeiSer Valley, near JeiFries,
where they are constructing fort Wei.
ser Valley Is directly on the line Of Indian
travel Of the northern and southern sec.
tions and is very much exposed to In.
dian raids. A number OF Indians pro.
Teasing to be friendly are encamped near
upper settlements on the WeiSer, and
many others are known 10 be roaming
through the mountains. This il nothing
unusual, as they have been always allow.
ed to leave the reservations and 20 wher.
ever they pleased, They have protited
by the opportunities given them to be-
come thoroughly acquainted with the
condition Of the settlers, and to prepare
Themselves for whatever canrse they
might choose to take. They are gener-
ally we'll armed, while the neglect Of the
Government ha4 left the country exposed
to whatever they may choose to do to
people without arms and virtually de.
lenseless.
Captain Robbins, with eight men, left
this morning to go to the relief OF the
people shut up in the stockade fort at
State Creek. At Middleton, forty miles
from here, he will Join Lieutenant Gray
with twenty-five men, the other twenty.
one men Of the party volunteering here
being obliged TO remain behind, on ac.
count OF the scarcity OF arms, ammu.
milton and means.
AN INTERVIEW WITH FRIENDLY INDIANS.
Hon. Thos. L. Logan, Mayor Of Boise
City, and Hon. j. n, CoAton, member Of
the Legislative Council, who left here
Wednesday for the purpose Of visiting
the indians enCamptd on the Great Cam.
as Frairie, seventy.tve miles southeast
OF this place, returned at noon to-day,
accompanied by fourteen OF the principal
chiefs OF Indians there assembled There
are now encamped in the locality about
1900 Indians, OF both sexes and all ages,
embracing members OF the Bannock,
Shoshone and Yellowstone tribes. Logan
and COston went to Willow Greek, forty
miles distant, where they found party
Of Indians cmcamped. They made
known their object 10 ascertain the dispO.
Sition OF the Indians and their intentions.
The Indians were asked 10 send forward
their best rider to the main camp, and
request the principal chiefs to meet Com.
missioners at Willow Creek. The In.
diaCs complied and soon the chiefs made
their appearance. An interview took
place, which revealed the fact that these
Indians had been visited by.
EMIssARIEs FROM THE NEz rERcEs
and other hostiles in the North, and that
a portion OF them had been considering
whether to remain friendly to the whites
or join the hostIlCs. This came ont Incl.
dentully, the Indians protesting all the
time the utmost frienlliness to the whites,
and determination to remain faithful
to former treaties and pledges.
The Commissioners then induced the
chiefs to accompany them TO Boise City
and have talk with the Governor. Jas.
Dempsey, an lrishman, who has been
long with these Indians and understands
their language, came with them as an In.
tGrpreter. On arrival in town the chiefs
met the Governor in the Executive Cham.
Der, when an interview took place in the
presence OF Logan, Coston and several
citizens, the result OF which has not vet
been ascertained.
LATER.
In an interview between Governor
Brayman the Indian chief, Major Jim,
chief OF the Bannocks, was the principal
speaker, and after having assured the
Governor that the Dannocks and Shos.
homes were friendly towards the whites,
\ lt:a should render no assistance to the
Nez Perces in the present outbreak, in re.
ply TO the question as 10 what his people
proposed to do during the sumner, Mai.
jim replied: ave go to Montana 10
hunt buffalo, TO get something to trade for
food for our little ones. Indians are like
the whites, they do different things TO get
the means Of living. Your people make
farms and fence up all the country. In.
dians have the farm, too, which is the
great Camas Prairie, where our wo-
men dig roots TO feed themselves
and their children, while the men
drive too many hogs and cattle upon tho
prairie, which eat up and destroyed the
roots OF the Camas, our children will
suffer from hunger. Fuller, the agent al
Lempi, takes the blankets which are sent
to us from Washington and cuts them in
two; he gives us half Of the blanket and
sells the other half. Donaldson, agent al
Fort Hall, is always angry with us and
treats us roughly. he divides blankets
like Fuller, and sells good horses from
the Reservation, and puts the poor In
dian ponies in their places. We wish to
have these agents taken away, and good
honest men sent 10 us. We don't like
Fort Hall; it is too cold; nothing will
grow there. We wish to have the great
Camas Prairie put with Fort Hall Reser'
VNtion, so that we can live there in sum
mer and dig Camas. We never sold OF
gave away Camas Prairie. We had moth
ing to do with any treaty which would
take it away from us.
Here Dempsey, the Interpreter, ex.
planned that the Fort Hill Reservation
was separated from Great Camas Prairie
by a barren country one hundred miles ia
width.
Captain Jim-There are three reserya.
tons for the Bannocks and Shoshones-
WaShakee Reservation on Wind River
Fort Hall Reservation and Lempi Reser
yation. There is not one reservation 70,
Baunocks, one for Shoshones and one 70,
another tribe, butthe Bannocks and Shos
homes may live together upon one or The
other A hog with three homes has ne
home at tall. We would like to have onI
reservation rather than three.
Some further conversation occurred. II
. which the Indians complained ieelingl,
Of the dearth Of food or: :Camas Prairie
when liberal contribution was made b,
. the gentlemen present, for the purpose o
purchasing food for the Indians 10 tax,
c homo with them.
TROOPS FOR TIE FRONT,
A Portland press dispatch says Genera
Howard telegraphs from Fort Lapwai
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