St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-31
CoLD-BLOODED MURDER THE
PREMEDITATED PLAN OF
u s SETTLERS.
JAcKsoN's HOLE INQUIRY.
OFFICIAL REPORTS ON THE
TRAGEDY THAT STARTED
THE GREAT SCARE.
BANNOCKS MISREPRESENTED
False Statements Of Their Hunt
Ing DepredatfOns to Influence
the Authorities.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-The de-
partment of justice has received from
the United States district attorney
and marshal of Wyoming the official
reports of their investigation into
the Bannock Indian troubles, made
by the direction of the attorney gen
eral. The reports are dated Aug. %.
The district attorney for Wyoming
reports as follows:
81 have no doubt whatever that the
killing of the Indian, Timega, on or
about the 18th of July, was an afro
cious and cold-blooded murder; and
that II was a murder perpetrated on
the part of the constable, Manning,
and his deputies, in pursuance of a
scheme and conspiracy on their part
to prevent the Indians from exercising
right and privilege which is, in my
opinion, very clearly guaranteed to
them by the treaty before mentioned
Should the prosecution on the part of
the United States be determined upon
1t would be useless to commence it be-
fore commissioner. AS the law is
now, we are bound to bring prisoners
before the United States commissioner
nearest to the place of arrest, and in
this case 1t would be before Mr.. Petit
grew, the commissioner at MarySVale.
l am Informed that he is thoroughly
in sympathy with the so-called set
tiers in that region, and that he adj
vised the constable, Manning, and his
posse that the provisions of the treaty,
under which the Indians claimed the
right to hunt on the unoccupied lands,
for some reason had ceased to be op-
eratiVe.'
PREMEDITATED MURDER"
Accompanying the report of the dis
trict attorney is a scathing arraign-
ment of the Jackson's Hole settlers,
made in report of the United States
deputy marshal, who investigated the
trouble. The deputy marshaps report
says careful investigation of the
whole affair shows that the reports
made by settlers, charging the Indians
with wholesale slaughter of game for
wantonness or to secure the hides of
animals killed, have been much exag-
gerated. During my stay in Jack
sons Hole" he says, ST visited MANY
portions of the district and saw no
evidences of such slaughter. Lieuts.
Gardner, Parker and Jackson, of the
Ninth United States cavalry, who con-
Quoted scouting parties of troops
through all the portions of Jackson's
Hole, also found this to be the case"
The deputy continues:
IF a full investigation of the Jack,
sons Hole affair should be held the
faet would be established that when
tWenty-siX settlers arrested a party
OF Indians on July IL, and started with
them FOR Marysvale, he and his men
qua all they could to tempt the Indians
might be basis of justification for
killing some Of them. If the truth OF
the matter can be reached, it will be
found that the captors did not care
p p about getting their pris,
same, formality of filming them and
then having to let them escape would
result; but on the contrary, tempted
tne indians to try to escape, first mak-
ing them believe they We're to be sent
to jail or hanged, and then by Ieadine
them to believe, if they tried to es,
cape, their horses only, and not thew
would be shot
HEARTLESS CAPTORS.
From Mr.. Manning I learned that
not one of the horses of the escaping
party OF Indians was shot, notwith-
standing his order to shoot the horses.
put that at least six Indians were hit
by bullets. Of these, Timega. an old
man, was killed; Nimits, a boy OF
ABOUT twenty, was wounded so that he
could not escape, and the others got
away. I1mega was an old man, al,
most blind, and his gun was useless.
When the body of this DID, sick. blind
.lai was -IounQ, after lying unburied
IN the woods for about twenty days,
II was found to be shot four times in
the back. The boy who was wounded
was shot through the body and arm.
He was left on the ground where the
smoothing occurred, and remained there
living on some dried meat, for ten
Gays. He craWled for three nights to
reach ranch of a man friendly to the
INDIANS; and was seventeen days with
out medical attendance
The whole affair was, L believe. a
premed1tated and prearranged plan to
XIII some Indians, and thus stir up
SUFFICIENT trouble to subsequently get
United States troops into the region,
and ultimately have the Indians shut
out from Jackson's Hole. The play
was successfully carried out and the
desired results obtained. 1t would,
however, be an act of simple Justice to
5rlng the men who murdered the In
dian T1mega to justice. There are no
officials in Jackson's Hole county,
state or national, who would hold anV
of Manning's posse for trial. Either
the anti-Indian proclivities of these
officials, or the fear of opposing the
dominating sentiment of the conmu,
nifty on this question, would lead them
to discharge all of these men Should
they be. brought before them for a
hearing
The name of the district attorney is
Gibson Clarke, but for prudential rea-
sons the name of the deputy marshal
is not given at the department of Jus,
tice.