The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-07-26
INDIANS on THE WARPATH.
No Improvement in the Situation at
jackson HOLE.

No Improvement in the Situation at
jackson ioIe.
PoCATELLo 1do.), July Pa special
to the Cati says: The situation in North
western Wyoming. wbero the Indians
are on the warpath, has not improved to-
day. In fact, all the advices that have
reached this reservation are of a di-
rectly opposite nature. Adjutant-G
eral Letzler of Wyoming, ,'swho was at
Market Lake to-day, was hourly expect
Ing 10 hear that . conflict haG occurred
between the settlers and the Indians in
the jackson Hole Valley. Two of his
messengers dispatched TO that district
several days ago have not yet returned,
although overdue, and grave fears are
now entertained that they have been am
pushed by the Indians.
From the other direction the news is of
an equally disquieung nature. Indian
police who have returned from the Salt
River Valley, where the big trading pow
WOW has been il progress for a week, say
that the band OF Bannack Indians under
the leadership Of Jim Ballard has started
north toward the seat of trouble. II
these Indians reach the DelIgerents III
The Fall River Valley before the troops
get there, and they undoubtedly will, the
result may be disastrous.
Billiards. band IS composed Of the worst
element of the bannacks. The tribe In
the general way are bad enough as rule,
and lazy, shlltless, lighting Indians. This
particular lot, however, are the restless
spirits of the tribe, always ready Tor a
quarrel, even III times of peace, and
IN the present excitement ii would re-
quire much less ieaven than these fifty
turbulent braves to stir to an intense
pitch the already excited gathering on
Fall River.
Tie authorities at the Bannack agency
have all along been congratulating them
selves that ballard and his gang would
not be al the seat OF trouble.
From Division superintendent Van
Horn the schedule was secured of the
special trains that are bringing the Ninth
Cavalry tcolored) from Fort Robinson,
Neb. The two trains. one tor the men
and the other for the horses, will COM
prise a total OF forty-siX cars. There are
;jS3 cavaIryfnen coming. The train that
is scheduled to leave Cheyenne, Wyo., at
10 O'Clock tonight Will arrive at Green
River at IL o'clock Friday morning, at
Pocatello at O'Clock in the evening and
Market Lane by midnight. Here the
troops will leave the railroad and go
across country to Jackson's Hole.
From Market Lake 70 MarySvale, the
south end OF Jackson's Hole by the
shortest and best route, via ROxburg. il
is l2O miles. The cavalry VIII not be
able to make more than sixty miles day
at best, SO that if conditions are most
favorable il Will be at least Sunday night
or Monday morning before the troops
will be IN a position 10 render the be-
sieged settlers any assistance, and during
the three days intervening there is time
Tor serious trouble to occur.
IATER.-Ihe neWS from the north
grows more war-like and threatening
with every message received. The latest
information that is reliable IS to the ef-
feet that within tWenty-tour hours 400
Lemhi Indians from the west have
crossed the Union Pacific Railroad in The
vicinity of Market Lake, Ell route for
Jackson's Hole. The Lenhi Reservation
!s on the northwestern border OF Idaho,
lust where the forty fifth meridian, which
is the northern line of Wyoming, crosses
the Utah STATE line. The Lemhis are
mixture of Shoshone and Bannack In
Gians.
The further news has also been re-
ceived from the village OF Market Lake
that communication with Jacksons
Hole Is now entirely shut OFT The latest
messengers sent out have returned, and
say tnat all the mountain passes are
heavily guarded by Indians, who VIII
allow no whites to enter.
MANY WHITES REPORTED KILLED.
PoCArRLLo Qdsho), July 25.-Reports
iIOIiA loi hSe LanSB says tuG IASAOUIS
paper to-day, reports fifty-nine white
people killed by the Bannacks near jack
sons Hole. There is no way to confirm
the report. and it is not credited Four
hundred Lemni Indians are reported TO
have joined the Bannacks on Fau River
and to be preparing 10 make an on
slaught upon the whites.
THE NEBRASKA TROUBLE.
PExDER (Neb.), July 25.-The follow
ing telegram was sent tonight 10 the
Secretary of the Interior. signed by the
whole Congressional delegation present,
at the recent investigation OF the Indian
troubles. A letter OF 900 words was also
sent:
10 Hon. Hoke SB5th. Secretary Of the
Interior, Washington, II C.; 1nvestiga-
tion now in progress leads US to urge you
to suspend approval of leases of the
Winnebago lands made by Captain Beck,
and to promptly suspend further evic-
tions until we can communicate with you
further. Evictious will result III tre-
inendous loss Of crops To settlers"
Signed by William Y. Allen. John NJ.