The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-23
STUDENTS MAY BE SAFE
NEW JERSEYS GOVERNOR THINKS
THE p RINOETON PARTY rs SAFE.

Not Near the Scene of Trouble-some News
Would Have Been Received About Dis
Rster-Professor Hatcher, Formerly of
New Haven and Yale's Peabody Museum,
In Charge of the Party.
Cheyenne. Wyo,. July 22.-Anxious in
qulries were received here last even
Ing from eastern friends Of the nine
teenth annual geological survey from
Princeton college, now making a trip in
eastern Wyoming. Governor Richards,
to whom the messages of inquiry were
sent, Is sure that no harm has befallen
the students.
The fight between the settlers and
the Bannock Indians took place on July
4 In the jackson Hole region, near the
western Wyoming line, directly south
of the Yellowstone National park. On
July the Princeton students were in
Landers, more than 100 miles away.
They remained for several days. The
country over which they were to travel
is comparatively we'll settled and is
within easy reach of Fort Washable,
where there are two companies of Unit
ed States infantry and number of
Indian police.
1t is believed here that there is no
truth in the reported massacre of the
students, as the war department would
have been so informed and the execu-
tive of the state notified that troops
had been ordered out.
A definite report is expected to-mor-
A Il ~ rI,>
Is in Jackson Hole region making an
Investigation of the troubles.
Prof Hatcher of the department of
geology in the university has charge of
the party. The students who accompa
MED him are: Arthur A. Brownlee,
Seminary of Indiana; John w. Garrett,
'95, of Baltimore; Edward r. Otheman,
'95, of New York city; John Shield, 's6,
of Titusville, Pa; John H. Brooks, '95,
of Scranton; Lewis Frederick Pease,
'95, of Germantown, Pa; Boyer Davis,
'96, of Philadelphia; Talbot E. Pierce,
'96, of Washington; Alfred L. P. Dennis,
'95, son of Rev. ]. S. Dennis of New
York city; Walter Moses, 95, of Tren-
ton, and Robert Forsythe Little, '96, of
New York city.
Fred Pease was leader Of the Univer-
sity Glee club in his junior year. John
Garrett belongs to the worthy Garrett
family Of Baltimore Md, and is lead
er in college life. A. L. P. Dennis Is the
managing editor Of the Nassau Literary
Magazine, and member of the Prince
ton staff, and A. G. Millbank is presi-
dent of the University Football associa-
ton, John H. Brooks was captain of
the Varsity baseball team last year.
Nearly all the party are members of
the Tiger Inn club. The Dennis family
is spending the summer in Norwalk,
Conn.,, in this state. The family of
young Little Is in the Adirondacks.
Prof John Bell Hatcher is well remem-
bered here in New Haven. He was
with Prof. Marsh for some time at
the Peabody museum, an assistant
there, and he has made other trips for
scientific research in the far west. He
was not long ago here on a visit to his
friend, Thomas A. Bostwick Of the
Peabody museum, who resides at No
is Bishop street, and is the son of ex-
Tax Collector Bostwick of this city.
Prof. Hatcher has many friends in this
city, and the reassuring dispatch print
them. The residence of Prof Hatcher
and family is in Princeton.
The object Of the expedition Is both
scientific research and pleasure Such
parties are sent out from Princeton
yearly to make collections of the valu-
able fossils which abound in the north
west, and the excellent hunting of the
region has induced many students to
irjy, No,,+xy
received from the present party and
one large shipment of fossils has been
made.
telegraphic dispatch says further
regarding thel chances and dangers of
the expedition:
There is no way of learning anything
about them, except through settlers who
may arrive from the disaffected dis
trict. Apprehensions for their safety
are based entirely on reports which have
"A been received from hunters, and the few
ranchmen on the borders of the great
reservation. There is no Geographic
communication, and their location is at
least 300 miles from the nearest railway
station
There is good ground for any anxiety
that may be manifested. Arrivals from
the SuOSHOHe reservation, DeCter known
as the Wind River country, are mostly
of persons who thought the best plan
was to vacate when the first alarm of
trouble with the Indians was spread.
They say they did not see the college
party, but there are no regular roads
or trails which scientific expedition
would follow 1t is probabl they en-
tered the country and pursued some
trail away from the usual routes, as
their object would best be served by
getting away from beaten tracks and
going to the most rugged sections where
opportunity for field work would be in
creased
PROBABLY NOT WELL ARMED.
Their plan was to make a thorough
scientific exploration of northern Wyo-
ming. When they left here there was
no talk of Indian depredations, and they
carried only the usual field equipment
suitable for a. camping party. The stu
dents may have been supplied with
arms, but there was no display when
they were here on July 4. On the ma
tional holiday in this section the cele-
bration generally consists of noisy
exhibition of all kinds of fireworks, and
the fact that the students did not take
nv ~ i'm he ion ind Toe