The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-25
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settlers Ready to Take the Field in Self
defence-An the Passes Guarded-Offielal
Advices Reach Governor Richards.


defence-An the Passes Guarded-ofielal
Advices Reach Governor Richards.
Pocatello, Idaho, July 24,-The story
Of he killing of the three whites. and
six Indians is spreading alarm at
rapid rate. Innumerable pleasure par
ties have given up contemplated trips
into the mountain country, which
abounds in the finest sports of all kinds
at this season. The settlers, too, are be-
coming thoroughly aroused, and if they
are not soon protected by government
troops they will take the field Ia pro-
lection of their own homes and lives,
and they are well qualified by long ex-
perience in this country to do even more
effective lighting than the regulars.
! The Indians realize that the cowboys
are more dangerous than the troops.
The reds know they can surrender to
the soldiers and they will be in no
| further danger, but when the frontier
| volunteers so out to fight Indians they
| fight as the Indians do themselves.
| They shoot to kill, and kill all in sight
| The news that the foraging Bannocks
| are TGCeINlIlS SupDliSS VI government IA
| tons forwarded by those remaining at
| the reservation and that several hun
| bred Shoshone bucks from the Wind
| River reservation have started to join
| and aid the Bannocks are not the best
| indications that the i'll feeling engen-
| dered by the killing of the Indian hun
| ters will end without further trouble
| In addition to these events the SEN
sible Indians who have remained on the
reservation to put up their hay and
who advised against the hunt say that
the Indians want to fight,
| Cheyenne, Wyo., July 24.-The first
| advices of an authentic nature from the
scene of the Indian troubles in the
Jackson Hole region reached Governor
| Richards yesterday in the shape of tele-
| grams sent by courier from Marysville,
Wyo., to Market Lake, Wyo., from Adj
| jutant General Sitter of the governor
staff, who was sent into the region to
investigate the troubles between the
Indians and the whiees.
| One message, sent Sunday from
| Marysville is as follows;
Scouts who have just come in from
| the mountains report Indians in force
| at the junction of Granite Creek and
Fall River. All passes available to
horses are guarded by Indians Cap
| tain Smith, a prospector has just come
in wounded in the right breast by
| Indians. Other prospectors are being
driven in from the mountains Picketg
| are guarding the various mountain
| passes tonight. Forces are equipped
| ready for a march, and everybody is
| armed
/ A, second message sent Monday by
| Sitter from the Teton Basin, near
the Idaho Wyoming line, says:
Arrived here on return trip. Settlers
in the basin uneasy. 1t is reported
here that many Indians from Fort Hall
are leaving to join those in the noun
tains. Indians from other reservations
| are reported joining Them Letters
| and couriens have been sent out by
| the Jackson Hole settlers asking for
aid, and with those who have responded
| they will go into the mountains to meet
the Indians to-day. Settlers have given
up all hopes of saving crops, and are
preparing to take all women and chill
| dren out of the region"
Governor Richards states that no
| movement of state troops into the Jack
/ son I1OUG COUNTY, Will NC OIdciCu III u
| further information is received. He
sent word yesterday to General Sitter
| to report as fully as possible on the
| situation.
| Fred White, the courier, reported
that the Indians had been joined by a
large number of Utes and Lehmi In
i dams, and that they had every pass
! into the Hole guarded. III
Scouts from the stockades of the
settlers say that the Indians are mass
ing in large numbers, and will no doubt
fight The settlers have brought their
women and children to Wilfred, Idaho
and intend to act on the aggressive in
cleaning out the Indians in that part Of
the country.