Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-02
CALLS IT A FAKE.
4 Furrier Says the Massacre Story Was
Concocted In "A Rexburg Saloon.

Furrier Says the Massacre Story Was
Concocted In "A Rexburg Saloon.
Salt Lake, Utah, August 1.-E. Me-
hesy, a furrier of this city, who has
Just returned from the Jackson's Hole
country via Rexburg, Ida, with con-
signment of elk heads and bear skins,
which he bought from the Indians who
have been hunting in that region, says
the stories of danger are mostly fiction.
He was present in the saloon at Rex
burg when the story Of the massacre
of 90 settlers was conCocted and written
to be sent out.
"The people up there" said Mehesy,
regard the whole business as some
thing of a joke. OF course they know,
it has a serious side, but they are all
pioneers, used TO serious things, and
don't mind the danger. Their object
in calling for troops to get the Indians
out, so as to save the game for the set
tiers, and for the tourist hunters, who
furnish employment and revenue for
the settlers in the summer. Incidental
~. they make considerable out of sup
plies for troops who come in.
Il had an order for two Indians
scalps. When l told the chief of scouts
with the Ninth cavalry what l wanted
he laughed. You are more likely to
get darby scalps,' he said, meaning that
the colored cavalry are more likely to
get hurt than are the Indians.
Beaver Dick, who has lived in Jack
sons Hole fer 40 years, and has Ban
mock wife, told me that the Indians
might make some trouble, but that there
would be no raids on settlers. He said
if anybody made trouble it would be the
settlers, not the Indians. He has gone
to the eros Ventre Mountains to advise
the Indians to keep quiet until the ex-
element dies down."
About 40 families passed through
Soda Springs after dark and they are
still coming. A number of tourists are
leaving Soda Springs, believing it safer
at other places. All settlers in Star
Valley have fled to the upper part of
the valley and are terrifying themselves
at Alton, Wyo. This leaves all property
at the mercy of the Indians.
Market Lake, Ida, August IA re-
port reaches here that the settlers in
Swan Valley to the number of 60 famil-
les, are huddled together near Carria-
boo. They have sent an urgent appeal
for troops to protect them and special
courier has been sent TO Gen. Coping
er and the matter referred to him.
Lander Wyo., August 1.-Two men
came in last night from Jackson's Hole
and report that the Indians had not
killed any whites. The Indians are
camped near Oregon Buttes. The peO-
pie of Dubois are still keeping sharp
lookout.
A dispatch from the troops on the
way to Jackson's Hole says very few OF
the settlers in the upper part Of the
Teton Basin, the part of the country
through which yesterdays march was
made, have been frightened over the
threatened Indian trouble. One house
at the entrance to the Moose creek
canon was barricaded with high fence,
and during the period when exciting
reports were being brought out from
Jackson's Hole the neighbOring ranch
men and their families spent the night
at this house. This preoaution, how
ever, has been abandoned since Sun
day. Other ranchmen in the locality
were not alarmed at any time.