The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-08-02
AT JAcksou,s HOLE.
Latest News Indicates rhat the settlers
Are All ts.ght.


MARKET LAKE. Ida, July 29-The
latest and most authentic reports indicate
that the settlers in Jackson's Hole are
unframed, and that no massacre has
taken place Federal troops have gone
into the Jackson's Hole country, but the
probability is that when they reach the
scene Of the reported massacre they will
find, instead of the smoking ruins of cab
ms and the mutilated corpsss of settlers
and their families, the same old camp of
Jackson's Hole and lot of healthy,
husky settlers, who will perhaps be great
ly surprised to learn of their reported
death. In fact, there Is now almost posi-
tive evidence that there has been no
massacre.
The following tales have been afloat In
the last couple of days: That fifty or
more people were slaughtered by Indians
three night ago; that sixteen families in
the Jackson's Hole country were mas
sacred; that the Lemhi Indians, 200 strong
that is, the young bucks-have already
crossed the track at Beaver Canyon to
join the Bannocks; that thirty-flye Fort
Hall Bannocks, with war paint and
feathers flying, marched through the
town of Idaho Falls, few miles to the
south of Market Lake, Thursday after
noon on their way to the Teton country;
that all tho passes into the hostile" coun-
try are guarded by Indians and that that
is the reason why no whites come out to
give reliable news
The story of the fifty whites killed in
the Jackson's Hole country comes to
Market Lake third or fourth handed with
out names or any other information than
is borne in the bare statement given. The
same is true of the sixteen families"
story. All told, there are not $40 Indians
on the Lemhl reservation when all are at
home, SO it is impossible for the number
of bucks quoted to have left tho agency
for the excited country. The thirty-flve
Fort Hall Bannocks, who in war array
marched through Idaho Falls, were five
BannoclSs travelling on passes given by
Agent Teter.
Indian Agent Teter in his report to the
Indian commission of his Investigations
of the jackson Hole trouble says:
From reliable information have no
hesitation in saying that for every elk
killed unlawfully by the Indians two are
killed unlawfully by the settlers. The
majority of the citizens of Jackson's Hole
are men who have left their country r
their country's good. The Indians killed
by these settlers were practically massa-
cred. The men who committed the crime
should be prosecuted to the fullest ex-
tent of the law. A certain element
among the settlers in the jackson Hole
country seems determined to drive the In
dams from that country at whatever cost,
not recognizing any law themselves but
that which serves their interest"
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 31.-The Indian
scare is spreading to the south and east
of Jackson's Hole, and settlers in Ere
mont county are becoming alarmed.
Governor Richards has received the fol-
lowing from DIR. w. Lovejoy, Of South
Pass, in the Miners Delight mining dis
trict: "There is band of from 100 to 800
Indians within half-day's ride Of this
place. They are all bucks, and things
look shady here We have plenty of am
munition and men but need guns. Can
you send few stands of arms?"
Shortly after the receipt of the above
the following was received from Lead
stone, In the same district: Can you
send us guns? Indians are near here"