San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-10

CHICAGO, Aug. 10.--A dispatch
to the Record from Market Lake,
Idaho says: A delegation from
troop L, Ninth cavalry, in charge
of Lieutenant Parker, was detailed
to scout the country in the vicinity
OF Hoback canyon and valley. The
force consisted of Guide j. G. Cal
van, the Record representative,
two Indians, one captain, two cor
porals, two packers, seventeen
men and the hospital steward.
The route brought the party to a
trail where the Indians had been
fired upon by settlers.
The Indian that was reported to
have been killed by the soldiers
was found thirty yards from the
main trail upon the side Of noun
tain. among the timber. He had
been lying there for 81 days. Maj.
Tommey, one of the Indian police
men, recognized him as his uncle,
Tanneer-Giu, aged So years, who
had been absent from the Fort
Hall reservation for about two
months and was known to be a
good Indian. He left three children
at the agency. The dead Indian
was wrapped in a blanket and
given a good burial. The scouts
then drew to the main trail, looked
for an Indian baby reported lost,
but were unable to find it. The
next day the scouts arrived at a
ranch in the Hoback basin owned
by Mr.. Fales, where they found
another Indian, Smians, who was
shot trying to escape from the
settlers. He said that about two
months ago he and party OF Ban
nocks and Shoshones from Fort
Hall reservation, consisting OF nine
men, thirteen women and five
children, received passes from the
agent at the Fort Hall agency to
60 on a hunting trip. They came
over the Caribbean mountains to
Salt river and down Hoback river,
where they were captured. They
met no other Indians outside OF
their own party while on the trip.
Early one morning the camp was
surrounded by a number Of white
men who covered the Indians with
their guns. They demanded the
Indians guns, which were turned
over to the white men, who then
ordered them to hurry up and sad
die their horses and lead their pack
animals up the ridge. A part of
the white men then rode ahead,
driving the Indian pack horses.
Then came the Indian men with a
guard behind each one, and in the
rear the women and children. At
the time OF their capture, the men
had about eight elk and the dried
meat which had been eaten by the
party. Nemits and the rest OF the
Indians thought they were going
to be placed in Jail for five years
and began to get afraid, when a
Bannock Indian told them when
they reached certain place he
would give them signal and they
would make break in the timber.
When the signal was given they
made a break, the guard firing, and
when Nemits was aboutD300 yards
In the timber he was shot through
the lower part OF the body and
through the left arm and fell from
his horse. After lying in the tim
Der for ten days without having
anything to eat, he found some
dried venison and bread in one OF
the old Indian camps and started
for Mr.. d. P. Fales' ranch aud
walked for three nights and when
within three miles OF the ranch
fell down from exhaustion and re-
manned there for four days when
he was found by DR.. Calhann and
party. The wounded Indian was
carried to Mr.. Fales' ranch where
he was cared for.
Monday morning, early, Lieut..
Parker and a detach ment Of troops,
rode over to the camp where the
Indians had been captured by the
settlers, which was about six miles
from the ranch, and examined the
Indian camp and the locality OF