The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-17
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EVANSTON, Wyo., July 1e-Items
Of teIegra phic news, more or less ac-
cuIate, have appeared for the past
few days in relation to the Indian in
vasion of our last game preserve, and
the attempts of our people to put an
end to the wholesale and ruthless
slaughter of our few remaining noble
game animals-elk and deer.
Whatever else may be said, it is the
only way our people have been able to
bring the attention of those who con-
troll the Indians to sense of their
duties. The writer has served contin-
uously III his present official capacity
county and prosecuting attorney for
Uinta county-for almost five years,
and for four years of that time has
been on his knees before the Indian
department TO give relief from these
annual incursions and depredations of
the wards Of the government, and thus
interrupt, in its incipient stages, the
,infraction of laws TO which they little
yfeeI themselves amenable.
Simply Criminal.
And the dereliction is not confined
to one administration. kilograms let
tiers, personal visits of congressional
representa- tives, have met with disre-
gard of our entreaties and distrust Of
our integrity; and as regularly as the
return of this season of the year the
bands of Bannocks from the west and
Shoshones from the east have met in
the forests of this county south of the
Yellowstone National park, and carried
on their work of indiscriminate slaugh-
ter and nearly total determination of
the noble elk, as the noble buffalo was
exterminated twenty years ago.
A Mistaken Idea.
Take a map of Wyoming. The ex-
IRENE northeast is occupied by a reser-
walton called the National park and
was originally sixteen miles square. A
subsequent timber reserve having been
nadded, its borders are some fifteen or
twenty miles farther south and east
The southern boundary of this reserva-
ton, over which the general govern
ment exercises control, is just at the
north end of Johnson's lake, through
which the Snake river runs on to the
south. East of the Snake river. and
eastern boundary of the county, is the
main range of the Rocky mountains
variously named eros Venre, Wind
river, Green river and Salt river
ranges. These are heavily timbered /
Rnd their mesas and parks are car /
peted with a luxuriant growth of sue /
culent grasses. it is to these ranges /
that the remnant of the elk within the /
United States comes to summer and to |
rear their young. w. general govern /
ment may think it IS protecting the
game by maintaining It's soldiery in /
the park, by enforcing strict rules as
TO tourists carrying fire aims, etc, but
the fact is that at that season of the
year when the park is frequented by
tourists the game has hied away to the
mountains far south, where this same
vigilant interior department has turned
BIT over to be the prey of the Indian.
whose resolve is 10 destroy it, so that
when he is gone to those other happv
hunting grounds there may remain no
vestige of the noble game he claims
as his inheritance, for the paIe-face to
enjoy.
A Double Crime.
The Indian methods are calculated IN
90 the work of determination quickly.
Not satisfied with the fat adult ami
NAL, his palate Graves the delicacv of
the unborn elk calf; and so the COW is
slain, her skin probably saved. more
likely not, the young taken from her
for food, and her carcass left to he de-
voured by the beasts of prey, less de-
structive themselves than the men of I
prey One or two examples of this
that was long since communicated IN
the lndIan bureau at Washington. will
suffice to show what is the method of
the noble % red man. Justice Of tho
Peace Frank Rhoads, Of Marysvale, in
JacE5on's Hole in this county writes ,
me that he issued a warrant for an
Indian. lie was arrested and fined ,
for killing game. and at the :
time had about thirty deer and
elk hloes which ne had taken within :
a month or so. He is corroborated bv |
Mr.. James S. Simpson, postmaster AZ I
-dary who was one of the denu- I
ties making the arrest and he ,,,ri4ec 3
me that a number of the skins in 80
possession of the Indian were hides If
calves taken from their mothers. {
Hon. WI L. Simpson, late county
apd prosecuting attorney for Free i
mont county, informs me that On the f
occasion Of trip into Jackson's Hole he y
found the eecaying carcasses of nine !
teen elk COWS and calves lying around
enc spring, The Indians having killed
the n aid d ly stripped them of Their I
hides. Q
20 Wonder They Protest.
Is it any wonder an outraged COM 7
waose appeals for protection 1
haYe been met with the contempt of S
riience or the criticism that we were / =