The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
CONSPIRACY OF WHITES.
Indians Shut Out by Settlers
Who Fleeced the Tourist
Hunters.
so SAYS REV. MR.. CLEVELAND.
recommendations That Those Who
Caused the Recent Trouble
Be Prosecuted.

MADISON, S. OAK, Sept 1.-THE Rev.
W. J. Cleveland of Madison, the agent
recently selected by the Indians Rights
Association of Philadelphia to investigate
the Bannock Indian outbreak, has COM
pleted his work and Will file his report In
few days.
In this report the representative OF the
Indians Rights Association reviews the
facts, showing the custom of the Ban
nocks to annually hunt in the mountains
of Wyoming around Jacksons Hole, as
provided for in the treaty of 1868. He re-
views the July assault upon the Indians
by the deputies, and then says:
''The people of Jacksons Hole, on their
own admission, elected the present Justice
of the Peace and Constable and swore in
about thirty deputy marshals, with the
express intention of keeping the Indians
out of the mountains therein. They had a
special reason for wishing to do so. Nine
tenths of the people at least, so their JUS
tice stated, derive their support from the
hunting tourists, for whom they act
as guides at high rates. These tourists
leave thousands of dollars in the Hole
each year and are increasing in numbers
and eagerness to kill bull elk and get
his horns at any cost. The settlers evil
IDENTIFY acted on the advice and with the
authority of high officials of Wyoming,
but were grossly misinformed by those
authorities as to what it was lawful for
them to do"
After telling OF the subsequent alarms of
the settlers and the quieting effect of the
prompt arrival of troops he continues:
THUS the original purpose OF the peo-
pie of Jacksons Hole is for the time being
accomplished. The Indians are driven off
Their supply of meat, skins, ETC., from the
hunt for the winters use at least is gone
and the Government is put to great ex-
pense, while the Jacksons Hole mans
source of profit in the tourist who comes
and spends money freely for the chance of
killing few elk for sport and getting a
pair of horns as trophy is well protected.
''At present the Indian, with well-con-
cealed bitterness of heart and some nat
ural feeling of resentment, waits with
commendable patience, but not without
forebodings of hunger during the long
winter, to know what shall be the action
of the Government for his redress, as
pledged also by the treaty; and what, too,
will be the future of his hunting priv
leges. A feeling of hostility, however,
which had no existence before has been
stirred up within him which will probably
never wholly die, and recurrence of the
present difficulties may be looked for
next wear unless steps are taken effectually
to prevent it.
The Rev. Mr.. Cleveland closes his report
bv making a number of recommendations.
He thinks that the Indians are entitled to
full remuneration for property unlawfully
taken from them at Jacksons Hole; that
all persons engaged in the arrest and
shooting of the Indians should be speedily
tried and severely punished, even includ-
ing the Governor of Wyoming and other
high officials of the State; that the trials
should be had in the United States courts
and outside of Wyoming; that Agent
Teter should be strongly supported; that
the position of issue clerk at Fort Hall
should be restored and continued, so that
the Indians may not starve; that the plan
now almost consummated TO put in the
hands of the Idaho Irrigation Canal Com
pany an expensive contract for construct
ing canal with funds belonging to the
Indians, and afterward charging the In
dams an annual rental of several thousand
dollars for the use of the water so sup
piled, should be thwarted, and the whole
matter of providing water given into the
hands of the agent or other competent
superintendent, and the Jacksons Hole
country should be annexed to the Ma
tional Park.