The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-14
TERRIBLE RECORD.
LAND GRABBING SYNDICATEs
BRIFSoN INDIAN WARS.
The IsS ms Killed by the Monopo-
os and Honest Settlers
Perish For 1t.
THEIR PHASE OF THE ROT.
b TENESS OF THE AGE.
(Chicago Times-Herald.O

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Chicago Times -Herald.)
Market Lake, Idaho, Aug. 2.-The Ind
ian war" is over. The cavalry reached
Jackson's Hole today, and all it found
was a hole. There were no Indians in
sight, and there have been none except
those who were massacred. All the 9TH
ers at once started for their reservation.
Notwithstanding the threats against his
life, Agent Teter rode ahead of the troops
Indians. Today he is in Jacksons Hole
trying to obtain the names of the men
who shot the Indians. Capt. Jim, chief
of the Shoshones, will ask all the Indians
to go back to their reservations without
fighting. If they will not go he will as
sist the soldiers in removing them and
will call upon his tribe to assist.
Were it not for the wanton massacre
of six or seven Indians the Jackson s
Hole affair might be called farce.
The Times-Herald staff correspondent
vestigating the methods employed to Gre
ate Indian scares and the purpose behind
them.
In this case the murderers, to divert
attention from their own deeds of theft
and blood, sent out most alarming re-
ports of massacre of white people by
the Indians. This is history repeating
itself. To what extent the cattle COM
panies and land syndicates of the Hole
which want these hunting lands of the
Indians for their own use, were respon-
sible for the causeless scare is yet to be
developed, but that white ruffians were
the aggressors is demonstrated fact.
VIOLATED TREATIES THE CAUSE.
Every so-called Indian war and upris-
ing within the last thirty years has been
the direct result of a violated treaty
robbery by contractors, greed of land
grabbers or persecution by lawless ele-
ment. Almost without exception the
white men have been the aggressors
the Indian has been the victim and the
law-abiding, peaceful white settler has
Doon Cn0 SCdpoSOdt.
The lands that the government has
obtained from the Indians by treaties
have not gone into the hands of the &C
tual settlers, as was intended. Nearly all
of the large and fertile valleys of the
western states, and particularly those OF
the Rocky Mountain region have fallen
into the hands of land syndicates, cattle
companies and spectators. No great
department of the government has been
so shamelessly prostituted as has the in
terror department in bringing about this
condition of affairs. Previous to the re-
peal of the pre-emption act it was more a
bureau for the propagation of land theft
than government department. Before
the actual settlers for whom the land was
intended could locate upon it the land
syndicates and cattle companies sent
their agents and cowboys to pre-empt
large sections. The honest settlers were
crowded out by these agents of the cor
poratiOns, who, in most instances, were
reckless and desperate men, and when
the settler did not retreat peacefully he
was terrorized or shot down under the
pretense that he was a rustler or cattle
thief In many instances these cattle
companies and land syndicates have
fenced in thousands of acres that they
did not even go to the trouble of pre-
| empting through their agents.
4, BOSSED BY LAND SYNDICATES.
In no section of the United States were
these land thefts> carried on to greater
extent than in Wyoming. This state is
absolutely owned and dominated by cat.
| tie companies and land syndicates, many
of which have obtained their ranges anc
| land possessions by these unlawful meth.
| DDS. The only section of the state they
| have not been able to steal is that por.
| ton where the present Bannock Indiar
| troubles originated. The repeal of the
| pre-emption laws acted as check to the
wholesale land thefts before this sector
could be appropriated, and by their trea
| ty the Bannocks reserved the rights tt
hunt upon these unocc1pied lands. While
the cattle companies have been unable tt
obtain legal title to this section the,
have not hesitated to range their cattl.
upon it and have assumed sort of pro
| prietorship of the land.
| Aside from the actual homesteaders n,
one has any legal right upon this lant
except the Bannocks, and between th'
Indians and the actual homesteader
there is no cause for trouble The me1
who massacred the six or seven Bannocl
Indians were not homesteaders, but NOR,
| likely cowboys belonging to some of th
| various big cattle companies, acting il
the capacity of constables or deput,
| sheriffs
| DOMINATE STATE POLITICS.
The most lawless and desperate elemen
| that infests the West today has it's head
quarters in Wyoming, and not only ha
this element continually harrassed th
Indians, resulting in the Bannock upris
| ings of 1878 and the recent trouble, but i
| has exterminated most of the individua
settlers who sought a home inthestate
They dominate the politics of the stat
and through the influence they WELD
many of their willing tools occupied posi-
tions in the land office when the pre-emp
ton act was in force, thereby making i
easy and perfectly safe for them to de
spoil the honest settlers of their pre-emp
tion right. They control the courts ant
grand juries, whereby they secure immu
nifty from punishment when their COW
boys have murdered the more adventur
Gus of the actual settlers. In Colorado
| where the same species of land theft wa
carried on, the great Uncompahgre Valley
once the home of the Utes, is now domi
mated by the big syndicates which contro
both land and water. The same is tru
of the San Luis Valley, the most fertil
in the state.
The last Ute war in Colorado was some