The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-31
WAIT FOR BACKING.
Settlers Will POunce on Indians
When Troops Appear.
Will Begin to Kill and Expect
Soldiers to Help.
AS BAD AS INDIANS.
Settlers Kill Game but Then
They're Not Indians.
Most of the Whites Are Cf a
Bad Character.

CHICAGO, July 31.-A special to the
Record from its correspondent with the
troops. now on the way to the scene of
the Wyoming Indian trouble, says:
The Indians are reported camped on
Fall river, and the settlers assert that
just as soon as the troops get near
the settlement they will attack the
Indians and rely upon the troops
for nee ssary assistance. The settlers
have scouts out in the mountains. One
returned d short time ago and claims
that there is camp of about 2 o Indians
in. valley about twenty miles from
Marysvale, but it :s hard to get reliable
news as each mans story is different
from the others.
One of the settlers who has returned
relates that he saw five Indians and an
other arriving about an hour later claims
that all the Indians on the Fort Hall
agency are camped on the Fall river.
Most of the settlers rely for their sub
sistence and revenue on hunting the big
game in which the country abounds and
many of them live on elk, deer and ante
Iope meat during the whole year.
They slaughter a large quantity of
game simply for the settlers themselves
and the hunting parties they conduct
through Jackson's Hole slaughter more
game in one year than the Inc
ians do in five years, but the
settlers are under cover of new
law which was passed February %, 1895,
by the Wyoming legislature which was
to prevent the slaughtering of game ex-
cept during the months of Septe mber,
October and November, and then only
the male animals, except such as were
actually needed for the hunters subsist-
ence.
The settlers were anxious to keep the
Indians out of the country. as every ami
nal that they killed meant a source of
so much revenue to the white men, and
| they intended to put a stop to the In
dians visiting the country. The settlers
last wear declared if the Indians hunted
for big game this season, they would Or
ganize and wipe them out.
The settlers look upon the big game
as their exclusive properly, and in fact
during nv stay in Jackson's Hole coun-
try, was fed upon fresh killed elk meat.
If the Indians were voters Of the state of
Wyoming, their right to game would
never be questioned.
There are few good citizens ranch
ing in Jdckson's Role country but the
majority of the settlers are men who
have left their country for the country's
good. The Jackson's Hole country is
recognized as place OF refuge for ont
laws of every description from Wyoming,
Idaho and the adj 4cent states
CHEYENNE. Wyo, July Ex-Governor
Richards does not interpret the treaty
with the Shoshones and Bannocks in the
same light as Agent Teter. elf any rig hi
was granted, it was to hunt upon Unoc-
cupied lands of the United States,' the
| governor says. "rhe lands in Jack sons
| Hole and vicinity are not unoccupied, as
templated by the treaty"
| Moreover, as peace does not exist be-
| tN cen the whites and the Indians, the
| latter cannot hunt there under the treaty.
The governor says he is personally ac-
! quainted with large majority of the
| people of Jackson's Hole and knows
/ them to be Industrious intelligent, law
abiding citizens, such as are needed tC
build up a new state.