The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-02
NO INDIANS FOUND.
The q. s. Cavalry Has Arrived
at JacksOn's Hole.
There We're No Indians to be
Seen There.
THE SCARE Is OVER.
Indians Seem to be Returning
to Reservations.
Sharp Nose Says Indians Had a
Right to Kill Game.
THE SCARE Is OVER.

MARKET LAKE, Idaho, Aug. 2-The
cavalry have reached Jackson's Hole.
The indications are that infantry will be
stopped en- route and not go into the hole
as there are no Indians in sight. A scare
exists along the route the Indians are
taking in returning to the reservations.
Notwithstanding the threats made
against the life of Agent Teter and his
chief clerk, Ravenel McBeth, they have
gone ahead of the troops into Jackson's
Hole to warn the settlers not to attack
the Indians, and to obtain the names of
all the parties concerned IN what Agent
Ieter insists on calling the massacre Of
the Indians.
Captain Jim. chief of the Shoshones,
will ask all the Indians to go back to
their reservations without fighting. If
they will not 60 he will assist the sol
diers in removing them and will call
upon his tribe to assist.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-The Indian
bureau received dispatches today from
two agencies in the neighborhood of the
JacksOn'5 Hole country, stating that
there was no cause for alarm
among the settlers in their vicinity.
Major Randlett of the Uintah
ana Oursy agency at Fort Duchesue,
wired: The Indians reported 10y Govern
or Richards are DOT from this agency"
and Agent W ilsOn, III charge of the oho-
shones at Fort Washakie. Wyo, sent this
dispatch: mo Indians are absent with
out leave. There IS no fear of trouble
Both of these agents had been in5fruc-
| ted by Commissioner Browning to recall
all the Indians away from the reservation
without leave.
! The latest news from General Coppin-
! ger received at the war department via
/ headquarters at Omaha is reassuring. A
dispatch dated at Omaha yesterday, is as
! follows:
"The report was received from Market
| Lake this morning which indicates that
the Indians we're returning from jack
sons Hole by a straight lins to the res
/ ervatiOn" To test its correctness the
| Union Pacific railway Office was asked to
telegraph for information to stations
! along the Oregon Short Line.
| The reply is from the division super
| intendent at PocatelIo: A stage driver
just reached Soda Springs and says he
| just left Caribou this morning. He
came through Prays Lake and Black
foot river country. Reports two hundred
Bannocks at Grave Lake on the way
from Jackson's Hole to reservation They
said that there had been no fighting and
no desire to fight on their part. This
| scare seems to be over, and settlers un-
| derstand they are trying to make their
way back to the reservation to avoid
troops. Information thoroughly reliable.
LANDER, Wyo., August 2.-For the
last two weeks the mountains have been
alive with Indians. Now they all seem
to be in hiding.
Sharp Nose, chief of the Arapahoes,
has been interviewed in regard to the
ArapRhoes leaving the reservation and
joining band of fifty Sioux at the head
waters of the Little Popoagie river. He
the place mentioned, but 1t to meet
the Utes, and they were to visit"
| When ASA ed ii he thought it was right
for so many Indians to be off their reser-
vations at once hunting and killing game
he replied: "The reservation is only a
home for the Indian, where the white
man has no right to come by law, but he
does come and pasture his stock there.
Now, the game is the Indians meat, and
he will have it. The white man can
make no law that will stop him"
This, from the head chief of the Arap-
ahOes, is evidence of their sympathy
with the Bannock Indians on this ques-
tion.
There were Wednesday near the head
waters of Little Papoagie river, twenty
miles south OF Lander, fifty Sioux. fifty
Arapahoes and not less than 200 Utes.
There were also several struggling bands
of ohoshones going in that direction.
One band of the Shoshones when ques-
toned said they were on their way to
join the Utes in question, and with them
were to go to help the Bannocks