The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23

On July IL thirty men left Jackson Hole
to arrest all the Indians breaking the
game laws of Wyoming
lnf Hoback Canyon they surprised a
camp of seventeen Indians and took them
all prisoners and started with them for
Jackson Hole.
cape, and all of them were killed except
one papoose, who was brought to Jackson
Hole. There were 1873 fresh elk skins in
this camp.
John N. Carnes, squaw man and the
oldest settler in Jackson Hole, has gone
over into Idaho and says every settler in
Jackson Hole will be butchered.
There were 300 Bannock warriors on
Hoback River when Carnes was there, and
he says all the squaws have been sent
away and that the bucks are daily joining
the main band.
Jackson Hole settlers are now intrenched
and waiting the attack. Unless the cav
airy gets there quick every settler. between
Jackson Hole and this railway station
may be massacred.
MORE BLOODsHED FEARED.
Trouble.
POCATELLO, IDAHO, July 22.-At the
Bannock.. Indian agency, thirteen miles
north of here, those in authority who are
in possession of all the facts obtainable do
not believe the trouble in the Jackson Hole
country can possibly reach final settle
ment now without more bloadshed. The
rumors current here last night regarding
the depredations of returning band of
Bannocks and their killing of three white
settlers cannot be further confirmed. Not
more than fifty Indians have so far re-
turned to the immediate vicinity OF the.
agency. and they will not talk.
Although it can be positively stated that
the rumored danger in this immediate
vicinity is without foundation, it is conf
IDENTIFY believed from the advices brought
daily by the Indian police from the scene
of the recent trouble in Northwestern
Wyoming, that there will be other clashes
there between the Indians and the settlers
and the tough characters in the Jackson
Hole country. The police who were sent
to bring back the hunters returned to the
reservation with remarkable speed, and
reported to the agent that they had argued
with the Indians, but that they refused to
return, and as they outnumbered the po-
lice ten to one they could not bring them
with them.
The Indian police, as rule are Indians
first and police afterward, and they evil
IDENTIFY also made report to their brother
braves, for almost every able-bodied Ban
mock has, between the return Of the police
and this time. decamped for the scene of
the trouble. From some of the most
trusted police it is learned that many of
the Indians who are apparently returning
to their homes have quietly said that they
are taking their squaws and papooses
home to the reservation, and that then the
warriors would return to see those white
men in the Jackson Hole country.
The clash in that region is one that re-
ours every year, but this time, THE CALL
correspondent learned at the agency, there
seems to be determination on both sides
to settle the question as to whether the In
dams have right to hunt in that country
regardless of State game laws. The In
dams will not give up their old grounds
without struggle, and the bona-fide set
tiers and the characters, far worse than
Indians, who infest part of the country
are determined to give the Indians such
severe treatment that they will not return
next year. Regarding these hunts Indian
agents labor under the embarrassing situa-
ton of instructions from Washington that