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Government Troops Ordered to the Scene
Of the Indian Troubles
WASHINGTON. July 25.--lndian Com
missioner Browning Wednesday morn
ing received a dispatch from Agent
Teter stating that a serious condition
of affairs existed among the Bannock
Indians and urging that troops be sent
to the scene Of the troubles at once.
Commissioner Browning held an
hours conference with Secretary
Lamont at the war department on the
Hammock Indian outbreak with the at
tendant casualties. He said his Office
was advised that 200 or 800 OF the
Indians were out of their reservation.
and he had applied to Secretary
Lamont for force of troops with
which TO compel their return.
FORT KALI. Idaho. July "a Browning COM
missioner OF Indian affairs. Washinet,ns
have Investigated the troubles between the
Indians and settlers In Wyoming and advise
that troops be sent there Immediately TO
protect the law-abidIng settlers The law
less element among the settlers seems de-
tcrmined 10 cause conflict with the
Indians The settlers have killed
four 20 seven Indians. which has
incensed the Indians. who have
gathered 10 the NUMBER OF xkU OF oOj near Fail
river. uintah county. and refused TO return TO
their reservation. find that the Indians have
killed game unlawfully according 20 the laws
OF Wyoming. though not unlawfully according
10 the treaty OF the Indians with the United
States. thus usurping the prerogatlyes OF the
settlers. which caused the trouble. Nothing
but the intervention OF soldiers will settle the
difficulty and save tho lives OF innocent per-
sons and tho destruction OF property
"TETER. Agent"
Agent letters dispatch was for
warded to the secretary of war
through Acting Secretary Reynolds,
of the interior department. accom-
panied by n copy of the following tele-
gram from Gov. Richards, of Wyoming,
which was also received Wednesday:
Dispatches from Adit. Gen sitter, who is
on the ground at Jackson's Hole. reported to
you Wednesday. Will the federal government
take the matter In hand OF returning the Ban
nocks TO their reservation. or will Wyoming
be expected TO do SOL Please wire reply"
After his conference with Gen. Ru-
ger and Maj. Davis Secretary Lamont
Wednesday afternoon sent directions
to Brig. Cen. Coppinger, com
manding the department of the
Platte, TO proceed at once TO the
scene of the trouble and ascertain the
exact situation. In the meantime Gen.
Coppinger Is TO order the movement of
such troops in his department as will
protect the settlers and secure the re-
turn of the Indians to their reserva-
ton.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 25.--Gov. Rich
ards says he thinks fight between
the settlers and Indians will take
place before troops can get on the
ground; that il the settlers are well
provided with ammunition. he thinks
they will hold their own until aid ar
rives. There are sixty-five able-bodied
men in the Jaclson's Hole settlement,
all shillful in the use of arms and ac-
customed To frontier methods These.
with thirty-five women and forty chill
dren, are all at Marysvale. the only
town in the region. To reach this set
Element troops will have to be taken
In from MsrlSet Lake. Idaho, overland
a distance of over 100 miles. Part of
the way is through a very rough coun-
try.