The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-28
Indians in War Paint Concen-
trating in the Mountain
Passes.
MINOR BRUSHES REPORTED,
Agent letters Bitterly Denounoes
the Settlers for Having Caused
the Trouble.

last the United States troops have started
on their march across the mountains to
relieve the settlers of Jacksons Hole, if not
of personal danger, at least of the most
narrowing fear and anxiety that can pos
sibly be imagined-the fear of death at the
hands Of the Indians, or what is far worse,
to be the victims of their torture. A daily
courier service is to be maintained between
the troops and this point, the nearest tele-
graph station. At best the soldiers can
hardly hope to reach the Hole country
before Wednesday morning, travelling, as
they are, with heavily loaded pack train.
The two special trains, bringing four
troops of the Ninth Cavalry from Fort
Robinson, Nebr., arrived at Market Lake
this morning at $3.50 o'clock. The horses
and packmules were Immediately unloaded
for rest after their long ride and given
the first water most of them had had for
fifty hours. 1t was decided that the march
should not be begun until evening. Gen
eral Coppinger called his staff to head
quarters, and the question of the routes
and the plan of operations were decided
upon.
Promptly at 5 o'clock "boots and sad
dies" was sounded for the first time, and
camp was broken. Only short march of
about ten miles was made, and the troops
then went into camp again for the night.
Tomorrow morning the start for q hard
days march will be made at 6 o'clock.
By the shortest route Marysvale, at thu
south end of Jackson Hole, is 120 miles
away. Incumbered as the troops are
they do not expect to make much better
time than thirty miles a day, so that it
will undoubtedly be Wednesday before
Jacksons Hole is reached. The trail over
the Teton Mountains is very rough, and
can only be followed by guides of long ex-
perience. If il should be found necessary
as the troops approach the besieged coun-
try to make quicker time part OF the troop
ers will be lightly equipped and hurried
through. Aside from all the dangers of
the trip it will be most disagreeable one.
1t is very hot here in the middle of the
day, and the trails are very dusty.
At 1 o'clock to-day General Coppinger
decided to call out additional military
forces, and sent a dispatch to Fort Russell,
at Cheyenne, Wyo., ordering five compa-
MES of the Eighth Infantry to leave for
this point at once. Speaking OF the order
Lieutenant Hutcheson, the generals aid,
said:
The Ninth Cavalry makes as fine an ap-
pearance and has as splendid lot of Off
GERS as can be found anywhere among
Uncle Sans soldiers. There are present
and in charge of this expedition, General
Coppinger,, commander of this depart
ment; Major Chaffee, in command of this
battalion; Colonel Randall of the Eighth
Infantry at Fort Russell; Major Hum
phreys, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant
Hutchinson, General Coppingers aid;
Colonel Frank Foote of the Wyoming Ma
tional Guards; Adjutant- General Sitter
of Wyoming; and from Fort Robinson.
Captains Stedman, Lord, Dimmick and
Guilfoyle and Lieutenants Gardner, Ste
vens, Parker, Preston, Hamilton and
Hickock. Lieutenant Penn of Fort Omaha
has been left here in charge of a general
supply depot DR.. Lynch of Fort Robin
son accompanies the troops as surgeon;
the 200 troopers are a splendid looking lot
of young negroes, excellent riders and the
best Of soldiers. The cayalrymen take no
extra horses, but they have with them
sixty-six pack mules, each loaded with 250
pounds. This train is in charge of nine
expert packers. Five escort wagons and
an ambulance completed the caravan that
pulled oat here this evening, past the en-
tire population of the town-thirty-six.
The soldiers were smiling and Joking,
while many of the women were in tears at
the thought of the fate the bluecoats might
meet.
''It is a precautionary move, believed to
be necessary because of the apparently un-
settled condition of affairs in the Jacksons
Hole country. All sorts of rumors are
afoat, but it is thought that there is little
truth in any of them so far as the i'm
mediate danger of the settlers is concerned.
Other troops have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to respond at any
time TO call"
The other companies notified to be ready
for a sudden call are at Fort Niobrara,
Fort Omaha and Fort Robinson, Nebr.,
Fort Meade, S. D., and Fort Russell, Wyo.
Colonel f. M. Foote of the Wyoming
National Guard, who accompanies the
troops at the special request of General
Coppinger, and as the representative of the
Wyoming executive, has received letter
from Governor Richards in which he says:
Urge the settlers to do nothing to
further aggravate the Indians, but to aid
the military in removal in every way.
Now that we have started upon this bust
ness we Will stick to it until the Indians
learn that they must respect the laws. We
have nothing to do with the treaty at the
present. Our business is to see that the
laws of Wyoming are enforced. When
they are declared unconstitutional by a
court we can quit them"
ALI the latest reports from Jacksons
Hole are to the effect that it is quiet there,
and although the settlers are greatly
alarmed, they have not been attacked by
the Indians. There have been some minor
brushes between the red men and the
whites, but no reliable report has been re-
ceived that any one has been killed since
the original trouble.