Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-26
WIRED FROM WASHINGTON.
Conflict Between Uncle Samand WyO-
ming AS to the Validity of
State Game Laws.
Sugar Bounty Cases Again-Jackson
Hole Correspondents Have Broken
Out in Oregon-DeathS Sentence
COMMITTED to Life I'm
prisonment.

Washington, Aug. 26.-It has been defin
itely decided by the Indian bureau that
no attention would be paid to the gam,
laws of Wyoming, where they come into
conflict with the treaty of the United
States with the Bannock and Shoshone In
dians.
The attorney general, after considering
the matter, has informed the secretary Of
the interior and the commissioner of In
dian affairs that the rights of the Indians
to hunt on unoccupied lands is, in his
opinion, questionable, and that the
state of Wyoming has no power to limi
or abridge this right.
No definite steps to inforce this determ
ination have been decided on further
than that the sending of instructions to
district attorneys to secure the release
of the Indians now in custody on writs
of habeas corpus probably will be sup
plemented by an order to do the same
thing in case arrests are made in future.
The bureau will discourage hunting by
the Indians as far as possible and at pres
ent 20 passes will be issued permitting
the braves to leave the reservation.
1t is probable that small number oil
soldiers will be kept in the jackson Hole
country during the remainder of the
hunting season, and, if it should be
deemed advisable at any time to permit
Indians to leave the reservation to hunt,
the whites will not be permitted to molest
them.
1t is hoped, however, that work on an
irrigation ditch, soon to be contracted
for, will furnish occupation and money
for the Indians and make hunting un-
necessary for their maintenance during the
winter.
JACKSON HOLE CORRESPONDENTS IN OREGON
The report of the killing of fifteen
Bannock Indians by cattlemen In the
neighborhood Of Diamond Valley is not
believed at the Indian bureau. Commits
sioner Browning says there is no reser-
walton within 300 miles of the region
where the affair is stated to have taken
place, and as far rs the Indian Office is
informed no Indians are in the vicinity.
FEATURE OF WEATHER BUREAU CHARTS.
The readings of the sensible tenn pera-
ture, or that actually felt, will hereafter
form a feature of the weather bureau
charts.
COMMITTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
The president has commuted to life
Imprisonment the sentence of Cephas
Wright, full-blood Choctaw Indian con-
victed of murder by the U. S. circuit
court for the eastern district of Texas,
and sentenced to hang on September 10.
THE SUGAR BOUNTY.
Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler
has received the last of the briefs in the
sugar bounty cases and has begun work
on his decision, which will probably be
rendered in the course of week. He
will first, however, have to render deci-
sion on ex-senator Manderson's motion
to remand the whole matter to Secretary
Carlisle on the ground that the peculiar
language of the act takes the disburse-
ment of the appropriation out of the
hands of the regular accounting officers of
the treasury.
There is strong belief at the treasury
department that Mr.. Bowler will over
rule Mr.. Manderson's motion and will
decide against the payment.